(Philosophy and Views)

1.Solipsism - The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.

2.Nihilism - The view that traditional values and beleifs are unfounded and that exsistance in modern society is senceless and usless.

3.Unknown - One has the ability to make life as real or fake as desired; nothing real will ever happen unless one makes it happen. One will either accept societys lies or find their own truth/reality.

4.Rollins - "It took me many years of getting knocked around to see that you're better off on your own.""The one who's are going to survive the contemporary city enviroment is the one who can live alone."

5.A)Nietzsche - Focusing on eternal life, ia actually a kind of death: It turns us away from life and truth, which are in the world and not in some supernatural never-never land. Christianity, despite the teachings of Jesus, perpetuates intolerance and conformity. Whatever is old, habitual, normative, or dogmatic, is contrary to life and to dignity; it manifests a "slave mentality". For man to truly live, he must "kill" God, must overcome dogma, conformatiy, superstition, and fear. This is the first step necessary for becoming, not a god, but "overman".
B)Mankind surely does not represent an evolution toward a better or stronger or higher level, as progress is now understood. This "progress" is merely a modern idea, which is to say, a false idea. The European of today, in his essential worth, falls far below the European of the Renaissance; the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening.
C)In the stream.-- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

6.Heidegger - Human beings can never hope to understand why they are here; instead, each individual must choose a goal and follow it with passionate conviction, aware of the certainty of death and the ultimate meaninglessness of one's life.

7.Sartre - The influence of modern society over the individual is so great as to produce serialization, (the loss of self identity).

8.Henry Stanley - "The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal."