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The Personal Philosophy of (i.e. for) a Guy Who Doesn’t Like Personal Philosophies

December 29, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Note: This post has been edited at the request of the guy who complained about all these Personal Philosophy posts, because the point of my doing these is to entertain and amuse, not to offend or embarrass.

Guy Who Doesn't Like Personal Philosophies' Personal Philosophy*

I know nearly every guy philosophizes, whether they'll admit it or not, but I am REALLY into philosophizing, and do it just about every day, sometimes twice. The Internet has been great for philosophizers. I know I could just philosophize just using my own thoughts, but looking at some philosophy on the Internet makes it easier and more fun, I think. Don't get sucked into using one of those pay philosophy sites; there's more than enough free philosophy on the web so that you can find what will really get you philosophizing if you're willing to click around a little, and once you find a free source you like, you can keep going back there, though you shouldn't bookmark it, and in fact should use the "Private Browsing" feature on most web navigators, so your wife or whoever won't see what philosophy you've been looking at.

Now, I was pretty pissed recently because one of my favorite philosophy sites really went off the rails: all the new stuff up there is just this weird fetish crap that I wouldn't count as philosophy at all. I'm having to click around, and I'm just not seeing the good stuff, and man, when I'm in the mood to philosophize, I just can't be wasting time like that, or I might just end up finishing up my philosophizing while between pages or while some inappropriate or even off-putting philosophy is on the screen, which kind of defeats the purpose.

So that's disappointing, but I've got other places I can go online, and really a pretty vast library of philosophy already downloaded to my hard drive (though I prefer the fresh stuff), and hopefully that site will be back on track soon so I can get back to philosophizing to my favorite kind of philosophy (mostly hentai).

*This personal philosophy should not in any way be taken to reflect the actual, current views or predilections of this person, though, given that it was crafted JUST for him or her, he or she should really feel obliged to adopt this philosophy out of politeness if not actual gratitude.

-Mark Linsenmayer

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