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11 Aug 2010, 1:25 pm

I'm an existentialist.


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11 Aug 2010, 2:02 pm

Giftorcurse wrote:
I'm an existentialist.


I am a rational empiricist.

Facts rule, theories serve.

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11 Aug 2010, 2:21 pm

Could you be more specific? I assent to many philosophical positions.

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11 Aug 2010, 2:25 pm

you_are_what_you_is wrote:
Could you be more specific? I assent to many philosophical positions.


+1. Before reading the OP I was planning on saying the golden rule.


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11 Aug 2010, 4:25 pm

I think therefore I am.
And from that follows: I am thus only my thoughts which are a product/property of my brain which are a product/property of my body which is a product/property of matter.

Only by understanding something can you know it exists. Understanding can and will never be complete, thus we can only approach knowledge and certainty of our existence.

Beyond that, people tell me I have a modified version of Nietzschian existentialism. However to ascribe to any one specific philosophical school would be too much like "thinking within the box" and I cannot do so in good conscience. People label themselves as something specific only when their need to belong outweighs their need to understand.



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11 Aug 2010, 8:12 pm

Mine.

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11 Aug 2010, 9:49 pm

I'm a pessimist.



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11 Aug 2010, 10:31 pm

Fascism.


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11 Aug 2010, 10:42 pm

greenblue wrote:
Fascism.

Oh yeah, well, Hitler was a fascist, therefore you're wrong!



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12 Aug 2010, 3:53 am

If its green or brown, chop it down.

Naw. Just kidding. My philosophy is summed up by the last lyrics of a song which isnt appropriate for here.


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12 Aug 2010, 7:29 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
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Fascism.

Oh yeah, well, Hitler was a fascist, therefore you're wrong!


That is an argumentum ad hominum. First of all it assumes only one kind of Fascism and it further assumes Hitler was an exemplar in practicing that kind of Fascism. There might have been other kinds of Fascists whose effects on mankind were not as harmful as Hitler. For example, John F. Kennedy believed in a government-business partnership which is the essence of Fascism. Kennedy was a Fascist With a Smile.

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12 Aug 2010, 9:16 am

Exclavius wrote:
I think therefore I am.
And from that follows: I am thus only my thoughts which are a product/property of my brain which are a product/property of my body which is a product/property of matter.

Only by understanding something can you know it exists. Understanding can and will never be complete, thus we can only approach knowledge and certainty of our existence.

Beyond that, people tell me I have a modified version of Nietzschian existentialism. However to ascribe to any one specific philosophical school would be too much like "thinking within the box" and I cannot do so in good conscience. People label themselves as something specific only when their need to belong outweighs their need to understand.


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I think therefore I am means?

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12 Aug 2010, 9:56 am

pgd wrote:

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I think therefore I am means?



If one is aware of one's own thinking then he exists.

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12 Aug 2010, 10:03 am

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What philosophy do you adhere to?


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12 Aug 2010, 10:44 am

ruveyn wrote:
Awesomelyglorious wrote:
greenblue wrote:
Fascism.

Oh yeah, well, Hitler was a fascist, therefore you're wrong!


That is an argumentum ad hominum. First of all it assumes only one kind of Fascism and it further assumes Hitler was an exemplar in practicing that kind of Fascism. There might have been other kinds of Fascists whose effects on mankind were not as harmful as Hitler. For example, John F. Kennedy believed in a government-business partnership which is the essence of Fascism. Kennedy was a Fascist With a Smile.

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Actually, it is an argumentum ad hitlerum, which is kind of the point of what I was saying.



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12 Aug 2010, 10:58 am

this is a difficult question to answer. I define what is real as only what I can perceive with my senses and reject the idea of the soul and God completely. As far as my definition of what is right and what is wrong goes I follow the path revealed to me when I read the Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey. Although anyone who has read it understands that the true Satanist follows his own philosophy, one who concentrates on following anything too exactly is like a man staring at the frame of a painting rather then the painting itself.

So a one word answer for me would be Jacksonism since jackson is my last name