Life is tragedy, even your happiness is founded upon it.
The life drive is the strongest drive, a will to power that consumes everything in it’s path.
The life drive and the sex drive run parallel to each other, sometimes converging, other times fighting each other for supremacy. The result, so far, is unbeknownst to us, we can only act in it’s guise.
The sex drive can give you happiness, and sometimes that happiness requires a victim for it to flower. One man’s happiness is another man’s sadness.
It has happened to me, the sad part and the end of a friendship over a girl.
Humans love choice, it gives them the illusion of freedom.
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Choice is a situation that’s already conditioned by your nature and the impositions forced upon you by culture.
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Choice is limited. Our very nature doesn’t allow us to choose to be a bird….or Napoleon.
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What gave the existentialists their nausea? It wasn’t their freedom, rather, it was their lack of freedom: falling into a nihilist hole does that to you.
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There are so many unknown drives that determine choice, that makes a person. Science has barely scratched the surface of these drives. “Everything that humans have viewed until now as the ‘conditions of their existence’ and all the reason, passion, and superstition that such a view involves – has this been researched exhaustively? To observe how differently the human drives have grown and still could grow depending on the moral climate – that alone involves too much work for even the most industrious; it would require whole generations, and generations of scholars who would collaborate systematically, to exhaust the points of view and the material.”
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Every choice you make determines your fate.
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Is this a paradox? The realisation of your fate is, itself, freedom.
PartThree:Towards a Morality in the Face of the Void.
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Rarefied air contains no morality, which means it contains no hate and disgust. It’s important to be able to say Yes to, if not everything, then most things. Essentially: have no regrets!
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Kant was a philosopher and a reading of his work details his intricacies, not least his Categorical Imperative, which relies upon an infinite progression of a category. Talk about a snake!
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The humanist liberals (definitely French) write, “You cannot FORCE someone to RESPECT your feelings & sentiments. Specially by pointing a gun to his head, or a knife to his throat. This is basic stuff, morons.” As the history books prove, the sword is often accompanied by the pen.
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Are you the lastman? Will the superman be in spite of you?
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Humanism, liberalism, freedom, democracy, fascism, capitalism and Life. All are attempted, if not achieved, by the use of the gun.
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Murder is an integral part of civilisation. The French do it, as do the English and Americans. So too does Islam, following in the long tradition of violence by Christianity. This we must accept.
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E.g. The Enlightenment was a project of white supremacy, it was used to promote the attitude that only the white man will prevail, resulting in slavery and colonialism. This ‘measure of man’ is a weakling.
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It is important to acknowledge the monstrous void that is always before us. Only then can an individual grow and be stronger. There is little to gain by keeping with myths, which civilisation is riddled with.
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The earth spins at 67,000 miles an hour. Wow! How do we not feel this? Because the speed is constant, therefore humans have not felt any difference to form a judgment. This is similar to the moral system we live under: we don’t know any better because we for too long have lived under one spin, one morality.
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How can we understand the background to the possibility of saying Yes to everything?
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Virtue signalling and gaslighting are to be rejected in order to say Yes to everything. Both terms are riddled with ressentiment, therefore corrupt.
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What is ‘natural’? Natural is something untouched by man. So now, man is not natural any more.
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The spider tells us that all life is repeated. Do you have the strength to act, saying Yes?
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Amor fati really means: have no regrets, act with no regrets….creatively.
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So many activities (monsters) created to bridge the void, not least, ‘god’.
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Idolatry shapes many a monster with many faces of the void, if you look carefully.
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None of my idols are still standing, I’ve hammered them down. Now I’m sorting through the rubble.
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The ego is probably the purest Úrsprung of life. Everyone has an ego, therefore monsters can exist. Nothing is perfect.
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One day a noble voice said to me, “Kevin, you know you don’t have to follow me, you have to transcend me. Can you do it?” I replied, “I don’t know, maybe the spider will show me?” There was a laugh and then silence.
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There is the possibility that I may never return from the path I’m on….
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Keeping morality is possibly a bulwark against insanity, though also a bulwark against reality in all its ugliness and realness.
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Humans have made a complete mess of civilisation with wilful restrictions (faith and law) on their potentialities. Now, everyone is guilty of something, it seems.
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Nihilism is not a character trait, it’s the reality of our existence without values that you can be proud of. This is what is meant by having a vital life.
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In my cave last night, I had 3 thoughts:
1. Talent isn’t born, everything is achieved through experience.
2. Art (capital A) is the encompassing element of our existence.
3. Science has made many mistakes because of scientist’s egos (leeches, bloodletting, thalidomide).
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Creativity (Art) can go wrong, but it’s all we’ve got against the void. Mistake is almost man’s middle name – we have a whole history of the philosophy of errors.
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At the moment, everything’s a type of casserole.
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As I’m digesting, I’m thinking that allegory is the finest Art form.
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Lounging in my cave as my easy meat meal settles, I think that creativity is the only valid response to the void, something fundamentalists, of many shades, cannot digest.
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Facts are facts until another fact supersedes previous facts. Truth is truth based on the strong conviction of the truth-holder: therefore, everything consecrated is an act of power.
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The religions of human existence include all elements of human activity, everything becomes an ideal, a god, whatever. It seems we need an ideal, an absolute, something ‘solid’ as a goal, or more a grounding. Otherwise, are we lost?
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Everything is ‘out of interest’, why else?
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Pretending has to be the ultimate predisposition.
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Pretending is possibly the greatest achievement of the human race, it is creativity and, equally, deception. We have created our greatest inspiration and greatest means of oppression in one fell swoop.
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Power needs to be fully examined, in all its expressions: materially, physically, psychologically. This is the next task.
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We often see power as fait accompli.
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As I said earlier, we are the great pretenders. Someone once wrote: “…you dice-players….. You have not learned to play and mock. Do we not always sit at a great mocking and gaming table?” Life is a dance….
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You must laugh at yourself, laugh at your pretensions, only this way will you make the most of what power you can control. Such laughter will enable better pretensions in your future, if you have a future.
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The great philosopher once: “So unlearn for me trumpeting of misery and all mob-mournful-ness!…how mournful do even the mob’s buffoons seem to me today! But this today belongs to the mob.” Is this still relevant?
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Life is movement, a dance, an art, and it is controlled by the more powerful movers, dancers, artists, not, necessarily the best. So every individual must maximise their movements, at the very least. Become a better person in spite of your feet.
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The life of humankind has been influenced by old sorcerers: the religious, and, today, the opposite of the religious. Really, they’re both contemporaries. One sword seems to be more powerful than the other, right now, though.
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Morality and ‘virtue’ is founded on slavery. If we were to look at the foundations of moral Western history, at least, you will find that such things as agriculture and resources, always considered ‘good’, could not happen without the salves.
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Power is not just a bad thing, it’s a good thing too, it corrupts entirely anything that could be good. Alternatively, corruption is good and anything that prevents it is bad. Such is the world we live in.
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My peremptory (not plenary, just yet) thought is that power and morality are symbiotically connected.
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We can have no doubt that morality, within itself, holds an imperative. As the existentialists said: we act as an advocate, implying a whole morality behind every act.
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Power is not an isolated phenomenon (indeed, there are no isolated phenomena), it will attach itself to volume. So power relies upon a degree of weight.
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Morality, too, is based on substance. The substance is the wrought out passions of humankind, made a substance by the approval or disapproval of clerics and law-makers.
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What we have learnt so far is that nothing exists to us without value/substance/matter/volume, and points of view which are positions founded on perspective, a perspective influenced by value/substance/matter/volume.
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What we can do is to look at the threads that morality has woven into what would, otherwise, be a vacuum in the power relationship.
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There is no ideal goal, what we have is a vicious circle.
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Power matters (no pun intended) because there is no goal, only a vacuum that is the real imperative, and we cannot but fill the hole. This is the vicious circle we are in and why power matters.
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Because if there is no goal, visible and valid, then you follow power (mass culture) because there is nothing else to see. I’ve said before that the attempt to unmoor oneself from established power relations can lead to insanity. Then again, maybe that should be the goal?
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The biggest and most motivating factor in human existence is the void. Without this grand absence we would have nothing to do, nothing to create and with an inability to put up goals.
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Show me a human being without convictions and concerns, and I’ll direct you to Madame Tussauds.
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Bias is a powerful tool in the power relations of morality. As all humans are ‘biased’ the term ‘bias’ is only effective by the power of the user of the term, ‘bias’.
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It cannot be disputed that all of our existence is founded on a field. We are born into and via a field that already exists. Our growth (or lack of it) depends on this field and the power that seeds and controls the field. This determines prosperity/failure.
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Freedom is the most glorious of myths. People seem to believe its a material thing, it’s not, it’s just one of our goals, the most unreachable goal.
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The fact is, the soil we grow in is mixed with many nutrients of which blood and bone is the most common and potent element.
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Cleanliness can be overrated, our real nature is mucky, it’s just we have some ideals which hold us back.
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All recorded history of all recorded civilisations show that all that is considered ‘good’, like agriculture or mining for resources, have been done with the immense help of slavery. It’s as though we treat each other as commodities, a historical-nihilist phenomena.
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What is considered good has it’s fruits enabled by power. No slavery without power, therefore, no actual fruits of the land without the power to impose upon the land, including those on the land.
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Does power have to be so exploitative? Yes, it has no other means of existing, it is it’s very nature to seek out conquest, to seek out opposites to conquer, to fill up spaces.
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The big lesson here is, there is nothing universally ‘good’. Goodness is not possible, it is an idol.
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Historically ressentiment has prevailed because it made a virtue out of weakness and conceptualised what’s ‘good’ and what’s ‘evil’ in a new way…..in a Christ-like way.
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Honesty, unlike truth, is far simpler and less convoluted.
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There are different ways of doing the same thing. This is always a joy and a delight.
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Draconian is derived from the ancient Greek law maker, Draco. Apt.
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We laud so many things of the past, but we should be better than that.
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The real definition of liberalism is two-fold: on the one hand it’s the ‘freedom’ to make as much money/resources as possible, on the other hand it’s to emancipate as many people as possible. You can’t have them both….
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Liberty and freedom can only be felt, in a really true sense, by any ‘free’ slaves. Otherwise liberty is what is done to others, for liberty’s sake.
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Most of us don’t do honesty, we prefer to talk about ‘facts’ and ‘truth’. This is not a criticism, it only reflects our nature.
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Fruitful growth (I know from experience) can be enhanced with a little shock to the system during growth.
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Fairness means equal distribution. Fairness doesn’t exist, there is no equal distribution in nature anywhere. Fairness is another of our idealisations, like the straight line and the circle.
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Legitimacy is even more convoluted than truth.
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Why does liberty have to be so violent, indeed, why do all convictions mirror themselves in this way? It is human nature to be violent, in thought and action. This is the real meaning of power: an ever growing excess of itself.
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Power doesn’t care what it’s attached to, it just feeds.
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Knowing the natural environment is the apex of creativity, we not only learn from the natural environment, we copy it. Engineering, in all of it’s aspects, mirrors and sometimes goes beyond the forces of the natural environment, physics describes those aspects. Creativity needs this knowledge.
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To change means an absence of the absolute.
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Freedom: freedom-for and freedom-from: therefore contingent, therefore not free.
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Language: is vitally important otherwise we exist in a quagmire. Or: language is too abstract to give any real meaning beyond the most general of generalities.
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Truth is malleable by its very nature as it changes as new facts and morals are discovered/invented. On the other hand, honesty never changes. People feel very uncomfortable when truth is questioned, it is an assault on their world-view, no matter how intelligent they may be.
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Teaching is only good for children and slaves. It seems they’re both as malleable as each other. I make no moral judgement here.
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As von Weizsacker said, ‘Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.’
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Life is a square, a rectangle, it’s perpendicular, and a circle, too.
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Never do what I say, and don’t follow me for long without making a clean break into something completely your own. I don’t even do what I say.
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Living in the moment is insanity. Even though we’re able to feel the moment (and restrict the child’s natural impulse towards this feeling), we make culture in order to deal with our natural impulses.
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In many ways, if not in all ways, insanity is the natural way. The law is the abnormal way.
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The power of your will is all important. It is a muscle that you need to train. Sometimes ascetic, sometimes overflowing.
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“..we have to remember that what we observe is not nature in-itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”
Werner Heisenberg.
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Whether we create the moment or create after the moment ….we must create the moment!
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When it comes to the ‘death of god’ we will all have to become serial killers in this matter. The god meme is like Hydra’s head and all cultures are far away from being in a pure atheistic state; indeed, atheists themselves are still morally religious.
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There being no sure grounding, everything is mere interpretation, a spiral of interpretations. So culture is corrupt, corrupted by the misinterpretation of suffering into sin, thanks to society’s priests, who today have been replaced by other preacher’s of culture: politicians and opinion-mongers.
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I doubt I’ll ever have a ‘final thought’ on anything.
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But whatever there is, is vastly limited in origin, and as we keep growing (inventing) we need the nihilist hammer to stay on track, so as not to be so confused that our creations end up being just blobs and stains.
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Even weak people should laugh at the weak. We should all laugh at ourselves, but none more so than the weak because laughter encourages strength.
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Every plant you grow, you should treat as you would your child. See how important everything is?
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If you want to be spiritual then study and observe physics, cosmology, astrophysics and mathematics.
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Everything will change for as long as we exist: everything changes, even without truth.
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Interpreting the materials of Earth is a creative act. Truth is a creative act which is why it changes over time when new knowledge (a creative act) emerges. Interpretation, interpretation, interpretation.…
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To be ascetic is not a denial of life; to idealise asceticism is a denial of life.
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Its important not to consume everything, rather its more productive to be circumspect and to choose with diligence. Once you’ve done that, consume away.
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Rubble: things can be broken yet not destroyed….and yet, rubble creates something new from the broken as though the broken is destroyed: by being created again.….and again….and again….
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If we were to be honest, our culture today is afflicted with consumption, gout and faulty genes.
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Modern knowledge likes to believe that thinking begins with res cogitans and not res extensa.
Scientists want ‘absolute truth’, it is their goal in life, something that they will die for. All scientists (now and in the future) will die with this still a goal.
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The physicochemical system always comes via, the psychochemical interpretation.
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I cannot say this enough: creativity is our highest form of life, everything else is a waste. We only have three real arts: words, music and the line. All of these arts encompasses everything else.
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It’s what you do not what you are, that’s what is important: after all, it’s the content of your character that holds ultimate value.
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All of our three arts can be mingled together, which is an additional pleasure – or displeasure, depending on how much of a philistine you are.
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I am the opposite of a philistine. My misanthropy has a lot of bases in the general philistinism of the general public. As I’m the opposite of philistine, why am I a misanthropist? That I am better alone is the cross I will always bear.
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Comprehension is aided by an honest acknowledgment of temporality, or the chronology of our interpretations. We are always a project in process.
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Space and time is pure facticity, there is nothing instant in a comprehension, or how we interpret. Even ‘instant’ is an interpretation. What is it: are facts a myth or is truth a myth? Or is facticity the most powerful element of ‘truth’? Are both facts and truth creations? Hermetics, hermetics, hermetics…
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Maybe the ‘animalistic’ grunt has the most sustainable truth within it?
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Does conscience come from luck, education, money, or power? Does conscience come from feeling? Is feeling the conduit of conscience? We are always in the act of answering such questions unbeknown to us.
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Annoyance is the genocide of humanity.
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This is a complex issue (or not), due to the history of one culture gaining resources via rape, pillage, thieving, slaves and murder, which gave them time and resource to do things we now consider ‘good’ and ‘valuable’, like science. What are now crimes helped thinking.
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The most annoying thing about fate is that you can’t ignore it, your life is happened and is happening at the same time.
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Plants inhale and exhale. We have a strange attitude towards life; as always, morality is the problem. Basically, we (life) cannot exist without cannibalising life (life).
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Money relies upon workers, it’s a scale too, some workers are worth more than other workers, and some people don’t even have to work.
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The ‘world’ is a moral situation.
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Frankly, we don’t care (negative) about reality, we only care (positive) about what we want to be the truth.
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If we can only feel without a before and after.
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One can’t be honest in society, the last thing anyone can do is to pierce the bubble of our gilded perspective. Ostracism is the end result.
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Monumental history is not only of no use, it is a chain around our feet. Enslavement is the entropy of those who enslave, anything that enslaves can never be free.
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Klaus Kinski: ‘One should judge a man mainly by his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.’
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Honesty, facts and truth: they sound like they should be blood brothers, yet they have different impregnated sources. Truth is a made up concept; concept really means: construct.
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Real knowledge isn’t gained by an isolated interpretation of experience: taken in isolation, everything is nonsense. Science knows this, but the propagandists still believe in the disinterested self.
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If you are to breed, know how to truly cultivate your seed, otherwise you’ll end up with deformed plants. By this I mean, never trust your children’s learning with any organised form of education.
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It will be counter-intuitive, but maybe a society riddled with laws encourages criminality and a free use of abuse by those who feel part of the system?
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Less laws + natural distribution = stronger society = less needs for laws = a better society.
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The human dichotomy: natural/creative. Who can answer this?
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No human being born today is without total surveillance. You would have to be a ‘savage’ literally living in the ‘wild’, and even then, you would all be ‘discovered’ and preyed upon.
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The (obvious) issue of morality is that it leaves us all in an intractable situation, it is not possible to live up to the grandiose statements that morality forces upon you.
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“We must make a new nature” is the calling card of all “sophisticated” societies. I think, as a whole, we don’t want to be our nature. On first sight our nature is horrendous, at least, our morality tells us so.
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Machiavelli pronounced, not goodness, but the means to survive badness. Morality is always the issue, so Machiavelli wrote his stuff, it is what influenced him. And because Machiavelli, like all thinkers, were concerned with morality, he had to jump through many placed moral hoops to make his point.
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Sometimes describing what you want to do ruins everything you end up doing.
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If we can philosophise without morality, what a thing that would be. Possibly the closest appropriation of what we call ‘freedom’.
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Sometimes what is hidden determines your success or not. What is hidden is your authentic self.
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As long as we can all understand: knowledge, facts and truth are symbiotic, whilst honesty is the best amalgamation of this symbiotic relationship.
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Nothing pure, nothing simple, nothing whole, nothing absolute, approximation is as pure as we can get.
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If we are to live well, we ‘must possess and from time to time employ the strength to break up and dissolve a part of the past..’
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Reason is a replacement for other reasons: breakthroughs in knowledge are esoteric in origin.
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We all live (literally) in a fantasy world. All positions are created by an interpretation that has become the most powerful of interpretations, enforced by the power that can enforce ideas. Acknowledging this fact causes all sorts of problems, physically and psychologically.
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Civilisation, we all agree, is our great endeavour. But, it must also be said, civilisation is our great misfortune. We dress up ridiculously in the attempt at civilisation and, thereby, introduce many sanctimonious unrealities.
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So, humanity, as we know it, is made up with all sorts, some prescribed, others not. Some, which culture proscribed are prescribed, retrospectively.
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Morality is claimed to be one of humanity’s great achievements. The only achievement morality has ever created is hypocrisy, it is a power tool used to make our world and we all run with it, generally due to misplaced egotism.
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As existence we only comprehend power, be it, a motive, a hunger, a desire: many more drives than we could possibly be aware of, and yet they are full of affection with influence.
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To escape morality is the first goal of the free spirit. The second goal is to create a new goal, based upon the knowledge of your own authentic and repetitive life that experience has taught you.
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Morality: no wonder children get fucked up. And then follows our justice system, which creates the impression of rectifying ‘problems’ that their own system has enabled.
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I am everything the opposite that I am.
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One of the problems of honesty is that the more you know about people and other entities the more you can, either, dislike or like their honesty. Then again, is that a problem?
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Even if a society consisted of only two people, there would still be a pecking order.
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Being herd animals we can’t help but be social, this is the matter that any free spirit must navigate, not as a shepherd of the herd, rather as an outlier from the herd, that is fully comprehensive of the grounds that the free spirit escapes from.
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We need to eat and drink. So we need the herd, but only a part of the herd, something that requires negotiation.
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When we talk about facts (phenomena we come across) we have no other option but to consider them as they are, which is what we call facts. When we talk about truth we ignore interpretation (problematic phenomena) and say what we really want.
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Trying to control all of our phenomena creates so many problems, let it go, just let it go. Maybe ‘freedom’ is a letting go.
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Interpreting the world as it is, is not the same as interpreting the Earth or planets or suns, in fact the Universe is itself an interpretation founded upon our bare existence which needed an interpreted ‘world’ so that we can interpret this everything else.
The law is a bigger religion than….well, religion…
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All depravities have a moral foundation.
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The only point of existence is excellence, as a goal, as something achievable, as a motivating force..
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Never be cynical with children.
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The stomach is more influential than the brain: digesting is elemental to thinking.
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We have to unlearn much of our past life, this is the first step to be taken on the pathway to the free spirit: ‘Be yourself. All that you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.’
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‘..the history of philosophy (the history of truth) is a secret raging against the prerequisites of life, against the feeling of the value of life, against the championship of life…philosophers have never hesitated to affirm a world provided it contradicted this world’ – Nietzsche.
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We were never what we think of ourselves historically and we can never be what we think we will be in the future. Understand this and it’s possible that we really can be in the now, more consciously in the knowledge of now, saying Yes to this new knowledge of the now.
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Finally….
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For a brief moment time stops now, it is the instant (not even that) when you realise that from now on you live your life as the only life and as something that will return again and again. You accept your past life (what else can you do with it?) and jump into your now life with all the force and vigour you can give it, being authentic to your self only. Thus, a new day dawns…
Like freedom, humanism is a built idol, it’s a statue that exists not everywhere, but where it does exist, it is a heavy statue that is used against everyone.
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Idolatry is genuine which doesn’t mean idols shouldn’t be hammered down.
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The gist of things: We could be so much better. In realising that we are the destiny of our own possible greatness, we are such failures.
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Individually, destiny is wrapped up in all of the intricacies of physical interactions between you, the world and nature which is the foundation of our world. Guilt is not a stand alone feature, it is determined by cultures previously.
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So, when people look at ‘others’, the intricate nature of our physical environment (culture), is fundamental—though unacknowledged—in performing this ‘look’.
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Tabular rasa is as strong a myth as freedom is to humanity’s view of itself. There is nothing new under the sun, evolution happened in nature. Is the Big Bang the original ‘blank slate’ as it is said to have come from nothing?
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No building has ever been done without rubble to build from. Human-kind has never existed on a blank slate, rather on a rocky planet where the idols had to be literally built. This is morality.
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Being able to build structures, to manipulate nature, was our own doing, not god(s). When we did this we were so pleased that we invented god(s). When we encountered things insurmountable we again invented god(s) – look at Greek mythology. This is why we killed god: we make and we can destroy.
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λόγος, word, is the origin of the understanding of human existence. It encompasses all beliefs and all history.
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As logos is the origin of laws, the word can be the ultimate tool of oppression. Or emancipation. This is evidenced by history (interpretation).
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All civilisations need gadflies.
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Ethos and morality are different subjects.
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The law, today, is groaning under it’s own weight, it needs emancipation from itself. Instead we enact more laws thinking this is more freedom.
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The ‘ding an sich’ or the Kantian noumenon, is the foundation of an essential myth that has taken precedence over a life interpretation of what is: we are all looking for that one thing, a theory of everything, when we should only acknowledge becoming and changing (Heraclitus).
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I have idols of which I’m more than prepared to hammer. This stance must be taken by all active philosophers.
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Is freedom the ability to vote for someone who shares your view or to vote for someone who expands your view and makes your view better, or the least worst option?
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I see no good reason to not use world events to promulgate thinking, proposals, possibilities (but not morals) and anything that creates with as free a conscience as possible.
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Preferring not to have child poverty and human poverty, generally, is not a moral choice it’s a natural response. Moral choices are not natural they are wrapped up in the power choices of the powerful: the State and before that, the priest.
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A fact for the freedom loving Europeans: the law was used to steal land from the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Australia (of course, slavery was legal, too). Why? Because the laws are unnatural impositions. Land ownership is a fraudulent law used against natural justice. No wonder idols built on such land (colonialism and Empire) are rotten to the core.
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Freedom is to travel. Freedom is to acquire. Freedom is to use the law to acquire. Freedom is to oppress. Freedom is to claim your righteousness. Freedom soils itself.
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Basically, the Nation State as evidenced in the liberal West, through it’s lawful crimes, have the most ‘freedom’ and ’emancipation’. They have used their invented tool, the law, to oppress other people’s wealth, culture and prosperity, thus increasing their own wealth (material wealth and propaganda wealth). Yet still in the liberal West, no one is happy.
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I think you are too scared to undress, to be truthful to your self, to claim your righteous freedom away from the herd.
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Morality is a disease I am trying to escape from, like a slave fleeing his master.
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If freedom is an approximation then freedom is fought over.
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Real philosophers are not academics. Academics love certainties, intricacies, yes, dream worlds.
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Murder is not wrong, per se.
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Hypocrisy is the constant theme in morality, therefore civilisation. This is because we are afraid to be our self. Only man truthful to his own self can make the steps towards the Free Spirit: a dancing with no grounding, no system of recognition, always reinventing.
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The worst of the humanists are the fucking French.
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I am ‘free’ to have prejudice, this is taught in Western humanities, they call it ‘free speech’. At the same time, ‘free speech’ is a prescription.
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It seems that the liberal West likes to show its ‘free speech’ negatively by using it to insult other peoples and all with the connivance of their State, a State that toys with its herd as though each herd member is a puppet on a string. Are we puppet’s on a string?
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The freedom of the Free Spirit is in its use against the State, its politicians and its media. There is much danger for the authentic self, one reason for their detachment from the herd.
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The real criminals and terrorists is the State, its why they’re surrounded by goons.
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There’s a lot of rubble to make before new buildings are to be made. I have my hammer at the ready.
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I look at humanity and can’t help thinking of destruction, with shame not pity.
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To create new idols from the rubble you need to breathe in the fresh mountain air.
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Free speech is extreme or its nothing, its extremities (pudenda!) are in the heights not the squalid ground where the herd roams chewing on its ressentiment.
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Hammer authority. Hammer the State which is the foundation of man’s obedience and contains all of the institutions that infantilise man as lick-spittles.
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Politics is detrimental to life. It’s possibly the opposite of life. To reach any rarefied ground politics and politicians need to be removed from polluting the Spirit’s (self) waters of life.
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The importance of nihilism is it’s potential to enable renewal. We’ve all played a game in which we’ve wished to restart, maybe that’s possible in life? First you have to unlearn everything you’ve been told/taught, you have to unlearn your life.
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Bias……what hilarious nonsense. People use this term as an insult forgetting that they are being biased by the use of their insult.
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.
Nietzsche: ‘I fear we shall never be rid of God as long as we believe in grammar.’ Extrapolate…
2 The language of love, of beauty, of perfection, the language of the one, of God. We tell ourselves little myths every time we speak.
3 No two things are the same, indeed there is no ‘thing’. No straight line, anywhere. Grammar mythologizes origins, it is guilty of our consciousness and the first tool of repression used against our genuine emotions.
4 The free spirit unlearns life as it has been told to him previously. It gets to the point when language is of no more use in describing what is real as it can only point to a mythical past. What then?
5 What then? Understand that you have an overriding will to power, not a will of the appetites, these must be overcome by the higher will, not cause and effect, but your own quantum of will, your own quantum of power. Enact.
6 Free will is a myth of grammar, as is determinism. Freedom is only relative to your power, your whole being is defined by your higher will to gather power. It is of secondary nature that you will to live.
7 From Plato onward we ‘have a woeful history: man looks for a principal, from a standpoint of which he will be able to condemn man – he invents a world in order to slander and throw mud at this world: …he snatches..at nothing and construes this nothing as “God”.. Nietzsche.
8 …’the history of philosophy (truth) is a secret raging against the prerequisites of life, against the feeling of the value of life, against the championship of life. The philosophers have never hesitated to affirm a world provided it contradicted this world and supplied them with a handle with which to calumniate this world. Up to the present it has been the great school of slander.’ Nietzsche.
9 So, to know thyself means to be able to unlearn your past life and, essentially, to understand that man, as you are, is to be surpassed by the higher man who beautifully combines his animal nature with his hard won intellect that enables him to create authentically in his own history.
10 We must extrapolate the latter point even more….
11 …Mankind has no action, no endeavour, big or small, that doesn’t come down to: good or bad. Any subject, any movement. Everything is a moral question, especially logic and reason.
12 Because morality underpins all our actions, history itself is a morality tale. The vast corpus of morality is the expression of nay saying. The higher man, the free spirit is an example of yea saying. Transcend good and evil.
13 The more you say ‘yes’ the freer you are. Bob Marley sang, “no chains around my feet but I’m not free”: this is applicable to all peoples everywhere. Your historical culture weighs you down.
14 It is the philosopher’s disposition that he has a categorical imperative and nothing more.
1 Philosopher, definition: Lover of wisdom = love = beauty = art = creativity = truth.
2 Humans keep repeating the wrong history. Our existence is of a life of error and, therein, lies the possibility of our creative goal, our step beyond nihilism.
3 The free spirit knows how to deal with the nihilist foundation of being: by having joy in the countless opportunities of becoming.
4 Practically, what does this mean? It means the free spirit conjures up the strength (physical strength in that what you do moves you) to be his own artist in life. Takes joy in his own creations, is his history.
5 Such a creative life cannot have ressentiment because a truthful existence is full of tragedy, fateful tragedy. One must laugh in the face of tragedy, take strength from tragedy in the joyful Dionysiac orgy of creating out of the chaos of nihilistic being.
6 Great individuals have been before maybe they will be again..dare I think other cultures too?
To be a nihilist who wants to give value to the world.
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The philosopher must become a child
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The ‘blonde beast’ is actually the lion tearing away history so the child can play.
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You are finite but your potential is infinite. This is our fate.
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An infinite becoming is yours, ‘What was scattered gathers. What was gathered blows apart.’ Everything you do, now that the lion has finished, can be a new becoming.
1 The concept of happiness causes more unhappiness than it’s teleological aim.
2 To physically exert oneself is, primarily, an emotional experience. The body is our truth.
3 Once you love your fate you can control your own will to power and become a free spirit in the eternal recurrence of the same. Be history, become your authentic history.
4 Love your fate, reject determinism and say Yes to life.
5 Freedom is the acceptance of fate. Determinism, as defined in the scientific method, is not freedom.
6 Science treats the body abstractly, in isolation, as though the body is a doorstep and not the higher power that it actually is.
7 Laud the potent individual, look away from the leveling down of culture (the state is an example of this) to suit the masses.
8 The above is an attempt to transcend nihilism. We (individually) are more than the calculated parts of our body and environment.
Kevin Nebula 