JUMP OFF THE BANDWAGON

500 years ago were people terrified of witches, they hunted them down and burned them at the stake. Nowadays, most people understand that witches don't exist and that they have never existed – except in our imagination. Most people no longer believe in ghosts, trolls, angels and witches, at least not here in Europe. 

Most people no longer believe that schizophrenia and personality disorders are caused by evil spirits, or that cancer is a punishment for sins. Most people no longer believe that the sun is revolving around the earth or that the world was created 6000 years ago by a nasty and jealous God with the name Jehovah or Yahweh.

Well, many people still believe in gods and evil spirits and that cancer is a punishment. They believe that people with cancer are sinners and that rich, healthy, and good-looking people are God's favorites. They live in a fantasy world and they would rather die than leave it.

Atheism is of course also a belief. Atheists can not prove that there is no God behind it all.

There are so many different kinds of fantasy worlds, so many different gods, and so many different belief systems.

Some people believe that they are awakened, and some believe that they are useless fools.

It is possible, I believe, to leave all belief systems and fantasy worlds. You don't have to be a neoconservative, a Baptist or a Catholic, a Sunni Muslim, or a devout Hindu. You don't have to be anything but a human being. 

Nihilism

If you want meaning in your life, you have to invent it – or borrow it from someone else. Meaning is not something we discover, I believe, meaning is something we invent or create.

Meaning, values, ethics, and morals don't exist outside of human beings. Kindness, equal rights and justice are meaningless terms in modern cosmology. And supernovas, microwave background radiation and electrons are irrelevant factors in psychology and social science.

The idea that life is meaningless or meaningful is created in the human mind. All religions, philosophies, and ideas about life are mental constructions.

Nihilism, the philosophical idea that life has no meaning and that ethics and morals are delusions, is also a mental construction, a foolish and useless idea. You are a human being. You live in this human body. You are not just a bunch of molecules and atoms, you are not a snake, not a lizard or a worm. Worms, snakes and lizards don't care about meaning or morals. You are a human being and to human beings are values and morals extremely important.

We call people who don't care at all about morals and meaning psychopaths.

NON-PHYSIOLOGICAL ISSUES

Egotism, egoism, selfishness, superiority, inferiority, too high or too low self-esteem, overt and covert narcissism, narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder.

Bigotry, dogmatism, chauvinism, racism, sexism, misogyny, unreliability, duplicity, two-facedness, phoniness, self-righteousness, self-pity, bullheadedness, fanatism, fundamentalism.

Gullibility, wilful blindness, superstition, alcoholism, drug abuse, food abuse.