Towards a Naïve (nihilist) Philosophy.

Part One.

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Damn this coronavirus. Now everyone’s self-isolating and manically washing their hands and making a virtue of it. I’ve been doing that for decades and no one has thanked me.

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IMPORTANT MESSAGE When the abyss looks back at you, you know you’ve arrived. When the herd looks back at you, you know you’ve transcended.

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This account is a record of my progress, or otherwise, towards active nihilism.

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Therefore I say, guilt doesn’t exist, all crime is a natural reaction.

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The ancient Greeks knew all about the abyss its why they created the myths. And mythology underpins everything today.

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The attempt to active nihilism has two dangers: death and/or insanity.

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Nihilists accept the realness of the body, it is after all, the foundations of the nothingness that is our mythical existence.

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We have our bodies and we have our ideas of what should be (existence), or the ‘right’ life. Both separate entities, yet the latter has precedence over the former. Therefore we lie to each other all the time.

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Nihilism is not belief in nothing its far more profound. It is the understanding that everything we hold dear (truth, justice, civilization, belief itself) is based on nothing, with no foundation (no eternal law).

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The active nihilist acts without regard to convention.

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There are two types of nihilism: passive and active. The passive nihilist while understanding that truth, laws ect, are founded on nothing they still give lip service to them.

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At the moment I am a passive nihilist. I have mentioned the dangers of active nihilism (death, madness, incarceration) and this account will speak of the ramifications.

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This coronavirus with its effects on everyday conventions is like a Petri dish of nihilism.

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Frankly active nihilism is an attempt to transcend nihilism. It is the thought that if everything is based on nothing then the only option is to create, create new conventions and to keep transcending those conventions.

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Authenticity is valid.

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If humanity survives the coronavirus pandemic then it will have the perfect time to re-evaluate all values. A good time for nihilism.

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My misanthropy is founded on my instinct for fairness and equality and its wilful failure. My nihilism is seriously questioning this instinct.

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Maybe the logical (though logic is based on nothing) conclusion to misanthropy and nihilism is the end of human life but not the end of life itself?

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Is panic buying a nihilist act? Should nihilists be selfish? Does nihilism recognize self-interest as a road to death, madness or incarceration, something self-defeating?

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A dead nihilist isn’t a nihilist.

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Nihilism is a hammer and only a hammer. A tool and only a tool It is to be used as one would use a tuning fork: listen.

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Nihilism is useful for self-negation but one must be mindful not to self-destroy via it. Nihilism should be a creative act for transcendence, to go beyond nihilism.

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Self-negation requires nihilism for the individual to hammer out (sculpting) the conventions (values) that one has been stymied with. But which values? All values?

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All current idols should be demolished. That much is clear.

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What are the current idols to be destroyed?

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Earlier I said that nihilism should be transcended. That isn’t quite right. Nihilism is a tool to enable the nihilist to keep transcending all values, even those you create yourself, in order to go beyond yourself.

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As the song once sung: The only way is up.

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Current idols that should be hammered (if only to come around again): Money, Globalization, Shareholding, Profit…..

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My nihilism tackles my instinct for fairness and equality, my instinct for fairness and equality tackles my nihilism to destroy everything.

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Nothing is nothing, not even nihilists will commit suicide en mass. Therefore the authentic nihilist must live, be it as passive nihilists or active nihilists.

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Most nihilists see it (without knowing) as an end in itself, thereby ignoring the best tool in their pathetic existence. Most nihilists are idol nihilists. Its trendy for them.

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More idols to hammer: Celebrity, Popularity, The Herd….

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As always, politics gets in the way of the coronavirus crisis and, therefore, it must also be said that politics is an idol to be hammered.

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As always politics gets in the way of life with its constant bickering. The bickering over money, the bickering over the sharing of money, lauding the rich, ect. Authentic nihilists need to consider politics a threat to transcendence.

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Herd-Immunity happens naturally, if its a policy then fear for your life.

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The ‘elite’. Nihilists need to address this phenomenon.

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This is an experiment.

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The idol of unlimited growth, the use of animals and the destruction of nature to feed profits and greed should be hammered down.

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Any authentic nihilist should practice self-negation often. Therefore they should recognise that greed can be self damaging.

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And yet I can’t help thinking that viruses get stronger because of their pure nature and lack of prejudice.

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Hermeneutics is too difficult for most people, it’s what separates the herd from those outside the herd. Those outside the herd still live within reach of the herd. This is why nihilism is important for some of us.

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Cynicism and sarcasm are vital elements of the nihilist. I hate those I find attractive.

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Nihilism means nothing…….that everything means nothing. For me that’s a starting point not an ending point.

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In my experience, once you understand the general meaning of nihilism you retreat into being a resigned nihilist. This is another type of idolatry. You forget the tuning fork in your hand.

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There is nothing like a crisis to sharpen the mind. My ire towards people grows daily witnessing all the panic-buying. I feel nausea when listening to people helping others. Such is the life of a misanthropist. Ambivalence has to be the best policy for misanthropy, it acts merely as a stimulus.

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Our biological nature has been repressed for millennia, this is the biggest test of the nihilist hammer. Our natural instinct and desires have been crippled by millennia of morals, this has led to a herd of ressentiment that nihilism must respond to.

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Even my greatest inspiration told me to transcend that inspiration. The best advice I’ve had: I, who have the tool of nihilism, should first use it on my own ego.

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Quite often your ego prevents you from being stronger by concentrating on the more superficial aspects of your nature, like outward appearances and wholly selfish-destructive desires.

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Lets forget Plato for a while. I do think that Socrates did espouse the idea that the only thing we know is that we know nothing. This is one of the earliest examples of a nihilism, if not its foundation: the first fundamental questioning.

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If one cares to look, all of human history is one of creating the world we have, a creation out of nothing. Myths are humanity’s first creation, from that, the world!

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The void is not despair if you are strong enough to survive its stare. The spider is coming.

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Its very difficult to understand but truth is a lie. We must essentially contradict ourselves all of the time. Every descriptive word in language is a metaphor (metaphysic) for a reality we think is real. That we live and die is the only real.

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Therefore λόγος is fundamentally a creative act.

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For example, ‘cup’ is a word we use to describe something we have made up due to it’s usefulness to us. If everything is made up then that goes for truth and all conventions. Let’s use the tool of nihilism to clear the ground for a new vista, and use the hammer again and again and again.…

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Because there’s always the void, truth is nothing, real is something else. Time is always latent with the conditions for everyone to see the void – if only they could look. An interesting experiment for nihilism.

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Now is the time to scale big peaks, to smell fresh air is to think clearly. Climb your mountain at home, within yourself, within your society and especially within your culture.

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Biological nature, not the ‘nuts and bolts’ of the science of biological nature, but that we are biological, has always been repressed in morality and ‘approved’ culture.

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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. This is the definition of the workings of the immune system. It is also the ἦθος (you may even hear it) of a morality, an ethic of life.

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The ascetic is of vital importance to overflowing life, this type of denial shapes and intensifies this overflowing life for the better. It is given that we are all given an overflow of life, this is our innate power, a power that we misuse, nay, misunderstand everyday.

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The authentic philosopher must comprehend (be a philologist) this innate power and how it has been implemented throughout human history, whatever the goals and outcomes.

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Innate is already a prejudice….

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Ulterior motives are the propellants that force movement. Keeping the ‘status quo’ is the propellant’s goal, too many people fail to fight against this status, so motives are a given.

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The ego means follow—the ego means do not follow.

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Money equals power and power equals money. This dichotomy explains so much about human relations.

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The laws from Plato onward are wholly a system of oppression. From there comes the herd chasing you down like a peloton, all sweaty and with heavy breath, stinking the place out.

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The thing about nihilism is that people think it’s just a lifestyle choice, like something you buy in the supermarket, when, of course, it’s the very foundation of our laws and culture itself. How come nihilism is the foundation of our laws and culture? At the very start of human existence there were no laws or culture. Nothingness is the bland rock we carved something from, we are our own masters.

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Obviously, as it is clear to see we are not our own masters now. Masterdom grew and developed more as we carved our nothingness rock, creating human structures. These human structures we now live in have a long and tangled history of being (μετά). The more history the further away you are from the touch stone of nihilism. We are so conditioned now that only madness seems to be the sign of an untainted human. Hammer in hand at the ready.

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It is not possible to turn back the clock, to un-carve the rock back to blandness. To this extent humankind will always be corrupted, will always have prejudices, will always have ‘good and evil’ embedded in it’s spirit.

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Humanity will just muddle along and because of this, power structures that we are inured with, will continue and will probably end us all. Its no wonder we invented the Superman.

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As a misanthropist I have no problem with the extinction of humankind. As a coward, I hope I die before.

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Maybe this ‘corruption’ of humankind via the sculpting of the bland rock is not corrupt…? Maybe it is the true definition of humanity, maybe humans are….. ugly?

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All human societies are examples of ‘organized crime’.

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I don’t believe that he loved humankind, I don’t even believe he loved Aristocratic types, ultimately he realised (the pity overwhelmed him) the animal that is man.

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That we have created philosophy, the sciences, the arts, politics, and other distractions, defines the animal named Human.

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The act of creation—otherwise known as the carving of our rock—is the end result of being in nothingness. The only option is to carve or to be, literally, nothing.

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The Ego. That is history.

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Humankind are drowning in myths. We present our history in the most mythological manner, claiming our subjugation and the subjugation of others is ‘civilising’.

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The greatest myth (which is a striving doomed to failure) in all of our history is freedom. The last thing we are is free, there is no more constraint unto the human than being born into a society/culture/whatever.

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The myth of freedom: ‘freedom of speech’. This concept wholly relies upon the autonomy of the person speaking, an autonomy that is never given. Cultural supremacy plays on autonomy because it suits a world-view.

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Of course, there’s nothing like belonging to harden the human mind. Being certain is an insult to making the world. What a palaver people make out of their convictions, its embarrassing really.

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I like poking people: logic, it sounds like a serpent.

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Am I a nihilist? All I know is my own physicality and from that I see and feel that I am in a physical environment. Maybe the question is: Is nihilism a philosophy or the closest approximation to the actual nature of things? Would we even be able to tell?

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The evolution of life on earth relied wholly on the physicality of nature, it explains the adaptations all animal life went through, which we call evolution. In this early period there was no consciousness that we can be aware of. We had no memory and had to learn remembering.

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We are a part of life that has evolved from millenniums of time. Our self-consciousness is an evolutionary adaptation, which means, over time, we gradually became aware of ourselves, and of the void.

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Becoming aware of oneself also means becoming aware of others like you (not to say the other dangers of nature). There was no thought of god, or gods at this time just the need to live at whatever cost (Freud called it the reality principal, spurred on by our basic necessities). We begin with nothing.

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Annoyance is an integral part of ressentiment. Be strong and say Yes to everything.

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Never conform, especially with the groups that seem to be where you belong. This non-conforming is the knife edge of knowledge, reason, whatever you want to call it.

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Yet…..

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Zarathustra rejected nobody. He criticized and sometimes ridiculed, but all are welcome in his cave. After all, Zarathustra could always leave his cave for fresh air when needed!

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Vent….

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Authority is another word for fascism, freedom is a word with no meaning, no one is free, even the rich. Everyone exists in a cage, the more you have in money and influence the bigger your cage. Freedom is a mythical tyranny used by civilisation.

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Merit is the latest myth, a liberal conceit. Power is all that matters.

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A question is always just a question, subtext is always an interpretation in the guise of the interpreter, nothing more.

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How much ‘freedom’ do people want? Ultimately, very little.

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My lesson is that moral righteousness is completely redundant, it always has been and it always will be.

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Freedom only means that you are free to do something (only if you can and are able to do whatever it is); and you are free from having what you don’t want, done to you (only if you are able to prevent that from happening you).

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But this must mean that freedom is a constrained phenomenon, restricted, not free more enforced. All we are actually left with is freedom-for and freedom-from, never freedom-in-itself. The bigger your cage the ‘freer’ you are.

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Some of us are in bigger cages.

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Gliders, planes, trains, auto-mobiles are tools of compensation. So freedom is an act of compensation. The very core (a phenomenological understanding) of freedom is its impossibility, nature is such that it abhors a vacuum.

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Once we understand that freedom is a construct then we can understand nature better. We are nature, we have to be determined in order to exist in nature, this is physics.

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The Land of Freedom….sounds like the most dystopian fantasy of all.

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We are physical beings and cannot interpret existence outside of that phenomenon. Freedom cannot be understood without acknowledging our interconnections, our facticity. No one is free in essence.

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Power is freedom.

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I think the spectrum of like-minded peoples is quite broad (I must be dreaming!), the problem is power and why some cages are more gilded than others.

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Even with over population there is still more than enough for everyone. My misanthropy is caused by the wilful disregard of this fact, especially the misuse of power as human ingenuity. Lets face it, we are all in gangs.

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I must be read slowly.

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