what is nihilism?

Flautas are good.




Some band like sonic garden or something like that once had a song that went "cherry cola" and it always made me want to say chimichonga instead.

I knew a woman of about my age from Paris who had been a big Kinks fan in the days before she learned English. When the song You Really Got Me was popular, she would sing roule le gamin, which sounds much the same in French, and means nothing, really, but could be stretched to mean "roll over the raggamuffin (boy)" . . . we went to a Kink's concert once, and at the end, when they were doin' requests and encores, we sang roule le gamin with great gusto . . .

I might be wrong, but that's one ugly dog you got there.

Ugliness is in the eyes of the "bitch"!

I wonder just how "beautiful" you'd be if someone shaved your head, and then photographed you from directly overhead. At any event, i like the dogatar because of the goofy grin, and because i happen to be particularly fond of that specific doggy.

If the expression looking down is equivalent to the one looking up, there's really something there!

I don't like avatars, especially not with domestic animals as representations. But that's grumpy old me.

Hey wolfy; forget the avatar; put in a picture!

I think they iconize us too reductively. I'm sure you, of all forum members, can appreciate what I mean.

Avatars also diminish the gravity of our arguments. In short, there is just no reason for them to exist except for the need to get attention. I have foresaken that need some time ago. Took me great efforts to arrive at that, being only child and all.

So no avatars or other pictorials for this energy pattern here, thanks.

But you guys go ahead, I admit avatars can be funny.

However, I hope our presence here in this unending cybernetic community is about more than fun

Oh, heaven forfend . . .



Some things are self-evident . . .



You sure your own reason for participation here has nothing to do with "the need to get attention"? Seems to me that this is precisely what you intend . . .

I'll be havin' all the fun i can have here, and if the notion moves me to put something serious in, i'll do that as well . . . how very pompous of you this all is . . .

I admit my post seemed overly old-fashioned, but pompous? I could hit that ball right back at you and call avatars childish. It's a matter of opinion, and to give mine is precisely what I'm here for.

Given the choice between pomposity and childishness, i'll take childishness everytime. "The need to get attention" . . . ain't you cute . . . buy a vowel, Wolf, everyone is here to get attention. How long would you stick around if no one responded to your posts? People change their avatars, they comment upon them to one another--it's another aspect of community here. You just keep comin' for all the "seriousness" you can find, and the rest of us will have fun, without caring about your judgmental attitudes toward what pleases us . . .

Hey, no offense intended my friend.

None taken, Boss . . .

Whew! I'm glad of that.

Don't know what would have happened if offense had been intended and taken.

Bite me, Frank . . .

No ! No, no ! ! ! Wait ! ! !

Bite us, Frank . . .

man, is this thing about nothing still going on? i mean, seriously -- really, truly seriously, with all the seriousness i can muster (all the good in the world you could fit inside a thimble / and still have room for you and me, says Woyzeck via mr. thomas waits) -- who cares?

Nihilism, patiodog, is precisely the most absorbed ideology of modern times. Classic monotheistic explanations have been increasingly overshadowed by the prosaics of science, and together with their epistemological values were cast away their ethical values. Since then, mankind is searching for new ethic standards, new beliefs, new meanings. The majority of people -- myself included, once -- have come to think there are none. That's nihilism.
Together with the 'meaning of life'-thread, this subject is rather fundamental for the way in which we see the world, our presence, and the the (non-)sense of our actions.

I'm proposing that there are to be found common grounds for ethics within the heart of our modern science.

I'm proposing that if ethics are not bred in the boy, they won't be present in the man . . . discarding superstition-based morality does not mean that one need do without an ethical standard . . .