Anti Natalism | Life is War - The God of War is the God of Nature @antinatalism1 | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
The God of War is the God of Nature. War is baked into life. Its essence is a primal competition and struggle for territory, resources, and energy at any cost to keep the machine going. Some Natalists would like to be viewed as altruists and peace loving. But in truth to be pro life is to support the origin of war...Life itself. Nothing cooperates better than an army of humans in a battle...so even our cooperation becomes a weapon. War for territory. War for status. War for honor. War for mates. War against nature and others. War against viruses, viruses at war with humans, War against bacteria, cancer, poverty, terror, an endless cycle of fight to live, and live to fight. Born in blood, need for blood, and finally expire in blood. Antinatalism gets to the root and origin of evil. The philosopher Epicurus stated "All good and evil lies in sensation."
Some are putting their hope in a tech transhumanist future. The humans are playing with more fire on this desire. Every advance will open up vistas of opportunity for more power and violence to inflict on sentient beings. Artificial intelligence may come to an antinatalist conclusion and what then.
Mother Nature and Human Nature - Machines of Suffering and Death Antinatalism philosophy, End of the world, extinction, Futurism, Transhumanism, Pessimism, Antinatalism, Suicide, Depression, Philosophy, Inmendham, Schopenhaur, David Benatar, Thomas Ligotti, Jim Crawford, Zapffe, The Conspiracy of the Human Race, Robotic Revolution, End of human race.
All religious traditions acknowledge that the world is imperfect. Where they differ is in the explanations which they offer to account for this imperfection and in what they suggest might be done about it. Gnostics have their own -- perhaps quite startling -- view of these matters: they hold that the world is flawed because it was created in a flawed manner.
Like Buddhism, Gnosticism begins with the fundamental recognition that earthly life is filled with suffering. In order to nourish themselves, all forms of life consume each other, thereby visiting pain, fear, and death upon one another (even herbivorous animals live by destroying the life of plants). In addition, so-called natural catastrophes -- earthquakes, floods, fires, drought, volcanic eruptions -- bring further suffering and death in their wake. Human beings, with their complex physiology and psychology, are aware not only of these painful features of earthly existence. They also suffer from the frequent recognition that they are strangers living in a world that is flawed and absurd.
Many religions advocate that humans are to be blamed for the imperfections of the world. Supporting this view, they interpret the Genesis myth as declaring that transgressions committed by the first human pair brought about a “fall” of creation resulting in the present corrupt state of the world. Gnostics respond that this interpretation of the myth is false. The blame for the world’s failings lies not with humans, but with the creator. Since -- especially in the monotheistic religions -- the creator is God, this Gnostic position appears blasphemous, and is often viewed with dismay even by non-believers.
Ways of evading the recognition of the flawed creation and its flawed creator have been devised over and over, but none of these arguments have impressed Gnostics. The ancient Greeks, especially the Platonists, advised people to look to the harmony of the universe, so that by venerating its grandeur they might forget their immediate afflictions. But since this harmony still contains the cruel flaws, forlornness and alienation of existence, this advice is considered of little value by Gnostics. Nor is the Eastern idea of Karma regarded by Gnostics as an adequate explanation of creation’s imperfection and suffering. Karma at best can only explain how the chain of suffering and imperfection works. It does not inform us in the first place why such a sorrowful and malign system should exist.
Once the initial shock of the “unusual” or “blasphemous” nature of the Gnostic explanation for suffering and imperfection of the world wears off, one may begin to recognize that it is in fact the most sensible of all explanations.
Charles Darwin -
There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.
antinatalism
gnostic
pessimism
suffering
nature god death
inmendham
hitchens
dawkins
peter singer
uncaring natural forces
indifferent universe
problem of evil
The God of War is the God of Nature. War is baked into life. Its essence is a primal competition and struggle for territory, resources, and energy at any cost to keep the machine going. Some Natalists would like to be viewed as altruists and peace loving. But in truth to be pro life is to support the origin of war...Life itself. Nothing cooperates better than an army of humans in a battle...so even our cooperation becomes a weapon. War for territory. War for status. War for honor. War for mates. War against nature and others. War against viruses, viruses at war with humans, War against bacteria, cancer, poverty, terror, an endless cycle of fight to live, and live to fight. Born in blood, need for blood, and finally expire in blood. Antinatalism gets to the root and origin of evil. The philosopher Epicurus stated "All good and evil lies in sensation."
Some are putting their hope in a tech transhumanist future. The humans are playing with more fire on this desire. Every advance will open up vistas of opportunity for more power and violence to inflict on sentient beings. Artificial intelligence may come to an antinatalist conclusion and what then.
Mother Nature and Human Nature - Machines of Suffering and Death Antinatalism philosophy, End of the world, extinction, Futurism, Transhumanism, Pessimism, Antinatalism, Suicide, Depression, Philosophy, Inmendham, Schopenhaur, David Benatar, Thomas Ligotti, Jim Crawford, Zapffe, The Conspiracy of the Human Race, Robotic Revolution, End of human race.
All religious traditions acknowledge that the world is imperfect. Where they differ is in the explanations which they offer to account for this imperfection and in what they suggest might be done about it. Gnostics have their own -- perhaps quite startling -- view of these matters: they hold that the world is flawed because it was created in a flawed manner.
Like Buddhism, Gnosticism begins with the fundamental recognition that earthly life is filled with suffering. In order to nourish themselves, all forms of life consume each other, thereby visiting pain, fear, and death upon one another (even herbivorous animals live by destroying the life of plants). In addition, so-called natural catastrophes -- earthquakes, floods, fires, drought, volcanic eruptions -- bring further suffering and death in their wake. Human beings, with their complex physiology and psychology, are aware not only of these painful features of earthly existence. They also suffer from the frequent recognition that they are strangers living in a world that is flawed and absurd.
Many religions advocate that humans are to be blamed for the imperfections of the world. Supporting this view, they interpret the Genesis myth as declaring that transgressions committed by the first human pair brought about a “fall” of creation resulting in the present corrupt state of the world. Gnostics respond that this interpretation of the myth is false. The blame for the world’s failings lies not with humans, but with the creator. Since -- especially in the monotheistic religions -- the creator is God, this Gnostic position appears blasphemous, and is often viewed with dismay even by non-believers.
Ways of evading the recognition of the flawed creation and its flawed creator have been devised over and over, but none of these arguments have impressed Gnostics. The ancient Greeks, especially the Platonists, advised people to look to the harmony of the universe, so that by venerating its grandeur they might forget their immediate afflictions. But since this harmony still contains the cruel flaws, forlornness and alienation of existence, this advice is considered of little value by Gnostics. Nor is the Eastern idea of Karma regarded by Gnostics as an adequate explanation of creation’s imperfection and suffering. Karma at best can only explain how the chain of suffering and imperfection works. It does not inform us in the first place why such a sorrowful and malign system should exist.
Once the initial shock of the “unusual” or “blasphemous” nature of the Gnostic explanation for suffering and imperfection of the world wears off, one may begin to recognize that it is in fact the most sensible of all explanations.
Charles Darwin -
There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.
antinatalism
gnostic
pessimism
suffering
nature god death
inmendham
hitchens
dawkins
peter singer
uncaring natural forces
indifferent universe
problem of evil
