Editing Nurgle (section)

==The Philosophy of Nurgle==

Nurgle's underlaying Philosophy is that you should leave things as they are. Why change the world? The world is perfect in its flawed state. Why improve yourself? You're perfect just the way you are. No don't bathe, don't try to loose that extra weight, don't move from that spot. You are perfect just the way you are.

Nurgle therefore creates an endless cycle of entropy where emotions and feelings are self-perpetuating, and constantly feeding on themselves instead of letting you get out of them. Rather than trying to overcome these desires, you end up allowing them to continue in perpetuity, in that you are not proactive to combat them, and so let them fester and stew.

Essentially, Nurgle is about justifying taking that path of least resistance, like a corrupted idea of Taoism or Traditionalism that halts any and all progress in favor of a macabre fatalism about the universe. After all, if all things are destined to end through destruction and entropy, why waste the time to build them to begin with? Why try to improve anything at all if it will inevitably all be for naught?

You can see why such negative ways of thinking would be prevalent in settings like 40k, Fantasy, or AoS, where conditions tend to be-quite frankly-shit at the best of times, whether it be the high mortality of the brutal conditions in the never-ending imperial war machine, or the horrible conditions your average empire commoner lives in with over-populated and dense cities, enclosed within tight and claustrophobic walls to keep out the roaming bands of rogue undead, cantankerous beastmen, pillaging orks, or the myriad other creatures that seek to end your existence, the depressive spiral of the world you're living is likely to fuel these emotions eventually, and lead to bad lines of logic.

Nurgle, therefore, embodies a sort of toxic positivity: an underlying ethos of amor fati that rather than trying to futilely change yourself or others, or trying to prevent what is inevitable, you should instead embrace it whole-heartedly and let it consume you. All your thoughts and feelings must be valid. All the bitterness, loneliness, anger, resentment, depression, sadness, joyfulness...They're all completely justified. And he will love you regardless of it, just as he loves all living things unconditionally. In fact, he loves them so much he'll fill you full of as much life as you can carry in the form of disease, until you're numb to all feeling except for the emotions you had to begin with.

Or at least, so a Nurglite would claim.