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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
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.
I'm nihilistic in this way. I didn't know this is a thing, thanks for sharing! :D Have a great day!
saw that, I agree so much.
Like yeah, I messed up the wording on that one comment a year ago and it may have offended some random person (sorry?) but really, it doesn't matter
the thing I messed up was putting the wrong punctuation or grammar or something. the person I may have offended was either a grammar nazi or my english teacher... or both
idk how many different types of nihilism there are; seems like there are many.
I believe this is the Absurdist take
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 fent, fuck that questionable person-how long is that sti really gonna matter for, anyway?
Who cares how nihilistic I am? I'll be dead eventually and so will you.
:( you are right. Is it nihilistic to not be sad about this. To accept fate?
We believe in nothing, OP. Nothing!
But we still want the money!
The void, the empty set. The abstract nothingness. I believe in the number 0.
I'd say 8/10 and it's quite freeing.
Yeah at a certain point one needs to go with the flow of the centuries I guess lol. Eternity?
1d8+2 on any day. Today is probably a 3ish (assuming 10 is very nihlistic, and 1, not at all)
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.
I would argue this ideology falls under absurdism rather than nihilism.
Indifference ?
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?
1d5+5 out of 10 on any given day
If truly nothing matters, meaning can be created and the benefit of caring is only to yourself.
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.
Welp, i mist be winning, i haven't wailited inline at the Bank for 30 years.
Aside from boomer pensioners, like my mother, who even goes into a bank?
I lean more towards absurdism than nihilism but lately it's easily 8/10
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.
Sounds like antinatalism. Check out David Benetar's Better Never to Have Been if haven't already and his assymytrical argument
If anything, your position is in opposition to nihilism.
There are different kinds of nihilism. Your position is in contradiction with the "purest" form. The absence of an objective value in anything and everything. Your position clearly values personal consent.
There are other kind of nihilism, like political nihilism, might not be in conflict with your position. On the other hand, existential nihilism, the belief that there is no inherent meaning/value in life, might seem to align with your position but I think it is difficult to argue in favor of consent, even to being alive, while believing that life is inherently meaningless. I mean, why does the consent of a meaningless being matter to anyone? Of course, you could take an adsurdism position to it but then I would argue that calling you nihilistic would be a mischaracterization.
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