Monday, December 14, 2009

Maxims, Reflections and Opinions

I have accumulated these throughout the past few years. Some were thought up while sober, others while high. However, how often are any of us truly "sober?" I have often found myself to be most sober when I've been baked out of my skull, and the cobwebs have been cleared. Ones written out of sheer vexation aside, it amazes me how sublime ideas—epiphanies—sometimes blossom and crystallize all at once, and other times, only at the end of a long, deep, intense, vivid train of thought—some a spiritual awakening, others merely much-needed, sinister laughter. Although, perhaps I should not say "merely" in regard to the most sacred of laughter—self-affirming, life-affirming laughter. God is dead...it doesn't mean we have to be.

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1. Cruel people can be treated badly and not get hurt because deep down inside they know they deserve it. Good people eventually go insane.
2. I wish life’s tests were multiple choice.
3. God lets the Devil get away with so much, doesn’t he? It’s enough to make one think they’re one and the same person.
4. Pity can only last so long before it turns into laughter.
5. God is dead and his remains are cause and effect. They created him, and they’re what’s left of him.
6. Now, if you believe in the reality of something that is causing you to be afraid, that is a common product of a bare necessity of conscious life: awareness. But if your beliefs are induced and sustained by fear, your beliefs are a stagnation, self-mortification, falsification and fallacy.
7. Commandments are not to be obeyed; they’re to be overcome. (A basic requirement from the school of Nietzsche). 
8. Altruism and dualism – two falsehoods that have swindled mankind out of all honestly, truth and realism. Only we can save ourselves from cobweb spinners.
9. Selflessness, morality, immortality, Holy God, Satan, spirits, Santa Claus – all tools and tricks belonging to the category: “Swindles and Myths.” Though let’s be easy on Santa.
10. A holy truth is a sanctioned lie, the hardest kind to uproot and eradicate. Holiness = shrewd sickness. The “holy man” is a brutally unhealthy one.
11. Selflessness – the most deceitful and pernicious idea mankind ever foisted on itself. All hail the ego! Let us feed it proper nutrition.
12. Gaining a badge of morality out of being a physiological failure – THAT is the purpose and victory of the ascetic life.
13. Pure evil: making a question out of what is natural.
14. Surely God is mirrored by the universe he/she/it has created: cold, hard, merciless, unfair, heartless, amoral and indifferent.
15. I don’t know what’s funnier: the idea of a benevolent god, the notion that all men are created equal, or that it’s even remotely possible in any way, shape or form for selflessness to actually exist.
16. It’s ironic how the people under the delusion that the meek shall inherit the earth are rarely ever meek themselves. Ever notice that?
17. Fuck love if it means making a duty out of life. I have no time or tolerance for such rubbish!
18. Sometimes I think I should have kids just to raise little antichrists – for the sake of posterity, of course.
19. The spirit of man died the day “selflessness” prevailed.
20. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, no bliss from ignorance if doubt should reign.
21. The genius and energy of Plato was infiltrated by and wasted on the asinine idealism and base-minded rhetoric of a sophist named Socrates.
22. Metaphysics (of the spiritual or theological kind) is the perfect pseudoscience for the layman. After all, it is merely the study of nothings.
23. The human is the only animal that knows for certain that it is going to die one day. It makes us naturally crazy, intrinsically insane, inexorably mad.
24. Christianity is for the oppressed and weary. For everyone else, it only makes oppressed and weary. It was created for and spawned by those gloomy, morbid and miserable in life. It gave and still gives consolation for such wretched souls. That is why for the joyous, high-minded, free-spirited and especially the hedonistic—it is the ultimate sapper of life.
25. Every vampire movie you have ever seen is about Christianity: “Allow me to suck the life right out of you, and in return you shall be granted immortality,” says the vampire/preacher. In return, you then become one of them, and feel compelled do the same to others. A conversion indeed!
26. A moralistic and/or existential philosopher who is ignorant of the human psyche is ignorant indeed. Unless his or her conscience is deeply rooted in psychological facts and observation – he/she is nothing but a sophist.
27. Do you think that a mother does not or cannot be jealous of or have contempt for her own daughter? How sadly naïve. She can envy her so much that she utterly despises her! But such a thing is too morbid and hateful for the mother to admit, even to herself. And so she dies…with this most bitter of secrets—in her mouth.
28. It is those who take the most pride in not putting themselves before others – that are the most arrogant of all.
29. If we could hear the thoughts of others, we would kill ourselves.
30. They’ve lived so long under the ostentatious morality of a nonexistent God that they can no longer even fathom morality without one.
31. I can’t wait for the Bible and all other holy books to finally be written on toilet paper so the world can be wiping their asses with them once and for all. It would be very therapeutic!
32. Religion = a war on personal freedom.
33. Religion = self-delusion fuelled by fear and self-imposed ignorance.
34. Of all the superstitions, cults and pseudo-sciences which I have studied (and they are many), there is none more ridiculous, outrageous and unbelievable—than Judeo-Christianity.
35. If God exists, he can suck my fuckin’ cock! How’s that for a reflection? LOL!
36. A wise and prudent man will “transcend” his impulses when it is befitting him. Except only a self-mortifying fool even dares to even attempt to remain afloat from them for good. And when he fails miserably at this horrifically masochistic and superfluous endeavour, let us throw back our heads and laugh with a whole heart and utmost delight!
37. Always write your maxims and reflections down. Assume nothing about your memory, especially if it’s when you’re lying in bed at night falling (or trying to fall) asleep. Learn from me.
38. What happens to us when we are forced into the all-too-common position of having to take on more than we can handle, in terms of the limited amount of vitality we have in us? When we have to give that extra 110%, where does that extra 10% come from? Indeed it must come from nowhere else but the energy we put into what we value most: our beloved craft(s), our friends, our family, our hobbies, etc. But what is left to tap when even this is not enough? Perhaps it has to come from what should be unspeakable as a resource. That is, from the inner, subterranean energy that is perpetually required in order to keep our identities and minds intact, until after years of such a morbid endeavour, there is scarcely anything of our former selves left. And how many of us give a piece of ourselves away every single day of our lives? I wish this theory of mine wasn’t true; but it does seem to be.
A thinker can for years on end force himself to think against the grain: that is to say, to pursue not the thoughts which offer themselves from within him but those to which an office, a prescribed schedule, an arbitrary kind of industriousness seem to oblige him. In the end, however, he will fall sick: for this apparently moral overcoming of himself will ruin his nervous energy just as thoroughly as any regularly indulged in excess could do.” - Nietzsche

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