Nihilism & Its Effects

It is my belief that "nihilism" has infected the minds of Americans as it has most of the world's secularists, who seem to far outnumber those who represent the antithesis of nihilism. So, just what is "nihilism"?

Says Merriam Webster under "Essential Meaning of nihilism": 

1: the belief that traditional morals, ideas, beliefs, etc., have no worth or value 

2: the belief that a society's political and social institutions are so bad that they should be destroyed

There are those today who want to destroy present political states, to cause chaos, in order that they might thereby create a new political and social order. Sadly, there are nihilists in America today who think America is so bad that she needs to be destroyed and a new America created. It is the "burn it all down" mentality. When it is all destroyed, the conspirators want to see the phoenix rise from the ashes. That phoenix is the one world government or empire which will be headed by the lawless one, the Antichrist, the son of perdition, the son of Satan the dragon. 

What is going on now in the world is a conspiracy of the world's Luciferian elite in which they are doing the preliminary bulldozer work to set it all up. 

"Nihilism" is based on the Latin word for "nothing" which is "nihil." It denies God, saying "God is dead." Nihilistic thinking is seen in the writings of Dostoevsky. Wrote one (See here):

"There’s a famous passage from “The Grand Inquisitor” section of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov in which Ivan Karamazov claims that if God does not exist, then everything is permitted. If there is no God, then there are no rules to live by, no moral law we must follow; we can do whatever we want. Some philosophers, like Jean-Paul Sartre, have assumed that Ivan is right; without God there is no moral law that tells us what we ought to do. But is Ivan right? If God does not exist, then can we do what we wish? Another way to put the question is, does ethics require God?"

When I was in college I took a course on Existentialism and I read Dostoevsky's works along with others who wrote on the philosophy. 

Nihilism and Existentialism are kin. This way of thinking about the world and the meaning of human life is summed up in these words: "The meaning of it all is that there is no meaning." It is an extreme form of skepticism and promotes pessimism although some claim that there is such a thing as "optimistic nihilism," but such is an oxymoron. For myself I see this nihilistic utopia comically envisioned in the song "Rock Candy Mountain" (famous in the movie "Oh brother where art thou?"). The lyrics are as follows:

One evening as the sun went down
And the jungle fire was burning
Down the track came a hobo hiking
And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning"

"I'm headed for a land that's far away
Besides the crystal fountains
So come with me, we'll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains"

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
There's a land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night

Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
And the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees

The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
All the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs

The farmers' trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
Oh, I'm bound to go
Where there ain't no snow

Where the rain don't fall
The winds don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come trickling down the rocks

The brakemen have to tip their hats
And the railway bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew
And of whiskey too

You can paddle all around it
In a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
The jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again
As soon as you are in

There ain't no short-handled shovels
No axes, saws nor picks
I'm goin' to stay
Where you sleep all day

Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

I'll see you all this coming fall
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

This song depicts a utopia for the lazy, the lawless, for those who are hedonistic. Heaven for such folks is a life where they don't have to work, can party all the time, where they can live to indulge the flesh. 

So that I do not make this posting so long, I will save the rest of my thoughts on this subject for a second entry, possible a third. 

In conclusion I say that what we see occurring now in the world is the result of nihilistic thinking, the result of having concluded that "God is dead." But, God is not dead, and he will soon show up in wrath upon this evil generation. You better get into the ark (Christ) before the flood of divine judgment comes.