The mystic Nihilist—and I admit of no other sort—in assessing and configuring sentience, transcends—obviously, as all wisdom must—the phenomenological realm of the self-given, towards the theoform domain of cosmology: The vision of ultimate valuation.
In denying the viability of all inherited value systems, in extremis of all possible value systems, the Nihilist, as the wisest of his ranks know well, has merely deranged, reconfigured, revaluated, the Cosmos to which he is (unfortunate) heir. It is an instance not of whole Cosmic nihilation, cherished so dearly by the iconoclast nihilist in his heart; rather it constitutes a simple projection of a contrary, anti-Visionary, highly negative, highly destructive, system of anti-values—as arguable in conception, I should add, as the most chimerical of history’s dogmatist slumbers.
This revaluation apprehended as such constitutes an evidence of the intentionality of sentience, as fantastic and a fortiori unenlightened (qua irrational—strange error for such beasts of rationality as the nihilists presume themselves to be!) as the wildest lycergesque [sic] phantasias of Christendom: A faerie Hell, in short; & for whom had not the cosmological stomach for Heaven.