Confessions of an American Nihilist

Kill the bankers and burn down the churches!

From one hell to the next we traverse as though it were the simplest thing to do.

Like Sisyphus, we tend to our daily toils--an exercise in futility. For years, we manage somehow to keep a stiff upper lip, never complaini...

The daily rut was quickly becoming his future grave...

It it possible, given enough time and practice, not only to become accustomed to one's self-loathing, but to begin even to love it--even...

Well, the cast came off yesterday, and the stitches were removed. It's hard to believe how swollen my foot still is two weeks after sur...

"When you've never done a thing before, and that thing is not simply and clearly right or wrong, you frequently do not know if it i...

The Autumn rains are beginning to set in. A thick solemn gray permeates the sky, the air, and the deepest thoughts and feelings of the loca...

I've been a virtual shut-in for the last two and a half weeks--only getting out when somebody with a car and a few free hours to kill ha...

"In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him. Now choose." --Friedrich Nietzsche

For anyone who cares, concerning my last post, I will be going in for surgery on my ankle on Wednesday to get two screws put in. Also, walk...

In a recent post I told a short story which ended with me hitting God in the face with a stick. It seems God did not find the story nearly ...

Insomnia is proof that God does exist, and that he despises you with a passion only known to fresh lovers, and the kind of psychopath who w...

It had been another excruciatingly long and boring holiday--I spent the whole day either watching t.v. or surfing the net. So around eight ...

What is it that draws a persons attention to an accident? We've all seen it before, and we've all participated in it: rubber-neckin...

He clutched the bottle, like some sacred talisman, tight to his chest as though he would be able to absorb its warming effects by osmosis. ...

Meandering light-footedly through paths of fallen leaves and broken twigs, The body twists, spins, turns and flips in playful mov...

It fluttered down before him; this leaf on its journey to nowhere. A winter dream, and nothing more.

"Like a path in autumn: no sooner is it cleared than it is once again littered with fallen leaves." --The Zurau Aphorisms; #15 We...

Well it's been about nine months now since I last posted anything. I've been off vacationing in my own little corner of hell, and I ...

Due to a current lack of anything at all to say, my next few posts will be some of my earlier writings copied and pasted to my blog. I hope...

He once had goals--ambitions which gave meaning to his life. He had wanted to follow in the footsteps of his heros: the great thinkers of t...

"Crazy wisdom is the humbling knowledge of the immensity of the cosmos and the inevitable change and transformation that will ultimatel...

"Some people think that in addition to objective truth with which we deal in science we should recognize subjective truth which is alle...

Paganism: A religious sect that worships mythical characters. Foundation predates written history. One of the earliest and most primal of ...

As my esteemed friend has seen fit to leave a response to my response concerning her response (this will likely go on ad nuaseum--consider t...

A much revered fellow blogger/close friend left a response to an earlier post to which I feel the need to counter. So, without further ado....

There are moments in which I am overcome by a feeling of newness to the world. Not of rejuvination or exuberance necessarily, but a feeling...

"Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared." --Nietzsche; The Wanderer and His...

There is no such thing as justice. People get what they get--it doesn't matter what they "deserve." Does any child deserve t...

Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then in...

The greatest lie that man has ever told himself is that Truth is somehow hidden from us. If this is the case, it only because we have close...

As I was leaving my house this morning I was approached by a sweet old lady. She handed me a couple of thin pamphlets and told me that I mu...

To begin with, what do I mean when I call my a nihilist, or rather, what is it that I do not mean by calling myself this. First, I am no id...

Having looked at my previous posts on this blog, I realize that I come off as being violently against religion. This is not the case. In f...

A friend of mine showed me how to add a picture to my blog last night, ergo the picture below. I was trying to put it in my profile but cou...