Theories On Existentialism

For those of you who don't know what existentialism is, it is basically a philosophy that you are what you make of yourself.

I've just been thinking about the whole subject and just have my own spin on the entire philosophy.

First off, I think your world is what you make it and everything is relative. If you live in a world where the rain can damper your mood then you are going to be emotionally dependent on a third party source that you can't control and your moods will fluctuate at a constant rate. I think if you want to be happy you will be. Further more I think going into the whole God issue and what happens after death, again everything is relative and we are all connected. In my opinion there is no "God" and there is no "Devil" there is just living. You cycle from life to life being an unobstructed entity or something of the like. When dealing with hell I think the existence of it is in your own mindset. If you are living a life which is constantly one of stress and distress and anxiety then you are living in hell. But oppositely a person sitting two feet away can be living a life with a positive outlook and be living in heaven, which constitutes a more positive outlook. I can't even remember where i heard/read this but one of my favorite lines was when talking about hell the devil says "it is the thought of a human who makes hell a place of solitude and eternal torture that causes it to be so" basically again your world is what you make it. But in contrast to what said I don't believe in either Heaven or Hell. I believe in the connotation of such a place, and a human emotional attachment to a place that constitutes the feeling you are going through, much like phrases that try to postulate a bad day as being hell, or a much more pleasure filled day of being heavenly. I think if you just smite the entire idea of both heaven and hell and just think of living then you can lead a more wholesome life. I think the fear of being free and having complete control of your life is so monstrous to a person they prefer to hide behind morals of a certain figure and try living in the eyes of that person, as if to live up to their belief. So, keeping that in mind I feel you can view people such as Gandhi to be taken as a religion. I believe in the human of Jesus Christ, that he was a person who captivated the mindset of so many people with his belief system of morals and wrongs and rights that it became a wide spread ideal to be just like him, almost like fame in celebrity these days but on a much more envy based level. I mean that in a way that people wished they had the ability of Jesus to have such a belief in something as to literally die in the name of it. Which just brings me to the topic of How did we get here? Why are we here? What is the point of life? My abstract answer is simply to live and exist. How did we get here? I think we started off as an idea, a principle of existence and then from that principle we grew into existence, and everything grew from there. Why are we here? To once again exist. We are here to live, and love and exist and then do it again. The gift of life is huge and why people can't take it for a reason to be here I don't understand. And finally what is the point of life? I hate to reiterate but, to exist. The point of life is simply to live, and with so many people who think life is all about money and beauty, that's just there points in life. I mean I'm not going to give up all my worldly possessions and go live in a moss cabin for the rest of my life because that's not what I think my existence is for. I want to live, love, and laugh. Why can't that be my point in life? Why do I have to follow the path of some other persons views and beliefs that don't even coincide with my own. I don't. That's my exact point, and which is why I think existentialism is one of the most revolutionary and thought provoking philosophies out to date. Now I know it might sound hypocritical saying, Oh this is so right , yet someone else thought up this method, and I'm not going to try and say I thought of it before I read about it, but I just feel after reading about it and thinking and making my own conclusions that it is the most correct way of living. I mean, I think every single thing born is an existentialist. You choose to believe in a God that will be hold a grudge and besmirch you for defying him. You choose to be employed at a place where you can only go so far. I just think you entire world is what you make it and everything you do is right in your mind, it is the morals of others that fall onto you that make you feel guilt and resent certain things when at that moment, for even a split second, it felt right and was what you were meant to do. I'm sure I have contradicted myself enough to cause a huge on slay of hate for this entire thing, but I don't care, you can't tell me I'm wrong in what I feel. Since everything has a symbol I have decided that my life and morals and principles can be shown by the infinity symbol, sideways eight if you don't know what it looks like, because I feel that everything is connected and you can't expect to understand everything while your running your course, you can't expect to see the end when your only in the middle, you can postulate and ponder but you can't know.

That's just my thinking for the day.
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