Prayer for a Good Death
Rev. Chris Korda from the brilliant Church of Euthanasia has, on the Church’s website, given us this excellent piece of misanthropic writing:
Great Spirit, I am unworthy;
My species has disgraced itself.
Of all the species that live, or have ever lived,
Mine is the lowliest.
Lower than the flowers who fill the air with sweet pollen,
Lower than the trees who encircle the Earth with their roots,
Lower than the insects, rulers of Earth
Since the beginning of time,
Lower than the darting fish,
Lower than the soaring birds,
Lower than the four-legged creatures,
Who are the beating heart of the living Earth.
Great Spirit, my shame is as deep as the ocean,
And my sadness is unbearable.
I pray for enlightenment,
But fear that my prayer is too late.
Great Spirit, if this be so, then I pray for extinction.
Let my species become extinct, and vanish from the Earth.
Let my loins be barren,
Let my seed not sprout,
Let the race of men fall like leaves.
Let my fields grow wild,
Let my fences crumble,
Let my cities turn to dust, and become forests.
Let the grass drink my blood;
Let my body be food for worms.
Great Spirit, let me die, that the Earth may live.
Read more here: http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/
Just a quote…
“There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Oh the hatred
Humanity… is there anything more atrocious? Anything more repulsive? Anything more worth hating? These repugnant creatures who think the world is all for them and revolves around their petty wishes and dreams. Humans who think they can conquer the skies, dive into the oceans and explore the mysteries deep down in the Earth without being punished for this act of hybris? This vile collection of creatures needs to be exterminated.
I didn’t ask to be born
Why do I have to be here? Why do I have to walk around and pretend to be content with the world and with humanity? Why do I have to endure the constant uphill battle that is life?
I didn’t ask to be born. I was put here by forces over which I hold no sway. Such a lousy, bitter deal. No sane creature would say yes to this life if the deal was presented as a choice. Instead it has to be foist upon us when we have no choice.
Life! Why does it have to exist, what’s the meaning of it? What’s the use of it? Why does it have to go on with its meaninglessness and it’s inconsolable emptiness?
Suicide is the key.
There are no innocent human beings
The school shootings in Finland, America, Germany and elsewhere. Hurricane Katrina. The tsunami. The financial crisis. The wars in Africa. Gang related killings. Floods. Earthquakes. Diseases. Epidemics. Starvation. Wars.
There are no innocent human beings. All the things I’ve listed above (and of course, the list could be made much longer) are truly lovely.
Humans walk this earth thinking that science, progress and everlasting growth will save them, but in the hybris that marks them in the pursuit of these things, they turn into evil monsters hell bent on destroying eachother, the animals and ultimately the world. Their blatant collective egoism mixed with their aggressitivity, both when it comes to sex and violence, is the result of their failure to use their intellect in any other way than the self serving way. That’s why they are so dangerous. That’s why they are oppressors. That’s why they’re unable to construct societies that aren’t decadent, unhappy and sustainable.
They’re marked by the grey eye of Greed. More wants more wants more. This blatant pride, this filthy arrogance that I’m faced with every day when I have to talk to humanists of varying degrees… Trying to grasp how they can defeat their own kin when faced with the enormous negative impact humanity has on the world. It’s mind-numbing. Their conceit and their audacity knows no boundaries.
All humans, regardless of whether it’s a SUV-driving mother in Kansas, an animal hating butcher in China, a fashion-interested student in Mexico or a top US politician are guilty of this conceit. They’re guilty of preserving our dominion over this world. They’re guilty of meat-eating, of buying timber from the rain forests and they’re guilty of petty bickering amongst themselves. They are all worthy of hatred. Some people have begun to realize how filthy mankind is and they are often the ones who fight for nature or the animals, and that would be the category I belong to, but this cynical camp of people who’ve seen through and exposed mankind will always be a minimal little cell of sceptics confronted with an entire organism, an entire body of blind, wicked humans. It shall also be noted that even these “less bad” people are contributing to the destruction of the world, for they, including me, are in the end consumers too, whether we like it or not.
Thus, there are no innocent people. The things listed above, such as wars, natural “disasters” and epidemics are all righteous and suitable punishments sent by some gloomy force to restore some balance in this world – necessary to in some way try to limit humanity’s arrogant pride. And to remind this vile collection of homo sapiens which powers really hold sway over them.
Children. Nay.
I have a lot of topics that all desperately need to be dealt with, but one particular issue takes the cake and needs an early post. Of course, this issue is children.
What’s there not to hate about these creatures? Filthy, ugly, demanding, crying, consuming etc. I could go on forever with the negative verbs and adjectives. But as if this wasn’t enough, they also lack a moral compass, they always come with a parent and there’s no quenching their need for more material things.
But these relatively shallow attributes are not my main concern. No, there is another reason why children are worthy of contempt, and contempt only. The reason is that they, unlike all other humans, symbolize human future. They symbolize the next hideous generation of human consumers. Like armies following the commands of their generals, they grow up to become the usupers and destroyers of tomorrow. Every time I see one of those repulsive creatures, I cringe. Cringe at the thought of Mother Nature having to put up with another generation of these repulsive, dumb and dangerous creatures.
There’s also an ecological point to be made here. Giving birth to a child (read: consumer) immediately makes all your efforts to live modestly and to recycle completely worthless. That child will create a massive ecological footprint that you won’t EVER be able to compensate for. Not EVER! It’s another human consumer and it will speed up mankinds panic ride toward the Abyss. When we see the destruction mankind is wreaking upon the world, how can we be so blind as to not put our will to breed more humans under the looking glass? How can we not make the conclusion that human breeding should be criminal?
I will return to the topic of parents later on – they are of course the ones who are guilty of this crime to begin with, and they deserve nothing but contempt.
I hate children. I hate them with a flaming passion.
Human “progress”
It pains me to even put the two words in the same title. “Human” and “progress” cannot coexist, at least not if one attempts to point as a positive development.
People say “oh sure, mankind has it shortcomings, but we’re just human. But in spite of our failures, look at all the progress we’ve made during the last couple of decades!”
Don’t make me laugh. Bitterly. If progress is to go from firing an arrow in a war to pushing a button to release nuclear missiles that has the potential to launch the whole world over the edge, then yes, we’ve made progress. If cloning non-human animals (which is a riot against Mother Nature herself), is progress, then yes we’ve made progress. And if being able to make an 80 year old man keep his erection is progress, then we’ve CERTAINLY made progress!
Just ignore the fact that the world is burning, that both flora and fauna are going extinct and that the inequalities of the world are now reaching abyssmal heights.
Mankind is capable of one thing, and one thing only. De-evolution.
The situation
Ugh, where to begin? I don’t know how I got this way, but I’ve always felt a great disconnection with the human world. Not in the sense that I’m not able to function properly in it – I’m more than able to do that.
I’m 21 years old and I live in Stockholm, Sweden. A welfare state, really, and not a bad place to grow up in, considering the state of the rest of the world. But I’ve always felt something within me that says that I would have been better of not being born at all. And a strong hatred towards the human race. This feeling, ranging from always cheering for the “villains” on film to malicious pleasure when it comes to the blunders and mistakes that the people around me make, is something I’ve carried with me since I was a child.
My brother, that fool, is unlike me in all ways possible. Frankly, he’s just as worthless an existence as the rest of the filthy people I have the displeasure of meeting every day. He deserves death too, the little consumer.
I’ve tried, though. I’ve tried to live “happily”, just ignoring all the questions and all the dark feelings I harbor. But it doesn’t work that way. And it never will. And I’ve grown to be content with my lot in life – to hate myself and my surroundings.
Hello cruel world
This blog is meant as a way to vent my cynicism and my misanthropy to a greater audience than me and my Ensemble of Shadows. It’s not going to be pleasant, but it has to be said: mankind, in its present state, is a pure disease. We’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth, and no one who holds Nature or animals dear can approve of us as a species. We’ve proven ourselves to be completely impotent, and we’re beyond the point of no return. We had our chance on this earth, but we screwed it up.
This is my basic analysis and it is the one I will use as my point of departure for this blog.
