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¿Question #1102?
haraggan: What is your favorite philosophical viewpoint?

Phil Fleischmann: If everything we perceive as reality is really just an illusion, then I definitely paid too much for my carpeting.
Maggibot: denial
spacerx: contrarian
aleo09: the one that proves that i'm correct.
The Unbeliever: 42
sigtaulefty: It it doesn't fit, force it. If it breaks, #^*! it and get another. It was broke to start with.
Chris Page: Dydactylos: "You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink." (Small Gods.)
Diamat: Historical materialism, followed closely by hermeneutic phenomenology. Marx, then Heidegger, basically.
WonderLlama: Tamiationism
BloodyJack: Others.
jrandom: Nihilism, if by "favorite", you mean "who cares?"
goldenboat: It's all relative.
Warhammer: Why?
petegrey: Everything happens for a reason
DHEK: I don't really have one.
TheArchAngel: good ones
pitris: Cepticism
pethulhu: existentalism
POvidiusNaso: Epicurus had a great one. "If you want to make a man happy, take away his desire." The other one is when Plato had Socrates say in the Gorgias that it is worse to wrong than to be wronged.
ejohnson7: Taoism
gnidan: I'm not sure yet.
XenoMaster: Contemplating death while holding up a skull
PsyJam: I have too many of interest, but this is a great line from Schopenhauer, "...children can sometimes seem like innocent delinquents, sentenced not to death but to life, who have not yet discovered what their punishment will consist of."
FuzzySilk: Mine.
brainrob: Looking north down the glen into Loch Maree
Helenoftroy: Religion is like a map. It is never right or wrong but distorted. Each religion is right about something but has a different part of the map. Religious philosophy class was interesting but I can't remember one name other than Thomas Moore which did not say that.
River Blue: Life is a red wagon
Platinum Dragon: I'm not very well learned in philosophy, but from what I've heard, Bhuddism.
crimsonlady: Carpe diem
confuse_a_cat: A little bit of Kierkegaard, a little bit of Plantinga, a bit of Tillich, a tad of Descartes, and some more. It is largely my own, though well-informed by others.
jellospike: Do the "right" thing, love one another and don't behave like you're living in a jungle.
RonStock: The Allegory of the Cave
scriptorum: Reductionism.
Loquutus: Nihilism
dietevil: If I told you, I'd probably offend a bunch of people. So ask me when I've been drinking sometime and maybe I'll tell you.
noon: Hedonism
RandallPeek: God is deaf
mats-k: Skepticism
Tushratta: What is is.
ststrat: I tend to agree with Bertrand Russell
Belash: that I am always right?
GrandpaDave: Everything is good.
frunk: Frunkism
MGoddess: Nothingism
obob: sometimes I wonder what it would be like to live in a universe where there were no hypothetical situations
ssmooth: Keeping an open mind
sourwyrm: cynicism
edosan: Time is an illusion -- luchtime doubly so.
fredminard: I game, therefore I am.
deadkenny: Contrary
shotokanguy: Existentialism
Igmatto: Budhism
ikeafetishist: utilitarianism.
Sceadeau: Egocentric
heli: Schopenhauer's
Lord_Prussian: I'm too skeptical of your question to answer it.
Ivan: Utilitarianism - the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.
2amp: philosophy make brain hurt
SwedeLad: I rule.
skrutsch: One day at a time.
nexttothemoon: "Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball"...that pretty well sums it all up doesn't it.
Cavedog_pdx: Stoic Epicureanism
-Johnny-: uhh...is apathy a viewpoint?
snoozefest: relativism
erli: My own
thoia: Biblical
Malacoda: Neo-Platonist
Edbryan: me
puffinge: Back and to the right.
Mike A: Let me think about it...
isolated: Dada-ism
Ebonwoulfe: 42
EndersGame: G.K. Chesterton: "“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
Debate: Analytical Utilitarianism
AlorielLelyn: That everyone is created equally, and should be treated equally.
Dave: Solipsism
fizzix: Mitch-ism
gnomehome: Indecision
UhhhClem: God's message to Job, which is basically: shut up, you pissant.
Scott Tepper: Buddhism
yossarians: Humanism
geberus: deism
sos1: Taoist
fsumarc: take the time.
Bluenose: Existentialism
Blackwind: Buddha
ejmowrer: Top down, 3/4 view.
chaddyboy_2000: No clue.
CortexBomb: That's a bit of a broad question...
louiseh: Solipsism
darquil: Relativity
BobDodgerBlue: Wow, how can you choose just one
djlg: South
ValJor: Materialism
ynnen: Cosmic indifferentialism or subjective nihilism
jttm: Fear is the path to the Dark side.
skelebone: Life is a window, if you don't put up curtains, the sun will fade your carpet.
CDRodeffer: My own, which doesn't fully agree with any popular school of thought, at least that I know of.
haraggan: Perspectivism, but it's not easy to practice...