dark&broken

1. I know the title sucks, but I couldn't think of anything else, and this was written at 1AM while trying to sleep, so I thought it appropriate.

2. I don't necessarily fully support this, I haven't put much critical thought into it, this is just what my brain came up with at 1AM and I kinda like it.

3. For those of you who notice - yes I have been reading Nietzsche recently.

4. Sorry for the lack of paragraphing... my brain decided not to think in a structured manner when I wrote this..

So here goes....

There is nothing I despise more than those who are utterly and absolutely convinced of something, yet refuse to discuss the topic with anyone who is not of like mind. What - are they afraid their convictions will crumble under scrutiny? Is their conviction so necessary - their life so desperately hinged on it - that they must abandon all intellectuality to live? A plague! A disgrace to human potential! - but they are no longer humans. They have abandoned their humanity. They are puppets - toys being danced on a stage, while the puppeteer - the very conviction they cling to - rules their lives. The puppeteer is dead - we true humans, who question every conviction - have killed it. Still, those non-humans - those wasted shells - they cling to their master, they are unawares of it's death. As they tug on their strings - trying desperately to shake some truth from their master - the dead one, the lifeless body - resists. It is at rest - it wishes to remain at rest - and for every tug at it's strings - it tugs back. The non-humans mistake this for a sign that their master is still alive and well. Fools. So blinded by "highest absolutes" - they cannot see that it is they themselves that cause the tugging they feel - they have duped themselves into believing that there is something beyond themselves that motivates their actions. Cowards! - to ascribe one's action to an exterior motivation is to deny responsibility! Do they so fear the consequences of their own actions that they would pass responsibility to another? What meaning is there to a regretted action? - One who wishes for a thing to have been different denies all possible value of the thing! The only value a thing can have is that which you give it - what more positive value than to wish for that thing to reoccur eternally! - what more negative value than to wish it had never happened! That is what they are - those non-humans - devaluers of life, denyers of life. Among those there are two types : those who affirm a will to death, and those who do not. The first is a weed - sucking the nutrients from those around them to sustain their own life - the very life they deny - so that they may spend as long as possible contemplating their own extinction and what lies waiting for them beyond death. They, like the weed, must be eradicated - that the life around them be allowed to flourish and grow - but likethe weed, they are numerous, and every one spends its life spreading its plague so that there are always more that need eradicating. The second type is less taxing, but at least equally foolish - it is the nihilist. If they do not embrace death, then they either fear it or deny it. In either case, they already deny life, and will death's non-existence - thus they are nihilist, for what is there beyond life and death? Everything we do - all our discoveries and all our sciences - serve one of two purpose : to enhance life, or to ease death. There is nothing else - only life and death. We true humans must strive to affirm life to its fullest - to give the highest value possible - so that death will have value as a legacy - the legacy of one who has forever said yes! to life.