Chel Owens

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

-Frederick Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, “Maxims and Missiles,” #12

“Hat man sein Warum des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem Wie.”

-Frederick Nietzsche, Götzen-Dämmerung, “Sprüche und Pfeile,” #12

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  6. If we look at things carefully and honestly we discover that nothing, in the end, has any meaning. The trick is to find something that you would like to have meaning and then pretend that it actually does. And one must pretend passionately.

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      1. You don’t have to actually be an optimist, you just have to act like one. Like … if you do a good enough job pretending to be good, then even God will be fooled.

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  7. Of the many novels ideas in my head, one is about a very depressed young man who so literally believes in nothing that “nothing” takes form and devours his town and love interest. “Something” i.e. the opposite of nothing travels through time, recruits Nietzsche and other famous nihilist philosophers, who teach the protagonist the error of his ways, namely, that by believing in nothing so much, he turned nothing into something. The nihilists and the lad then fight the nothing and save the day. Working titles are Nihilists vs. The Nothing or Old Dirty Nihilists (loosely based on the idea that the nihilists, who also believe in nothing, don’t believe in time or space so they have been able to time travel and visit each other for years and have started their own rap group, the Old Dirty Nihilists.)

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      1. Aw crap. I forgot that the evil force in Neverending Story is the Nothing. Hmm. They might sue me.

        At any rate, it will have to take a backburner to Toilet Gator. I have been thinking lately that this should be Toilet Gator’s year. Toilet Gator really is my best material, so letting it collect dust on the shelf while I write other novels doesn’t make sense.

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    2. Gee. That is quite an idea. The concept that absolute belief in a falsehood gives that falsehood form may be at the very heart of religion. Belief in ‘the truth’ may be what actually defines ‘the truth’. There can be no ‘truth’ without belief.

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        1. Yes. And believing in the impossible is quite a beautiful and romantic notion – maybe there really should be more of it. But it doesn’t hold up well in court

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