Critique My Philosophy of Life?

[Philosofer123]

Over the past few years, I have formulated my philosophy of life, a 13-page Google Doc that may be found at the following link:

//https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Byh6JnTg3RMecHhxV0pYeklqV0U/edit?usp=sharing

In the first half of the document, I present and defend the following positions: atheism, afterlife skepticism, free will impossibilism, moral skepticism, existential skepticism and negative hedonism. The second half of the document is devoted to ways to achieve and maintain peace of mind.

I have found the entire exercise to be very beneficial personally, and I hope that you will benefit from reading the document.

I am posting my philosophy to solicit feedback so that it may be improved. I welcome any constructive criticism that you may have.

EDIT:  Following this edit, I will respond only to those posts that contain constructive criticism.  Also, I will not respond to any post that contains an ad hominem argument or personal attack.

Enjoy!

[PickelledEggs]

Executive, eh? Sounds cool. What were you an executive of?

[Philosofer123]

Executive, eh? Sounds cool. What were you an executive of?

To protect my anonymity, I am not providing any additional personal information at this time.

Thank you for your understanding.

[aitm]

Executive, eh? Sounds cool. What were you an executive of?

To protect my anonymity, I am not providing any additional personal information at this time.

Thank you for your understanding.

damn, okay everybody take off your ninja outfits.....rats.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Dang executive X.. THIRTEEN PAGES? HOLY CRAP! That's like an 85 minute viagra commercial during the two minute warning of a tie game at the superbowl! ..or at least on my crappy phone it is.
Are you at liberty to give us the readers digest version at this time? :)

[leo]

Okkkkkkkkkaaaayyyy. :-s

[Hijiri Byakuren]

Well, you're an odd one. I like the odd ones. Welcome.

[Philosofer123]

Dang executive X.. THIRTEEN PAGES? HOLY CRAP! That's like an 85 minute viagra commercial during the two minute warning of a tie game at the superbowl! ..or at least on my crappy phone it is.
Are you at liberty to give us the readers digest version at this time? :)

Given the amount of ground that I cover in my philosophy, 13 pages is actually quite short.  

I'm afraid the best I can do for a summary is the OP, in which I list my philosophical positions, culminating in negative hedonism and methods to achieve and maintain peace of mind.  That said, here is one of my favorite techniques for promoting peace of mind, because it is both quite versatile and highly effective if truly internalized.  I call it "Elimination of Judgments":

"One should always keep in mind that events are interconnected through the operation of physical cause and effect. Thus, apparently negative events can precipitate positive events, and apparently positive events can precipitate negative events. Moreover, the connections between events can be very indirect and impossible to predict. Consequently, if one were able to go back in time and modify or eliminate a particular event, one's entire life might change as a result, and whether it would change for the better or the worse would not be knowable. Therefore, one will generally never know whether an apparently negative event is truly negative in the overall context of one's life, or whether an apparently positive event is truly positive in the overall context of one's life. As a result, one should eliminate judgments with respect to whether any event is truly positive or negative. Such elimination of judgments strongly promotes equanimity and peace of mind—before, during and after one's experiences."

[Philosofer123]

Well, you're an odd one. I like the odd ones. Welcome.

Yes, I suppose that I am odd.  I can find no other attempt to articulate a practical and comprehensive philosophy of life on the entire Internet.  And I have searched extensively.  If any of you are aware of one, please do share the link.

[mykcob4]

Greetings, fellow atheists!

I am a retired executive residing in California with a keen interest in philosophy.

Over the past few years, I have formulated my philosophy of life, a 13-page Google Doc that may be found by Googling "Philo Sofer" and following the first link ("My Philosophy by Philo Sofer").  I would like to post the link here, but as a new member, I am not allowed to do so.

In the first half of the document, I present and defend the following positions: atheism, afterlife skepticism, free will impossibilism, moral skepticism, existential skepticism and negative hedonism. The second half of the document is devoted to ways to achieve and maintain peace of mind.

I have found the entire exercise to be very beneficial personally, and I hope that you will benefit from reading the document.

I am posting my philosophy to solicit feedback so that it may be improved. I welcome any constructive criticism that you may have.

Enjoy!

Sorry pal, don't think I'll do that. You see I have read a great deal of philosophy and pretty much all of it is simular and just rehashed bits of history. I rule my life by logic and need. Pretty simple but it works for me. I am not a high power corporate executive like you, but I have lived a great deal, been many places, met many different kinds of people (killed some of them), seen a lot of things. Now I have my own company to worry about, and I wear most of the hats. I'll never be rich, Connie Selica is married, don't have or want kids, and I have a great dog.
NEXT!

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Well, you can try here. We're not the easiest bunch to get along with, but usually receptive to ideas unless they're pious in nature. Most of us, but not all are fairly liberal and typically vote for Democrats, but some are fence sitters and a few right leaners.
I'd like to read more, but on this old wireless tin can & string devise I'll be slow keeping up and likely drift off, but yeah, it sort of seems like you have an underlying fear of messing up the space time continuem.. Damned..can't spell continueum.

[Shol'va]

To protect my anonymity, I am not providing any additional personal information at this time.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
Just kidding. I don't blame you.
A friend of mine got doxed just a couple weeks ago by a batshit crazy Christian fundie.

[SGOS]

Well, you're an odd one. I like the odd ones. Welcome.

"Well, I suppose you think your pretty odd. But I'm pretty odd myself, and I intend to get to the bottom of this," threatens Wilford Brimley.

To which Paul Newman responds, "Hell, all of us in this room are odd."

(Absence of Malice.  I think that was the movie.)  OK, I took some liberties with the script.  Don't ask me why that popped into my head.  Nor do I have any idea why I posted it.  Except, we're all odd.

[stromboli]

Read 13 pages of philosophy? I'd rather eat quick setting concrete with a stick.

[Solitary]

:-D Welcome aboard Philosofer123! If you can find the original teachings of Buddha and not the various schools that have been corrupted by other religions I think you will agree it is a good way to live your life and find peace of mind. I personally don't believe we have free will, and that what we call justice is really retribution, and that there is no such thing as justice only injustice. I think the idea of justice comes from black and white thinking, and that everything has an opposite. It's like the argument for evolution or Creationism, or acquired attributes or born with, instead of the merging of both. The problem with philosophy is the meaning of words, especially those that have different meanings. Example: If I build a wooded ark and after I finish building it and replace ever single piece of wood is it the same boat?  :shock:  #-o    Solitary