My New Religion

For the past year or so, I've been having some deep spiritual issues. As of now, I'm pretty sure there's something out there, although I'm not sure it's benevolent. In fact, it makes much more sense to me that a divine being would be kind of an asshole, just because it can be. What I am sure of though, is that if some metaphysical agent did make the world we live in, it's just not very involved in our everyday lives.
Think about it. Existence is an invention, and no inventor wants to make something he has to be constantly fixing; it should work on its own.
My theistic position isn't very important, compared to my new lifestyle. I am now a Dudeist. If you haven't seen The Big Lebowski, you should. It might change your life. It probably won't.

Here's what I think:

- Life gets worse with age.
- Happiness is finding a way to enjoy every day enough to want to keep living.
- Each person has maybe 50 fun years of adulthood, max.
(Here's the important stuff)
- Each person should live in a way that makes sense for them.
- A Dudeist is a person who does/thinks/says/ what they want, whenever they want.
- Society may tell you not to act in a certain way, especially if that action makes you happier than them.
- Fuck society.
- If you want to eat, eat. If you want to sleep, sleep. If you want to ride a bike through a park wearing a cape and singing the theme song to Charles in Charge, start pedaling.
- Your life is far too short to live in a way that makes you unhappy. If you're not living the way you want to, you might as well be dead.
- If you're so miserable that you don't want to get out of bed in the morning, don't. Eventually. you'll either get bored, or die. If your depression is bad enough, either will be an improvement.
(These are the rules)
- Calm the fuck down.
- Don't be an asshole.
- Any action that hurts others cannot possibly make you happy. That's not the way it works.
- Don't be an asshole.
- Do not think that this philosophy is a free license to pillage, plunder, and rub chocolate sauce on the elderly while they sleep.
- Don't be an asshole.
- This philosophy is simply a means of cultivating and exercising personal freedom. Under no circumstances are you allowed to inhibit the freedom of others in order to exercise yours. Just because you like pushing people down stairs, if those people don't like tumbling down flight after flight, you're not allowed to do it.
- If it doesn't hurt anybody, do it.

For the record, I'm not the first to think of Dudeism. I'm just the first person that I know of to put it to these words.
In other news, I've got a killer idea for a game, I'm gaining ground in learning C++, and I'm pretty happy in deciding to make games. That's about all I have. Have a good night.