2010年 Aug 19日 Thursday, 10:24
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Something is said to be transcendent when it exceeds the ordinary and even the best, yet this form of transcendence is a perverted caricature. Man no longer knows where his place in the universe is; his existence is no longer derived from something higher than himself. More specifically, what is greater than him today is but a machine that crushes, dissects, exploits and uses him, thus making a production tool out of him. Man is looked upon from a mechanical point of view: brain, neurons, hormones, genes, and a body devoid of breath and energy. Considered as such, Man lost any reason to exist; suicides are increasing in all environments. Human life no longer has value.
Philosophical questions – Who am I? Where am I? Where am I going? – are shunned questions today; questions considered no longer valid, which make us smile and do not deserve attention. In a world where time is money, asking such questions is a waste of time.
There is a way of questioning that is not even one: the skeptical and disillusioned way. We ask questions without expecting answers. Believing in nothing, expecting nothing from anyone, we march on head in the sand. Man became his own god. He knows before having learned, he interprets what he comes across in the way that best suits him – without any questioning. Then, disgust and despair bring about a devaluation of human life.
Transcendence is perhaps Man’s most specific trait, which gives him value and a place in history. Traces from ancient times – buildings, paints, sagas, myths and rites – prove that Man made an effort to understand the meaning of life and longed for eternity.
Without transcendence, man lives, not kneeling, but flat like a mollusk. Without transcendence, the human race is threatened with extinction. I say race, not species – the human species may well survive – but race, such as one can say: “this one is of a noble race, of the race of brave men, of the race of those who stand up”. Race is an endangered species in favor of a thirst for power and possession – a barbaric species that will destroy the world.
What remains of Man when transcendence vanishes?
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Absurd
█ Facta Loquuntur
Adramelech
█ Psychostasia
Aeternus
█ …And So the Night Became
Amorphis
█ The Karelian Isthmus
█ Privilege of Evil
Asphyx
█ The Rack
At the Gates
█ The Red in the Sky Is Ours (#6)
█ With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Atheist
█ Unquestionable Presence
█ Piece of Time
Atrocity
█ Longing for Death
Autopsy
█ Mental Funeral
█ Severed Survival
Averse Sefira
█ Tetragrammatical Astygmata
█ Advent Parallax
Bathory
█ Blood Fire Death
█ Under the Sign of the Black Mark
█ Hammerheart
Beherit
█ Engram
█ Drawing Down the Moon
█ Electric Doom Synthesis
Bethlehem
█ Dark Metal
Biosphere
█ Substrata
█ Shenzhou
Burzum
█ Hvis lyset tar oss
█ Filosofem
█ Det som engang var
█ Burzum
Celtic Frost
█ To Mega Therion
Ceremonium
█ Into the Autumn Shade
█ No Longer Silent
Coroner
█ Mental Vortex
█ Grin
█ No More Color
Darkthrone
█ Transilvanian Hunger
█ Under a Funeral Moon
█ A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Dawn
█ Nær Sólen Gar Niþer For Evogher
Deeds of Flesh
█ Mark of the Legion
█ Reduced to Ashes
Deicide
█ Legion
█ Deicide
Demigod
█ Slumber of Sullen Eyes
Demilich
█ Nespithe
Demoncy
█ Joined in Darkness
Destruction
█ Infernal Overkill
Dismember
█ Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Dolorian
█ Dolorian
Emperor
█ In the Nightside Eclipse
Enemite (怨)
█ Wuyuan (巫怨) (The Necrolatry) (#1)
Enslaved
█ Vikingligr Veldi (#5)
█ Hordanes Land
Evoken
█ A Caress of the Void
Eyes of Ligeia
█ A Fever Which Would Cling to Thee Forever
Fanisk
█ Die and Become
Fates Warning
█ The Spectre Within
█ Awaken the Guardian
Funeral
█ Tragedies (#7)
█ Tristesse
Godflesh
█ Streetcleaner
Gorgoroth
█ Antichrist
Gorguts
█ From Wisdom to Hate
█ Obscura
Graveland
█ Thousand Swords
█ The Celtic Winter
Havohej
█ Dethrone the Son of God
Hellhammer
█ Apocalyptic Raids
Helstar
█ Nosferatu
Ildjarn
█ Forest Poetry
█ Minnesjord
█ Strength and Anger
█ Ildjarn-Nidhogg
Immolation
█ Here in After
█ Failures for Gods
█ Unholy Cult
█ Close to a World Below
Immortal
█ Pure Holocaust
Incantation
█ Onward to Golgotha
Infester
█ To the Depths, in Degradation
Klaus Schulze
█ X (#4)
█ Timewind (#10)
█ Mirage
█ Cyborg
█ Irrlicht
█ Dune
█ Body Love
█ Body Love: Vol.2
█ Moondawn
King Crimson
█ In the Court of the Crimson King
█ Red
Kreator
█ Pleasure to Kill
█ Flag of Hate
Liers in Wait
█ Spiritually Uncontrolled Art
Maleficarum
█ Across the Heavens
Massacra
█ Final Holocaust (#2)
█ Enjoy the Violence
Mayhem
█ De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Miasma
█ Changes
Molested
█ Blod-draum
Morbid Angel
█ Blessed Are the Sick
█ Altars of Madness
█ Covenant
Morgoth
█ Resurrection Absurd
Mournful Congregation
█ An Epic Dream of Desire
█ The Monad of Creation
█ Weeping
█ Tears From a Grieving Heart
Necromantia / Varathron
█ The Black Arts / The Everlasting Sins
Ras Algethi
█ Onericon - The White Hypnotic
Rippikoulu
█ Musta seremonia
Rotting Christ
█ Thy Mighty Contract
Sacramentum
█ Far Away From the Sun
Septic Flesh
█ Mystic Places of Dawn (#3)
█ Esoptron
Slayer
█ Hell Awaits
█ Reign in Blood
█ Show No Mercy
Sepultura
█ Beneath the Remains
█ Schizophrenia
█ Morbid Visions
Skepticism
█ Stormcrowfleet (#8)
█ Lead and Aether
Sodom
█ Expurse of Sodomy
Suffocation
█ Effigy of the Forgotten
█ Breeding the Spawn
█ Pierced From Within
█ Human Waste
Summoning
█ Nightshade Forests
█ Minas Morgul
█ Dol Guldur
Therion
█ Beyond Sanctorum
Voivod
█ Killing Technology
█ Dimension Hatröss
Watchtower
█ Energetic Disassembly
█ Control and Resistance
Winter
█ Into Darkness
Worship
█ Last Tape Before Doomsday (#6)
Xibalba
█ Ah dzam poop ek
Zhurong
█ Zhurong's Anger