OT: date jesus

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> > To me, Jesus is the face of imperialism, oppression, and mental 
> > conformity. I'd rather be gnostic :)
> 
> I don't believe in anything. Can't see the point. Where's it get you?
> It's for saps. It's a mark of slave mentality. I notice that one of the
> date Jesus person's recommended books is The Genealogy of Morals. 

Nihilism 

ni·hil·ism, n. 'nI-(h)&-"li-z&m, 'nE- (1817)
1 a : a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded 
and that existence is senseless and useless b : a doctrine that 
denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truths
2 a (1) : a doctrine or belief that conditions in the social 
organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own 
sake independent of any constructive program or possibility (2) 
capitalized : the program of a 19th century Russian party advocating 
revolutionary reform and using terrorism and assassination b : 
TERRORISM [source]  

A Bit of Metaphor 

Lightning cracks across the night sky and reveals a mottled rock face 
towering above you, surrounding you on three sides over the space of 
several hundred acres. Rain lashes against you, wetting your eyes and 
drenching your clothing, as the wind flings you against the rock 
mottled with dirt, overgrowth and the strange distortions of time. 
You know there is a cave which takes you through this rock, to a 
space where the storm will be less baffling and perhaps you can 
weather it, but you cannot find the door. Using your eyes, you search 
time and time again until finally, in desperation, you run your 
fingers along the rock, trying to find a grip of any kind. After you 
struggle for some time, your brain becomes numb at the prospect of 
your imminent death, and thus you relax, and walk the path at the 
base of the mountain at random. On a whim, you think, you catch a 
hand on a seemingly flat surface and realize it curves inward. You've 
found your entrace. 

Nihilism remains one of the most controversial topics of the modern 
era, for a good reason: science has supported a form of nihilism by 
steadily revealing more of the underpinning behind natural processes, 
making things that once seemed to be unique objects appear as a 
collaboration of different effects. Slowly the post-animist ideas of 
the things we refer to with nouns being unique and of a consistent 
content are being exposed as structures of granular objects 
intersecting according to natural laws and constraints. This process 
threatens many of the social and emotional constructs used commonly 
in human society with a destabilization based not in the threat to 
the concept in question, but to the concept archetype from which 
those concepts emerge. 

 Despite this recent condition, nihilism is an eternal question in 
the human experience. As the definition above illustrates, there is a 
split in the meaning of the word. The most common meaning in our 
current society is a conflation of the lack of inherent value with a 
fatalism and aimlessness in intellectual choice-making; the second 
meaning is one in which an epistemological sandblaster is applied to 
all new input to remove social, mental, moral, emotional and 
political conditioning from the meaning, perception and 
differentiation of objects. It is the second meaning in which the 
word is used here, since fatalism and passivity are so well known as 
separate phenomena there is no need to confuse them with what can be 
revealed as a separate phenomena. 

Whether we like to admit it or not, we are products of our time and 
the inherent preconceptions its culture and social requirements place 
upon objects and events, through mechanisms as diverse as language, 
symbolism in art, and nostalgic associations of feelings and 
configurations. The simplest example of this is the good/pleasurable -
 bad/hurtful axis with which we communicate the nature of events to 
children from their earliest days; it arises from a pragmatism of 
identifying behavioral constraints, but leaves impressions lasting in 
the mind of the individual. Another common example is sexual 
conditioning, by which early objects of reproductive stimulus can be 
used to condition an individual throughout his or her life. Since 
much of the human intellectual faculty is designed to classify 
objects and quickly respond to them, meta-classification 
("good"/"evil" and the like) afflicts perception at the level of pre-
processing of stimulus, before information is tokenized into language 
and conclusions, usually in a visual or verbal form representing a 
sentential structure in which causality or coincidence are expressed. 


As research probes further into the complexities of the human mind, 
it becomes clear that the mind is far from being a composite thing 
which is an actor upon its world through thoughts; rather, thoughts 
compose the mind, in the form of connections and associations wired 
into the tissue of the brain, creating circuitry for future 
associations of like stimulus. The schematic of this intellectual 
machine builds separate routing for situations it is likely to 
encounter, based on grouped similarities in events or objects. In 
this view of our computing resources, it is foolish to allow pre-
processing to intervene, as it creates vast amounts of wiring which 
serve extremely similar purposes, thus restricting the range of 
passive association (broad-mindedness) or active association 
(creativity) possible within the switching mechanism of the brain as 
a whole. As here we are devout materialists, the brain and mind are 
seen as equatable terms. 

The "positive" effects of nihilism on the mind of a human being are 
many. Like the quieting of distraction and distortion within the mind 
brought about by meditative focus, nihilism pushes aside 
preconception and brings the mind to focus within the time of the 
present. Influences which could radically skew our perceptions - 
emotions, nervousness, paranoia, or upset, to name a few - fade into 
the background and the mind becomes more open to the task at hand 
without becoming spread across contemplations of potential actions 
occurring at different levels of scale regarding the current task. 
Many human errors originate in perceiving an event to be either more 
important than it is, or to be "symbolically" indicative of relevance 
on a greater scale than the localized context which it affects, 
usually because of a conditioned preference for the scale of 
eventiture existing before the symbolic event. 

 Nihilism as a philosophical doctrine must not be confused with a 
political doctrine such as anarchism; political doctrines (as 
religions are) remain fundamentally teleological in their natures and 
thus deal with conclusions derived from evidence, where nihilism as a 
deontological process functions at the level of the start of 
perception, causing less of a focus on abstracting a token ruleset 
defining the implications of events than a rigorous concentration on 
the significance of the events as they are immediately effecting the 
situation surrounding them. For example, a nihilistic fighter does 
not bother to assess whether his opponent is a better fighter or not 
that the perceiving agency, but fights to his best ability (something 
evolution would reward, as the best fighter does not win every fight, 
only most of them). As a result of this conditioning, nihilism 
separates the incidence of events/perceptions from causal 
understanding by removing expectations of causal origins and 
implications to ongoing eventiture. 

This may seem like a minor detail; it is. However, it remains a 
detail overlooked by the Judeo-Christian "Western" nations, and as a 
result, our cognitive systems are bound up in conditioned 
preconception and moral preprocessing, separating us all too often 
from a pragmatic recognition of the course of change brought about by 
events, and thus hamstringing our ability to give these events 
context in processing. Consequently, forms of social and political 
manipulation remain unchecked because to people conditioned in this 
form of perceptual preprocessing, the error of this poor mental 
hygiene is not only invisible but essential for cognitive process. 
>From this error, many more flow, including the heads of the 
hydra that we are mostly likely to desire fighting when we consider 
our views as a linear set 
of political decisions, a.k.a. a "platform." 

Understanding nihilism requires one drop the pretense of nihilistic 
philosophy being an 
endpoint, and acceptance of it being a doorway. Nihilism self-
reduces; the instant one 
proclaims "There is no value!" a value has been created. Nihilism 
strips away conditiong at 
the unconscious and anticipatory levels of structure in the mind, 
allowing for a greater range 
of possiblity and quicker action. Further, it creates a powerful tool 
to use against depression 
or anxiety, neurosis and social stigma. Since it is a concept 
necessarily in flux, as it provides 
a starting point for analysis in any situation but no preconditioned 
conclusions, it is post-
deconstructive in that it both removes the unnecessary and creates 
new space for intellectual 
development at the same time. 

While thinkers like F.W. Nietzsche railed against the "nihilism" of 
older times, this nihilism 
existed before social thinking made humans as neurotic as they are 
now, and thus was used to 
refer to feelings of futility, fatalism and meaninglessness found in 
people who had rejected the 
static objectivist framework of "God" but who retained the imprint of 
that expectation from 
life, namely the desire to find some absolutist view upon which all 
else hinges. Nihilism does 
not refute objectivism but it does refute certain forms of symbolic 
categorization, including 
"God," which provide a static organizational system upon which people 
are supposed to base 
their lives and value systems. While for many the idea of "God" is 
comforting, it is an 
insidious virus in that its users presuppose a common causality to 
any existential events, thus 
by finding any eventiture they attribute it to "God" and from it 
prove the existence of God. These closed-circuit mental processes 
contribute to confusion and sentimental attitudes toward mortality, 
programming people for intellectual failure before they're even aware 
of their mental potential. 

-- 
Backup Rider of the Apocalypse
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