Contents
Summary
Origins of the Name
Aneist Principles
- On God
- On reasonable doubt
- On subjective reality
- On reasonable Nihilism
- On ultimate selfishness
Summary
Its chief foundation is the rejection of religious views and superstitions of all kinds as impossible to truly base them in reality without great assumptions. This is in accordance with an extreme empiricist viewpoint in which almost everything is in doubt, leading to Nihilism, dampened by subjective reality viewpoint.
Origins of the Name
The original form of the name was formed as a combination of the basics of Aneism, Atheism, Nihilism and Empiricism.
Aneist Principles
On God
Aneism holds a very firm Atheistic viewpoint in terms of Gods. It sees the only justification for God to be as a creator (and hence holds some sympathy for the Deist viewpoint) but also rejects the idea of using a “God of gaps” to fill wholes in science, such as creation. The Aneist viewpoint is that religion was simply a tool for basic man to fill gaps in understanding, including the basics of life. As science and knowledge developed this need has been reduced, and Aneism places absolute emphasis that supernatural elements should not be used as a placeholder until empirical evidence fills the gaps in our knowledge, lest we rely on this placeholder and loose faith in knowledge.
On reasonable doubt
Reasonable doubt stems from the extreme empiricism (emphasising the role of experience and evidence, especially sensory perception, in the formation of ideas, whilst discounting the notion of innate ideas). However, due to the impossibility to prove the reliability of one’s senses, everything is then put in doubt. The one exception to this is the existence of a self, as an extension of Descartes’ “I think therefore I am”. The basic belief is that in order to experience perceptions there must be a self to analyse them, even if the analysis is false. This leads to the basis of subjective reality. However, Aneism also emphasises that to live in a state of absolute doubt is an impossible situation for a human being, and that to live within the subjective reality requires the assumption that it exists, hence only reasonable doubt is utilised in analysis of the subjective reality.
On subjective reality
The Aneist principle of reasonable doubt rejects all objectivity, claiming that being able to see reality from a viewpoint other then that of the self is impossible. This results in an absolutely subjective reality, in which the world only exists as a merit of the observer’s perception. Anything beyond this perception can be doubted, as it cannot be ultimately proven to exist. However, reasonable doubt dictates that this must be assumed to exist for the sanity of the individual and capability to survive on a metapersonal scale.
On reasonable Nihilism
Aneism rejects Judaeo-Christian egoism, having their God centred upon the Earth and caring for each and every one of them personally. Aneism claims this to be a creation of the human urge for importance and a creation of subjective reality, being only aware of what the person can perceive naturally causes subjective thinking, and thus centred on the self. Rejection of this admits purposelessness, and the ultimately useless position of the self. Emphasis is placed that even if our universe removed, let alone its tiny fragments of our galaxy, our solar system, Earth, Humans and ultimately the self, would not affect reality as a whole, which would continue regardless. This results in the embracing of Nihilistic positions that the self is without objective meaning or essential value. However, much in the same way as reasonable doubt, Aneism maintains that this is not a reasonable way to think in life, and that this logic must be dampened by the reasonable. In this way, although ultimately the life of the self has no meaning or value, as everything in centred on the self due to the subjective reality, such ideas cannot be ultimately held without loosing touch with the subjective reality, and so succumbing to insanity. As such things must be reduced to a subjective scale. Although the self is valueless in terms of the possibly non-self viewpoint, from the subjective view it is the most important aspect of perception, so leading to ultimate selfishness.
