Ich hab’ Mein’ Sach’ auf Nichts gestellt, juchhe! (My thoughts ’n’ oughts are nothing fixed, hooray!)
By: Trotz Alledem
Tags: Nihilism, Morality

If life has no meaning, why don’t you kill yourself?

The unanswerable question for a Nihilist. Truly. All you have to do to make us Nihilists retreat back into the shadows from whence we came, is utter these 10 words(or any words similar to them).

If you’re a Nihilist, you’re probably (understandably) rolling your eyes by now. Every single one of us has heard this question in some form repeated ad nauseum towards us. And Moralists actually think its a smart question! Seriously! How silly of them. How silly of you Moralists! What is the point of this question? Where does it come from? What makes them think its sensible?! Whatever the answer is to my own question, in this (short) article, I’ll attempt to answer the original one.

So to reiterate;

If life has no meaning, why don’t you kill yourself?

It’s simple really, because I dont want to. And in my opinion there truly is no reason to. I could leave this off here, I really could and I really want to but I’m pretty bored at the moment so why not keep writing? Just as there is no meaning to life, there is no meaning to death, other than what you make of it. There is no meaning to life that can be universally attributed to everyone, its not that hard to understand really.

In fact, I enjoy the meaninglessness of my life. Without direction or higher purpose I have true freedom! I can do what I want when I want because there is not a “meaning” restricting me! I dont have god whispering in my ear that my purpose on life is to fulfill his bidding, that would really be quite annoying.

There is no god and if there was it would be our duty to kill him (I believe i am paraphrasing someone here, maybe Bakunin? Who knows and who cares.) Why is this? Because god is an inhibition. If a God or some Divine being exists why should I subject myself to them? What makes God my ruler?

You are constrained by these ideas of God, Society, Morals, Laws, the State, etc. They inhibit you! They distract you from your self and cause you to serve them rather than your Ego! They are in need of death, in my (very important) opinion, you should commit murder, murder of the fixed ideas impeding your Liberation.

You are enslaved to these ideas whether you acknowledge this or not. They determine how you live, how you think, how you act. They are keeping you held hostage in a state of “common and vulgar mediocrity.” But its ok you tell yourself! Its ok because they give you meaning to life! But this meaning is exactly the means off your enslavement. Rather than living life unabated and unconstrained you live it serving a higher purpose or meaning to make someone (or rather something) else happy. You do this because if you do not serve your higher purpose you have failed your God. And if you have failed your god and not served your purpose you might as well not have one, and if you dont have a purpose you’re essentially a Nihilist!! And being a Nihilist, you now must kill yourself, mustn’t you?

Who is more worthy to triumphantly exalt life than the one who lives without the aid of any god and without any hope? Who is more Heroic than the one who fights, having the full and calm awareness that everything is useless and empty? I know that gold, glory, love cannot give me Happiness. And yet I love Life with intense joy and want to live it resolutely. And what is for others “vice”, “crime”, “sin”, when it comes back into my wild nature, is transformed into a wellspring of sincerity and purity. I interpret equality before god of the law, the people of humanity, as the greatest absurdity, as the mother of all that is inconceivable absurd.

So to conclude this article I ask you a simple question; if life has meaning, why haven’t you killed yourself? A crazy question right? Well why not? Why should you live your life serving the fixed ideas that have been created for you? Why live serving anything other than yourself? You are not truly exalting your life to its fullest extent when you serve a fixed idea. So cast your fixed ideas aside! Liberate yourself from inhibitions! Exalt your meaningless life!!

Ich hab’ Mein’ Sach’ auf Nichts gestellt, juchhe!