Eastern Philosophy
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To each his own.Originally Posted by Smeagol
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Eastern Philosophy is more philosophically-grounded in logic that resonates with wisdom and progressive intellectualism. Whereas Abrahamic, western religions is the most self-destructive, regressive savagery that accounts for most of the most deadliest wars known to man throughout history. That is nothing more than biased, anecdotal extremism corrupted in greed, materialism and other regressive qualities that is hindering societies from advancing.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
- H.P. Lovecraft
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You can learn a lot from both types of philosophies. You should integrate both of them into your life.
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I'll take Eastern, though it's really not a matter of West vs. East since the philosophies I most appreciate and agree with (Daoism, Vedic thought, certain forms of Mahayana Buddhism) are mirrored in Neoplatonism and Hermeticism, likely also Druidism/European paganism based on what we know of Celtic and Germanic/Norse ideas, but also certain heretical or esoteric Christians, Kabbalists, etc.
The reason I'll take Eastern is simply because there's more Western philosophy I either disagree with (a good chunk of Christian philosophy and nearly everything post-Renaissance, particularly anything smacking of secularism, atheism, materialism, progressivism, etc.) or don't really care for the emphasized methodology (Aristotelianism, scholasticism, attempting to understand reality via logical analysis and reason alone) compared to Eastern traditions.
This is to be expected since I am an Evolian/Guenonian.
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