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Nihilist Rejects Nihilism
In what many are calling the apotheosis of nihilism, for the first time ever a nihilist has rejected nihilism itself. Nihilism is a philosophical belief system which traditionally holds that life is without meaning. It encompasses various perspectives, but often includes the rejection of traditional values and objective morality. In its most extreme form it rejects all systems of beliefs and values, including all philosophies but for one, nihilism itself. That changed on Friday this past week when radical nihilist Ted Stephens reportedly rejected nihilism calling it “completely unfounded, meaningless, and indifferent” in a series of posts to various social media and web publishing platforms. The posts included a number of black and white images of a rail thin, pasty white, visibly despairing Mr. Stephens dressed in black t-shirt and black pants and wearing a black French beret staring sadly out a window. His head was enveloped in wispy tendrils of white haze emanating from a still burning, half smoked Marlboro red cigarette in an ashtray perched upon the only piece of furniture in the cold and dreary apartment Mr. Stephens calls home. Tears could be seen just beginning to form in each eye as he contemplated the meaninglessness of a life without even a philosophy of meaninglessness to describe the desperate sadness and hopelessness of it. Wondering what to make of a of universe about which we can have no certain knowledge and now empty of even a philosophy man could use to convey the true depths of its emptiness. If he were not a nihilist Mr. Stephens would have described it as very existential. Fortunately, having rejected nihilism he was now free to embrace existentialism which he reportedly has done with gusto. In his final post he said “rejecting nihilism as meaningless has allowed me the individual freedom and given me the responsibility to create meaning for myself while still allowing me to grapple with the great questions of meaning and existence. Most importantly it has allowed me to remaining depressed and sun averse. Moreover, its practitioners embrace cigarette smoking and the wearing of all black clothes and french berets with almost as much enthusiasm as the nihilists once did before I rejected them and their philosophy so completely and thoroughly.”
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By The Pompous Post6 months ago in Humor
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By Nadeem Shah 6 months ago in Humor
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In a devastating blow to human serenity, three youthful atheists successfully wiped out all organized religion in Dayton Ohio. The local population has since been seen wandering aimlessly in a fog of well-informed, yet existential, dread.
By Scott Christenson🌴6 months ago in Humor
Alarm Clocks Are Gaslighting Me...
Good morning, dear readers! Or should I say “bad morning,” because if you’re reading this, you probably woke up to the soul-piercing shriek of your alarm clock. You know the one. The device you trusted to gently usher you into consciousness, but instead ambushes you like a SWAT team breaking down your door at 6:00 a.m.
By The Pompous Post6 months ago in Humor
Minimalism Ruined My Life (But at Least I Have One Chair)
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By The Pompous Post6 months ago in Humor
