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I believe that the Path of Dudeism is not just a Religion and a Philosophy, but that it is also a Way of Life. Your life will be more at Peace, through following the Path of Dudeism.
You will view the world through Clearer and Calmer eyes than you have ever done before. When you deal with people at work and through out other aspects of your life you will be able to deal with them with Kindness, Compassion, Tolerance, Wisdom and a Peaceful Calm Abiding. Being a Dudeist will make you a better person, and in doing so you can help to make the world a better place to live for us all.

Well said dude.

I have only been abiding as a Dudeist Priest for a few weeks now and already my life is improving. I am seeing things that I should of seen all along if it wasn't for my previously uptight thinking. I'm not just following the path of Dudeism, I'm also following the path I have followed when I was younger but strayed away from in college, to do what I love, the way I want to do it. Dudeism really changed my life as I'm sure it did for all you other dudes out there. The Dude Abides!

I too was following the path in my twenties. Then I got distracted by the need to provide for a family. Now that they're nearly grown up, and with the help of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, I'm once again embracing  my dudeness.

I wonder how much of a common story this is?

I think we all start out following the Dude Way because it's a natural way to be but then society fucks us up as we grow older. We are never taught that the Dude Way is the right way and so we end up on the wrong path at some point. For us Dudeists, we found the right path once again while others may have not. But hey, that's just like, uh, my opinion man.

Quote from: SirNels on July 06, 2012, 08:09:10 PM
I believe that the Path of Dudeism is not just a Religion and a Philosophy, but that it is also a Way of Life. Your life will be more at Peace, through following the Path of Dudeism.

Again I have to disagree.

Many of us are drawn here because this is how we live our lives.

Please don't try to force yourselves to change your lives to fit some abstract "Dude" idea.

Being "Dudeist" shouldn't change your life, it's only a word.

Following the Taoist idea, everyone is Dudeist, they just need to relax and realise the fact.

Again please stop trying to be the Dude and just get on with just being.

Quote from: meekon5 on July 19, 2012, 01:17:58 AM

Quote from: SirNels on July 06, 2012, 08:09:10 PM
I believe that the Path of Dudeism is not just a Religion and a Philosophy, but that it is also a Way of Life. Your life will be more at Peace, through following the Path of Dudeism.

Again I have to disagree.

Many of us are drawn here because this is how we live our lives.

Please don't try to force yourselves to change your lives to fit some abstract "Dude" idea.

Being "Dudeist" shouldn't change your life, it's only a word.

Following the Taoist idea, everyone is Dudeist, they just need to relax and realise the fact.

Again please stop trying to be the Dude and just get on with just being.

Good advice, M5, don't TRY (self defeating) to be a dude, just let your inner dude out to roll.

Good point. The Dude did not become the Dude by trying to be like that, it was a natural result of a lifetime of abiding.

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on July 19, 2012, 02:16:27 AM

Quote from: meekon5 on July 19, 2012, 01:17:58 AM

Quote from: SirNels on July 06, 2012, 08:09:10 PM
I believe that the Path of Dudeism is not just a Religion and a Philosophy, but that it is also a Way of Life. Your life will be more at Peace, through following the Path of Dudeism.

Again I have to disagree.

Many of us are drawn here because this is how we live our lives.

Please don't try to force yourselves to change your lives to fit some abstract "Dude" idea.

Being "Dudeist" shouldn't change your life, it's only a word.

Following the Taoist idea, everyone is Dudeist, they just need to relax and realise the fact.

Again please stop trying to be the Dude and just get on with just being.

Good advice, M5, don't TRY (self defeating) to be a dude, just let your inner dude out to roll.

Yes, if you try to change yourself in an attempt to be more Dude-like, it becomes an attachment, and attachment can lead to all sorts of ugly things. We all have the Dude within us. Just relax and abide, and it will come through on it's own.

Yep, we all naturally want to follow the Dude Way because that's where it flows, so go with it man.

Quote from: wozza on July 18, 2012, 07:18:12 PM
I too was following the path in my twenties. Then I got distracted by the need to provide for a family. Now that they're nearly grown up, and with the help of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, I'm once again embracing  my dudeness.

I wonder how much of a common story this is?

I dig your style man. Same here.

Hey fellows (didn't want to creat a new post, when there are already a lot about dudeism and its words).

I just found this gem over uberhumor (big day at work again).

I think it's a good and fun way to descibe Dudeism.

Cheer, mates.

Quote from: wozza on July 18, 2012, 07:18:12 PM
I too was following the path in my twenties. Then I got distracted by the need to provide for a family. Now that they're nearly grown up, and with the help of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, I'm once again embracing  my dudeness.

I wonder how much of a common story this is?

woah... I'm in my mid 20-s, working hard and trying to provide for the family. no kids yet, but still. does this mean I can't embrace my dudeness yet?

Meekon5 remind me of a sentence.

"People prefer changing themselves rather than accepting themselves.
Because accepting themselves is the hardest choice.
And it will never change."

I like the little paradoxical irony in this sentence. I heard it from a comic showman (Anthony Kavanagh, Canadian/Quebec, maybe Masked dude knows him).

One should see what he/she is, and accept him/herself as he/she is, every part, goods and bad, Donny and Walter, Yin and Yang.
I'm no example, I do not have the arrogance to think so.
I'm not lazy (well, not totally), I work hard, to feed my family. I can't have all I wish (a dog, a HD bike, a pool, Swedish babysitters above 18 y.o. for my children,...), but I do with what i already have, and it fills me with joy
I'm clever was well educated, some of my physical form stick to the "beauty standards" of a man in our society, but I also have darker parts. I deal with it, hence I have no stress issues. I do not live like the Dude.
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I know what I know, what I don't know, I may learn it afterward, or not.
I accept my weakness as I do with strength, and my victories as my failures.
I do not try to "look like someone".
I am who I am, with my lifestyle, my thoughts, my opinion, and other people do it on their own ways.
If someone is displeased with it, he can say it, but he does not have the power to make me change, and he should not wish to do so, as I don't, upon him.

That is what the path of Dudeism is for me.

Quote from: Bullett00th on August 21, 2013, 09:15:29 PM

Quote from: wozza on July 18, 2012, 07:18:12 PM
I too was following the path in my twenties. Then I got distracted by the need to provide for a family. Now that they're nearly grown up, and with the help of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, I'm once again embracing  my dudeness.

I wonder how much of a common story this is?

woah... I'm in my mid 20-s, working hard and trying to provide for the family. no kids yet, but still. does this mean I can't embrace my dudeness yet?

Sorry to necro this thread but I wanted to respond to this idea.

Through my teens and into my early twenties I was heading down what many consider a Dudelike path. And like many I had to confront the reality of providing for myself and then others, something the lifestyle that I saw at that time as being Dudelike just did not allow. I joined the military and transformed overnight into Walter and remained that way for 22 years. Six years ago I left the military but nothing really changed in how I approached life. It took those six years for me to realize that I hadn't really understood what the Stranger was trying to tell me. Now I firmly believe the Stranger's tale included all of the important characters for different reasons, but The Dude, Walter and Donny represent a trinity of personality characteristics that taken in moderation at any point in anyone's life can make embracing your Dudeness achievable. I strongly believe that those are; Tolerance, Conviction and Naivete. Once we recognize that we do not know it all, dedicate ourselves to earning our wisdom rather than simply learning knowledge and develop the tolerance needed to abide the things we just can't change, then we start down a path to a happier more fulfilled existence.

But you know that's just my opinion man and I am not always right, except when I am.

Ron