Man's best friend

I am the proud owner of two of nature's most gorgeousest! 

First Ralph:

and his son Storm:

they honestly make my life worth living. Trouble is they are both, being boysies, complete kick-off merchants. Ralph, in particular, loves to get his teeth into other dogs. Most of it is fear related as he has been attacked himself quite a few times. But a lot of it comes down to him being an adolescent (he's now 2) so I hope he'll grow out of it soon. Many people have tried to convince me of the benefit of neutering, but chopping bits off of him until I am happy with him just don't sit right with the libertarian in me.

And at the end of the day if he wants to go roung ripping chunks out of people's daft £500 ego flaps then why not? Good boy!

Happily ever after.

I lost all faith in my eternal soul not long after my first hypoglycemic attack (as a diabetic they're just part of my life's rich tapestry). I found myself thinking "wow I was a different person back there" and I was. I literally go from nice easy-going ol' me to little short of a homicidal maniac in the space of 2/3 ml of sugar per litre of blood. The question this raised, to my mind, was how my so-called eternal soul is supposed to last forever if it can't even handle a drop in blood sugar? 

The plain truth of the matter is that "we" are our brains (it can actually reasonably be argued that we're not even that, but I digress) and, therefore, anything that happens to our brains happens to "us". And that, I'm am sorry to say, includes dying.

If you're wondering what the experience of death is like here's a quick experiment you can do at home! 1) find a large hammer/mallet 2) (you may need a friend or an irresponsible adult to help with this next bit) bash yourself firmly over the head. If the experiment worked you should have a death-like-experience and be back in time for tea! hurrah!

Just what is the supposed purpose of a 'soul'? (apart, of course, from assuaging people's fear of death?) There doesn't seem to be one. I certainly can't think of one, and no, just "feeling it" sure don't count, not in my book. Having an excuse to market silly books at vulnerable, gullible people does actually, er, count.

Oh dear.

Anarchy Vs Nihily

See I can understand people being scared of a world without government, so the idea of dressing up any such proposal with sweeteners such as "people only rob each other because we live in a capitalist economy in which everyone is taught to want it all but only a select few are given the opportunity to achieve it all". But it isn't altogether true is it?

Lets look a little closer and some of the problems with doing away with the State dans c'est l'entier. Some people are horrible, I mean really, really, unpleasant and ignoring that little fact won't make it go away, so as horriblesome as the criminal justice system is, I doubt we would do well by doing away with it altogether.

The idea that we'd be better off without free, comprehensive medical care is just plain silly. Same goes for the police, I mean, I know their reason detre is to keep us poor people in the comfort to which we have become accustomed. But in reality what fun would a demo be without anyone to throw your bricks at?

So you see an "anarchist system" ain't likely to do us all too many favours. But yet I hear you whispering at the back "isn't nihilism jus' anarchism without the pretences?" and, i hear you, it kinda is, but there aren't (m)any rules to nihilism, we don't believe in 'em see? (not believing in things in general helps) we simply urge that we keep/discard ideas if they are any/no good.

I would probably legalise a hell of a lot, therefore reducing the numbers of police needed, and spend the savings on more hospitals.

But that's just me. You?

Aliza Shwartz does Arts

Good old Heresiarch has gone with this so I will too. by now you doubtlessly all know the story, if you don't you soon will. The problem with impregnating your self repeatedly then using over the counter herbal "remedies" to miscarriage, then using the blood, all the yucky stuff and film of you miscarriaging in your senior art project is as we have seen from the following comments:

"[Shvarts' exhibit] turns what is a serious decision for women into an absurdism, it discounts the gravity of the situation that is abortion"

and

"I think it is morally wrong"

these are both ascribed to lifers in her college (report here). The problem they and I'm sure many others will find is that this art project is somehow immoral, yet these, let us not forget, were cells growing inside her own body, in reality making her act about as immoral as a haircut.

Update

ha! fooled ya, it's all a fake apparently, but that didn't stop the New York Sun reporting on it!

Hello Everybody!

anybody there? no? thought not. Good. I suppose this is a bit like giving a speech to an empty room. Anyhoo, this is Nihilist Future, featuring the sublime scriptural stylification of myself, Lil' Drummer Bwoy. Here we will be discussing just what the title says: a nihilist future! A Nihilist Future? why not? we haven't got much of  future unless we start letting go of old habits and ways of thinking and start embracing some newness.  

All a nihilist future really is is a future where no-one, and I mean no-one not even nihilists! keep on with the old "I know what's around the next corner, trust me" nonsense. A future where no one would ever even think about implying that anyone else was somehow morally impeded for not believing whatever they do. A future where people are taken for who they really are not what people think they look like. A future where we got one.

No one not only know what the future holds, many (including myself) rarely know what is inside my own belly half the time much less anything else. now before I start getting into "they're all bleedin' imbeciles!" mode. I would like to point out that everybody knows that hardly anybody knows their arses from their elbows (why else would there be so many that don't exactly agree with us?). We are all imbeciles. none of us as clever as he thinks. I think it's time we started looking toward a life with fewer false notions and less irrationality. after all a life without blinkers is the better lived. 

Why nihilism? why not? I, for one, feel that nihilism has had something of an outrageously bad press (but then Anarchism & Nihilism? way to name your movements Bakunin my boy!). All it really is is the belief in not holding beliefs. which just seems eminently sensible if you ask me. Do we really want our world leaders to believe that there is an all-powerful fat man in the sky that has nothing better to do than to what us masturbating? disturbing no?

In the little tete-a-tetes we shall be looking at the events of the day from a nihilist perspective, if you will. which really, if you think about it, just requires looking at things without all the silly beliefs our culture imposes on everything.