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If your nihilism doesn't make you happy, you're doing it wrong. The absence of meaning should be a liberating factor, not a limiting one. It's actually dope as fuck that there's no greater purpose to your life, you can never fail as a person when there's no standard you feel you have to meet.
Definitely. I think of it as “positive nihilism” or something like that.
The fact that meaning and purpose, as we think of them, aren’t an inherent part of reality and are literally in our head… it’s liberating.
It's absurdism :)
That's what I always try to explain but they pity me every time.
It’s not pity. It’s projected depression.
basically life is minecraft: there's no goal, we have to give ourselves reasons to live, and we can make those reasons precisely whatever the fuck we want, and that's what makes it so fucking brilliant.
"The big picture is made up of brush strokes", absolutely love this. Gotta try to remember it.
I'm not a nihilist defeatist. I'm a nihilist optimist.
Nothing matters 🙁
Vs
Nothing matters 😃
To meeeeeee.
Any way the wind blows...
Agreed, I wouldn't enjoy my life nearly as much if life had a "meaning", or if humans were provably special or significant in the universe.
Camus would be proud
I'm sad regardless of if things have meaning or not.
Que sera sera.
Someone is learning to embrace hard determinism. You love to see it.
Casually causal.
Casual causality.
It's like the people who crow on about how we're living in a simulation. Okay, so what? I still have to live my life as if I'm not living in a simulation. I still can see that what I do has effects that ripple out starting with those closest to me.
Yeah, if you can't get access to the source code, whether it's a simulation or not doesn't make a difference.
I think the fucked up part is not the not having meaning, its the, if there is no meaning why the fuck do we still have a society based on perpetual human suffering for profit. Lets make something better.
*affects
This guy has to be so annoying to talk to
Why say this ?
Why not?
Things can still have meaning to you locally, and you can comprehend that 'meaning' at larger scales is reduced.
This person sounds like they're having a frantic existential panic attack.