Philosophies, Ideologies, and Other Wacky Stuff

This page will be rather lengthy because I have a lot to say. Overall goal is to help the reader to introspect and introduce to various concepts & ideologies. Free yourself from constant grief by changing the way you think and understand people who have struggled with the same philosophical conundrums throughout history.

You are not any better or worse than anyone. Remember this.

My beliefs:

• Accept that life has no inherent meaning (Absurdism),
• But still strive to create your own meaning (Existentialism),
• And don't accept things at face value (Skepticism),
• While walking a personal path of growth through self-learning (Autodidacticism)

Questions, concepts and things

• Awareness
• Introspection - do you know who you are?
• Observation
• Open-mindedness
• Stoicism
• Neutrality
• Schadenfreude - do you partake in the enjoyment of others people's miseries? How does it affect you and the people around you? Is it bad or good? Does dehumanization occur?
• Consequentialism
• Absurdism
• Nothing truly matters in the grand scheme of things - don't get so mad about trivial matters
just a little bit of nihilism is fine for cosmic irrelevance
• Enjoy the silence. You don't need noise all the time
not a depeche mode reference
• Create something, anything, the quality of your brain depends on it
• Think, but don't think too much. You need to relax
• Value family but don't push your ambitions aside for them
• Misinformation and misunderstandings happen, don't take anything as a direct conclusion at first
• Utilitarianism
• Who do you want to be?
• Develop skills, increase self-esteem
• Aim towards independence and resourcefulness
• You're responsible for your own happiness. Other people can't be responsible for it
• Criticism is good, but if you try to criticize everything you see, you won't be a happy person
• Learn new things everyday, knowledge is power
• Don't seek validation from others
• Value your time spent with yourself
• Stop caring about what people think if you desire freedom
• Don't attach metrics to your self-worth
• Value privacy
• Question yourself
• Think before you speak, words stick with people
• Be careful of first impressions, lest you'll be forced to stick to a persona
• Don't automatically assume people know what you think or feel at any given moment
• Are you happy with yourself? If not, work towards a self you want to achieve
• Are you yourself when with others, or do you lose "yourself" trying to please them?
• Everyone grows old and wrinkly with age, find someone who values you for you rather than looks
• Don't change yourself for someone else
• You may be anonymous (debatable) on the internet, but that won't be for long. Be careful with what you post, even under the guise of anonymity
• Do you care about this world or yourself? There are no wrong answers
• Internet causes us to be someone we're not. Try to be yourself as much as possible
• Animals are our neighbours who shares the same planet with us, respect wildlife as wildlife
• Is having a set of beliefs truly necessary?
• Perhaps happiness lies within not thinking and living as an animal would. Is ignorance bliss?
• People on the internet are not real, but also real. Do not expect authenticity online
Their personas aren't real, but the people behind them are. Their photos may be edited, filtered, altered, but the person behind it does breathe
• There are no bad or good people, just people
• Happiness is subjective
• Does being attractive matter to you?
Hint: attractiveness is subjective
• Is romantic love real or an illusion?
• Do you love yourself? Would you like to, if not?
Usually no one comes out of the womb loving themselves. That's something everyone works on
• Don't live life on auto-pilot mode
• Seek out novelty
• Nuance
• Memento Mori
• What is the purpose of friendships to you?
• What are your social boundaries?
• Frugal lifestyle
• You're not the center of anything. You are a part of a crowd
• Why does looks rule our society so much? Do you benefit from it?
• Theory of Mind
• Are you okay with the future where we'll be unable to distinguish AI from humans?
• Pain is good, it's motivation fuel, but don't lose yourself in misery
• Failure builds growth
• Other people's, namely strangers, affairs has nothing to do with you. Why care?
• Be honest, don't oversell yourself to impress others
• If you approach people, they approach you. If you avoid people, they avoid you
• Don't force yourself to be friends with people you don't want to talk to
• Does religion matter as much in modern society?
• Develop daily routine
• You're not always right
• Practice admitting to being wrong
• Be careful about what you do, assume you're always being watched
• Healthy skepticism is good, no one tells the truth all the time
• Has the internet distorted your perception of how normal humans tend to look and behave like?
• Is our intelligence measured by IQ alone?
• What does it mean to be 'smart'? Or 'stupid'?
• Surround yourself with people you think you deserve to be with
• You don't know everything and you will never know everything
• All breakthroughs are made possible through human cooperation and the knowledge passed down by previous generations. We are always passing the baton between generations
• Is there such a thing as talent or genius?
• People are mere imitations of each other
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation
• Gemeinschaftsgefühl
• We are for ourselves; condemned to be free and alone in defining ourselves

People I find interesting

• Albert Camus
• Alfred Adler
• Abraham Maslow
• Carl Jung
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Socrates
• Franz Kafka
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Virginia Woolf
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Osamu Dazai
• Noam Chomsky
• Voltaire
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Oscar Wilde