From: garyrayl70@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/7/2025 12:29 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 12/7/25 2:42 PM, DocUFO wrote:   
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   >> Your being a nihilist   
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   > You misspelled "Realistic."   
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   > We were AGAINST illegal aliens. They were the tool of the 1%, the   
   > already rich, morons who wanted to be exploited and thus increase   
   > profits!   
   >   
   > EVERYONE TO THE LEFT OF HITLER opposed open borders, called for   
   > the employers of illegal aliens to be imprisoned...   
   >   
   > Why did you change?   
   >   
   > I didn't.   
   >   
   > When I do change my position on an issue I'm aware of the fact   
   > that I changed. I had reasons to change. I can articulate those   
   > reasons. But, LeftTards can't do those things. It's not coming   
   > from intellect -- thought -- it's purely emotional, and it's   
   > been instilled within them by the ruling elite through their   
   > media, especially social media.   
   >   
   > I've often told people that if something wasn't important to them   
   > [Blah-Blah] years ago, it's not important to you now.   
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   >   
   I quote:   
      
   Since Nietzsche’s compelling critique, nihilistic themes–epistemological   
   failure, value destruction, and cosmic purposelessness–have preoccupied   
   artists, social critics, and philosophers. Convinced that Nietzsche’s   
   analysis was accurate, for example, Oswald Spengler in The Decline of   
   the West (1926) studied several cultures to confirm that patterns of   
   nihilism were indeed a conspicuous feature of collapsing civilizations.   
   In each of the failed cultures he examines, Spengler noticed that   
   centuries-old religious, artistic, and political traditions were   
   weakened and finally toppled by the insidious workings of several   
   distinct nihilistic postures: the Faustian nihilist “shatters the   
   ideals”; the Apollinian nihilist “watches them crumble before his eyes”;   
   and the Indian nihilist “withdraws from their presence into himself.”   
   Withdrawal, for instance, often identified with the negation of reality   
   and resignation advocated by Eastern religions, is in the West   
   associated with various versions of epicureanism and stoicism. In his   
   study, Spengler concludes that Western civilization is already in the   
   advanced stages of decay with all three forms of nihilism working to   
   undermine epistemological authority and ontological grounding.   
      
   In 1927, Martin Heidegger, to cite another example, observed that   
   nihilism in various and hidden forms was already “the normal state of   
   man” (The Question of Being). Other philosophers’ predictions about   
   nihilism’s impact have been dire. Outlining the symptoms of nihilism in   
   the 20th century, Helmut Thielicke wrote that “Nihilism literally has   
   only one truth to declare, namely, that ultimately Nothingness prevails   
   and the world is meaningless” (Nihilism: Its Origin and Nature, with a   
   Christian Answer, 1969). From the nihilist’s perspective, one can   
   conclude that life is completely amoral, a conclusion, Thielicke   
   believes, that motivates such monstrosities as the Nazi reign of terror.   
   Gloomy predictions of nihilism’s impact are also charted in Eugene   
   Rose’s Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age (1994). If   
   nihilism proves victorious–and it’s well on its way, he argues–our world   
   will become “a cold, inhuman world” where “nothingness, incoherence, and   
   absurdity” will triumph.   
   It has been over a century now since Nietzsche explored nihilism and its   
   implications for civilization. As he predicted, nihilism’s impact on the   
   culture and values of the 20th century has been pervasive, its   
   apocalyptic tenor spawning a mood of gloom and a good deal of anxiety,   
   anger, and terror. Interestingly, Nietzsche himself, a radical skeptic   
   preoccupied with language, knowledge, and truth, anticipated many of the   
   themes of postmodernity. It’s helpful to note, then, that he believed we   
   could–at a terrible price–eventually work through nihilism. If we   
   survived the process of destroying all interpretations of the world, we   
   could then perhaps discover the correct course for humankind:   
      
   I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism’s] arrival. I believe it is one   
   of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of   
   humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of   
   this crisis, is a question of his strength. It is possible. . . .   
   (Complete Works Vol. 13)   
      
   https://iep.utm.edu/nihilism/   
      
   So many signs of a withering democracy and the revival of forms of   
   fascism are now glaringly present in the moral collapse of America, the   
   apparent victim of nihilism of the 1-2% of the most wealthy and   
   privileged that have insidiously permeated our government and industry.   
      
   America could well be the tragic victim of nihilism partnering with   
   selfism and materialism, with paranormalism becoming its replacement   
   for traditional divinity.   
      
   As such, ostrich rapists will likely rejoice in its unseemly   
   denouement, denying they've been seduced by a variety of insanity   
   they prefer to label "truth without validation."   
      
   Hence, we have the pervasiveness of the internet's sly versions of   
   reality presented as "entertainment" which steadily erodes respect   
   for the truth of anything. Nihilism wins! Truth dies in confusion and   
   chaos, as the rat tails of a "new beginning" run about promoting   
   a self-serving "liberation" that is in fact an abyss where enlightenment   
   becomes cruelly mangled in the minds of its audience and progenitors.   
      
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   `Q`   
      
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