answers1: Well, I encourage you to look into your own life and
consider what you feel is most important in a belief system, what YOU
feel, and what you consider true. <br>
In my own life I'd say my `philosophy' is that all that finally
matters is the love you put into anything you do. When I was 18 I
spent some time in a Buddhist monastery where there was a sign over
the kitchen door which read `Never Enter The Kitchen In A Bad Mood'
which meant that you had to leave your negativity behind when it was
your turn to make the meal because that negativity would influence how
you prepared the food. You had to do all things with love, with
gratitude, with attention outward rather than inward, toward others
rather than toward oneself. I am not, now, Buddhist, but I learned a
lot from the discipline and a lot from that one sign over the kitchen
doorway. <br>
The western philosophy which has done me the most good personally is
Stoicism. The Stoic philosopher Epictetus wrote, "It is not
circumstances themselves that trouble people, but their judgments
about those circumstances. For example, death is nothing terrible, for
if it were, it would have appeared so to Socrates; but having the
opinion that death is terrible, this is what is terrible" (Enchiridion
ch. 4). <br>
I find Stoicism very compatible with Zen philosophy and with pretty
much every belief system. Please see link in Sources for more on it.
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All the best to you..........
answers2: as one said earlier, it takes your entire life to develop a
philosophy on how one ought to live. <br>
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but i think it is much simpler than that. nobody can tell you these
things. if you have the soul for it, i recommend you explore and
discover all philosophies from all places, times, and peoples. let
time & destiny guide you. <br>
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from years of general interest and open mind, you will develop a good life. <br>
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however, i must say, always live with the remembrance that life is but
a dream in the end.
answers3: The purpose of life, is a life of purpose. <br>
...I stick by that one.
answers4: If your teacher is trying to find YOUR philosophies of life,
shouldn't you be thinking of one yourself instead of asking us ours?
because really I don't think your english teacher cares much on what
our philosophies are. <br>
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But... <br>
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I just say never back down from a challenge. Whether it is eating the
most pies at a fair or learning more than anyone else can- go for it.
answers5: In life you need a solid plan, but what you really need is
just a secret plan.
answers6: Philosophy is merely a label for 'concepts approximately
issues which we would possibly never understand the genuine of'.
additionally, predictions of the destiny are prophesies, no longer
regularly occurring philosophies. Prophets are ones who are looking
forward to the destiny (often inspired by using a deity), no longer
philosophers.
answers7: Music can be a way of life.
answers8: We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope
of man on earth, else we will sentence them to take the first step
into a thousand years of darkness. -Ronald Reagan <br>
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Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, <br>
and hold your head up high above the others. <br>
Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. <br>
-Hippolochus, to Glaucus, in Homer, Iliad VI, (Fagles translation p.202) <br>
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I will not disgrace my sacred arms <br>
Nor desert my comrade, wherever <br>
I am stationed. <br>
I will fight for things sacred <br>
And things profane. <br>
And both alone and with all to help me. <br>
I will transmit my fatherland not diminished <br>
But greater and better than before. <br>
I will obey the ruling magistrates <br>
Who rule reasonably <br>
And I will observe the established laws <br>
And whatever laws in the future <br>
May be reasonably established. <br>
If any person seek to overturn the laws, <br>
Both alone and with all to help me, <br>
I will oppose him. <br>
I will honor the religion of my fathers. <br>
I call to witness the Gods … <br>
The borders of my fatherland, <br>
The wheat, the barley, the vines, <br>
And the trees of the olive and the fig. <br>
--Athenian Ephebic Oath <br>
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There's also an old saying that you must "Be polite, be courteous, and
be prepared to kill everyone you meet."
answers9: You'll have to read..."A Philosophy of Universality," O. M.
Aivanhov, <br>
"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet, <br>
"Entering the Circle" and "The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga
Kharitidi, are three modern interesting philosophies. <br>
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Reviews at <a href="http://www.amazon.com"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.amazon.com</a> <br>
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You might pick up some good points by reading reviews there. <br>
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First, ask yourself if you know what "philosophy is." <br>
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Philosophy is love of wise dominion, "wis-dom." <br>
<br>
What is wise dominion? It depends on two sources: what is, and what
goal preferences you have. <br>
<br>
To come up with your own personal philosophy of life, you have to know
or believe you know "what is," or the study of ontology. <br>
<br>
To know how you know what is, you have the science of epistemology. <br>
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To evaluate your thinking, you have the science of logic. <br>
<br>
So, basically, if you're honest, you as everyperson will acknowledge
that you have different moods, different levels of awareness. Modern
science confirms this--lower beta wave states for counting beans and
atoms, higher gamma waves for insight, intuition, alpha during dream
cognition, etc. <br>
<br>
So, basically, you will acknowledge that your perception of what is
varies. You might have a precognitive or telepathic dream, both of
which are verified by science, e.g. links at <a
href="http://www.lucidity.com"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.lucidity.com</a> <a
href="http://www.noetic.org"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.noetic.org</a>
http://www.heartmath.org http://www.tiller.org and http://www.itp.edu
. If so, you'd have an insight into God-related Truth/absolute
values. Later in the day, perhaps you, in beta wave, would question
your alpha wave experience, etc. <br>
<br>
At that point, Pascal wagers that if one has no clue if God Is, there
is a 50-50 chance God Is. In such a case, one stands to gain an
infiinte eternal Good by e.g. simply "Loving God completely, and
colleague as Self." So, logically, that basic type of religiosity is
a good bet, as it isn't too onerous, and has a 50% likelihood of being
True. <br>
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Further, the ontological question of "why is there some thing?" if
logically and scienfifically we know that absolutely nothing comes of
absolutely nothing, yields this: there has had to always been Some
Thing. How did Energy as Thing always exist? is less logically
satisfactory than hypothesizing that Some Being has always Been. <br>
<br>
So, one's philosophy of "life" logically does not begin with birth,
nor end with death, but includes pre-birth and post-passing "goals."
These goals would therefore include the joy of Eternal Life, as a 50%+
possibility, being loving, kind, well-fed while here, etc. This is
basically Kant's notion of we have to postulate God, in order to have
a good and decent philosophy of life, re goals. <br>
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p.s. Several literary works which deal with this general question: <br>
<br>
"Strange Life of Ivan Osokin," P. D. Ouspensky (not the greatest
novel, but an inspiration for one of the screenwriters of "Groundhog
Day"). <br>
"The Great Divorce," C. S. Lewis. <br>
"Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves. <br>
"Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei," Weinberger and Paz. <br>
"Shakespeare in the Light of Sacred Art," Martin Lings. <br>
"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck. <br>
"The Overachievers," Alexandra Robbins.
answers10: do not believe anything you hear and only half of what you
see. the past was your future just as the future will become your past
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