Happiness and the void…
At the Stand-up Philosophers, we advocate that Nihilists should be happy because many are not. Indeed there’s a long literary tradition of miserable nihilists depressing everyone by telling them that Continue Reading
The Pernicious Rise of Anti Natalist Philosophy
Have you ever thought that the planet might be better off without humanity? If so then you’ve been anti-natalist which is a philosophical position that assigns a negative value to Continue Reading
Thoughts on Virtue, Part 1 – Sacred Life
If whilst walking in the countryside you encounter a spider’s web that blocks your path, do you go around or do you break it? Does it matter if the spider Continue Reading
Mystic Nihilism, Reincarnation in Materialist Form – Part 2
Infinity and nothing are very closely linked. There’s something very strange about ‘nothing,’ because we can conceptualise it and not experience it. It’s impossible to have an experience of ‘nothing’ Continue Reading
The Immanent Lie
Another short essay by Transylvania’s very own Emil Cioran. Since the last essay I reviewed, I have read many others thereafter. Most, I feel, are so abstracted that you Continue Reading
Where is the meaning of life? Part 2
Building up from part 1, this article answers ‘where is the meaning of life’ question. If this meaning of life still cannot be found out there in the Continue Reading
Where is the meaning of life? Part 1
Introduction Anyone who has taken the time to think beyond the bubble of their daily lives and entertained the notion of the meaning of life, has, to their Continue Reading
The Reactionary Angels
The reactionary angels is a short essay by Emil Cioran. It is one of the many essays that make up his work: ‘A Short History of Decay’. If you read Continue Reading
A Pattern in the Cosmos.
I often like to look at the night sky, to see the heavens ablaze with the light of distant suns. It provokes a feeling of awe and makes me think Continue Reading
Carbon Copies, Reincarnation in Materialist Form – Part 1
Did you know that due to the nature of matter that given enough time, material and space there will at some or other have to be an identical copy of Continue Reading
The Absurd Silence Of The Universe
(Following from the ideas mentioned in the The Absolutism of Nothing) Imagine you first prostrate yourself on the ground and rise with outstretched arms towards the sky crying Continue Reading
The Absolutism of Nothing
Gaze up through and beyond the heavens and your vision will be greeted with this… not greeted by an omnipotent, monumental, bearded being overlooking towards you and saying: ‘alright the jig Continue Reading
10 Things that you can learn from Nihilism…
Size is important! 1. Firstly that you are really small, the universe is big, other universes (should they exist,) might be even bigger, but you are just a lump of Continue Reading
Nietzsche and the abyss – The unity of nothingness.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze Continue Reading
Falling in love with the Absurd!
Hot on the heels of my article called ‘Happy Nihilism’ first published in the West Wales Chronicle and now on ‘The Stand-up Philosophers’ site I accidentally found a branch of philosophical thought Continue Reading
The Trump Card of Modern Nihilism – Entropy
Entropy is as fundamental a law of physics as the fundamental forces of nature, that being: Strong and Weak Nuclear forces, Electromagnetism and Gravity. It is the motive force Continue Reading
The Universe is Nihilist
Introduction One non-theistic school of philosophy which I can think of that discusses in great length life’s relation to the cosmos; is the philosophy of nihilism. Succinctly, a nihilist Continue Reading
Happy Nihilism
Nihilism just doesn’t have a good rep these days thanks in part to films like ‘The Big Lebowski’ in which the nihilists were portrayed as hedonistic, tribalist, simpletons who Continue Reading