"Everything's ridiculous." - Joe Rogan

Joe Rogan remains my philosopher king.  If I had one of those.

"It's all ridiculous. It's not that being a Muslim isn't ridiculous but being a Jew is. Everything's ridiculous. Being a Catholic's ridiculous, being a Protestant is ridiculous, being a Baptist is ridiculous, being a Buddhist is ridiculous, being an anything is ridiculous. You attach yourself and your mind to any ideology and you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you in a good direction, but you're gonna stay on that road if you're attached to an ideology, and it could be a terrible road... a predetermined pattern of behavior that makes life that much more simple. That's what every fucking religion is! The problem is no one knows. You can not know. You can have your own beautful personal experiences - you could have been the person who was actually touched by god - and it's not that yoga is the answer or that fucking mushrooms are the answer - there's just questions. The human race is stuck in a giant quagmire when it comes to our behavior and our thinking about our behavior and until we're honest about that, we're never gonna evolve...

...religion can give you some inspiration... but there comes a certain point in time when you've got to pop the training wheels off... recognize that all this morality you've developed is good because it's good to treat other people good... there's a reason for it, and that reason is we're connected in some strange way that we don't totally understand. And unless you are good to other people around you... you're not going to fucking enjoy this life. You're just not.

We know how to organize our health yet very few people do it... the right path to being a happy, healthy person is to do all the shit we already know you're supposed to do. Take care of your body, take care of your health, take care of your mind, your stress, meditate, be kind to people... ask anybody, they know how to get by and be most evolved version of you that you can be. Healthy foods in you body. Eat many, many vegetables, a lot of good quality protein, a lot of water - stop the sodas, stop the bullshit - start working out your body and get a better sense of how this machine feels when it's moving, when it's flowing better, there's less tension in it, your mind feels like it's relaxed and you enjoy every single moment of the day better. Step One. Everybody knows that step, right? What's Step Two? Be cool to people. Be nice to as many people as you can. Smile at as many people as you can... tip well when you go to restaurants, just do the most you can. What else? Do what you want to do with your life... don't get locked into doing something crazy because you need the money, don't do that. Do what you want to do. Do what the fuck is it that you really want to do. Because if someone else is doing it, you can do it...

Everyone makes their own path through this world but a lot of people don't follow the path that they really fucking feel pulled to. For whatever reason they got negative programming, you know, when they were kids someone told them they couldn't do it or told them to take the shortcut or take the sure route - that's a sad thing, man. When you talk to dudes, especially talented dudes and they don't follow up with what they want to do..."