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By: Lamassu

Lamassu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:08:03 +0000

F**K! NIETZSCHE WASN’T A NIHILIST! HE HATED NIHILISTS! Why do you put him into an article about nihilism? Just read “Thus spoke Zarathustra”, fragments about the “last people”, they’re nihilists, and Nietzsche wrote “this kind is just like louse, impossible to destroy.”

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By: persifler

persifler — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:20:28 +0000

We hear the peal of nihilism not fading off into history in a doppler effect, but as an oncoming locomotive’s blast of close proximity warning.
When (we) the finite rejected (God)the infinite it created a vaccuum that the finite has been trying to fill, but will never be able to do. The results of that rebellion are written in the history of the 20th century. ie WWI, The Russian Revolution, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Rwanda and a host of terrorists and dictators.
Listen to Oscar Wilde’s character Michael from the play, “Vera” (Also known as, “The Nihilists”) when asked to recite their oath:
“To strangle whatever nature is in us; neither to love nor be loved, neither to pity nor to be pitied, niether to marry nor to be given in marriage, til the end is come; to stab secretly by night; to drop poison in the glass; to set father against son, and husband against wife; without fear, without hope, without future, to suffer, to annihilate, to revenge.”
Sounds like it could have been the manifesto for Dillon and Klibold prior to their Columbine attack.
Nothing to anchor to, nothing to embrace as sure and true and no future to work towards… in short, NO HOPE. Without HOPE, why continue unless it is to suffer and inflict suffering on others and annihilate in an act of revenge for your suffering. Yet we see in some modern materialists, such suffering is given as the very basis for morality. Neither position is tenable. Only when our Worldview is based on the Creator God as revealed in Scripture can there be a real reason for hope.