"God Is Dead and We Have Killed Him": Interpreting Nietzsche's Most Famous Quote 19th-century Europe can be characterised as industrious and paradigm-shattering. New political ideologies emerged while the decline of Hebrew mythology (mainstream Christianity) was steep. It was natural, thus, for the unabashedly and philosophically afflicted to observe and point out this weakening of religiosity in an era when scientific and engineering leaps called into question demonstrably…
The dumbest objections against statelessness #15 "I just don't see how society can function without government" The ‘**argument from incredulity**’ fallacy presumes that someone’s stubbornly persistent disbelief in a particular subject, or their admission of lack of comprehension of it, is somehow a valid argument. No, your incredulity, or your lack of comprehension and imagination — especially as a consequence of your refusal to learn — is not a valid argument. Your…
The Emptiness of Abrahamic Religions: Cosmologies devoid of virtue, ethos, and meaning The big picture of Abrahamic religions can be summed up as this: **From the absolute freedom and peace of nothingness, you are thrust into a nightmarish existence, subjected to rules, scarcity, limitations, biological programming, and environmental belligerence, condemned to prey on each other to survive;** **none of which you ever consciously chose**. From the moment you are born, you…
The Simulation Question: Can the creation be superior to the creator? In certain aspects, the creation can be vastly superior to the creator, yes. Most of what humans create vastly exceeds human capability. Perhaps creation is a way to indirectly achieve what is unachievable by us, a substitute, an intermediary step towards accomplishment that is beyond us directly. Perhaps this is the motivation of the demiurge behind demiurgia.…
Red Flags in Women #1: Defined by what and whom she's attracted to Kicking off the ‘Red Flags in Women’ series with this major warning sign: A reliable predictive marker of a low-quality woman is her attraction to the wrong male traits. This article is of interest to women, just as it is to men, because the dynamic is the same: a man attracted to deleterious female traits is himself deleterious. **Quality attracts quality, and vice versa** I’ve met women in whom I completely…
The Dead-End of Philosophy: Cosmological existentialism “Doubt is the origin of wisdom,” says Descartes. Can I doubt that axiom too? Philosophy is not about answers, but questions. What’s the point of it, then? Pondering the inevitable conclusion of absurdism? Existence is absurd and futile. There is no doubt about it. All philosophy leads to this conclusion. The absurdist and futile nature of existence is the only thing we can know. Even the fairytale religions we make up…
Why the West is NGMI #4: Imperium Socialisticum Whenever you witness a self-announced “patriot” who also happens to worship the idea of collectivist “conquest” or “empire” in a desperate, compensatory need to prove his non-existent manhood, you can bet you’re dealing with an intellectual cripple unable to look up and see the truth from all his kowtowing to and foot licking for his daddy state. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/socialism-fascism I’ve said before that the Roman…
Why the West is NGMI #5: Judeo-Christianity and Eastern superstition Western cultures and identities are about to completely vanish because Westerners have rejected their heritage and have instead embraced antithetical Eastern mythology (and a disgusting one, at that) as their own. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/western-civilisations-problem https://sotiris.substack.com/p/why-the-west-is-ngmi-4 https://sotiris.substack.com/p/abrahamism-must-end I am talking about mainstream…
Xanax and coffee: Soul glitches and character breaks When chronic sleep deprivation catches up with you as you phase in and out of conscious mindfulness, you experience what I believe is similar to the side-effects of psychedelic drugs: a level of surreal dissociation from the alleged “real”, stepping back inside your worldview, deeper inside your mind, and watching, hearing, feeling everything as from within a very long, narrow tube, all in slow motion, distorted, granular.…
The military is gay 4: Weak bravado & machismo bullshit Welcome to yet another rant about the psychopathy of militarism, and the even greater psychopathy of admiring it. Militarism is gay and retarded; this anime-eyed admiration of submissive males, this cooming over images of dudes in beggingly flamboyant uniforms, this screaming of “*take me daddy!*” with a needy, twisted desperation to be abused and dominated by beloved “*superiors*”, the loving of abusers, as all…
"I'm offended!": The ill intent behind pretentious advertising of faux moral outrage The unsolicited announcement that one is somehow “offended” is seldom an innocent one. Its intent is your humiliation, ostracisation, and submission through smear, shame, and guilt. Yet **no one is entitled to your concern about their alleged “offence” — you are under no obligation to care if someone claims to have “taken offence”**. Nobody asked them if they felt triggered because nobody…
Red Flags in Women #2: What her demeanour says about her Continuing in the ‘**Red Flags in Women**’ series, I’ll go through certain attitudes that betray a sense of malevolent narcissism that ends up being self-destructive for her and those around her. https://lessonsfromregret.substack.com/p/red-flags-in-women-1 Just a reminder that these traits roughly apply to men, too; I only write from a male perspective. **Red, red flag** Let’s define red flags. Red flags don’t just…
The Devout Religiosity of Statism: Cult-like fanaticism & misplaced faith in government If you *believe* *in* government, that all its inherent evils and the atrocious sacrifices it requires are somehow worth it, then you are undoubtedly, devoutly religious, and I will abundantly and exhaustively prove it to you here. **The statist faith** People who ‘*believe*’ in the so-called “necessity” of a centralised government can attribute their faith — because it’s nothing more…
The Left Is the Evolution of Christianity: The Christ-like nature of socialism Socialism piggybacks on Christianity. There, I said it. This is abundantly evident in the plethora of common definitive values between ‘mainstream’ Christianity and leftism, socialism, communism, Marxism, or whatever rebrand of totalitarian statism is trending this week. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-emptiness-of-abrahamic-religions https://sotiris.substack.com/p/socialism-fascism So many…
Judge People by What Impresses Them: A conflict of social image and individual identity When I first got my first big motorbike as a second-year university student, I experienced something profound. Everyone seemed to be much friendlier and more respectful to me, from one day to the next. Where I was largely keeping to myself, not interested in making friends, everyone suddenly showed an interest in being my friend. And the girls? I remember the hottest, most confident girl…
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