what would be your ideal system of thought?

"Deliberation"...as good as any to my mind.

Peace.

Logic, reasoning. If my brain would have an operating system I often think it would run on that. I find that you progress through a life a lot easier with the application of logic and reason. Strangely I've found that it doesn't always feel satisfying to be so analytical and rarely I'll act in completely emotional ways and... it feels good sometimes but yeah. Probably a balance between the two is ideal.

Oo good question, Dr!

First, to understand and apply the scientific method of logic and reasoning, likelihoods and probabilities, and acceptance that absolute certainty doesn't exist (as paradoxical as that last statement sounds).

Secondly, to add, an ability to harness thoughts, through meditation and 'flow' activities, so that all the junk mail thoughts are kept in check.

Third, the ability to think quickly and creatively.

Fourth, the ability to switch in and out of deep and superificial thought. That is, the ability to dip between large, heavy, existential questions concerning the universe, and light, silly banter and frivolous chat about relationships.

What's yours?

My ideal system of thought is that there were no thoughts to worry about, or care about.

to discern which are my own and which come from some place else and to have wise judgement and not allow my thoughts to control what i do until i judge it to be right to be able to think freely without influence which is almost impossible ,to protect my thoughts from being manipulated by others to understand the code of life so it can help me discern true reality from the illusion most think is life and ive known since i was 6 years old it was not but was forced to survive in it as people controlled my reality and my world and rebelling was just another side to it that was the same to use my thought to gain comprehension so i can help myself and others in life

In the world of 'thought', the most efficient, effective and rarely practiced is philosophical thought;

Philosophy is 'original critical thought';

Critical Thinking Mini Lessons

http://www.skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons.html

Bertrand Russell on Critical Thinking

http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Educ/EducHare.htm

Of course the thought without the 'system', such as intuition and empathy, is superior to 'systematic'!

"The only way that we shall ever recapture the sort of knowledge Lao-Tsu referred to in his dictum, "Those who know, do not speak", is by subordinating the question "how shall we know?" to the more existentially vital question, "How shall we live?"

To ask this question is to insist that the primary purpose of human existence is not to devise ways of piling up ever greater heaps of knowledge, but to discover ways to 'live', from day to day, that integrate the whole of our nature by way of yielding nobility of conduct, honest fellowship, and joy. And to achieve these ends, a man need perhaps know very little in the conventional, intellectual sense of the word. But, what he does know, and may only be able to express by eloquent silence, by the grace of his most commonplace daily gestures, will approach more closely to whatever 'reality' is, than the more dogged and disciplined intellectual behavior."

"Be empty of what you know

Your clever mind just whips up

A dust storm of pride.

Allow yourself to be fooled and

peace clowns its way into your heart.

If your head would shatter in wonder

at what Reality really is,

reason’s tyranny would end and

every hair on your head would

become an oracle" - Rumi

Kind of like nihilism except that we decide to be nice and good to each other. If there is no meaning to life, no punishment for doing bad or reward for doing good, why not do good?