Nathan's Philosophy
Table of Contents
1. About
When I first made this site I made the philosophy commune which went
over some of my political views and the philosophy. Its messy and
incoherent. It was more of a peek into whatever I was thinking at the
time as if I cracked open my head and give you a look inside. It was raw
and abstract but not anything anyone besides myself would read and
understand. You can find the archive
here.
Now that I am redoing this I want to make it more coherent, honest, and
almost spiritual in a kind of way if you can call it that. You can skip
to whatever parts you want but I recommand you don't because its going
to read alot more like a story and will slowly develop ideas throughout.
2. The Geist
Throughout this website you will see me use the word geist alot. Geist is a German word that can translate into three different words in English: ghost, spirit, and mind. I always use it in place of spirit for its more flexible nature and the more abstract yet almost mathical and mechanical ways it can be used.
2.1. Case against the mythical
I don't believe in religion, god, spirits, baby fucking jesus, magic..
or any of that bullshit. In every way imaginable I am indeed an atheist.
Everything can be demythized. Before you go saying "I am not religous, I
am spiritual" and go running to your mommy girlfriend that someone on
the internet hurt your feelings and you need your unwashed cock sucked
to feel better about yourself I have much more to say: Once you truly
begain to demythize something the things you discover are much more
beautiful, artist, and meaningful than any myth or superstitions can
ever be.
Take evolution for example: there is much beauty, meaning, and a chaotic
sort of inner peace that can be found knowing the way every species
comes and goes into and out of existance and how new species come to be
from a sort of process that can be slow and careful at times and fast
and rough at others. A complex process that requires thinking about
really small and really large numbers on a scale are brains are not
designed to understand. Don't know about you but that gives me a sort of
sad joy to think about and makes me think very big deep thoughts. Much
more beautiful than something as bluntly dumb as god.
2.2. How the brain works
The brain looks like just a mooshy wet pink blob. I want you to really think about that sentence. Imagine holding your own brain in your hands. What does it look like? what does it feel like? smell? sounds it makes when you play with it? even imagine the taste if your willing to go that far. Congrats, you just used something I call signal pathing. Your brain has many abstract components that are associated with different functions. They dont serve different functions and arent built for namable functions. Just assoicated with. By pathing signals through different components each one designed for processing data in a special type of way your brain can in the most effective way with its given resources process many types of information thrown at it in many ways. For example the same lanauge can have a spoken version, written version, sign lanuage version, braille.. the brain can signal path information can whatever snese its using to read that lanauge and send it to many other parts for processing. Things like the minds eye, internal monologue… are all just artifacts of signal pathing. Also you used signal pathing to read all of this and will continue to use it all the time for rest of your life the same your brain have always used it.
2.3. You are multiple
you are the result of multiple consciousnesses all inside the same head. The left and right side of your brain when seprated with sugery go out of sync and each one starts acting independently. Thats only as far as they can split down. If each half itself could be split in half like that we couldn't be able to test it. For all you know you could have a 100 conscious brain pieces up there. Consciousness is just the ablitity for the brain to refence itself. Kind of like how your currently using your brain to read something about now the brain works. Consciousness alone isn't the end all.
3. Darwinism
As of writing this I am part way through a book on the subject. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut. It uses a fictional story as a pivot point to go about understanding how evolution actually works. Go check out it out. Well anyways I am writing this to explain what evolution actually looks like and the issues with Social Darwinism. Evolution in nature is the process of making species more well adapted through nature selection. Its a nearly mathical process and it does not care what we think is the best. The only thing driving the process is making species well tuned to their environment. For example evolution might make a species less physical strong in return for liter weight and less required food to survive if thats what would make it better fitted for its environment. It does things like this all the time take flightless birds for example. Humans see losing flight as a downgrade but evolution no longer saw a need for those birds to fly and instead designed the birds for other uses like swiming, faster running speeds…
3.2. Hybrids and the origin of humans
Check out macroevolution. It goes into details about hybrids and how humans are monkey pig hybrids.
4. The Universe
The Universe is a chaotic system of really small interactions and really large interactions on a mass scale all running into each other in a nearly murderious manner. Everything can be understood through the lens of dialectics. Everything is the interaction of engery. The things we know and understand is just the result of interactions of engery. Even matter can be viewed through this lens. I don't believe in the big bang. Instead I have my own theory.
4.1. The creation of the universe
The Universe didn't come from nothing. Everything have always existed. In fact outside the universe only everything exits and there is no nothing, no voids, no where safe from particles colliding at speeds that makes light speed look like a childs bikes. Outside the universe everything interacts with everything forever in all directions. Its like tv static that goes on forever. Just like tv static since its random if you just so happen to pause during the right time and zoom in you might find a picture of something. It might even just so happen to be a picture of you! The universe is one of those. A time and place in a random existance that just by the chance of randomness is something coherent. Like finding ShakeSpeare in The Library of Babel. The engery interacted in a way to create what we call the big bang. Instead of creating things it just opened up an area safe from the chaos. A place where the interions are limited in a way. Constraints that makes limited yet complex and coherent structures of engery possible. These structures is what matter is. Things light speed is a example of one of these constraints. Its nothing uncommon. Its just a matter of time until something like this happens.
4.2. God
The universe may not be anything like a human brain or any type of brain found on earth but it is still a natural information processing machine. It doesn't will things to happen like a religous god. Instead its a high being bound to the same forces and constrains as us. It only has the power which are given to it also like us. It only ever sees what it can and sense what it can.
4.3. Humanities reason for existing
I am a big Kurt Vonnegut and his book Cat's Cradle made me start to think that humans do have a reason for existing but its not pleasent! I kind of went insane reading it so just hold on for dear life as I pull nonsense out of my head. In the book there is something called ice-nine. You can read about it on this wikipedia article if your too lazy to read Cat's Cradle. Spoiler: ice-nine gets into the ocean and destroys the whole planet. It made me think: I wonder if the universe brain is in pain in its own sort of way and are reason for existing is to create a type of ice-nine that destroys the universe. I have a sort of surreal depression that makes existing a pain. Its transends any sort of normal pain or sadness. Its deeper than just the survival parts of the brain to warn us if something is wrong. Its a short circuit that causes sorts of thought loops and blunt conscious that causes a sort of pain that is slow and drawn out but adds up to something no bullet or knife could cause. I often deeply relate to the universe brain and hope it doesn't have to feel the same sort of thing. The universe can't end itself and no human will destroy willfully: humans are going to end the universe by mistake just like when ice-nine got into the ocean. Humans may be fucked up pig monkey men and freaks of nature but we are good at one thing: destroying things by mistake. Evolution designed us for that. Part of natural selection is testing each species and Adam and Eve is a medifor for that test. It proved we are well designed to destroy things by mistake so it picked us.
5. Absurdism: a healthy cure to nihilism
5.1. Nihilism
Nihilism is a philosophy many know of but few can truly understand. Its
the moment you realize nothing you do will ever matter. When everything
everyone knows and holds so close to them is so clearly a pointless game
yet they think your crazy to point it out when they are the ones
devoting so much to a big lie. Until you can bluntly look at your
school, work, family, friends, partner, pets, political party and ask
yourself "why do I do any of this?" and realize it really wouldnt matter
much if that all came to an end you still arent a nihilist. As a
nihilist you no longer see happiness and sadness, love and hate, life
and death: you know the universe is just a bunch of atoms and particles
and any other concept we have is blunt bullshit in its finest form.
Those who dont understand nihilism may see this as sad when to a
nihilist it is a source of blissfulness and numbness. The real pain is
caused by the conflict between the bliss of nihilism and the painful
ways of non-nihilists, people who put importantness in meaningless
things. Those who make it as difficult as possible to make yourself
comfortable because they make up reasons you cant be comfortable and
enforce through the force of pure size in numbers. A true nihilist
would never start a war because they see no point in it, non-nihilists
would abosutely start a war even over the most pointless bullshit. The
flaw of the nihilist is they sure arent going to stop the war either.
Let the people fucking die we often say. Luck they are I would say.
Finally getting the type of peace and bliss that comes with death that
no non-nihilist would never let happen during life.
5.2. The absurdist cure
It is said when faced with nihilism there are three options:
- Suicide, life doesnt matter anyways so why not?
- Intelligencical suicide: giving yourself up to a religion, cult, or some other philosophy. Giving into the anti-nihilist lies and living a life of false meaning.
- Fully enbracing the absurd. You may not been freed from our shitty society but you been intelligencically freed. Now that you know no god rules over and nothing is holy your now only bound to practical limits instead of social ones. No more greater meaning in the position of rulers and authority, now you just gotta be careful not to get caught lol. No more tabboos to enforce social standards with no moral grounds.
The third option is the absurdist option. As a absurdist your still a
nihilist but now instead of not trying to stop wars because nothing
matters you can fight against wars for that very same reason. Do
everything a nihilist cant but always with the same reasons as a
nihilist. As a absurdist you arent finding meaning or giving things
meaning, your in a constant nonstop rebellion against meaning! When
people think your crazy for calling society pointless you still walk
away just like a nihilist but only now you also flip them off as you
walk away. Every pointless action you do and the life you live knowing
everything is pointless is a middle finger to the universe, a sign to
the world it may fucking suck but your still alive. Its a insult to
someone not there to hear it. The world may have no meaning but
reguardless you are going to kick it in the ass.
Society is designed by anti-nihilists to keep people under the control
of the rulers. Thats why everywhere is focused on option two. Thats why
when people who see everything as pointless go into therapy they are
always pushed toward option two. The very thing that defines religion
and spiritual believes in our society is so heavily bias towards option
two most people cant even begin to image the concept of people coming
together in a type of absurd worship of option three. When meaning is
no more worship without meaning is now possible, religion without god or
faith, morals without anything to uphold them. It is in many ways like
RumFoord's Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
6. Absurdist Wissenschaftic Socialism (my home brew political ideology)
Absurdist Wissenschaftic Socialism or bsyn for short (bsyn looks cooler than aws) at its core is a ideology that believes in bringing about communism in absurdly unconventional means of revolution.
6.1. Bsyn english class
6.1.1. Communism
Stateless, classless, and moneyless society. The final stage of humanity. A near pipe dream. A ideal perfect society that serves everyone. Its international and has no borders or grandfalloon limits. Anything that doesnt strictly fit that is not communism.
6.1.3. Absurdism
Read up here. To fucking lazy to sum things up for you.
6.1.4. Wissenschaft
A german word that doesnt translate to english well. Its a more broad version of science. Its simply the quest for knowledge. It even includes things like art and philosophy.
6.2. Bsyn principles
Bsyn never claims or strictly believes that communism is even possible.
Instead it will work towards the goal of communism even with no end in
sight. There is always progress to be made. Think of it as communism
is the goal and socialism is the process of completing the goal. In bsyn
a comrade doesnt have to be someone with the same ideology, instead a
bsyn comrade is anyone also contributing to the goal even if its not as
directly and even if they arent aware of it. If the future is more
communist than the present than in a undirect way everything is
socialist and if the future is less or the same amount communist as the
present in a way nothing is socialist, because of that its important in
bsyn to look at undirect effects while at the same time not
overbroadening everything to the point words no longer have any use.
An Absurdist Wissenschaft Socialist or bynist isnt a thing. Bsyn is
not an identity. Read up on
identity. Instead call
yourself a follower of bsyn or something along those lines. In bsyn you
can use just about anything to describe yourself just be mindful if what
you choose might hurt the goal.
In bsyn studying the works of Karl Marx and his dialectical methods are
quite handy and a valuable resource. Though not every marxist movement
is socialist due to the fact they put zero effort in pushing towards
communism even if they claim to.
Bsyn has a focus on using technology to bring about communism, using
machines do to all the boring mind numbing work while people get to
spend more time on things like art and science. One of the first and
most important steps in modern communist revolution is making less busy
work and opening up space for people to learn and use skills and
interests that they find genuine rewarding. Bsyn is aware that some
people tend to master one skill while others are jacks of all trades.
In evolution a species cant evolve backwards even if it can in the long
term have more benefits. A species cant risk putting itself in a
position like that. Reguardless, a species can still take even the most
unconventional routes imaginable as long as they are always steps
forward in the direction the species needs to go to survive. Bsyn is a
lot like that, it will never push away from communism but it will take
the strangest routes there. Unlike evolution, the direction bsyn pushes
toward is a lot more "idealize" than the direction evolution tends to
push.
In bsyn there are two sayings: By any means necessary and there is
nothing more permanent than a temporacy solution. They are like the yin
and yang of bsyn.
Through the use of lies about what your ideology you can seen more relatable to
the average person, often the type of person who eats up the lies world leaders
spoon feed to them. By asking them thought-provoking questions under a label
they are comformable with and in their language, or talk about things you dont
like about the world also under a label that makes them comformable you can
plant the seeds of communism in their brain. Often times their minds are too
infected for the seeds to grow but its a good thing to try if your tired of
staying quiet or getting into arguments that dont go anywhere.
9. Nonhumanism
I am not a human. Yes, you are a human (most likely). But not me.
Dont go screaming to be with the "but your dna" or "you were born from
humans" bullshit. You are a wolf and I am a coyote. Quite similar but
also just different enough to be a different species. The line between
different species isnt as far as you might think and is something
scientists often debate.
Some nonhuman things about me include:
- Brain and thought pattern differences that medically show up as autism but differ greatly from the DSM-V and others diagnosed with autism I have met.
- Different effects from marijuana and kratom then what the humans get.
- Differences in how my nervous system works.
- As a little child I grew at a freakishly fast rate and stopped growing much younger than any other human.
- I was able to grow a full beard nearly freakishly young.
- I require closer to 10 or more hours of sleep to be fully rested instead of 8.
- I am a bit colorblind and sensitive to light
- Differences in how often I eat and weight gain/loss. I naturally eat alot at once than go a while without eating and I dont gain or lose weight more than 2.3kg and I stay around 68kg even though I am around 183cm tall. The weight loss and gain can happen in a very short amount of time.
- Light makes me sleep like a baby and makes it harder to wake up. It takes me longer to fall asleep in the dark but its easier to wake up in the dark
- Differences in how my brain handles habit forming, dopamine, and addiction.
- Differences in body propartions
9.1. Living in human society as a nonhuman
Living in human society as a nonhuman fucking sucks. Imagine being a cat living in dog society. Everything is built with dogs in mind, jobs shifts are all planned around dog hours, the restaurants serve dog food in dog propartions, the stores sell only dog products, the toys are dog toys, the parks are designed for dogs, the vets specialize in dogs, everyone talks with barks instead of meows… If your a cat in that society you really gotta look out for yourself because no one else can understand you even if they pretend to. Everyone will give you advice that does not work.
9.2. Employment and nonhumanism
Nightshifts: the greatest blessing and curse. I am still getting through school and lack any employment history as of writing this. Most of the options for that are customer service jobs. When people can barely understand you when you talk, you can only do one task at a time, lack any people skills, need time to work on your interests… that aint going to work. And to make it worse employers discriminate against me. If you arent working customer service employers still want people skills. They want their toilet cleaners and floor sweepers to have people skills. They want them to spend half their shift sitting through pointless meetings. Thats the magic of nightshifts! Only freaks and weirdos apply for nightshift and they have a high turn over rate. All the people who call for pointless meetings are asleep and you only ever have to talk to a hand full of people. Do you know what I do with the time saved not going to pointless meetings? I do homework, read, take naps, and work on this site! I love the outdoors and I get cold too easily to go out there at night (I dont mind the dark) so I often wish I could work days but with the no bullshit vibe of the night. I hope to one day go self employmented to avoid all the human bullshit.
9.3. Revolution and nonhumanism
When I sit on my ass and think about all the shit going on I often think
about the song The Revolution Will Not be Televised by Gil
Scott-Heron. Then I remember that even though I grew up in what many
call a very inclusive generation all you mother fuckers treated me like
shit! Thats because the modern stage of inclusiveness does not extend
to neurodivergents completely and does not extend to nonhumans at all.
Think of it this way, the american civil war got rid of legal slavery
but was quite limited, the civil right movement did a bit more… same
with how the lgbtq+ movement has evoluted over the years. The problem is
nonhumanism is limited to just me and maybe a few others I dont have the
resources to track down (if you are one feel free to send me a email or
something) and even than we wouldnt have any common ground except being
nonhuman.
I know revolution is not perfect and I am willing to engage in pushing
the evolution so we at least get sometype of change but I will let you
know its up to you to make change. I am in full support of modern
progressive movements even if I know they are lacking something. Even
than I dont have the power to engage in revolution the sameway you can
due to the fact I am a nonhuman. I am not welcome in social structures
and only servce as a fly on the wall, no one understands me when I talk,
I have no power what so ever to push a message across. As a human you
have special powers I couldnt even dream of having. You can engage in
those social structures, get your fair share of message pushing power.
Even as small as it might seem to you as someone without those powers I
will let you know its greater than you believe. Its a superpower!
Message to my generation: even though you treated me like shit I beg
of you to engage in progessive revolution in all the ways I cant. Dont
be one of those gen-z trump supporters and dont stop at voting blue
either. The revolution will not be televised on social media!