can you share w/ me your life philosophy?

[jet]

i wanna know your life philosophy. what's the meaning of life? why r we here? these r the questions that need answer. noone has answered these questions perfectly yet. everyone's got his own life philosophy. i wanna discuss & argue about this. that's all

[YODA]

I'll show you mine if you show me yours :D

[Knight_Errant]

"I have no idea how in god's name this managed to happen, but it's pretty good, isn't it? " :D

[Jack]

Life is just something that happened. We give our own meanings to it from our own aspirations and ideas, but really, there is no reason. Answers often lie not in thinking too much, but in listening to that quiet voice inside.

The questions don't need an answer, often its our grasping for an answer that prevents us from seeing any real truth.

Just enjoy yourself, do what you love for your life, and do your part to make a better world for your family and friends.

Jack

[David]

I believe everything and nothing about where we come from, what we're here for and what happens afterwards. I've shifted from having beliefs external of myself to a more oracular method of handling te deeper questions. Oracles are famous for telling material untruths in order for the querent to achieve the next target.

Love, peace, understanding, harmony, good deeds. And wine, obviously.

Rgds,
David

[tl Eric]

Make no stringent plans and learn as much as you can! Apply what you learn otherwise there is no point in learning.

[YODA]

.... and Pizza. Don't forget Pizza :D

[Jody Butt]

Do not harm/offend others.

[Paratus]

Save what you can for future generations

[Saz]

Don't talk to strange teens in Chat rooms who try and suck up/hit on you

:D

[Kof_Andy]

My life philosophy is living for other.;) I live to serve. I try to make a difference in everybody life I came in contact with, especially the younger kids I teach. Some of them are fighting next week, I cant wait. I duuno about you guys, but I came from a low income chinese family. My parents are working class peeps that work 7 days a week 13 hours a day to ensure I get a decent life. So I plan to live the rest of my life to pay off all that, by making sure they get a nice retirement home. :) I think I said the same thing for my speech in high school. hehe:p

[-=|§ØÛ£|=-]

You're Chinese?????
I SO want to be part Chinese or Japanese… or both!!!

[Kof_Andy]

Hehe we all want to be something that were not. When your chinese/japanese you might want to be something else. I just wish I speak english perfectly, but theres always time to practice:P

[-=|§ØÛ£|=-]

I've never heard you speak but you seem to write fine. So were you born in China? Or did your family move to America?

[Kof_Andy]

My family's born in main land China, but I was born in Hong Kong. We Immigrated to Amcerica when I was 9. I speak ok, people can understand me fine, but is just hard to express everything I want to say correctly sometimes. Like if I think of something thats chinese in my head, then I have to translated it to english. Thats just hard sometimes.

[sholo86]

Sometimes you just gotta stop, look, and listen to what's going on around you. Smell the roses once in a while. We get caught up in our daily routines that we miss the simpliest things in life. Set your priorities; health, family, job. Be possitive...it's contagious.

[cal_JJJ]

Sailing upon oceans of travail and troubles,
Charting a course to rivers of joy,
Through the valley of sorrow,
To search for meaning upon mountains high.

[Guitarboy1212]

"In this world there are three wrong viewpoints.

First some say that all human experience is based on destiny; second, some hold that everything is created by God and controlled by his will; third some say that everything happens by chance without having any cause or condition.

If all has been decided by destiny, both good deeds and evil deeds are predetermined, weal and woe are predestined; nothing exists that has not been foreordained. Then all human plans and efforts for improvement and progress would be in vain and humanity would be without hope

The same is true of the other viewpoints, for , if everything in th last resort is in the hands of an unknowable God, or of blind chance, what hope has humanity except in submission?" - bukkyo dendo kyokai

This is my belief. I could give you some more quotes if you like

[Patrick Bateman]

Live today as if you will not see tomorrow.

[pgm316]

Originally posted by jet
i wanna know your life philosophy. what's the meaning of life? why r we here? these r the questions that need answer. noone has answered these questions perfectly yet. everyone's got his own life philosophy. i wanna discuss & argue about this. that's all

How do you know no one has answered it perfectly?

Maybe there is no reason, it just is...................................

[SoKKlab]

Don't forget to change your underwear

and if you don't wear underwear, then decide upon positive action in a definite direction.

[Andy Murray]

Lifes about not inhaling the gas of others, while ensuring the reverse is true as often as possible. :D

[Terry Matthes]

morale nihilism mixed with "If you want something done you got to do it yourself"

[Knight_Errant]

Avoid cane toads.
*nods sagely*

[snailfist]

5 golden rules:
Treat others as you would like to be treated.

Those who do not act in accordance with above do not necessarily need to be treated as above.

There is a God. He is worth listening to.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Years of MA training may still not protect you from yourself.

[YODA]

Originally posted by Knight_errant
Avoid cane toads.
*nods sagely*

Avoid Cain toads :D

[jonsku]

"Life is just a part of judo"

:D


jonsku

[timmeh!]

Rattle the buscuit tin before opening

[Kwajman]

Whats a cane toad? Anyway, I try not to judge others, and to be as good a person as I can be. Helping others w/out being found out, trying to improve myself when I can. Oh and eating good pizza.

[Kwajman]

Whats a cane toad? Anyway, I try not to judge others, and to be as good a person as I can be. Helping others w/out being found out, trying to improve myself when I can. Oh and eating good pizza.

[Kwajman]

oops, sorry all.

[Kenpo Kicker]

I believe in christ and when I think about the whole thing it really makes me think of how little we know. In the afterlife I think things are infinite such as wisdom and knowledge. I cannot comprehend infinity neither can my computer :( . I look forward to the afterlife and enjoy what life I have now.

[Brad Ellin]

Be kind. Be compassionate. Treat others better than you expect to be treated, and in return you will be treated better. Be patient. Emulate rather than worship. Worship is the lazy person's way out, it's much harder to emulate someone but much more rewarding. Get plenty of fiber in your diet. Love your spouse/significant other/children often and with all your heart. Tell them that you love them often. Remember that everything in life happens for a reason. You may not know what it is today, but be patient and someday you will realize why "it" happened. And be better off for it. Treat animals with more compassion than you treat people. Say hello to a complete stranger at least once a day. Learn something new once a day. Remember that you were once a child (and that one day you will be old).

And love.

[beta_b]

I'm not very religious so in the end I think that you will only answer to one person -yourself. You'll have to ask yourself whether or not you lived your life fully and utilised your time on Earth the best you could. So I try to live my life with this in mind - try to cram as much as I can into it and try to help those that don't have the same opportunities as I do.

[iain radford]

what ever you go through,all the **** you have to put with,there is always some good that comes out at the end!thats my bit of philosophy for the day?thanks everyone

[Furikuchan]

I thought I had already answered this. Guess not.
How do I live my life, and why do I live it the way I do? I try to help my friends whenever possible. I try to live an upstanding moral life, away from lying, cheating, stealing, egotism, laziness, enraged fits of violence, and other junk that doesn't belong. It's not an 'easy' way to live, at least, not in America. So why do I take the path of the warrior?
Six reasons. (Seven, actually, but the seventh is one I'll get to later.) Darian Stokes, Michelle Davis, Jboy Davis, Billy Jones, Chris Russel, and Brian Whitman. Senseis, training partners, and friends. These people have all done a lot for me. That's an understatement in some cases (*points emphatically to the first two names on the list*). I want to give back to them, and to everyone around me. First off, I would be letting them down if I took the 'path of least resistance.' With all the work they've put into me, I'm not going to be the one to waste it. All six of them know I can live a responsible, moral life, and that's what they want me to do. I'm not about to disappoint them. Second off, I have a huge debt to all six of them to start paying off. To give back to others what I have been given is a good way to pay off that debt.

So, what is my philosophy in a nutshell? Take what others give you, and give it back tenfold. Live your life in service of others, and always show what you have been given. In martial arts terms, teach what you have been taught, and learn what others teach you (Even if it's a younger person or lower rank. You can learn a lot from watching the pee wee class.). If you cannot teach it, or you cannot learn it, go back and ask Sensei! All in all, life a life of humble service and selflessness. Some say it's not the easy path, but it's easier to me than being selfish.

Oh, reason number seven? I once met a man who was a textbook example of how to live your life with no morals and only think of oneself. It's really not a nice way to live. I'd rather go on my own path, thanks.
Hope that was enlightening, a little.

[shunyadragon]

Many people view the search for the truth, knowledge, enlightenment, salvation or whatever is their ultimate goal in life. Finding something new often does give people a fresh view of existence from another mountain, but why do the stop there? How many mountains are there?

Many search in many different directions to find something new, others cling to the drifting log of the old ways. When the Hindu becomes a Christian, Christian becomes a Moslem or the believer who suddenly awakens and declares he has found them all false, they are all proclaiming their witness to having found the truth and search no more. Who is right? Does anyone really find IT?

Others do not search for anything and languish in the ignorance and comfort of pragamtism.

I prefer the view that the realization of truth, knowledge, insights, enlightenment, salvation and all the achievements in life are by little awakenings or realizations. There is no single absolute truth in science or religion. This has been the way of the human journey for over 200,000 years. There is always something new around the corner in science and belief and I believe this newness will likely continue for another 200,000 years or more. Those that believe that they have found IT, the ultimate goal and need to look no further, brings their journey to an end and they climb on the hamster wheel of karma. The journey of existence goes on without them.

I believe the bare basics are simply that that the cycle of revelation, knowledge and change is forever. My witness is the past history of existence and humanity. Everything always changes.

To find IT is to lose it.

[LaWnY]

Well said everyone.. Juz live your life philosophy to the fullest.. It is easier to make yourself happy than making other people happy... I guess the ultimately when you are old, you will understand more about the way of life... Cause you had already lived through it.. To understand something is to experience it-- by me Haha! Stay true to yourself.

[shunyadragon]

Well said everyone.. Juz live your life philosophy to the fullest.. It is easier to make yourself happy than making other people happy... I guess the ultimately when you are old, you will understand more about the way of life... Cause you had already lived through it.. To understand something is to experience it-- by me Haha! Stay true to yourself.

There are several stories and maxims in the east that also say it is not necessary for everyone to make the same mistakes. Listen carefully to the elders, they have been there before and their knowledge is more precious than gold.

[Happeh]

You are here to evolve.

Your body is like a car at the dealership. When you are born, your spirit comes down and jumps in the baby just like you jump in a new car at the dealership.

When you buy a new car, you are supposed to wash it, keep it up mechanically so it lasts a long time. You are supposed to do the exact same thing with your body.

Your purpose in being here is to gain energy or evolve. You spend your life accumulating energy so when you die, you have lots of energy to go to the next level.

If you do not believe this, or refuse to act on it, doing drugs, committing crimes, being a bad person, then you are forced to come back to this world and do it all over again. You do not graduate to the next level of evolution.

Having said that, yes bad people can evolve too. You are not supposed to talk about it because it encourages them. The only thing that matters is the energy. Did you get lots of energy by the time you die? If it is lots of good energy or lots of bad energy, you get promoted.

So God and Satan? They are people just like you and me that learned martial arts or yoga or whatever and moved on to the next level. God and Satan are like the Bruce Lee of evolution. The best of the best.

[shunyadragon]

You are here to evolve.

Your body is like a car at the dealership. When you are born, your spirit comes down and jumps in the baby just like you jump in a new car at the dealership.

When you buy a new car, you are supposed to wash it, keep it up mechanically so it lasts a long time. You are supposed to do the exact same thing with your body.

Your purpose in being here is to gain energy or evolve. You spend your life accumulating energy so when you die, you have lots of energy to go to the next level.

If you do not believe this, or refuse to act on it, doing drugs, committing crimes, being a bad person, then you are forced to come back to this world and do it all over again. You do not graduate to the next level of evolution.

Having said that, yes bad people can evolve too. You are not supposed to talk about it because it encourages them. The only thing that matters is the energy. Did you get lots of energy by the time you die? If it is lots of good energy or lots of bad energy, you get promoted.

So God and Satan? They are people just like you and me that learned martial arts or yoga or whatever and moved on to the next level. God and Satan are like the Bruce Lee of evolution. The best of the best.

A little too anthropomorphic for me.

[Happeh]

That is unfortunate. Some people learn better from the simple and homey examples, some people learn better from a 30 page detailed thesis full of technological vocabulary, all references fully annotated and signed by the top experts in the field.

I am lazy. Give me short and simple any day.

[simonlarcombe]

Do things right and find something to do.

[Tribalweapon]

There are only two things that i have to do in life. Live and Die. Enjoy the rest without hurting anyone.

Well, not too much anyway :D

[Togakure]

i wanna know your life philosophy. what's the meaning of life? why r we here? these r the questions that need answer. noone has answered these questions perfectly yet. everyone's got his own life philosophy. i wanna discuss & argue about this. that's all

I believe we are here to learn, that we have many lives, and we learn from each.

I dont beleive the earth is the most important planet in the universe, and I think our spirits learn not just from this planet but from other planets, times, dimentions and maybe even other universes, with different physics, where life is nothing we can imagine it as.

I beleive we should treat each other and animals with respect, I do not beleive in killing animals for meat, unless there is a life or death need (somthing that most of the world is not exsperiencing, most people kill animals merley for thier tastebuds).

Most of all I think we should all try to just get along, forget, borders, past transgretions and petty fueds that dont mean anything anymore, and always try our best to forgive.

I probably sound like a hippy so I'll stop now :D

[Barry]

Life is an expression of the self, to better yourself through life and control your own future. Adapt to the future and the challenges it brings. Always look; feel and think brightly towards life, never think of the past but move towards the future, with high hopes.

[shalomdokwan87]

life is a seriese of lessons if u dont lern the lesson the first time u are destoned to repeat it

[chapskins]

So, whats at the end of the rainbow?

[Nukite]

Life philosophy, well what in your mind is life, this is where all real experience starts and grows, meeting challenges, life itself all other arguments are based on personal differences between people minds. What works and who lives with authentic growth and understanding of what one,s minds thoughts philosophy has overcome challenges, lived with a positive and child like exicitement about life even when "old" and seen it all, well most of it.

[Yokozuma]

My outlook on life is undoubtedly shaped by religion. No matter what your condition in life is, you are inherently valuable. Moreover, your life has purpose and meaning; even if you cannot see it in your current circumstances.