My nihilist take of the day: Maybe sometimes its just for the best to do nothing, you can not fix all of the worlds issues yourself after all. Maybe spend your attention on something less important no one really cares about.
Rate your nihilism at a scale X out of 10. For me it is perhaps a 6
Who cares how nihilistic I am? I’ll be dead eventually and so will you.
Life is waiting in line at the bank. You can’t fight it. You can’t change anything. You can’t get out of line. You just have to wait until it’s over.
Nihilism is one of those concepts I can never remember a definition of, so I end up having to look it up every few years.
Recently I’ve been called nihilistic for my opinion that bringing children into this world is irresponsible, because they will be likely to experience suffering, without an opportunity to first consent to being born. If nihilism is defined by an absence of moral values or a lack of caring, I don’t see how it would apply to my stated position. I choose not to have children precisely because I care, and couldn’t justify taking the chance that my child wouldn’t want to exist.I’m probably misunderstanding the concept, but so far I haven’t been interested enough in it to do a deep dive and read Nietzsche or whatever.
I lean more towards absurdism than nihilism but lately it’s easily 8/10
If we’re not going to go hard on saving the world, killing billionaires, going vegan, switching all transport to trains/barges/airships, you’re actively committing suicide.
Don’t be a sanctimonious piece of shit about it. Smoke em while you got em. Do that line of cent, fuck that questionable person-how long is that sti really gonna matter for, anyway?
If truly nothing matters, meaning can be created and the benefit of caring is only to yourself.
1d5+5 out of 10 on any given day
1d8+2 on any day. Today is probably a 3ish (assuming 10 is very nihlistic, and 1, not at all)
I’d say 8/10 and it’s quite freeing.
There’s something called ”positive nihilism“ that I feel works super well for me to keep the doom and gloom at bay. Like if nothing matters - you’re free. If it doesn’t matter what you do, then do whatever makes you feel good! It doesn’t matter to go to that event because you’ll die at some point anyway? Well then go to an event that you want to go to because you’ll feel good, or don’t! So to answer the question haha, maybe like a 4/10
I’m nihilistic in this way. I didn’t know this is a thing, thanks for sharing! :D Have a great day!
That sounds similar to epicureanism: your goal in life is to experience pleasure, but it isn’t just straight hedonism. For example life is more pleasurable when you are healthy, so you have to eat well and exercise to maintain your pursuit of pleasure.
My nihilism level might be on a solid 8 if I had to guess. Im too realistic and too critical to keep people around me for 75% of the time. The 25% that stuck around has been around for idk 28 years now?
For me, I mainly just focus on enjoying the limited time I have without really caring what happens in the world. World going to shit? Oh well, I still have my hobbies I can do instead of worrying about that.
Don’t really have a number for your scale as I don’t even know if you could call this nihilism.
We believe in nothing, OP. Nothing!
I’d say it’s at about a 4. In the grand scheme I can do nothing. But at the local level, I can affect all sorts of change for the better. I can organize, so as long as I do that then nothing is lost
