The Nihilist Life

At one point in time I thought time in and of it’s self was continuous and never ending. Then one day I came to the realization that time is just an idea or ideal even. In my original thinking, time was indeed congruent with the standard definition. However, the more I studied the actual wording (“A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.”

< http://www.thefreedictionary.com/time >)

I was enlightened. I began to see that time is really a perception of events that have been categorized according to the standard PPF (past, present, future) model. Where as future events are only a set of hypothetical scenarios expected to occur.

With all this being said, I could come to a simple conclusion stating: Time is nothing more than a matter of perception used for event categorization.

As far as my initial thinking was concerned, I would place an open ended aspect to time. I would even go as far as to say that time was forever. However, it wasn’t long before I changed that view to find a comfortable landing point with: Time is only kept as long a it has a keeper.

Simply put, if there is not a human to label events along a time line, then time does not exist for labeling purposes. Therefore, time has an ending and is not forever.

I can apply this to historical events in the idea stating: Past time is subject to perception and is not all inclusive. However, we can say that there is a period of time past even though we can not depict all events from all perceptions. We can only do this because we are here to perceive the occurrence of present and future events. We also perceive that these events have been produced through the occurrance of past events.

In conclusion, I can say that time has an ending and is subject to personal perception.

-Nihil

If I chose to label anything, something or nothing, I inevitably can conclude with a similar result to all cinereous. Thus creating an interchangeable view of nothing and something that can pertain to anything in particular.  Just as one person might say “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” I could just as easily say “my nothing is your something.”  Finally I am left with the fundamental idea that perception dictates an individual reality for anything that can perceive change. I can apply this same philosophy to the age old question “Is the glass half empty or half full?” Stating only that it is all the same, a perception of a common label that is subject to change based upon opinion and in that same respect not factual or “true”.

-          Just a Thought

The life of a Nihilist is one that has very few limits and even less possibilities. There is always the simple acceptance of nothing as the beginning and the end of all things. With this acceptance a Nihilist then has two choices, the first choice being a destructive one ending in the assassination of their own existence, ultimately creating a final personal nothing. The second choice being a new school of thought and much less morbid, a Nihilist would reform and accept the constant change that is life and death, embracing the perpetual nothing that follows change itself.

A few ideas become very relevant at this point in a reformed Nihilist’s life. First being the realization that change is constant and with that change there is the inevitable nothing before and after each individual change occurs. However small the change happens to be, millisecond to millisecond, or huge changes like the spark of a new idea. The reformed Nihilist will inevitably have the realization of the nothing before and the inevitable nothing after the continual change that accompanies life.

The second relevant idea for a reformed Nihilist would be the acceptance of life itself as being a label on a specific period of time that happens to fall within the cognitive period of human existence. Simply put, life is a human idea that has been encompassed around all things within possible human perception.  It has been applied to anything we as humans can possibly come up with a name for, such as the actual rock we live upon, Earth. Without human perception there is not a label for the period of time in which nothing becomes something and vice versa, simply a matter of acceptance.

The third relevant idea is extremely simple, we are all human. There is not another species reading these words, just humans. Through my eyes we are all one species without separation, male and female along with any other label we choose to use as separation from each other. It comes down to a basic acceptance of all humans, regardless of any difference there is always a human relation between every single one of us. With that acceptance, I have been able to personally relate to everyone I come in contact with.

The fourth and final relevant idea is a broad one that embraces all time and space; it is the concept that nothing is forever. With the acceptance of nothing as a constant coupled with an understanding that all things end, the reformed Nihilist becomes humble.

Thank you for reading, there will be more to come!