Agnostic morbid beliefs scattered moral values are abstractly contrived Assert that morality does not inherently exist Mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence nihilistic epoch of mental plague decaying aspects of modernity represent a rejection of theism emptying the world of human existence nothing has meaning The complete destruction of all meaning and all values tantamount to suicide and ma**-murder diving into the silent meaninglessness dissolution leads beyond skepticism to a distrust of all meaning confidence to pessimistic philosophy our existence has no meaning ultimate departure will to nothingness life turns away from itself sign of strength a willful destruction of the old values self-dissolution of humanity