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Most of the time I'm very undude with my behaviour, stressing out and being depressed all the time and shit, so I thought Dudeism could provide me some quidelines on taking it easy. Personally I don't consider Dudeism so much as a religion but as a view of life.
why are you a dudeist? it seems to me there are a few different kind of dudes here, those who are obviously huge fans of the big lebowski and quote the movie at every opportunity and others who relate to the big lebowski's dude as they too are slackers, and there are also those who truly believe it to be a truly great religion, so what is your take and your thoughts on this?
Quote from: Tolstoy on August 07, 2010, 11:45:02 AMMost of the time I'm very undude with my behaviour, stressing out and being depressed all the time and shit, so I thought Dudeism could provide me some quidelines on taking it easy. Personally I don't consider Dudeism so much as a religion but as a view of life.Same here. It's easier to view my thoughts as being un-dude and try to chill out than any other method. Religion vs. life? Life is more important.
Interviewer: I tend to think of this whole thing as ongoing, that there is an eternity and that we are going to be part of that eternity, that we aren't just corpses in graves when we die.Ayn Rand: But we aren't corpses in graves, we are not dead. Don't you understand that when this life is finished, you're not there to say oh how terrible that I'm a corpse? No.Interviewer: Well this is true.Ayn Rand: It's finished. And what I've always thought was a sentence from some Greek philosopher, I don't unfortunately remember who it was, but I read it at 16 and it has affected me all my life. I will not die. It's the world that will end.
hmmm...Interesting man, thats fucking interesting...Undude behavor is the corner stone of becomming dude. You can't achieve dudeliness without experiencing the most heinous of lifes unfortunate recoils. Bill and Ted would refer to this as "bogus", and the Dude would call it a "bummer". You can't learn to accept the blows and move on without first having them, so many of the "perpetually undudes" are simply those who either don't experience woe or resist it so much and deny it to the point of anger. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged is a pretty cornerstone piece of that ethos....
I wish I had a gong to hit, because this would be a most opportune time for it.
Pain make man think,Thought make man wise,And wisdom make life endurable.
No working my bag off for some eternal reward
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