Western Philosophy or Eastern Philosophy?

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I will first and foremost make my own way through this World. But I will not hesitate to borrow, nay, TAKE, whatever I see along the way that is useful to me. I will examine it, anneal and shape it and incorporate it into my ever evolving understanding of life, the universe and how I relate to it all. I laugh at the smugness of the Western philosopher, I yawn at the complacency of the Easter mystic, I turn my back to the commonplace vulgarity and fear mongering ways of organized religion in general. For I am the new synthesis, and I carry the future with ME!

These old millennial creatures of "civilized society" are ridiculous and out of date. They are most interested in their own self survival, expansion and prestige than anything else. THATS a fact Jack, and anyone who doesn't know that is completely asleep. The sentinels of the truth, if there ever was any lieing somewhere inside all of these organizations, have long since departed and been replaced by unknowing men who have bastardized the real meaning and real message and distorted it for their own furtherance in the name of fill in the blank. Truth, Beauty and Love - the three things I admire the most - they took the last train for the coast - and their music has long since died.

The old ways of thinking have had well over 2000 years of control and all they do is bloody the landscape and create ever more misery and human suffering. HOW DARE THEY TRY TO END THIS BEAUTY! HOW DARE THEY TRY TO HIDE THIS TRUTH! Well I say unto ye my awake and unplugged brothers and sisters, the fear mongering ways and hateful actions of these relics from the last century are at an end. In this, their final sytruggle, they will try to convince you that they will bring on Armageddon itself if thats what it takes to scare you into submission yet again and so maintain their greedy death grip on this blue planet. They would paint it black to maintain control for they are all drunk with power and wealth and have long ago become something less than human. Aye, mark me well, their looks deceive but these are real and powerful demons, human type demons. They Live! But, their days are numbered as the free flow of information abounds and everyone on the planet can, for the first time, loggon.

They don't belong in the light of the new day that's dawning inside us, inside this new World in the beginning years of this new century at the very top of this new millennium! Long have their archaic ways of thinking become fossilized and irrelevant to the spirit of those who would become 21st century poets, philosophers, scientists, artists, lovers, mothers & fathers and enlightened citizens! Let the new day dawn! Let the new Millennium begin! Slow to start and in the midst of everything nasty, murderous, paranoid and black hearted which issues from the desperation of those whose grip is loosening, this cloud will disperse and these ancient ways of thinking and being will die and fall back into the 20th century where they belong.

Originally posted by Zarathustra
“You had not yet sought yourselves when you found me. Thus do all believers; therefore all belief is of so little account.
Now I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when you have denied me will I return to you.” (Nietzsche, Ecce Homo)

Yep, Nietzsche was right there - he must have been a Buddhist: The Buddhist is an aware, awakened being; self-enlightenment is the key - as far as I know, the Buddhist does not believe in a God, but rather in the emptiness of the self and the oneness, or infinite interconnectedness between the self, others and the universe. Well, Nietzsche liked Schoppenhauer, and Schoppenhauer liked Buddhism; and I am a Buddhist.

Another funny Nietzsche quote (well, actually about Nietzsche):

"God is dead" - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead" - God

You guys do know nietzsche was a borderline nihilist who criticized everything and had a mental breakdown in his 40s right?

a famous quote from somewhere ....
'complete paranoia is complete awareness'

Buddhism is the perfect "East meets West" philosophy, because it is atheistic, but also positive, peacefull, responsible, logical as well as religious, spiritual and simply a wise way of life.

Originally posted by Great Vengeance
You guys do know nietzsche was a borderline nihilist who criticized everything and had a mental breakdown in his 40s right?

Yes, and that's a gross oversimplification (in fact, an inaccurate portrayal) of his writings. The causes of said "mental breakdown" are uncertain, but it may be the result of syphillis: Nietzsche's chronic health problems are well documented.