Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Response to Volkischexe's essay on Nihilism

In response to:

https://gab.com/volkischexe/posts/108745645184350950

https://wiccawicci.com/philosophy/nihilism

Okay, I read it. 

You assert that nihilists are basically lazy and inconsistent because they don't believe anything matters. But they do - to them, it matters very much that everyone else accept their apparent point of view and Submit to it, lest they remain dangerously motivated against it. 

Further, while it's true that they love to initiate change - seemingly for its own sake - it's really so they alone can control the infliction of pain-causing damage first rather than continue to have it inflicted on them by others. 

Change initiated by others really scares them, which is precisely why they so-fervently want to dominate it ALL. 

They hate and fear their own brains' "painful" detection of patterns of difference - and so try to neutralize such "diversity" by ignoring it, and/or "equalizing" it just by "including" it in the same categories as that which it clearly differs from. 

But difference is endemic to existence, so their desire to crush all of the risky dynamics of life to render them "safely" static, can never succeed. 

As for whether or not any truly objective "Greater Meaning"/Higher Purpose" (and/or Greater Purpose/ Higher Meaning) exists - no it doesn't: the only purpose of existence is to exist, and of life is to life. 

The purpose of consciousness seems to be to sort and discriminate patterns, to categorize them into dynamic perception and static conception, and perhaps maybe even to try to turn all risky dynamic perceptions into safely static conceptions after all, but in a sane and logical way, as in to learn to heed one's fears as helpful internally generated warnings to learn from to avoid future pain-causing damages, rather than illogically in the literally backwards and insane manner as to regard one's own fears as threatening externally-inflicted additional damage-causing pains, to be ignored avoided and even foolishly attacked, to embrace hope as a plan in order to heal damage, as Christians are taught to do. 

In short, I believe this has always been a war of hypocrite criminals against their honest civilized law-abiding victims, not one where we are only harming ourselves and our posterity by attempting to conform to universal, global ideologies - as long as that global ideology is hypocritology. 

This could well lead to a Roddenberry-like Utopian future for all of mankind in its various nations - where the Blacks and Muslims, like the "Klingons" they were coyly mocked as, must learn self-control of their own greater violent animal instincts than ours, but also to not resent us for the relative ease by which we can control ours.

However, regarding your final conclusion that: "you were not gifted with free will and intelligence so that you can send yourself down a spiral that ends in black nothingness. Your existence matters because you exist."

Well, maybe not, but "the gods" certainly can and often do - my family has a history of Alzheimer's, where all of our thoughts and free-will choices and intelligence spiral down into black nothingness where we are forgotten and erased, whether we like it or not.

As for being deliberately Created - again, No.

As I like to tell Abrahamic monotheistic Christians:

There is no higher power, greater meaning or higher purpose; it's always all material. The purpose of existence is to exist, of life to live, and of consciousness to sort symptoms from causes to better avoid pain-causing damage, the fear of it, the greed for less and the ultimately useless hope of no more of any of it ever again. 

That emotional and sensational cycle is known as dharma. 

Christianity is a lie, as it promises an eternal damage, pain, fear, and greed (and therefore also hope and consciousness-free) heaven, which is totally impossible because without experiencing all of them, we can't experience any of them. Further, "Sin!" by all of its symptoms, is nothing more than all-too-common hypocrisy; it's not some magical, "spiritual stain" on one's "soul" (consciousness) which only a god can absolve forgive and remove. It was the criminal choice to attack thereby innocent other people first, and as it was one's own free-will choice, only one's self can remove it by first repenting of it and asking one's victims for forgiveness while offering them reparations. No one - not even the alleged One True God, Creator of the entire Universe, aka the First Cause and Prime Mover (which by definition must always attack every one and every thing else first, even if just by the act of creating them, and thus is by our definition entirely immoral itself) can defeat and save even its self from dharma, much less promise anyone else that it can and will "Save!" them from it, much less just for declaring by turning off their equally allegedly god-given brain's pattern-detecting ability, to have some sort of false "Faith!" and to "Believe!" in what they do not know and even if they did, makes no logical sense, as I have just explained. Nor can anyone just "not-attack-first" their way into heaven, either. It doesn't exist. 

There is no "after" life which can be any different than this one. Dharma is eternally part of consciousness.

As for "Faith:"

Re: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1 KJV

No. Hope of things not proven by yet being seen and realized is the exact OPPOSITE of "evidence." It's denial of evidence. And mere Hope (aka "Faith!" and "Belief!") is NOT "A Plan!" at all, and in fact, it's a recipe for disaster.

Christianity projects nebulous hope as a solid future fact, as "Faith!" and "Belief!" that God has, embodies and will reveal the perfect solution to every problem in one Final Day of Judgment. The problem with this idol is, "The" Perfect Solution to every problem can't exist, because the perfect solution for one problem not only wouldn't also perfectly fit even a slightly different problem, and might cause other ones;  but even if it could, it would unify the whole universe to such an extent that it would cease to be fractured divided and "damaged" and so we would all  simply cease to be conscious at all, as no differences would exist for our brains' pattern detectors to discriminate, de-fine, etc and it would all become a solid Nothing. 

And of course there can be no "Beginning" of Everything and/or End of it all/Final Day of Judgment, simply because the only thing which cannot exist is Nothingness "itself" and to have a 'Beginning' implies Nothingness DID once upon a time exist, and the putative End of All Things presumes it will exist again in the future.

Re: " We weren't created to conform to a single, unchanging worldview - if we were, achieving such unity would be a trivial matter, because it would be natural. n our limited capacity as humans, we cannot possibly play the role of the gods. It isn't within our authority to determine which nations - or which people - have a right to exist. The intentional nature of our existence is what gives us the right to exist." And, re: "we are only harming ourselves and our posterity by attempting to conform to universal, global ideologies."

So again, I say: No!

Maybe there aren't any more things, people, nations, or "souls" (consciousnesses) than just you. 

Let's speculate about the Christians' theology, where their One True God, Creator of the Entire Universe, Prime Mover and First Cause ideal, is omniscient and supreme, and, as Spirit trumps flesh, only dynamic mind truly exists, and static matter is only an illusion. 

But then that also means that for the illusion to fool the Godly uber-mind, it must be created by that same God's Mind - as Doubt. 

So thoughts alone, even as a god (say, Thoth) doesn't mean all "spiritual" thought is logical sane or even good and efficient - there can be mistakes and "bad" thoughts, too. 

God thinks: "I am Perfect, and, as I Am everything, I can and will do anything I want, when and where ever I want to do it! Whee!" 

But then, because he is thought and therefore has to think all thoughts, even the incorrect ones, he also thinks: 

"But what if I'm wrong? What if I did evolve from mere insensate matter, but, since then I was insensate until I wasn't, I certainly couldn't remember any of it?" 

So God, by being infinite and eternally conscious, must invent Doubt. Which means our "Faith!" in Him as the Only Perfect Being is utterly useless, as not even He can have Perfect Faith in His own Self, much less in us and ours!

And more, since he can and will do anything and eventually, through being bored and distracted by doubts, everything, he eventually creates a whole lot of little versions of him self (aka the pagan gods, and then us) to play out his infinite mental/spiritual speculative fantasies - and because we have different hopes dreams wishes and desires in our doubt-limited ("faithless") lives, we are in conflicts with each other, and so we are limited to "laws" of physics just to even peacefully co-exist?

So maybe, as you say, he speculates that other councils of lesser, "pagan" gods have also always existed (and therefore they do) to monitor and influence the various Nations and Tribes in their separately "evolved" environments, too.

So we can see how that Judeo-Christian "God is pure spirit, power and will, and thought itself and is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent" theory works out in real life?

As in: it doesn't, because it can't. If and when one is omniscient, then, since consciousness can only exist to learn to think about things, and one already knows everything, then one cannot learn or think because one has literally nothing left to learn.

Similarly, if one is both omnipresent and omnipotent, then, as one is already everywhere, having left and arrived, one has nowhere left to go, and nothing left to do to expend any more power, having already done everything - so in effect one is mindless, powerless, and nowhere; again, when one's god is generally only "Everything!" then it is also by definition specifically only "Nothing."

In Conclusion: What you call "Nihilists," I identify as hypocrites!

;-)

Anti-globalism is going mainstream... which means engineered disaster is about to strike

From Brandon Smith of the Bob Livingston Personal Liberty Letter 28 Sept 2022:





For many years I have noted that criminals tend to brag about their criminality only when they believe there is nothing anyone can do about it. Frankly, in their narcissism, many of them can't help but revel in the moment and let everyone know how "superior" they are to the rest of us. We witnessed many moments like this from elitists within globalist institutions over the past couple of years at the height of the pandemic pandemonium.


There were people like the globalist academics at MIT proclaiming that we were "never going back to normal" and that we were going to have to accept the loss of many of our freedoms for the rest of our lives in order to combat the spread of COVID. There were people like Klaus Schwab declaring the beginning of the "Great Reset" and the launch of what the Davos crowd calls the "4th Industrial Revolution." There have also been many political leaders like Joe Biden who strut around on the media stage accusing ideological opponents (conservatives mostly) of being "enemies of democracy."


If their vision of "democracy" is medical tyranny and the forced expansion of cultural Marxism through government cooperation with corporate monopoly along with the erasure of our country's founding principles, then yes, I suppose I am indeed an enemy of "democracy."


The globalists were really basking in the glow of their assumed victory. They really thought they had us peasants by the scruff of the neck and that their agenda was all but assured. But as I have been arguing since last year, the money elites may have celebrated a little too early.


The COVID agenda utterly failed if the goal was to implement longstanding mandates and restrictions. If you want to know what success for the globalists would have looked like, just examine China with its endless lockdown cycles and digital vaccine passports. The elites wanted that outcome for the west and they didn't get it. They came close, but millions of Americans, Canadians and Europeans stood their ground and the cost to force us into compliance would have been too great.


Even Joe Biden has openly admitted that the pandemic is over. They dropped the mandates because they knew if it came to war, they would lose.


If the goal of the pandemic fear factory was simply to get the population injected with the mRNA vaccines, here they also failed. With many states in the U.S. 40 percent unvaxxed (according to official numbers) and many parts of the world with large unvaxxed populations, there is a massive control group for the COVID vaccines. If there are going to be constantly developing health problems associated with the mRNA vax (like Myocarditis) then we are going to know what caused them because of this control group. The globalists needed near-100 percent vaccination and they did not get it. Not even close.


There is no escape for them. They greatly overestimated the public's apathy when it comes to authoritarianism. The rebellion is too large, and they will eventually be held accountable for their trespasses.


Case in point: The latest election in Italy has resulted in a landslide win for the conservative coalition and the new prime minister (and first woman prime minister), Georgia Meloni, gave a rousing victory speech this week that directly exposed the far-left invasion of western nations, globalism and the poisonous collusion with woke corporations to silence dissent. She called for a return to freedom, and what was the mainstream media response? They are calling her a "fascist," even though she openly supports Israel and the Jewish agenda.


The Italian election represents an ongoing trend, an awakening of the people to the imminent threats presented by globalists, and they can't stop it.


The fear among the globalists is palpable. Anti-globalism is now going mainstream, and as it does people are going to start looking for answers. Why have our global economic conditions been so degraded? Why are we facing a stagflationary crisis? Why are prices on everything continuing to climb? Why did we almost lose all of our civil liberties in the name of fighting a virus with a tiny 0.23 percent official median Infection Fatality Rate? Why are pointless carbon controls being instituted in the middle of a supply chain crisis? Why are politicians and banks making everything so much worse?


The public outcry for a reckoning is growing and it's the heads of globalists that will end up on the chopping block. All roads to destruction lead back to them and the policies they have forced upon the populace.


Of course, when criminals feel like they are being cornered they will sometimes set fires and take hostages in a last-ditch effort to stay alive and slip through the net. I believe we are closing in on that stage of this terrible drama. It's important to accept the conditions of the battlefield as they are and not underestimate the enemy. The truth is globalists have extensive means at their disposal to wreak havoc and they have already set some disasters in motion.


As I warned many years ago, tensions with eastern nations are being used to diminish the role of the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency and the petro currency. The conflict is also causing resource shortages and supply chain weakness, not to mention an energy crisis in Europe.


I also predicted in 2017 that the Federal Reserve would repeat a pattern of raising interest rates into severe economic weakness causing increased economic turmoil. They used a very similar tactic at the onset of the Great Depression, which former federal reserve chairman Ben Bernanke openly admitted was the cause of the long-term deflationary collapse.


From my article in 2017:

"The changing of the Fed chair is absolutely meaningless as far as policy is concerned. Jerome Powell will continue the same exact initiatives as Yellen; stimulus will be removed, rates will be hiked and the balance sheet will be reduced, leaving the massive market bubble the Fed originally created vulnerable to implosion.

An observant person... might have noticed that central banks around the world seem to be acting in a coordinated fashion to remove stimulus support from markets and raise interest rates, cutting off supply lines of easy money that have long been a crutch for our crippled economy."


The Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of central banks and the institution that writes global policy initiatives for all other member banks, called for more rate hikes last week. This shows that the globalists want a crash and are engineering conditions of instability. They set up the dominoes in advance and now they have decided to knock them down. I think this is a failsafe; a panic trigger in the event that the globalists did not get the control they wanted from the COVID pandemic.


They will blame Russia, they will blame China, they will blame conservatives, and they will blame anything and anyone besides themselves in an attempt to divert public attention away from the international banking actions that created the crash conditions in the first place. We can't let them. Whatever happens next, it is vital that people remember who really did this to us and who needs to be punished.


The establishment power brokers are going to attempt to use a chaos screen in order to sow seeds of fear in the population. They are going to try to exploit that fear to gain even more centralized governance and change the very foundations of our society while suffocating what's left of our liberties. It's the only play they have left, but at least we now know there are millions of us out there... millions of people who will not comply and who will fight back. And we know that the globalists are afraid; if they weren't then they would not be falling back to such drastic measures.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith