Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Existentialism and me

Lately, as in these past few months, I've been questioning the human thought process and questioning the human mind in general, so I thought that one day while in school I would look up philosophy on wikipedia again as I have done previously over 2 years ago and I found that existentialism, like transcendentalism, matched up with what I was starting to think of. Thus, I decided that since I already was moving more away from transcendentalism anyway even while still clinging to some of the wisdom left behind by Thoreau, I would take in existentialism as well and make a new philosophy to practice for myself. Earlier on, over the summer, I started to really break down the existence of God and any other deity and I read something about that idea, I can't remember where or what, but it was on that subject, anyway, it was the idea of Materialism. Materialism is quite interesting to me. It's the idea that everything that's present and real is actually real, while anything else like a deity or something that's intangible or anything like that, is not. Basically when it comes to a god, it does not exist no matter what, because it does not have any real origin.
Speaking of Gods, if I were to choose to believe in any sort of pantheon or god at all or whatever, my best pick would be the Egyptian pantheon of gods, since they actually have a credible origin. They said that all of their gods came from a star in the night sky, I can't remember which, but yes, the star they pointed out was in fact real, and nobody knew about that star until hundreds of years later, when someone finally had the common sense to look up and actually find the danged star in the night sky. Thus, Egyptians were right, Christians were wrong.... or maybe everyone else other than the Egyptians?
Moving on, about materialism, everything has to have an origin, OK, I believe that too, I'll take it and put in my pocket and forget about it next morning. With transcendentalism, materialism, and now existentialism, it could only mean one thing for me. I will coin eclecticism! Yes, a type of philosophy for the thinking ADD-sufferer. It should be something that holds core belief with the three aforementioned philosophies while totally agreeing that no idea about man, nature, or anything thereof, cannot be held credible until tangible evidence is brought up to prove it.

Make way for Eclecticism,

Yours Truly

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