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        Every one of us must have a unique philosophy. This central philosophy is actually a reference of their next Philosophies. If one does not have his own central philosophy, one might face massive conflicts developing the next philosophy, and maybe one might become a weird philosopher.
        A popular question, "What is the meaning of life ?". Actually, life means nothing, life does not exist in the first place; it is just another definition of human being. Human beings define life as living things that share many common attributes, such as the capacity to extract energy from nutrients to drive their various functions, the power to actively respond to changes in their environment, and the ability to grow, to differentiate, and to reproduce; they said that life possesses the properties of replication, catalysis, and mutability. But does it mean they have "life" ? Does this mean that things couldn't move does not have life ? A thing that has no respond to stimuli has no life at all ? Can you say that a table has no life ? No, weather a table has life or not does not define by a simple response, you cannot say that a table has no life if it doesn't respond. Thus, we could not be exactly sure that a table has life or not but we must accept that there is a possibility.
        We humans die; metal can also turned to rust. It is just a change of forms and energies. A metal has its half-life, we humans has a limited living period. We humans can move, molecules can also. We humans can grow, an atomic bomb can also. So this is a crucial matter, "Do we really have life ?" This is not a very important topic, what is important is that, what is the meaning of our existence.
        What makes life so meaningful is because of love; love created life, life created blood. For example, why will you avoid pain ? Is because you love your skin, body, and self.
        We humans(body) are like empty glasses that use to put water inside and the water can be signifies as love itself. The water inside the glasses judges human lifefullness. Thus, when the water reaches its maximum level, one will feel lifefull and he is then "full of joy". If there is no water inside the glass, then one will feel "empty"; thus, some people will commit suicide if one could not get love from others, one will feel that life is nothing to him because the glass is empty. Do you think that majority, suicide cases were mostly cause by short of love ? The answer is yes. Thus, we can see that human is a substance of love, this is why human uses the term "make love" to define sexual relationships.
        Love is the most important thing in life, we cannot live without it. Love is absolute for it exists before the existence of the universe. How can we get love ? We can get love if and only if we share our love to others. We can use a water gun to describe love giving; when the glass is filled with water, we can take some of the water to fill in to a water gun and shoot the water to others. But we are not born gunners; thus, practices and experiences are needed. We could shoot accurately if we have enough practice. Thus, the only goal in our life is to learn to share our love to others; this is the most difficult process in our life; we learned to share our love not only to our parents but also to friends, lovers, brothers and sisters etc.
        True happiness will be gained by sharing love to others; the only thing that is really true to me is love; love is a real thing and a true knowledge to me for we can feel it and we could not avoid the needs of love in our life. We cannot really be sure that other knowledges that we observed in the textbooks are true because some are open-ended and has fausibility. Do we want to strive for an uncertain knowledge ? When you are old, if you found out that the knowledge's you learned is not true, wouldn't this a wasting of life ? I need to clarify that I did not exclude the importance of knowledge.

My Central Philosophy
Absolutes = Non-Worldly
Relative = Worldly

       Our existence is govern by absolutes and relatives; things that are visible, explainable, definable, can be judge using our logical systems and is time related is Relative, for it has reference for us to see, explain, define and judge. For example, tall vs short, beauty vs ugly, big vs small. Although I do not believe in relative theories, but we are living in a relative world, and we are bound inside it, for we still need to have it.
       A thing that cannot be seen, unexplainable, cannot be defined, cannot be judge using our logical system and is not time related is absolute. For example, love and consciousness (That is the only two I can find). Love exists before human had created and we cannot live without love. Consciousness exists before thoughts and time. Thus, I believe in God, for God is love and It has conscience.

Emotional = Extrinsic Beauty to Intrinsic Purity
Rational = Intrinsic Awareness to Extrinsic Certainty

       There is an extrinsic beauty in this world, which we unaware when we are too rational; there is also an Intrinsic awareness in our mind, which we unaware when we are too emotional.
       The world is filled with beauty, and we need an emotional heart to purify our senses and mind. The world is changing and we are too minor to cope with it; A clear and rational mind is needed for we need a rational mind to make things clear, so that we will not make mistakes. Our life is searching for the middle-point of them.

Religion = Shaping perfection from imperfection
Philosophy = Building anatomy

       We are not perfect, that's why we need a perfect teaching, a teaching that is not came by our mind; we are imperfect, that's why we need a religion.
       When we come to problem solving, we must not rely on other's opinion; anatomy is destiny, our final goal must reach to a certain state that we can solve problems for ourselves, that is the goal of philosophy.

You = Interpersonal communication
Me = To be what I am, a PERSON

       We are not alone, we live in a community and interpersonal communication is vital. We have goals, that is why we must communicate, nobody communicate without achieving a certain goals.
       We live in a community, but we must not lost our own self; we, everyone, is a unique being; we must not always conform to others, besides, we must try to preserve our uniqueness, which everyone calls a "PERSON".

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