The rotting God - Mainländers Metaphysic of Entropy

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Philipp Mainländer (October 5, 1841 – April 1, 1876) was a German poet and philosopher...
In his central work Die Philosophie der Erlösung (The Philosophy of Redemption) – according to Theodor Lessing "perhaps the most radical system of pessimism known to philosophical literature" – Mainländer proclaims that life is absolutely worthless, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Mainl%C3%A4nder

"... Therefore the universe, as we know it, was born through the suicide of God. God decided that he can't bear his existence anymore and that he wishes to turn into Nothingness. But he was not able to reach that goal without thereby creating our world..This entire world is therefore nothing more than God's "body", that is in all its components rotting into nothingness now.

The Universal Law of the Weakening of Power:
The course of the universe is therefore defined as a movement from the over-being (God) through the being (our universe) into nothingness. The world itself is the decay in the plurality, that means in egoistic individuals that are fighting each other...The purpose of every natural force, every form of matter and every form of life is exclusively to weaken the power sum of the universe by living the path through the state of being into nothingness. Every part of nature is desiring for absolute death, because that is the ultimate goal of every form of matter and life - to turn into nothing.
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