This contains my attempt to give a brief (considering..) explanation of my general philosophies. As this is all about me, expect to see a lot of "I"s... Please, email me any questions or comments about this, or anything, that we may both expand ourselves. labels I associate myself quite a lot with Discordianism. I am also certainly connected to Unitarian Universalism. UUism doesn't really shape or exemplify who percieve myself as, though. UU offers a wonderful community and forum within which to develop myself and be exposed to others ideas; but being so open and vague makes it a poor candidate for explaining me. Discordianism and I, however, share a lot of common thoughts. Many ideas I already had when I found Discordianism, and it helped me to see them in simpler ways than the abstract thoughts floating around my mind. It has also influenced me since it found me, and I am pleased about the ways it's done so. Many of the things I talk about here relate to concepts common to Discordianism. I feel I should mention Robert Anton Wilson here, as well. RAW is a proficient writer who's works I really enjoy and largely tend to agree with. He happens to be a Discordian as well (that relates to how I came to be aware of him) and has been since the (presumed) start of the phenomenon. His creations have influenced me a lot over the past year. I seem to have continued along the path I was already traveling, but he has helped introduce and expand many new concepts or approaches to concepts for me. accepting disbelief I choose not to Believe anything. I choose to accept many things. When I'm speaking philisophically I try to seperate my use of these two words, but in casual conversation I'm not very strict. I figure that I have no way of knowing that anything I concieve is actually True. I don't accept true faith. I actually dislike faith as a mechanism in seeing existense. I equate belief (in my philisophical context) with a self justified faith. Unfortunately, that justification has to be built upon some part of a faith system. So, I consider that however educated I may be in my understanding of the workings of everything, I will inevitably remain ignorant to the fundamental nature of if I'm right or not. I do accept things. I consider accepting concepts to be taking them into my head and using them in my life; though understanding that they are just adopted concepts and not inherently any better than any other concepts. I try to conciously choose what things I accept and to question myself about it as often as possible. In the Grand Scheme I could see this as making no difference at all; but what fun is that attitude? Instead, I accept that, while I may be unable to Know if my perceptions are accurate to the True Nature of Things, they are probably my best guide and I might as well go with it. I can adopt contradictory concepts and utilize them at different times, or perhaps even together, though somewhat oddly. Certain examples would be that I am usually an atheist; often, but optionally, a materialist; a friend of the goddess Eris; a surfer of cosmic sinkholes along with other extra-terrestrial, extra-corporial travelers; etc. I figure that if I don't believe anything, I certainly shouldn't only accept a strict set of ideas (which would essently become beliefs), and I might as well take advantage of the options made available by a variable sense of existense.