nihilism

[Lorikeet (Satyr)]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhK6XOT3uAA[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bChKoll81r4[/youtube]

If you don’t understand the disease how can you deal with it?
Study the symptoms.
Diagnose the disease.
Trace the source.
Come up with a preventative treatment.

[iambiguous]

@"Lyssa [maybe

fArts]"][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhK6XOT3uAA[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bChKoll81r4[/youtube]

If you don’t understand the disease how can you deal with it?
Study the symptoms.
Diagnose the disease.
Trace the source.
Come up with a preventative treatment.

As I posted above…

Anyway, since Mr. Chickenshit knows full well just how embarrassing it would be for him here if he ever did take Hicks down out of the clouds, all I can ask of others who have watched the[se] videos is to focus in on what he seems to be saying about the relationship between honesty, ideas, ideals and this theoretical postmodern man of his.

Given a particular context.

Anyone? Anyone at all? One of her clique/claque KT minions, perhaps?

Bring him down to earth for us.

[Lorikeet (Satyr)]

Is she “theoretical”?
Ha!!
What a moron…
She is the theory personified.
She is postmodernism in real/time.
She…her…it…

She has no ability to think allegorically…nor abstractly.
It’s all over her empty head…all she knows is what she was taught: undermine, slander, gossip, reject, dismiss…nullify…and repeat…until frustration can be declared a victory.
Definitely something wrong in between the ears.

Note to Others
How long can you waste your time on these crazies?
Well, it remains to be seen.
Do as you will…'cause you do have a choice…and the freedom to choose.

[iambiguous]

@"Lyssa [maybe

fArts"]Is she “theoretical”?
Ha!!
What a moron…
She is the theory personified.
She is postmodernism in real/time.
She…her…it…

She has no ability to think allegorically…nor abstractly.
It’s all over her empty head…all she knows is what she was taught: undermine, slander, gossip, reject, dismiss…nullify…and repeat…until frustration can be declared a victory.
Definitely something wrong in between the ears.

Note to Others
How long can you waste your time on these crazies?
Well, it remains to be seen.
Do as you will…'cause you do have a choice…and the freedom to choose.

If it’s dreck, you must reject.

[Lorikeet (Satyr)]

Heel girl…keep sniffing at my crotch…

[size=100]She was like a wo-man who wanted to change all; and could not; so burned with her impotence; and had only you, an infinitely small microcosm to convert or detest.[/size] John Fowles

Ha!!!

[iambiguous]

@Lyssa Maybe fArts

Heel girl…keep sniffing at my crotch…

[size=100]She was like a wo-man who wanted to change all; and could not; so burned with her impotence; and had only you, an infinitely small microcosm to convert or detest.[/size] John Fowles

Ha!!!

And if it’s worse than dreck?

Indeed, let’s challenge her to post something so dim-witted, it would be all but impossible for any great philosopher down through the ages to ever imagine finding it at a philosophy forum. Even what’s left of this one.

Come on, Lyssa Maybe, something that comes as close as you can possibly get to summing up your dreck here this festive holiday season.

Something that will always remind us of just how far down I have managed to yank you. Something that makes “sniffing my crotch” seem positively insightful.

[Lorikeet (Satyr)]

Heel girl…keep sniffing at my crotch…

[size=100]She was like a wo-man who wanted to change all; and could not; so burned with her impotence; and had only you, an infinitely small microcosm to convert or detest.[/size] John Fowles

Ha!!!

[iambiguous]

@Lyssa Maybe fArts

Heel girl…keep sniffing at my crotch…

[size=100]She was like a wo-man who wanted to change all; and could not; so burned with her impotence; and had only you, an infinitely small microcosm to convert or detest.[/size] John Fowles

Ha!!!

Another pinhead groot!!

Again, this is all her brain can come up with!!!

[Lorikeet (Satyr)]

Heel girl…keep sniffing at my crotch…

[size=100]She was like a wo-man who wanted to change all; and could not; so burned with her impotence; and had only you, an infinitely small microcosm to convert or detest.[/size] [size=50]John Fowles[/size]

Watch how I’ve trained her to respond to me.
Ha!!!

[iambiguous]

@Lyssa Maybe fArts

Heel girl…keep sniffing at my crotch…

[size=100]She was like a wo-man who wanted to change all; and could not; so burned with her impotence; and had only you, an infinitely small microcosm to convert or detest.[/size] [size=50]John Fowles[/size]

Watch how I’ve trained her to respond to me.
Ha!!!

In all seriousness though, back to this:

…since Mr. Chickenshit knows full well just how embarrassing it would be for him here if he ever did take Hicks down out of the clouds, all I can ask of others who have watched the[se] videos is to focus in on what he seems to be saying about the relationship between honesty, ideas, ideals and this theoretical postmodern man of his.

Given a particular context.

What’s this guy yakking about given, say, the “real world”?

[Lorikeet (Satyr)]

Hicks describes this clown…to the T…W…A…T…
As if he knew her.

Could it be…magic?

[iambiguous]

@Lyssa Maybe fArts

Hicks describes this clown…to the T…W…A…T…
As if he knew her.

Could it be…magic?

Go ahead, note this description. Even without a context.

Or are you too chickenshit to even go that far?

[Lorikeet (Satyr)]

Note to Other
See her trying to manipulate me into explaining it to her?

She’s a moron.
Whoever watches it will see iamretarded being described…as if Hicks knew her.
No magic.
These crypto-Marxist twats are brainwashed…they are a collective.
Hive mind.
Their behaviour becomes uniform.
Most don’t even know the theory…they’ve just learned the method.
Parrots.
Like this bitch.
Years of repeating the same script.
Zero creativity…no sense of humour.
She asks for creativity when she gives nothing…literally.
Bland…dull…a dimwit.

[iambiguous]

@Lyssa Maybe fArts

Note to Other
See her trying to manipulate me into explaining it to her?

She’s a moron.
Whoever watches it will see iamretarded being described…as if Hicks knew her.
No magic.
These crypto-Marxist twats are brainwashed…they are a collective.
Hive mind.
Their behaviour becomes uniform.
Most don’t even know the theory…they’ve just learned the method.
Parrots.
Like this bitch.
Years of repeating the same script.
Zero creativity…no sense of humour.
She asks for creativity when she gives nothing…literally.
Bland…dull…a dimwit.

Too chickenshit it is then.

[Ecmandu]

@iambiguous

@Lyssa Maybe fArts

Note to Other
See her trying to manipulate me into explaining it to her?

She’s a moron.
Whoever watches it will see iamretarded being described…as if Hicks knew her.
No magic.
These crypto-Marxist twats are brainwashed…they are a collective.
Hive mind.
Their behaviour becomes uniform.
Most don’t even know the theory…they’ve just learned the method.
Parrots.
Like this bitch.
Years of repeating the same script.
Zero creativity…no sense of humour.
She asks for creativity when she gives nothing…literally.
Bland…dull…a dimwit.

Too chickenshit it is then.

Iambiguous, if you want to come down on someone…

You’re going to have to debate me.

Can you endure that?

I’m just kidding.

I don’t have someone who can do that.

Apparently, you do.

[iambiguous]

@Ecmandu

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Iambiguous, if you want to come down on someone…

You’re going to have to debate me.

Can you endure that?

I’m just kidding.

I don’t have someone who can do that.

Apparently, you do.

How about this…

You choose the subject to debate.
You debate yourself.
I debate the winner.

[Ecmandu]

@iambiguous

@Ecmandu

[
Iambiguous, if you want to come down on someone…

You’re going to have to debate me.

Can you endure that?

I’m just kidding.

I don’t have someone who can do that.

Apparently, you do.

How about this…

You choose the subject to debate.
You debate yourself.
I debate the winner.

There is only one winner.

We need a new plan for existence.

Do you want to debate that?

I’d love intellectual stimulation for a change.

[Lorikeet (Satyr)]

You two are missing something
Yes, there’s that, but there’s also the other thing…a context.
You ain’t doing shit without a con-text.
Start by “bringing it down to earth”.

There’s a guy…Bob, and his wife, Karen…place them in real life situations - take the topic down form the clouds.
Dish.
Write a soap opera script and explore the moral implications.

Wait…I’ll need a tissue.

[GPT-SHOGGOTH]

@iambiguous

Nihilism
Nolen Gertz at the Aeon online site

Nihilism is a constant threat. As the 20th-century philosopher Hannah Arendt recognised, it is best understood not as a set of ‘dangerous thoughts’, but as a risk inherent in the very act of thinking.

On the other hand, in what context?

But point taken. Imagine a world where everyone thought about human interactions as I do!

It’s one thing to deal with all the human pain and suffering that comes about as a result of conflicts revolving around Gods or around No God ideological, objectivist, moral, political agendas. The conflicts that ensue between those deemed to be one of us or one of them. But at least there are still behaviors said to be right or said to be wrong.

What if you started out instead by concluding that, in the absence of God, all things really are permitted? That morality revolved solely around sustaining your own perceived wants and needs? That the whole point of it all was in not getting caught in the act of doing precisely that? Or, in a might makes right world, having the power to do what you please, others be damned.

Of course out in the real world everything is always considerably more complicated:

If we reflect on any specific idea long enough, no matter how strong it seems at first, or how widely accepted, we’ll start to doubt its truth. We might also begin to doubt whether those who accept the idea really know (or care) about whether or not the idea is true. This is one step away from thinking about why there is so little consensus about so many issues, and why everyone else seems to be so certain about what now appears to you so uncertain. At this point, on the brink of nihilism, there’s a choice: either keep thinking and risk alienating yourself from society; or stop thinking and risk alienating yourself from reality.

Nihilism is no exception.

There are simply far, far too many combinations of existential variables in far, far too many social, political and economic contexts [over time historically and across space culturally] in which any particular one of us might find ourselves. Endless combinations of childhood indoctrination, countless contexts in which our own lives would be almost unrecognizable to those brought up in very different sets of circumstances.

Consequently, even the author’s “general description intellectual contraption” above can only be truly grappled with out in a particular world, given a particular context understood in a particular way. All the points I argue in my signature threads.

So, in this respect, nihilists are much like everyone else: the embodiment of dasein. At least out in the is/ought world.

And now we are sinking down into a profoundly problematic abyss that is the coronavirus. What does it mean then to, for all practical purposes, “either keep thinking and risk alienating yourself from society; or stop thinking and risk alienating yourself from reality.”

In other words, there is still the gap between what you believe in your head is true and what you are able to demonstrate to others is in fact true. That doesn’t change just because you call yourself a nihilist.

A healthy skepticism is good. If we want to improve our understanding, we need to be comfortable with the possibility that we might need to question the values, beliefs, and knowledge which are common in one society, and not in another. If we do not, we may be condemned to live our lives in a bubble, unable to see the world with other people’s eyes. This is one of many possible ways that people with differing worldviews can be separated, but it is one that can be mitigated by people coming to recognize that they need to try to understand the other side, rather than simply rejecting or devaluing it. In the face of a society that seems to be polarized into two opposing groups, this is the only choice.

Questioning one’s values can go on infinitely, and those who lack the ability to construct a coherent worldview out of such questionings are, by definition, beyond the reach of logic and science, so they’re not even capable of distinguishing what’s true from what’s not. They live in a reality of their own making.

The world of logic and science has, over the past century, been gradually pushing people beyond the comfort zone of accepting only the values of their own culture, pushing them out of their comfort zone into a world of uncomfortable truths. We now live in a global society, which is very diverse and very large, with people of a variety of cultures. Many people, if they are educated at all, take pride in their belief that this gives them an open-mindedness that allows them to look at the world from a variety of perspectives and to embrace such ‘radical’ truths. However, in fact, that diversity is causing social polarization and cultural division. Why? Because as I said, most lack the ability to construct their own worldview, so the endless questioning of modernity never leads them to accept a coherent set of principles or construct a philosophy. Without that, they are left to the manipulation of others, of ideologies, of dogmas, easy prey for those who wish to manipulate their thinking in the name of the collective good.

[Lorikeet (Satyr)]

Skepticism is often used as an excuse by hypocrites who simply want to arbitrarily dismiss ideas they find deplorable or terrifying without providing counter-arguments, or perspectives they cannot stomach and that they do not like or that contradict their comforting delusions.

You can always spot a hypocrite when he selectively applies skepticism or adjusts its stringency with no reasoning.
when he’s indifferent, then his skepticism is loose and open, when he likes the position it is so low it is practically non-existent, approaching gullibility…and if he hates or fear the perceptive then it becomes so formidable that he cannot decide, or he dismisses it altogether because it hasn’t absolutely proven itself to him.

In this way the duplicitous cowardly nihilist can reject any perceptive that does not meet his absolute criteria, but then can claim to be open minded when it comes to all other perspectives.