Words are representations of abstractions.
Any expression of an absolute is in our own head but we mistake it as being in the world, or we intentionally convince ourselves that it is - self-deceit.
It would be like an artist mistaking his painting for the real thing…or painting something non-existent and imagining that is was in the world.
Yes.
The confusion of the representation for the represented is exploited by charlatans, hypocrites, and those who exploit human fears, needs and desires.
It’s the second oldest racket.
Notice that within the nihilistic paradigm - where everything is inverted and names are replaced - ‘god’ has not gone but has been replaced by ‘universe’ or ‘order’, and the concepts of ‘good/evil’ are not overcome - by those who sometimes claim to be Nietzsche followers and apostles - but have been renamed as ‘Nazi/Zionist’…or ‘worthy/unworthy’…
Nihilism is entirely linguistic, because it is a psychological defence against existence - a reaction to an emerging self-consciousness.
It exists only as ideology, dogma…and is expressed politically, as marketing, as psychology.
Not philosophy proper.
The real usurped by the ideal. Body usurped by mind.
Outside language and the minds that understand them, nihilism is meaningless - non-existent, and so are its products - it’s so called philosophies. Useless outside the minds that comprehend semiotics and can be influenced by them.
Modern philosophy, like modern spirituality is dominated by nihilism.
Begin your analysis with the concept represented by the English word ‘god’ - any linguistic equivalent will do.
Consider what it meant, and what it means.
The first being?
Prostitution
God represents the absolute from a positive perspective for those who believe in him
Nihilism is the inverted negative version because there is no reward for its believers
The first cannot be proven and so could be false and the second denies all reason for existence and so are as opposite as it is possible to be
The rejection of both lies in finding meaning to ones own individual life while accepting reality cannot be changed in any fundamental way
The inevitability and eternity of death is unavoidable so one should simply focus on what one can change instead
The eternal reward for believers denies the biology that we are animals like all others and will die just like them
Reality has to be accepted as it is not denied or reinterpreted for our convenience
We cannot be the desert because we are just a single grain of sand and no more
We cannot be the ocean because we are just a single drop of water and no more
Indeed.
And does not the priest also claim to be god’s favourite concubine, through which great pleasure can be had?
Indeed,
Through the Power of Nil, and Cult of Innocence, it becomes obvious how the self-delusion of the slave-caste can morph into a pervasive neurosis that spreads over time. It becomes a luxury, taken by an ‘elite’ class of chosen, as a revenge against the real elite class of Warrior and Kings (Aristocracy). It’s a mimicry that requires and needs forms of delusion, spread by lies, perpetuated by indoctrination into children. These “God’s Children”, “World Citizens”, “Global Proletariat”, “Chosen Ones”, are hypocritical and push a religion of double-standards. Chosen by “God”, yet, Chosen by Us, as long as you recite the themes (lies), play by (((our))) rules, and follow the Pre-Determined ethics, mythos, and morality.
Oh!
The second being witch-doctor, that became shaman that became priest…
Sometimes superstition peddler, although the practice evolved and branched out.
It used to be a carrier of the tribe’s lore, its accumulated knowledge and wisdom.
One part became science, philosophy and spirituality, and another became pseud-science, occultist philosophy and superstitions.
A split into astrology/astronomy, astrology/psychology, alchemy/chemistry, alchemy/ homeopathy etc.
From primitive towards advanced.
When Empires enter their final phase - their Dark Age - the ancient practices that worked in soothing the masses of desperate, ignorant, mostly illiterates, return.
This would include prophets, messiahs, superstition peddlers, and doom-sayers.
A cross section of ILP.
It’s so predictable that it can be sued as a sign, a symptom that the system is declining.
It seems like Mystics are simply failed Scientists or Doctors. The ‘real’ doctors, from pre-history, were measured by their successes, intelligence, and actual abilities. Those with lower intelligence, imitated or attempted to imitate, but failed, and thus the addiction began for justifications after-the-fact, along with dependency on ‘faith’ rather than the methods which were kept by the actual scientist/thinker/doctor/professional. So, simply put, the ones who succeeded are backed by reality (actual curing of disease) versus the plethora and more popular, faith-based believers who do not have a record of victories, despite them trumping up any ‘miracle’ or their compensating marketing-campaigns.
Those who can’t actually cure, or perform, instead rely on marketing and emotional theatrics. Convince the ill that they are ‘fine’ and ‘cured’, instead of actually curing.
It’s about having an effect to justify your status to the group.
Faith healers, like ancient shamans, relied on the power of persuasion - the Placebo effect.
Ancient shamans also had knowledge passed on from teacher to student, accumulating a pool of practical wisdom.
If you are unable to tell which is witch, you may fall victim to word-smiths and charlatans.
Gypsies using old-wives tales to manipulate gullible, desperate, degenerates.
Ok…
Then came the word, logos, to reveal and direct it; then came logos to conceal and use it to manipulate those not adept with it.
Activity - energy.
Existence is interactivity.
Patterned (order) and non-patterned (chaos) energies, i.e., vibrations/oscillations.
Use any metaphor to describe the same.
In Heideggerean contexts:
Space (chaos) = possibility
Matter/Energy (order) = probability
The nil is more powerful than the one, because it requires minimal effort and awareness to negate, destroy, reject.
People with nothing to live for, nothing to fight for, are left with ego, the lucid part of self, as their last refuge.
People with no investment in the future and no past to be proud of and to draw sustenance from, are left with hedonism to distract them and to find some pride through.
delicious !
The absence of absolutes makes the Nil powerful.
The individual demands certainty, finality, completion, , omnipotence, and omniscience, and if none are provided then it uses this as an excuse to remain as he/she is.
All is equally possible, without an absolute.
Death of God being the metaphor for the demise of this andromorphic absoluteness.
If this concept is not substitutes by a secular version - such as universe that replaces ‘god’s will’ with hard-determinism - then it becomes an excuse to believe in any absurdity.
The negative is an open field where all opinions find parity.
Equality via absolute negativity, replacing parity via absolute positivity - singularity.
Absolute chaos replacing absolute order.
Again, what on Earth, given his actual interactions with others, does this assessment encompass “for all practical purposes”.
In other words, let him take us through his days. And each time he has an experience that embodies this “intellectual contraption” nihilism, he can describe in some detail the behaviors that he and others choose as either more or less nihilistic.
Or, perhaps, more or less natural?