Is life not a hundred times to short for us to bore ourselves?

nihilist_asylum @ 2005-07-22T01:10:00

2005-07-22T06:12:16Z

I think I'm obsessed.

The Last Night of Adolf Eichmann

He ponders the colors in a cold rain,
Steel grey curtains cutting long muddy streams.
He hears each drop, another soul to drain
down the endless tunnel of sleepless dreams.

He knew he believed in his fuehrer's sight
The white and the black that he knew so well
When things used to be so easily right
The children he hears still call out from hell.

The cigarette lit with unshaking hands,
He sees the smoke from stacks that scraped the sky
That carried solutions to blood's demands:
Simple solution to black out the lie

The dream of the cleansing he'd not fulfilled,
ending in gallows, what began in kilns.

nihilist_asylum @ 2005-06-03T15:13:00

2005-06-03T20:15:49Z

"Sometimes the idea runs though my head that I am living an extreamly dangerous life, for I am one of those machines which can explode."
--- Friedrich Nietzche

I certainly do feel like exploding about now. Stress is a killer, I should really learn to relax.

Alphonse Bertillion

2005-04-12T03:13:35Z

"One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind."
-- Alphonse Bertillion

This statement is vague and easily interpreted in several different ways. The first that comes to my mind is that we see in things only what we already know of them and are therefore unopen to new views. Another, perhaps deeper, interpretation may be that we truly observe nothing, only belive that we do, as we need to know it before we may observe it yet we are born knowing nothing at all.

I intend to study the author more to help understand this and will post my findings. The quote caught my attention in the introduction to a book I was reading. Priorly I had never heard of Alphonse Bertillion.

The truth eloqantly spoken

2005-03-24T00:28:36Z

"What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the will to power, and power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is increasing, that resistance has been overcome. Not contentment but more pwer, not peace at any price but war, not virtue but efficiency. The weak and botched shall perish; first principle of our humanity. And they ought even be helped to perish. What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy with all the botched and weak- Christianity."

-Friedrich Nietzsche
The Antichrist
Aphorism two

Join Dark Shadows

2005-02-25T03:23:10Z

Nihilism

2005-01-19T00:51:50Z

I thought that perhaps I should begin this journal with a brief summery of the doctrine of nihilism.

Nihilism

1. A doctrine that all values are baseless, that nothing can truly be known or communicatied, and that life itself is meaningless.

2. A belief that the destruction of political and social institutions is necessary for future improvement.

overview:
- all traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and useless
- denial of life having value
- denial of all moral principles
- no reality exists
- society will eventually bring about it's own destruction