Motto's and philosophies of life

[tr0mb0ne]

people who have a religion are just closing the blinds so they dont have to look in the emptyness of life

I don't agree with this one at all. I have a religion, but I'm not closing the blinds so that I don't have to look at the emptiness of life, having a religion can be quite the opposite, which gives you a new look into life and better ways to live it.

[Spas12]

Do not eat to dulness, and do not drink to elevation.

[Athlete{UK}]

Don't start this into a religion VS athiest argument please.

Athiests and Religious folk do my nut in equally and the arguments never get anywhere anyway. Just tell us your mottos please.

[zombie@computer]

everyday more than 275,000 die. So i dont really care when a few thousand extra die (december flood, wtc attack, etc). Therefore, the most useless thing for me in life, is remembering when 1000 people die at once, but dont care about the other 200,000+ people who die anyways. Hypocritical suns of bitches.

(this is my motto since these disasters we were forced to stand still for it (trains stopped for five minutes to remember the dead, in school we had to be quiet for 5 minutes for the wtc shit, etc. Look, ill tell you once and for all, I dont know these people any more than i know the other thousands that die, so why should i give a flying fuck? In the same 5 minutes we stopped living to remember the dead in asia after the tsunami we could have earned millions to give to the victims. bunch of asshats who organise national moarning moments.

I think you are close to the motto:

One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.

But, you miss the point of mourning those deaths. The WTC and London attacks (to name just two) were terrorist attacks and a violation of the countries involved. Don't forget at least half of the deaths everyday are natural causes.

They were only mourned because of mass death in an unnatural and spiteful way.

i can imagine the "use" of this when a disaster hits your own nation, population, familiy whatever, but for me, i an no closer related to the victims of these (wtc, tsunami, new orleans) disasters than i am to john doe who dies when his bull sticks his horn in a part of his body that wasnt meant for that.
I dont think a death by terrorism or natural disaster or such is any different to a natural death: the outcome is the same. For that reason, a death in the wtc disaster to me, is the same as when a mr unknown dies of AIDS in south africa. With that in view, i cannot see any reason not to call mass-moarning hypocrisy.

Offcourse, the latter is different when the disaster affects you too (eg when its in your family/nation whatever), but with aforementioned disasters this wasnt the case.

people who have a religion are just closing the blinds so they dont have to look in the emptyness of life

I don't agree with this one at all. I have a religion, but I'm not closing the blinds so that I don't have to look at the emptiness of life, having a religion can be quite the opposite, which gives you a new look into life and better ways to live it.

doent matter, its MY motto

anyway, religion does imagine things that arent there according to the non-religious. space is empty infitism, according to science, and religious people use a god or such to change this realism into another (their god and such). Not saying that its right (that god doesnt exist and all, thats another discussion), but from an atheistic point of view, they are closing their eyes from the cold, empty, limitless realitiy and picturing a god inside. Thats how i see it anyways.

[Jest@]

It's better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you never did.

[zombie@computer]

if someone fucks you, fuck back

[Caste]

No flames please or anything which baits- Athlete

[Dead-Inside]

Make life as easy as possible

Note that this doesn't mean you fuck everything, it means you take the shortest (doable) roads to mostly everytthing.

[Jman]

Another Motto:
Never post in a thread created by Killa-Cow

Honestly man! Stop making Serious discussion topics when you yourself don't even care for the issue, but instead the attention!

[Terminator]

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."

[ƒray]

Dont die.

[5eyes]

Accomplish something for humanity

"Veni, Vidi, Vici" -Julius Caesar
I came, I saw, I conquered



I will live forever or die trying

[Terminator]

"Ambition is the fire of the will, the spur to the horse, and the arm wielding the flashing sword."

[Woe Kitten]

Kant said
"Act in such a way that the maxim of your actions can be affirmed by you as a universal truth"

In other words: for everything you do think about what the world would be like if everyone had to do that thing under the same circumstances. If you wouldn't like that world: don't do it.

So for George Bush:

"If Terrorists attack your country, then invade all countries they are associated with." would be his maxim. I'll leave you to ponder out whether that would make the world a better place or not.