12 aug. 2016

5 little faggy aphorisms or something, i dont fully get what an aphorism is. i think aphorisms are shorter than these. well.

1. the world is literally absurd beyond our comprehension; it is incomprehensible as a wholeness, thus mysterious. the world is a mystery. for a philosopher, thus, a playground. our actions, how meaningless they might look, carry consequences beyond wild imagination. the butterfly effect. people can have good or perfectly decent intentions but still fuck up the world. take for example the dudes who invented the automobile. of course could they not prophesize environmental disaster a 100 years on. things are always more complex than what they seem. the grotesquely incomprehensible causal processes that chain events together in this world are so above our heads that we can barely scratch the surface to their magnificence.

2. the world is devoid of intrinsical value. nihilism. every argument against this absolute premise or presupposition of human existence is a bitter attempt at saving one's own pathetic, fear-shaking ass. it is up to the human to fill the void with meaning. most, however, retort to dogma; nationalism; racial pride; familial identity, etc. this is because they overcompensate the harrowing loneliness of being. i think one must deconstruct - devaluate - all values and thence find what they really were - and what they really were worth. in order to understand them, one must deconstruct them. deflate them. this is a nietzschean idea. one must open the door to nihilism, "the uncanniest of all guests", and let it in, let it have its way with you, tear your asshole open and enter it with barbarity, before you can realize what the old values actually meant - to you.  interited culture, national identity, racial identity, religious heredity, ethno-cultural identity, patriotism, national pride and similar shallow concepts are in its hereditary form completely useless. people willing to 'serve their country' can fuck right off. it is merely a compensation for the total existential loneliness of the human condition. people have the urge to identify with the collective because it is fucking scary to swallow the bitter pill of the existential conditions we face. rootlessness is the worst nightmare for people. so they cling to their bibles, their flags, their grandfathers old rifle he killed japs with, and so on. dont be proud over something  you did not do, asshole.

3. the world consists of seemingly barbaric and absurd injustice. deal with it to the best of your abilities. it will crush you many times. when your child gets diagnosed cancerous, for example, this premise of existence will certainly boggle your mind and entangle you in existential suffering of rarely seen profundity. the worst part is, you can't even do shit about it. try to deal with it. you'll probably fail. commit suicide or start over as, hopefully, a somewhat stronger person.

4. in accordance with existentialist principles, the individual has only one intrinsic culpability, and that is the culpability of choice of continuing living. as camus once said; the only philosophical question is whether or not to commit suicide. through the want for life, the choice of living on, a yoke is hung upon us, a crushing weight of responsibility, heavy and bleak: although pessimistic in flesh,  it flows with the bright red blood of eternal option of choice: kierkegaard spoke about drowning in possibilities and that it is the human condition, for we have extreme and absolute freedom to act in any given situation. this does not mean that you will have a positive option with a positive outcome in any given situation; if your child gets diagnosed with leprosy and you could trade it for syphilis... both are horrendous, but, hypothetically, you could make that choice. that is why sartre told us we are not blessed with freedom but rather condemned to it;  you decide what you become. you create yourself. and that is a burden probably more so than it is a gift. it is a tough fucking life: we have no responsibilities what so ever except for that over ones own actions. you are always responsible over your actions. everything else, every other responsibility, is a choice, because man is condemned, surely, to freedom, and every day people drown helplessly in the oceans of possibilites. all laws and rules that are shoved down your throat are to be considered acts of aggression and should be countered, fighting fire with nuclear warheads. maybe you are a very comfortable, conservative and simple person who respect and wish to adhere to the laws, taboos, norms, and rules set up by society and community. then, by all means, go for it. we have our freedom. 

5. god is not good. you see more a real god in your own piss and vomit and the shitstains in your underwear than you see genuflective staring up on the christ afore the altars;  god is not loving you because there is no personalized, anthropo-psychological god (meaning god does not exist within a human psychological framework. god has no conscience because god has no ego. it is waaay tougher than that, son. god is not a person. abrahamic doctrine tries to tell us that he is somewhat a human being, only divine and transcendent, or atleast that he (apparently its alwyas a dude) possesses the possibility of integrate himself within the framework of human psychology. they ascribe to him very human emotions such as jealousy, grief, will to power, destructivity, murderousness, etc etc. god, or what we have called 'god' throughout millenia, is not a personal, self-aware, self-conscious, emotional mind. i think that is the great misunderstanding of religions. god is everything beyond. 

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