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Nihilism's Official Newsletter
Issue 1 - February 2006

Essays & Analysis
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The framework of our American system or any system lies within the values of the country. Upholding these values seems to be the objective of our leading political mindset. What effect has these values wrought and what is the reasoning behind them? Capitalism and government need each other, government to standardize (laws) and enforce them for the sake of capitalism. The roots of law is morals, the root of morals is the concept of good and evil. Demean any of these and you demean the others, all of these come from the notion of truth but is good and evil the truth? Does it make sense that any human can be given a badge and a gun and suddenly has authority over you and that that person has the right use his weapon against you? Moreover, can any one person make judgment upon you according to his opinion and his ideals of good and evil? No government can justify these things with reason or truth but by fear, once again of the unknown. The unknown in this situation is the origin of "evil". Is it causes in ones environment that lead to immoral and selfish behavior or is it merely a dark deity that has eluded mankind for all of its existence? Mankind cannot handle the causes of its environment on others, this uncontrollable corruption leads to fear but it cannot justify any so called ideal. The fabric of government unravels but the founding fathers had another judge in mind, god.

As any Christian religion will tell you, god can only be understood by faith. You cannot "know" god exists because that would destroy the point of faith but as any scientist will tell you, you cannot prove a negative. So god cannot be proven or disproved, duty to god is only held by faith. Should we then leave our entire government to faith, the tool to justifying ignorance or should we choose rationality? God is irrelevant and faith is relative, any absolute truth is beaten and we find that truth is the product of a strong desire of hope or hope in something that cannot be understood. Emotion is not a valid tool to defining reality and is therefore invalid to the defining of the "why" in our existence. Now without a government to standardize morality and law how can capitalism survive? It cannot, the pointlessness of property or the value in money cannot be supported by a higher authority. It makes me happy to know that meaning to me is my own and my happiness does not depend on bits of green paper and attachment to property. The social classes would be destroyed without government and the laws protecting the rich would be erased your duty would be solely to yourself.

The question of truth is solely rooted in human emotion and there is no inherent meaning to reality. You are free to make what meaning you want, no matter how futile and the destruction of objective meaning leaves you with a free identity. Nihilism is the beginning of self identity and understanding beyond any ideal or belief. It is also the realization that government destroys true individualism and capitalism is pointless value in things that cannot fully satisfy a human's body or mind. Technology brings attachment, dependency and stupidity by way of the mass media. Definitive truth does not exist and a thorough or reality is yet to be known. Nothing can or should be decided for you, think as you may and act as you may and you gain a soul. No more excuses of Satan and a wishful fantasy of God only you and your own purpose that is Nihilism. Do not fear death fear those who try and escape it. Life has no point, its pointless; life is a process not a destination! American reason is of the same critique of truth, baseless, full of useless faith, the American dream has become just that, a dream.
- by poetic_heresy, Cadre member and regular contributor at the Symposium (Nihilist forum)

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Nihilism's Official Newsletter
Issue 1 - February 2006

Poetry

I suck the cream from the fat of the pig,
Then tear out its bloodless eyes
which I crush in my hand,
then look into the sockets from whence they came,
And I can only see darkness.
I open up my fist,
And there's nothing there.
I put my fingers to my lips,
And wipe shit off them.
- by Sean Hobbs a.k.a Zverkov0, Symposium contributor

Art and Entertainment - Reviews

Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Released 2005 by Interscope Records

After rampant substance abuse, an overdose and two sessions of rehab, Reznor has come back biting with this crisp, minimalist release. All dentistry puns aside, With Teeth is markedly different then The Fragile, the dense fog that surrounded the 1999 release has been lifted, and Reznor is now prepared to give his all and bare himself to the world in an even more intense way.

Those who expected The Downward Spiral Part 2 will be disappointed, for, unlike most of NIN's previous releases, With Teeth is raw and to-the-point, with no layers of meaning to swim through. Lyrically, it's a juxtaposition of optimism and pessimism, with Reznor writing about struggling with drugs and record companies, with the surprising inclusion of Reznor's opinion on the war in Iraq, surely a sign that he is now the best he's ever been. Musically, WT is, as promised, a return to form, a revisit of his early 90's venom.

Though the depth of emotion and meaning is as strong as it's ever been in NIN, and Reznor's tradition of opposites is carried on, he has taken a different approach to With Teeth, with none-too-bad results. More clarity and assertiveness shine through. Though I wouldn't consider it a masterpiece, this new album signals a strong future for Nine Inch Nails, showing critics and whiners alike that Trent is indeed back.
- by Carrie, cadre member and Symposium contributor

Essays & Analysis

A Devaluation of All Value

"Is there really such a thing as freedom?" A previous position I took on freedom was that it can only be achieved in death, but questioning this, my initial reasons behind coming up with this theory were that when we are dead we are free of all experience, of value, of indulgences in subjective nothingness, of faith. Free of our consciousness, free of our bodily restraints etc. Now from this I believed that one is in an absolute freedom after one is dead, but now I come to the question "What does it means to be free?”

On another side I could take it in a totally opposite extreme, which is that when one is dead, one is under absolute control. Why you ask? Well you can take the same things as before: absence of experience, of value, of

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faith, of consciousness, of bodily restraints etc. and say that you are under absolute control in death because you're restrained from doing these things or having them.

So, which is right? Neither of them, because its all a matter of a perception of our environment and the values we apply to things.

Do experiences control us because they make it more likely for us to do something as a result of what they put into our head or do they free us from a past ignorant conception?

What I find it really to be a matter over is how much bearing people apply on to things in their perceptions of things around them.

Truth as to who is right in this matter cannot be found because freedom and control have already and have always been subjectively concocted concepts used for analyzing conditions in our environment and subjective reality. And these same concepts have no bearing on the objective reality apart from our own and are spread out differently to everyone.

This is one reason I find it silly to entice people to Nihilism because of saying they will be more free by rejecting morality, ethics, values. etc. because you have no way of proving this when it is still a subjectively made concept that requires faith! Rather than saying that a Nihilist has more freedom of these things (where as a priest may say that we are more controlled by rejecting them), you could say the Nihilist is questioning what they rest on and the extreme skepticism of Nihilism arrives at the conclusion: nothing. Subjective nothingness.

Also, what you label as making you more free or making you come under more control requires the concoction of subjective value. Does this value have any bearing on objective reality? no.

Ultimately you can only observe and only make assumptions as to your environment. For instance: A Heroin user shoots up once every month. His parents find out he is doing this and confront him. They tell him that he is being controlled by his "addiction". What are his options? He can choose not to make a response or he can try come up with a counter argument. What would he say? Observing his past use, he could say that he is not more controlled because he wants to be free to experience different consciousness and do this regardless of the effects as a result of it, because he wants to be free to have different experiences without letting side effects that don't matter to him control him (where as the mother may say reading about the side effects will make him more free and that he is controlled by his addiction). What will happen if he gives this response? The parents will not renounce there opinion and will still say that they are right and he is wrong. Can our friend convince his parents? No, he can't. The reason for this is that both parties analyze situations differently and as a result of there feelings and values they will concede what is being more free and what is being more under control.

So, really all of concepts of freedom and control arise out of subjective nothingness because they are as a result of such things as feelings and value that influence ones analysis and observation of environment and situations.

What makes someone more free or more controlled? First of all "more" implies value which arises out of subjective nothingness. How can we measure something which arises according to each person's subjective reality and analysis?
- by Zverkov0, Symposium contributor

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