Dr. Nihilist

If you read a lot of books, eventually you'll come across a word like nihilism. Nihilism is a very stirking word. It's one of the few words that consecutively alternates three i's. It's also confusing to pronounce; is it "ni-ilism," "ni-heh-lism," or "nie-i-lism"? (Look it up, I think you'll be surprised.) But whenever you see it, and whatever your reaction, it is usually associated with poeple who don't give a shit about people, society, laws, religion, or cosequences. This leaves those of us who aren't pyromaniacs in a predicament. Can we still use the cool word without being associated with hedonists or switchblade- wielding ghetto gangsters? Now the people from Webster's Dictionary )dispite the fact that they are still impersonating a New England scholar that everyone knows has beed dead for centuries), has a few good deinitions of nihilism:

1.) The denial of the existence of any basis for knowledge or truth.

2.) The belief that there is no meaning or purpose to existence.

This generalizes so much more than the bland definition of atheist: a person who doesn't believe in the existence of a deity. Also it's belief is not centered around no God; nihilists talk of the meaninglessness of the universe in general. There are other great reasons to go by the name of nihilist. First of all, the simpletons that surround you have never heard of it. It's a perfect chance to set its atheists you meet will be insanely jealous of your triple i dotting. And finally, you can spell it backwards, or even forwards, without your stupid confirmation members or teachers figuring out what it is. It can conveniently be turned into a Chinese word meaning souffle' or a Brazilian frog with no eyes while you sit back and blaspheme in the house of God. So the next time someone ask you "Well if you're not christian, what are you?" instead of replying with atheist, agnostic, or the ever-convincing "I don't know," blow em' away with nihilist.


	Dr. Nihilist: or how I learned that life is meaningless and that I can plagiarise titles without remorse.

Dr. Nihilist: or how I learned that life is meaningless and that I can plagiarise titles without remorse.