Objectivity, is another word for a standard external to self - in other words WORLD, and/or REALITY. Again..... The noumenon confronted by the phenomenon interprets it. Sum of all phenomena (inter)acting, is the same as saying patterns (inter)acting manifesting as presence, as appearance when interpreted by the conscious mind and converted (translated, interpreted, simplified/generalized...ABSTRACTED) to noumena. Therefore phenomena is another word for world, for objective... the apparent.
The mind interprets, abstracts finds patterns in the (niter)activity (patterns relating), and then set a course of action, makes a choice, comes to a decision in accordance to its interpretations and the patterns it has perceived... in makes a judgment call, based on a conscious or an intuitive/instinctual, goal, objective, ideal. It then lives with the consequences of this judgment-call, enjoying the benefits, and burdened by the costs.
Objectivity, in this case, means a subjective evaluation of world, of the (inter)acting patterns, which is closest to the objective... is more precise, more in harmony, is SUPERIOR. It is not an absolute... since the world is fluctuating, in Flux, but neither is it a product of the subjective mind, neither is it whatever the mind prefers, wishes, hopes...
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A Nihilist either outright rejects world, as it is, or he invents a concept that negates it - an idea that if it were to be made real would nullify reality, such as a singularity, another word for absolute.
Nihilism is so creative and comes in so many variations precisely because it is not limited by any external order - it is detached from any natural order which would constricts its abstractions. It offers the creatively insane a tabula rasa to splatter their psychosis upon. It thrives in protective environments and so it can fantasize any world negating ideal with no risks and no severe costs to the endless benefits it can imagine, because its motive is not exploration of world, engagement of the real, but play, pleasure, escape.
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This detachment of the Nihilist is what he calls his "freedom", his "free-spirit". It means freedom from a determining past, liberation from natural order. He shares dissatisfaction of what is, hatred of self, with the multiplicity born and raised within protective circumstances, permitting unfit mutations to propagate, to become aware of their own inability to cope with a world beyond the protective shield of society.
The realist is limited by nature, by cosmic order(ing), which to the Nihilist appears as part of some "cult" because for him sheltering is an opportunity to find any narcotic, any delusion, to pass his time in a meaningless world. The agreement of realists, the appreciation of Pagans for nature/past, is considered a waste of time, and the only way they can understand such intellectual integrity, such nobility of spirit, is by reducing it to what is intimate to them - servitude, herd psychosis.
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Stuck in the either/or binary dualism of his mind, and this simplicity of thought dominated by the Nihilistic paradigm, the Modern can accept no alternative outside the "dissolving, exploding, of self within a uni-versal Self as fragmented consciousness" or the "implosion of self as subjective authority, as navel gazing narcissism, with only pleasure as a distraction".
Self-hatred converted/inverted, into hatred of other; distrusts for self, converted/inverted into rejection of other; fear for self, converted/inverted into fear of other.
Within this paradigm the ideal can only be a beyond space/time, essentially dismissing reality as an illusion, or the immanent future, rejecting presence, the present, the apparent, as unsatisfactory, or the ideal can be found in self, with no interference by anything outside of it - narcissism, solipsism being perspectivism pushed to its "logical" limit.
Anything outside if this is denounced and denied... no hierarchies, no trust, no loyalty, no common goals in the world.
Ego unable to accept another as superior has to seek it in the mystical, in the outside, or seek relief from it inside. The world and its order, its unjust arrangements, to be destroyed, dismissed, forgotten, ridiculed. All are equally weak below omniscience, and all are lords in their own mind.
The world remains unaffected.
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The metaphysical position of patterns in (inter)action, attracting and repulsing, is inescapable. We feel it as need/suffering, as I've repeated many times, and it results in the Flux, and increasing chaos, experienced as linear time.
Not only is it inescapable but it is desirable, by the ones who enjoy life, and existence - being conscious of life in existence. for the weakling, the coward, the desire to end conflict, expressed as a ideal state of no "conflicting goods" as one of our retarded Moderns puts it, is really the Christian ethos expressing dissatisfaction with existence, and themselves within it - insecurity of how self can compete.
To reach a "democratic compromise" is cryto-Christianity expressed in the idea of peaceful coexistence beneath a "benevolent, altruistic, all-encompassing, omnipotent, State - god abstracted as institution. Dependence on official sources of judgment is the Christian spirit of bowing before the authority of a supreme other- afraid to pass-judgment without this authorization. If we understand the symbolism of Satan in the Abrahamic Nihilistic paradigm then rejecting the objective world is a rejection of the Devil, as representation of an indifferent, harsh, world.
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The emergence of the internet intellectual, the google genius, is the natural outcrop of specialization. MANifesto: Science – Specialization – The Rise of the Idiot Savant Data regurgitation, recitation of information, with no understanding, no perceived unity found in a unifying pattern. With no past, no tradition to provide guidance, the Modern mind seeks aid in mysticism, and in Abrahamic lies, now converted to secular symbolisms, and Alexandrian presumptions. God’s assumed “omniscience”, morphing into scientific absolutes, and the “word of the one God”, morphing into numerical values; holism replaced by oneness, evil with nil(hism), Priestly class replaced with experts, self-declared shamans knowing the “mind of god”, knowing the uni-versal code, knowing they know nothing, except that all is knowable; gods mystery replaced with the insinuating vagueness of the symbol, triggering in each faith believer, his/her personal relationship with the divine. Creation, now, imagined as a singularity of imploding/exploding space/time. God given using one of his many names. Something more appropriate for a more “refined”, demanding, educated, and jaded audience.
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Organism, with whatever level of consciousness it has developed, is the point of reference, the convergence space/time nexus where "opposites" combine in mind as abstraction, having been divided by the body, and its nervous system, using primal methods of on/off designations.
Subjective is a reference to this... "man being the measure of all things". Energy/Matter, Good/Bad, Order/Chaos, 1/0 relate to this starting ambiguity - the flow/no-flow converted to "perfect wholes": on & off. The divergence is one of degree, but the organism dopes not have to be so precise - it cannot in its primitive state, only later evolving the ability to conceive the nuances, and it extricate itself from the analysis attaining a third-party imaginative perspective. Degree of dynamism is reduced to an abstraction, converted to a medium the nervous system can transmit and process - Nihilistic parading takes the simplification/generalization literally. The mechanism of conversion (translation/interpretation) placed in the role of ritual, baptismal rites, the Holy Spirit, meditation offering an epiphany mediating between the counter-intuitive and intuition. Prayer was the Christian version of meditation, for the Pagan it involves the quieting of the conscious mind, to permit the internal cellular data to stream forward uninterrupted, and unprocessed, echoing a past lost in the noise of everyday existence.
Aryan man used mythology to merge the incompatible realms of consciousness and unconsciousness - the idea(l) and the real.
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Under the "everything is subjective" clause in the social contract protecting actor from act, thinker from thought, judgment form cost/benefit, we find the delusion that erases world by erasing perspective. It is a curious psychological leap of faith, based on the "ignorance is bliss", bovine rhetoric, that unequivocally states that you kill an idea, by killing the idealist, or worse, that you avoid reality by slandering, silencing, the one exposing you to reality, using words.
Words, and their magical importance, is central here. Words that engage reality and words that evade it, are ow at par, since sheltering has made the application of judgment selective. We find this in the declarations of one's genius, most often disturbing, when no act, no understanding is present... making the declarative sentences, constructed using words, detached from, the apparent. A correlation to body-building is appropriate here... cultivating muscles, to and impressive, super-natural level, using chemical aids, contradicts the utility of muscles, by inhibiting the muscle-bound individual's mobility. Muscles for display... like knowledge is now used to impress, to imply, and is not applicable; knowledge that inhibits thinking is preferred, when it impresses, when it seduces, when it is impractical; knowledge as an artificial display of understanding.
When words have become steroids, then the ideas their utility expresses are dismissed under the umbrella of institutionalized protection, making their usage a controlled substance imitating what is prohibited, correcting what has been inherited as a predetermined genetic limit. Words now to display, impress, and destroy the other, because words no longer connect to world but to institution - the expert, the socialist, the collective narrative.
Slander, destroy, the speaker, and you feel as if you've escaped the perspective he describes, as if by magic; ignore the ideas being expressed, the act, and focus on the words, the voice, the source, and you begin to believe you've dealt with the ideas the acts themselves.
You see, when a mind has convinced itself that "all is equally subjective", and it is protected from the reference point, then all that remains for it to dismiss are perspectives, using word-games, innuendo, ad hominem assaults, declarative sentences, repeating dogmas, like prayers, psychological manipulation, and the defensiveness of cynicism, expressed in a care-free, humour, displaying faked indifference.
The motive is not to make sense of world, to engage reality, but to preserve our personal perspective, in a world where there is no big cost to being wrong, and application of the concepts words represent, is strictly controlled.
What is left of words but to express a world that pleasures us, that brings to us all that gives us personal gratification, and since a social animal such as man, finds gratification in other, then what better usage is left to words than to seduce, manipulate, others? Tell them what they want to hear, and make them come to you; preach to the choir, and make them sing your blessings; sooth and comfort them, with symbols, with metaphors, and make them your flesh and blood blanket.
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If your metaphysics comes into conflict with your physics, instead of supporting them; if your physics contradict your metaphysics, instead of representing them, then you are no philosopher, you are a spiritualist, using metaphysics to deny the physical world. The claim can be easily made, that underlying the real, there is a more real reality, which the apparent covers and disguises, and the claim is so seductive that you will find followers to believe in whatever bullshyte you come up with, to define this hidden metaphysical world, but when you think of it, what does it mater what you bleeive and how many you convince? Does reality change? Well, some morons, who use subjectivity as a excuse, to deny, will say so. Let them wallowing in their own filth, not fully appreciating how being protected, in a barn, from the consequences of their poor judgment, can only go so far, before the costs begin to pile up. That is when they blame everything and everyone, other than themselves and their own stupidity, for whatever predicament their delusions have produced. If they survive the experience, they will emerge "enlightened", as if they had some sort of epiphany, destined to repeat.
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One more time... Nihilism the rejection of reality if it does not contain the human abstractions fabricated in the human brain, with no reference to anything outside the brain. As such, a realist would be, for a Modern Nihilist, a "nihilist", due to the inversion inherent in it. All is inverted in the psychosis of a Nihilist. As a consequence minds like Nietzsche, and many others, proudly wore the label, as a display of his antithesis to the Modern mindset. As a negation of human fabrications that negate reality, such as universal morality, one God, wholeness, meaning, , absolutes of all kinds, telos, he was a positivist, a yes-sayer. He was a Nihilist in relation to Modern Nihilists, and their artifices. Negating a negative leaves what?
From this we discover two general types, although because Nihilism is a detachment and a rejection of reality, or objective world, the variations are as many as the human imagination permits. Imagination disconnected from reality we call "fantasy".
Negative Nihilists, or authentic, pure, feminine, in psychology, Nihilists: Those that flat out reject world void of morality, god, meaning, purpose...and wish to destroy it so as to prevent anyone else of enjoying it, when they cannot.
Positive Nihilists, of hypocritical/duplicitous, masculine Nihilism, attracting emasculated males and females to them: Those who project into world what they cannot find, or prove, as an absolute thing, or a whole, or meaning, or god, or morality, anything "positive" in relation to their needs. The most popular and seductive form. In this case the "absolute", the idea(l), the abstraction is projected outside the brain, and declared existing out there, or in the beyond, or in the immanent future. Because most minds are terrified when they awaken to the realization that there is no universal morality, no god, no meaning, no telos, no purpose, this form of Nihilism gathers the masses of lost, desperate, weak, psychologies to it. Because there is no external reference to validate and/or connect the noumenon, the abstraction, this form of Nihilism depends on attracting as many minds to it, because it vanishes if there is not at least, one mind, holding onto the abstraction, since the abstraction has no external reference point, or it is not a representation off a phenomenon.
In short, the former posits a direct and clear negation o world as it is, whereas the latter posits a projection that contradicts the world, therefore negating it idealistically. These two form of Nihilism represent the binary, dualistic poles of the Nihilistic paradigm, within which all moderns are trapped: philosophically, morally, politically, conceptually. It is the cognitive box, they have yet ti evolve out of....the next step in human evolution, reflecting the 4th and below level of cognition, and/or the fourth and below level of intentionality. Examples of modern "positive" Nihilism": Abrahamic Religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam); Spinoza's "substance" and Kant's "thing-in-itself", Marxism/Humanism with their denial of past/nature, and their social constructs that socially construct the ideal that race and sex are social constructs. you See how duplicitous and how heavily dependent on words, this type of Nihilist is? Because reality contradicts their ideals, they need words, continuously repeated, and masses of brains, infected with their idea(l) for them to be relevant - their power in built on quantities, of zombie-like minds, repeating the same delusion, which has no external reference, but is, in fact, contradicted by experience, by existence.
What Moderns call "philosophy" or politics, is contained within this cognitive box - it is the outer border of their perceptual-event-horizon; the extreme outer limit of their consciousness, determined genetically, but also memetically, when the meme is Nihilistic and it retards mental cultivation. After brief ascends out of out of this cognitive box, man reverts back, in cycles of ascent and descent.
We are in the midst of decay, decadence, descent towards a coming Dark Age, and our art, which includes our usage of language, and our thinking, represented by philosophy, mirrors this decline.
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For a realist, there is no meaning, no god, no universal morality, no purpose, to and in existence, but this is not a "negative" but a positive.
For a realist his projections of meaning, purpose, into the world do not negate the world, do not contradict it, but are pulled out of it, refer to it, are founded in it. His idea(l)s are based on the experience of world, and competing idea(l)s far from being a "bad' thing are a "good" thing because through competition, conflict, each individual tests his own idea(l)s, and the types of minds these produce.
Difference between a "positive nihilist" and a realist, is that the latter does not posit his own as universals, as absolute truth, but as superior in degree, and his idea(l)s projections do not come in conflict with world, as it is. He recognizes his abstractions as his own constructs, which are more or less in-tune with reality. Idea(l)s not as absolutes but as direction finders, orientation signposts, identifying the individual as the one wilfully moving towards it, and this movement being what defines and differentiates him from others, or what establishes commonality and allegiance.
The "positive nihilist's" projections idea(l)s are not only considered absolutes, universals, all ought to follow and abide by, or all equally valid so as to erase conflict, but his idea(l)s are contradictions of what is experienced, what is apparent, what is present; he has projected into the world abstractions that contradict existence.
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-Believes in no universal morality, no god, no meaning, no purpose to existence, no one, no whole
-Believes in universal Nil - negation of all positive abstractions, all apearances, all past/nature, all presence
-Considers this absence a negative
-Idealizes the destruction of existence
-Considers all perspectives equally negative
-Considers "positive" Nihilists, and Realists naive
-Has no ideals except Hedonism, as a necessary method of enduring existence
"Positive" hypocritical Nihilist
-Believes in universal (absolute) morality, god, meaning, purpose to existence
-Considers this a positive, and the idea of an absence a negative
-Idealizes abstractions he projects which negate this absence
-Considers all perspectives equally positive, or all equally negative except his own which he holds as absolutely certain
-Holds his ideals as absolutes, including the ideal which states that all perspectives are equally true, or equally untrue
-Ideals negate the experience of existing, conflict with appearances, presence of fluctuating patterns
-Rejects all standards outside self, or a collective of selves - rejects world (objective) as a standard for evaluating what is more and what is less probable
-Holds no principles as superior to others, except the principle of parity of principles
Basic difference between a "negative" and a "positive" Nihilist is one believes all is absolutely negative, nil, and the other all is absolutely positive, yet varies on how he imagines this "positive", giving it many names, and all his projections contradict the real: his "positive" ideals all contradict the sensually experienced world. The former negates world with an absolute nil and the latter with an absolute one. Symbol = referring to noumenon, referring to nothing outside itself (phenomenon) projected as more 'real' than reality, thusly negating world as it is.
Realist
-Believes in no universal morality, no god, no meaning, no purpose to existence
-Considers this absence a positive
-Idealizes abstractions he projects which affirm this absence
-Considers all perspectives positive/negative in degree - degree determined by the quantity/quality of references to experienced existence, or in reference to the outcome
-Idealizes patterns, and/or combinations of patterns, derived from existence, embracing presence, appearance as the experience of existence, of cosmos (cost/benefit)
-Holds some principles as superior to others - evaluated by the cost/benefit consequences, or by how many references to the world or past/nature they have
Basic difference between a "Realist" and a "positive" Nihilist, is that the latter relates to the absence of absolutes in a positive way, and so does not need to project into world abstractions that negate it, or contradict world, but pulls his abstraction from the experienced world of appearance, presence - he reveals, and does not conceal.
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To understand Nihilism you must first understand that it is a meme, a memetic virus, that contradicts the gene, or the world, reality, the apparent, the present, the pattern of (inter)activity we call Flux. It contradicts reality, and attempts to replace it. Its existence relies on the only manner with which memes can be shared, transmitted: words... language, symbols. These symbols bury past/nature, as it is transmitted genetically - genes being encoded memories, or nature as the sum of all past nurturing.
Nihilism disappears outside human brains. It ceases to exist, because only in the human brain can it exist as noumenon, as abstraction = vague. Ana abstraction (noumenon) that contradict the world, reality, the phenomena.
So, Nihilism multiplies linguistically, and is non-existent outside its carrier code of words/number... SYMBOLS. It is pure meme.
Other memes, such as realistic ones, pagan noes, emerge out of genetic reproduction - the naturally connected meme is a continuance of genetics: such "healthy" memes, simply connect the gene with reality, using symbols (words numbers). They extent the continuum of memories carried by genes - culture birthed within particular populations, reflecting the populations history, its experiences within the environment, within the world. Since words are representations of noumena built by the accumulating (stimuli) and abstracting phenomena, via a medium, such as light or atmosphere, the meme is the externalization of the final product: abstraction, noumenon.
With the Nihilistic meme, the word lacks any reference outside the brain, so its projection outward is a contradiction of the real. The brain takes memories, sensation, emotions, from esoteric sources, combines them in weird ways, uninhibited by any external standard, and then abstracts them as metaphor that has no reference outside the brain: it is fantasy. If, and when, this abstraction negates the external then it is nihilistic...such as the ideal of an absolute, names God, or morality, or meaning, or anything...one, whole...etc. It has no utility, other than as a symbol shared by brains, creating a collective, a nihilistic culture. The Nihilist MUST take the abstraction, built using symbols, literally, because if he does not there is no other usage of it. The Nihilist MUST contradict his won ideals, because they have no connection to reality, and if he were to apply them, as be believes them to be literally, then he would die.
We might say that Nihilism is a word describing an absolute idealist, whose ideals lack all utility, other than as a psychological coping method, or a political method for manipulating other minds with their own psychological needs.
Subjectivity, becoming a communion of supportive subjectivities - inter-subjectivity.
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Nihilism is important, because it exposes Modernity, and its psychosis, explanation the current crisis of identity, the destruction of family and culture, the decline of western civilization, and the sorry state of what passes for philosophy in our time. Nihilism can explain how a meme can bury genetics, beneath symbols, codes, words.
It can also be used to understand Modern politics, Modern psychology, modern attitudes towards sexual types, and racial types... and the multiplicity of ideologies some mistake for free-thinking.
It can also be sued to comprehend language, and how moderns use and abuse it, or take it literally rather than artistically.
To understand the most current dynamics of Nihilism, which I call Modern, is to understand the current human condition, particularly in the west where the memetic dis-ease has caused the most damage. To begin to understand Nihilism you must understand the word "Nihilism" itself. Who coined it, what it meant, and how within nihilistic memes it hijacked human thinking by inverting the relationship of words to world.
That the absence of absolutes, such as God, meaning, purpose, universal morality was labeled a negative, a nil, reflects the Nihilistic psychosis of modern man, and connects the meme to past expressions of the same dis-ease such as Abrahamic Religions: Judaism-Christianity/Islam, later to secularize through Levi, also known as Marx, to create the modern political movement we all know - most notable of all humanism, liberalism, feminism...etc.
To understand the value of Nihilism as a political and philosophical tool to control the masses in a heterogeneous system, you must understand its method, and how it produced feminization of man. To understand Nihilism you must understand how its detachment from world, how its pure noetic essence, is what produces the multiplicity of thoughts, ideas some, then, confuse for free-thinking, unable to perceive the connecting, underlying, conception its multifarious forms, and how this fragmentation is also part of how it can be used to divide and conquer.
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If the importance of defining words has not become obvious, after all that I've said about language, and how as a come of memories reproducing of memes, like DNA is the carrier of the memories we call genes, then let me be more clear. The essence of Nihilism as the memes, that deny world outright or simply reject it and bury it under code (words, numbers, symbols) makes the symbol of vast importance to Nihilists. The word has to have a dictionary definition, making the transmission of the meme possible, but it ought not to be connected to the world. This is why Nihilists avoid defining the words they use, or reject the necessity of defining words, even while proposing a hypocritical desire to "bring it down to earth".
Here is what defining a word means. There is the dictionary reference which, as I said, makes the transmission and sharing of memes possible, and this is its psychological and political utility. But then there is the need to connect the symbol to the real, if it is to be considered useful, and not fantasy, delusion. This is what Moderns reject vehemently because if they were to attempt it it would disarm their intent, which is to deny world or to annul it, reducing all down to uniformity. It would also expose the shallowness, the emotional corruption of their "understanding".
In the past Nihilists belonging to the spiritual sect of Abrhamism, dumbed-down philosophy for the masses delivered using stories full of metaphors and innuendo the average mind understood literally, but with the overcoming of the human construct One God the void left had to be filled with a new metaphor, a new Absolute Oneness. This metaphor became "Humanity", now stripped of its genetic meaning, lacking sex, race, vague enough to mean anything to anyone, just as the old God was, but more so, because the word "Humanity" was secular, it had done away with the last barrier to universality, to achieve uniformity.
Modern animosity towards any definition which connects the representation of word of noumenon/abstraction, with phenomenon, with behaviour, with action, is fierce. All definitions must return back to humanity, be placed within human contexts, and not connected to world, at large. In the present paradigm God's Will, has been replaced by the Will of the People - the vote. Quantity over Quality. Morons given parity with geniuses.
If we take but one example to illuminate the phenomenon I am describing, such as "morality", we can begin to understand. Past Moderns, previous Nihilists under the brainwashing of Abrahamism, placed their understanding of "morality" upon God. God determined what is good and what is bad, and the voice of God, was the priesthood - the predecessor of Modern specialists. They defined the text in Scripture, written in a metaphorical style, which along with the Dictionary transmitted a shared understanding. He connected the word of God, to some beyond reality reference point... the mind of God.
What could ever replace this brilliant method of mass manipulation? The motive is present, the weakness in the masses also unchanging, desperate to be given a new delusion to detach, to escape, world. The concept "humanity" was the replacement metaphor - God reduced to earthly levels. not in the "Beyond" time/space, but in the immanent, the forever coming Future of time/space, a future always good, better, always positive. Paradise replaced by Utopia.
This is why words as transmitting code of meme, has to remain connected to a general definition in a language's dictionary, but then retained as vague, to apply differently to each and every member of the infected by the meme member. To attach a meaning to a word, such as Morality, to a behavior, an (inter)activity, that goes outside the Human, observed in other species, for example, would be blasphemy... like when human existence was placed outside the premises of Abramisms through Evolution Theory. To connect the word "morality" with a behaviour that can be observed outside controlled fabricated human environments, is the worse thing a Modern can imagine. With no God to define morality, he must define it within Human paradigms, or socioeconomic, emotional, political functions. Expanding the definition to be applicable beyond these human premises would demystify it. to connect the word, representing a noumenon, an idea(l), to world to phenomenon, beyond, but also including humanity, is, for the Modern disturbing...dis-empowering.
I've given my own definition to the word, connecting it to behaviours in nature, giving the word a meaning, but others are free to offer alternatives if they remain loyal to the practice of connecting words with reality, of referring noumena to phenomena, and not to some vague, emotional, human contrivance. What does a word mean begs for this connection. The word "meaning" is this connection of abstraction of idea with world with the real - noumenon to phenomenon. To give a word definition, in the usual sense, is to connect it to a dictionary text, based on a system of ordering thinking we call language. to define a word, in the sense of giving it meaning, is to connect it to outside the brain... and not only to other brains, but to the world independent of all brains. The problem is obvious... one must seek connections outside human socioeconomic environments... in other words outside already established memes... in the natural world which remain unaffected by human language, and human contrivances.
In the case of "morality" the connection to animal behavior, not only human behaviour, and human ideals. What is moral behaviour... is it observed in other species? If so, what is the common ground, connecting the behaviour to a greater function?
This method should be applied to all words...particularly the ones Moderns use to transmit their nihilistic meme. Consider the word "equal"... does it correlate to anything outside a vague reference in the human brain? 1=1....a=a....so? A human noumenon is the same with itself... symbol symbolizing the same noetic construct, retained in ambiguity in the brain. Is there an external reference? Is "a" tree same with itself a millisecond later? The "a" remains static as it exists as a symbol, man can write down in a book, externalizing the ambiguity of the noumenon, by converting it to a code. But where is it outside the human brain? Where is this "one", or this "nil"?
Where in nature do we find "equality", and why?
The artistic representation, the metaphor taken literally, leads to paradoxes, and to idiocy. When language is understood as being more than a tool, understood as a magical toy, a ploy, to cover the world, to reject it and replace it, then it becomes dangerous.
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Spirituality of the Realist, the so-called Pagan, begins from the earth. First digging down into soil, to begin his building by first constructing a foundation, a basis, in the earth, and from there to ascend, brick by brick, stone by stone, upwards towards the heavens.
Nihilists begin with a noetic structure, in their mind, imagined as a vague some-thing, floating in air, hovering above the earth, ascending up, because ti need not connect to the soil, and being a noumenon, a abstraction, unhindered by gravity. It is child-like construct, lacking mass, lacking substance, meaning, connected to the brain with a fine thread of linguistic dictionary definitions.
Choose one of their words, one of their favourite ones... begin with the mathematics symbols of 1/0. Even in his desperate attempt to detach from reality, the Nihilist begins with a word that has no meaning outside his mind: one & nil. In his mind he's erased reality with a symbol, a word... and if he convinces enough, converting them to his own kind, he builds castles in the mind, the perpetual sky: meaningless spirituality.
Spirit with no body. The airy abstraction casting tendrils downwards, wanting to establish itself within reality, by infecting as many minds as possible. Lacking validation in world, through the human agency it tries to give itself substance - taking over the minds of millions, converting them to agencies... rotting corpses decaying upon the ground they lurch forward, seeking fulfillment - inversion, from meme to gene. With no reference in world the memetically infected mind constructs its idea(l) outward, using code - covering nature, burying the past under his artifices, his relentless symbols. A thin, fragile veneer over the earth - asphalt, glass, representing his internal noetic artifice. A cancer upon the earth. Symbols, shapes, images, covering the earth, trying to forget, to conceal. Generations born and raised within this human contrivance, unable to imagine nature, dismissing it out of hand, because it so wishes to. Quarantined and sanitized space/time.
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An ideal, is an idea, a goal, an intended objective. Each ideal forces a movement towards it, a motive, and it is defined by its principles, its behavioral standards.
All organisms have an ideal, though they may not have words for it, nor be conscious of it. For example the motivating ideal for a plant is a movement towards nourishment or hydration it senses within the soil. We humans, from an external vantage point recognize this movement as a will to live, to survive, to appropriate what is being lost to attrition, and accumulate a surplus to be directed towards growth and/or reproduction. This is the primal motive, the Will to exist, within a fluctuating cosmos. Humans can project an idea(l) above and beyond this primal idea(l), often at its cost. For example, a man might place dignity as a higher idea(l) than survival, and refuse to continue living in a undignified manner, that is a man in opposition to his idea(l)s.
We can differentiate the objective of a simple organism such as a plant or an animal, by suing a different word. The more appropriate word for what the organism moves towards, is not idea(l) since it has no brain and cannot think beyond the gratification of need, but objective, or goal. The word idea(l) applies more precisely for the noetic projections of a higher organism, such as man, which exceed the simpler objective of gratification. For man this idea(l) might even take the form of a noumenon that comes in conflict with the experience of existence, or that rejects this existence...and we call those idea(l)s Nihilistic.
Ethics is the codification of morality, of the moral instinct, found in all social organisms as a behavior that facilitates cooperation and coexistence. Morality describes the instinctual organic behaviour, found among species that require the cooperation of another, of its kind, to achieve the objective, or to gratify a need...such as heterosexual species, suing this method to replicate their genes, and social behaviour. Ethic sis the study of these instinctive dispositions, particularly as to how they manifest within the human species - an encoding of them using words/numbers (symbols), describing behavioral standards appropriate for moving towards the collective idea(l). As such, all minds have an idea(l) and so have a ethical standard, even if they can only relate to it in the primitive, instinctive, intuitive form as moral feeling. Even an amoral stance is a moral stance, as it is a reaction to a particular idea(l).
Those that propose such a stance usually express their personal dissatisfaction with the collective idea(l), or propose a reversion, a return to the primitive condition of morality: a conscious or unconscious desire to revert back to the simpler forms of organic existence governed by the pleasure principle. This is why they cynically dismiss all higher idea(l)s, outside this animalistic self-gratification. This, is a variant of Hedonism.
This conscious, or unconscious, desire is a product of insecurity before the collective idea(l), without offering an alternative, and a rejection of it because one feels inadequate to remain true to its calling. Conflict between idea(l)s is natural, and expected, desired, but the need to evade such conflicts and to revert to an animal state where the individual fantasizes he will no longer be judged, is part of the Modern delusion. Desiring to evade accountability before an idea(l) settles upon the convenient objective of simple self-gratification, where one is only judged by how often and how well ti can gratify its needs. a desire to evade higher idea(l) for the more easier lower, ones shared by animals and plants.
Because such higher idea(l)s are part of greater systems of behavior, we call memes or culture, the individual is usually also anti-culture, anti-civilization, or anything above the level of animal existence. This is a infantile position implying a reversion that goes beyond the cultural... into the biological, since to prevent an ascent the organism must also revert mentally to an animal state. But even in this case, an arresting of Evolution is also taken for granted.
On a psychological level this desire to exit morality and any organized human system is a desire to not be judged... to live only with one's own judgment, unaffected by that of another. a romantic idea(l), only a human can fantasize/imagine, because in all organisms judgment is what we call being consciousness, and if one manages to escape human standards then one is still left with natural standard of evaluating fitness from unfitness. The most obvious example is sexual selection, through the agency of female, in our species. female judgment in relation to environment, whether this be a memetic construct or entirely genetically motivated. The environment is the standard against which all organisms measure themselves.
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In contrast to the nihilistic paradigm, and its multiple idealistic manifestations, I offer Nobility, much maligned word within the Nihilistic meme. It is also called aristocratic, as the [κρατος] power, dominance of [αριστον] the exemplary, the superior, within all contexts.
I've given a brief outline of it... When the past/nature, manifesting as presence/appearance, is in alignment with the noetic/abstracted projection of an idea(l). The noble spirit makes of himself/herself a conduit, a link in the chain from past/nature towards the idea(l), sometimes at the cost of its comfort, its pleasure, its well-being, its life.
If this is too abstract then another way of thinking of it is as the attitude, completely connected with world, even if this world insults or is detrimental to its self-interests, appreciating what is above it in relation to the idea(l); giving ground to the superior for the sake of an approach to the shared idea(l). We immediately recognize, from the definition, if we read it carefully, how Noble idea(l)s are founded upon world, or must connect and be built upon what is experienced, as precedent or immediately. This excludes idealism void of substance... Nihilism, fantasies that may feel good but have no relation to reality, no precedent, no connection to experience - ignoble idea(l)s. This does not mean agreement, for conflict is part of the Noble stance: the desire to test self, and one's idea(l) on the battlefield or in debate. Something impossible with Nihilists it no connection to reality. One cannot compare and compete with minds who believe in abstractions void of content, and that are entirely in their brains, or emotional handicaps; like debating a schizophrenic, or an in(s)ane mind - futile, and useless. Even in victory you gain nothing from the exchange. Any exchange with minds detached form reality is worthless. Any value can be rescued by using them as examples to be avoided or as specimens infected with the dis-ease, so as to become aware of the symptoms, and the many adaptations of this mental, psychological, virus.
It is also obvious that when Noble minds debate they begin from a common ground in reality... they both share a world which they do not dismiss, reject, or forget. Their words reflect this connection to a shared reality - they are rational, and have meaning, in that they refer to phenomena, and compete only in how these phenomena relate,, what they mean; they differ in the idea(l) they project and consider superior, but which is also grounded within world and not only a figment in their imagination with no external references and no precedent. Such competitions, conflicts, are Noble, and they serve to sharpen both sides understanding, clarify themselves and the world... uncover it, because Noble spirit share this desire to un-cover world, no matter how harsh it is.
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Noble minds agree on the basic nature of reality not because of a shared meme, but because of a shared world. They know a clear understanding of world, a more objective subjectivity, will determine success and failure... if sheltering, protection from cost/benefit is taken out of the equation then all that is left is world to determine whose judgment was superior. The Noble spirit knows and has the integrity to accept the full costs as he is able to enjoy the full benefits, with no mitigating entity to adjust and to inflate/deflate them according to a system memetic goal.
The ignoble mind settles for the protection, because there its delusions, its detachment from reality, has no severe cost, and all that is left is benefit... with a hidden cost it ignores, or is unable to fully appreciate. If it could it would not be what it is. When sheltered the Nihilist can make the claim that all judgment calls are equal, and that all judgments are equally irrelevant. It shamelessly hides there, where its past/nature is reduced to the immediate, and it can finally feel equal to all others. Free from seeing who and what it is...free from the command Know Thyself replaced with the Judaic dictum: 'reduce all down to uniformity, and then disappear within it' It sacrifices the superior to its inferiority. This is its idea(l).
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A Moderns psychology is so tied into his subjectivity, that he cannot imagine affirming a position if it does not flatter or comfort. For example, saying anything honest ab out race is to propose violence, hate, or is due to some personal psychological benefit. To speak about rape, as it emerges in nature, is to defend it, or to be sympathetic to the rapist, who is nothing more than an omega, trying to overcome female sexual dominance.
The Modern has nothing to offer as a counter-argument, besides the emotional or sociopolitical, moral angle. He feels most fortunate when he actually does come across a primitive brute, speaking about race or any other controversial topic, because then he can use this brute as an example of the general type that would even dare speak of such things in that manner openly.
For the devout Christian, coming across a moron atheist who truly denies the christian version of the absolute,, the God, for emotional reasons is a godsend. He can then keep him in mind to dismiss even the other kind of atheist, the one who exposes the idiocy and herd psychology underlying this dogma, as it is for a modern to come across a real redneck speaking of race in that hillbilly way he understands it.
It is ironic that this is the only kind of empiricism the Modern uses; the kind that sample human examples, and never goes outside the species to challenge his selective delusions about evolution, and how natural selection works, producing multiplicity, and specialized traits, like intelligence.
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Moderns find an easy disclaimer in their easy acceptance of innocuous probabilities, delivered to them from established authorities, such as the sun will rise, or eating too much will make you fat, but where they have issues is where delusion are shattered, affecting them on a personal level Each Nihilists has their own personal comfort zone - a red line of acceptable and unacceptable probability. Usually divided in humanistic and inhuman categories.
Subjectivity is used selectively to dismiss any perception of a possibility they cannot discredit, without attacking the source first. This makes them selectively objective, and is included in my thesis under compartmentalization, and schizophrenia. The convenient method of arresting judgment to permit some data to enter, and then to vamp it up to the extreme to exclude everything that threatens them is predictable.
Where their method fails is in the outcome, returning us to intelligence as the perception of patterns, by sampling precedent (past/nature) to predict/project probable outcomes. The modern's lack of integrity makes him immune to any such predictions or judgments, because they are easily refute with declarations and word-games, where they cannot escape is in the outcome, after-the-fact. Intelligence uses precedent to project probabilities, but the outcome cannot be ignored with words, nor with any kind of mental strategies. Cost/Benefit is inescapable though in Modern times the mitigation of institutions attempts to manufacture the illusion of parity. Modern man's indirect denial of good and bad judgment, which he comprehends morally as good/evil intent, converting his cowardice into a virtue, cannot save him from the costs of his denied poor judgment. The costs compound until his life is burdened with sacrifices he must them justify and excuse himself from. Finding some scapegoat or some other other to accuse for his own genetic weakness.
In Modern sheltering systems where imbeciles are given the right, or protected form the full repercussions of their judgments, the modern finds refuge, intuitively knowing he is hiding from something he cannot admit, and cannot escape...a conundrum, resulting in increased stress, he must purge by laughing, or by finding a target to relieve himself upon - pissing against the wind.
there are attempts to dismiss causality, by ignoring randomness (chaos), by the usual suspects of decadence. Their conundrum is found in their need to dismiss causality as the manifestation of past/nature as presence, appearance, without letting go of their "God" order, as the underlying force in all phenomena. Unable to integrate chaos into their psychosis, and unwilling to accept causality because of the obvious social repercussions, they are stuck in a dilemma: Hos to keep order and find freedom.
Freedom = independence from causality, or determinism or past/nature. Order = future utopia, a universal motive they must awaken to before they die, and find salvation. A serious conundrum if we understand order as an "authoritarian" limit to possibility, and a reinforcing idea for racial and sexual differences. Nature as determining God, having to be secularized inventing some bullshyte idea(l) such as human free-will, (a verbal self-contradiction) utilizing the typical modern method of including incompatible concepts in the form of words in the same sentence, as if intellectual cohesion was attained. Magic power of words, when they are detached from their original utility as neural representations connecting the noumenon to the phenomenon, or mind to body. detachment form phenomenon makes them entirely noetic devices - abstraction, ideals with no reference beside the noumena injected into other minds (abstracted solipsism, or inter-subjectivity - Matrix).
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In the consequence the modern is faced with the indubitable heaven/hell, as a product of his judgments cost/benefit analysis finding or losing the intended.
The intelligent mind, such as has evolved in humans, gathers data to find patterns that will predict the coming cost/benefit of any particular judgment. The imbecile, once reliant on the supreme authority of God, and now reducing himself to the secular surrender to experts and human authorities, finds comfort in the fact that some ideas are never voiced by those wanting to keep their jobs. Excluding the uncomfortable, impacting him personally, he settles for the recitation of harmless data, also based no precedent and value judgments....but who can of that deeply into it with such imbeciles? Other than the parroting of harmless data from 'trusted" sources,a s is determined by popularity, for one, the modern can conveniently dismiss the socially unacceptable, renaming social conventions as the exclusion of social fabrications. The protective shield is not enough to protect a poor judgment form the repercussions of its own feeble mind's perspectives. There's only so much stupidity that can be absorbed by a system, as there is only so many bankruptcies the economic system can excuse and remain viable. Cost/benefit slaps him in the face, forcing him to pretend the outcome was intentional, or accuse another of its negative burden.
The system is idiot friendly but not idiot proof....decadence comes like a door knock in the night. In the meantime let us sleep in our own individual beds, dreaming our own subjective realities, safe and sound in our home....there is no objective world that can be applied to humans.... There the walls are built around a stringent line of socioeconomic and political demarcation - I from other, mind from body, ideal from real. We own our private property only as long as there is an institution there to guarantee it.
Do not, so called anarchists, also fall into this nihilistic paradigm? Their ideology of "freedom", meaning freedom from past/nature, must be enforced by an institution they deny. It's the same delusion communists accepted as self-evident fact, founded no a romantic conception of human - noble savage only made vicious by the evil system, and its contrived classes of bourgeois and capitalist. The anarchist as a natural child of Marxism, believes in the good intentions of men, who will preserve anarchy after the system collapses. that is what they tell themselves on bad days. on days they are feeling all confident and shit, they snicker cunningly when they imagine a dytopia they can take advantage of, given their superiority....again genetics as past/nature is denied or romanticized.
How did they define insanity: "to repeat the same action expecting a different outcome." The Modern "anarchist" actually believes he can reintroduce the same genes, his own, into the same world, populated by the same creatures, and a different, a more pleasing outcome will come about.
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In what other way could a modern have understood good/bad if not in the echo of his Abramic nihilism, making it good/evil? How else than within the humanistic cocoon, mitigating between judgment and action, to intervene upon cause/effect, and the costs/benefits, could he even consider curbing his ego, transfiguring ego into selflessness; a humble submission to the protective group?
Morality, expressed through words, is the inter-subjective glue binding the members of a group together. Some groups to face reality together, others to deny reality together. Difference is integrity, and strategy. When lies are the only "truths" keeping the group united, contradicting them to deal with a world that does not care for such human methods, is the only way to remain alive and forever selectively delusional - fragmented. Titter tottering between sanity and insanity - schizoid.
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How does this genetic virus relate to its memetic variant/extension?
A virus is alive in a very rudimentary, base level.... It exists in a crystalline form....words mimic this form, as being both transparent and rigid. It is only active when replicating through a host. It is information delivered into a living organism's cell.
Memetic virus... Symbols, arranged into concepts...words arranged into sentences with a meaning, data directing behavior. The meaning directs the mind, the organism, to act in particular ways. A virus needs an organism to reproduce. In the case of nihilistic viruses it has no organic component, and is pure virus, - a parasitical relationship. A memetic virus is carried in every living organism as a reaction to world. In this case the reaction is one of negation, then directing the organism to manufacture what virus negates. A virus hijacks the processes of a organism to replicate, eventually killing the organism.
Memetic viruses are encoded as words in particular sequences. when the hijack an organisms thinking the words direct the mind away from world, not towards it - they detach the mind, using symbols, from world, detaching noumena from phenomena where words function as attachments, and construct an alternate reality.
A mental virus, like the one affecting body, can lie dormant for centuries, awaiting a hist. Memetic virus in the form of words in a book, or on film. it, like its genetic form, evolves, in time....for example Judaism morphed into Christianity, then Islam, then Marxism, and now into Humanism. A variant, on a tiny scale is VO where we can observe how memetic viruses are born, and how they spread.
The main trait is its anti-world, nature. A Nihilistic virus contradicts the world, as process, using words. It begins by detaching mind from world, redirecting ti to attach, to relate to, the virus in another host, creating a web. I've also described this as inter-subjectivity, when the objective world is ignored. It presents itself as words with no references to world, or in a sequence that cannot be justified using empiricism. For instance a novel application of words, where their original utility, as connector of noumenon to phenomenon, is stripped, and replaced by a new one. This begins the proves of illness, as gradually more words are detached from their utility and converted into pure noetic, self-referential symbols - mind connecting back to itself or to another's mind, with no external to this relationship relationship i.e, to experienced world. An example is the word 'equality', which has no meaning outside the human mind where it refers back to itself, as A = A, or 1=1, then developing into 1+1=2, which ceases to be a metaphor and becomes a literal non-existent entity, only "living" in the mind as idea. The concept of symbolic tautology is now externalized as an idea which applies to organisms as in: "all men are created equal" and here we also notice how from one falsehood a new falsehood can be attached...and "created" is this word, referring to men. The idea that men are created is thought to be, with repetition, literally so, combined with "equally" to produce a crystalline modular, web of symbols taken literally rather than figuratively, as representations. The relationship of "equal", "created", and "men" become the virus' infection - its hijacking of concepts such as "men", and "created", referring to a sexual type and a process of willful intervention combining phenomena into unities. the meaning passed on as literally so, is that there are men, who are all equal, and they are created....making the ideal of "all is a social construct" the evolution of "God as creator". Man takes the place of God., making reality his construct. Subjectivity, and words his tools of creation. words now meant to adapt man to world become the illusion that man creates world using words - by simply changing your attitude, your perspective, your definitions, and the sequence the words are placed in a sentence.
Madness....the fever of being infected, of suffering a dis-ease.
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Modern approaches history as a hungry lactose intolerant approaches a buffet....with salivating caution. He delves into the details of nutritional components, hoping to avoid the ones containing the undesirable, the ingredient his delicate digested system cannot process, producing copious amounts of gas, that embarrass him in inappropriate circumstances. Interest in the food is only to deconstruct them to the point where the undesirable can be detected in minute amounts, surgically removed, leaving the rest untouched.
Dates and places, memorized, all to gauge which direction his narrative will take, towards the desired outcome. But why should we call them historians, or history buffs, when they call themselves "philosophers"? Philosophical history, with scholarly focus, is dissected, looking for a definition, a word given the appropriate flavour, scented and shaped in the right process, to fit into their dish, and eat it too. Have not these cooks, these word foragers become historical to select which definition satisfies their needs? Do they not insist on renaming nutrients to insert a tasteful possibility?
Oh, my brothers and sisters, I have made myself a historian of historians, not bothering to use their labels and self-definitions, and what I've discovered is a netherworld of cornucopian divergence: how to cook up the desired ingredients, excluding digestion irritants, in fantastically innovative and pleasing ways - proper presentation, a must, for the eyes taste before the lips and tongue. A bit from here, and a bit from there, time and space do not matter for the appetites of the mind, each narrative judged by its final taste.
Are not these self-declared "thinkers" what is commonly known as spin-doctors, politicians, salesmen; linguistic performers sampling definitions from different periods of time, and from different places on earth, seeking that magical combination, that final solution, that rare spice to make their dish unforgettable? Recipes rewritten, to get rid of the milk, and, perhaps, the sticky honey.
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Common practice among the feeble minded, who cannot follow an argument, no matter how clearly it is stated, or how often it is repeated, is to retreat into their minds, afraid of what lends a judgment quality, and what deprives it of all worth. No amount of words will suffice in explaining it to them, for they are not concerned with world, and are lost to it, but only care about how to remain alive within it. The only judgment they would accept, is of the obvious and the harmless, to this main concern, and are deaf to all reason and blind to all evidence presented. Parity of mind, beneath a God, or some other benevolent authority, preferably just as abstract and obscure to not bruise their tender ego, is more to their liking. They hear a demeaning command in every superior judgment, though they often fall prey to flattering ones, intending to deceive.
Why speak, of such things, when life will do the work, and when no amount of protection can maintain a distance long enough from reality. Cause/Effect, as past manifested in presence.
You learn by doing, or by finding patterns to reach probability conclusions, minus the risks involved. One places hand over flame to feel the pain, storing it in memory's vaults for future consideration, or one watches another do so, and forgoes pain's indubitable rewards.
In the course of a life a man sharpens his judgment on the hardness of existence, directed toward a destination; cuts into flesh reminders of lessons learned and patterns experienced and not yet understood. Such are the costs towards his desired benefit, oftentimes overestimated in their presumed value - disappointment being but another wound. If he proves to be clever and wise, learning deeper lessons from shallower cuts, the wounds will not drain him of the energy to continue his journey toward his objective. If not, he will lay blame upon others, or claim that all choices are equal, and choose to go no further. Each man has his depth of endurance. What for one will flay, and maim, for other will fade from memory. But no man can escape the price of existence. An existence he is awoken to without being asked. In the awakening, and in all subsequent levels of it, lies the first cost.
