How many nihilists here?

[TimeToBiteTheDust]

Everything is pointless.

 

[1DayItWillBover]

I wouldnt say im deep into the whole nihilism thing but for the most part nothing really matters.

 

[TheRaul95]

Life is one hell of a drug :)

 

[itsamadworld]

Everything is pointless.

I think most things are pointless. I used to really go back and fourth about starting a family. But I just cannot face looking for a purpose thru another human. I really hate suffering, and all will suffer too a degree. I think this is at the core of it. I just don't understand the purpose of life, some pleasures, much suffering, most in between, and then death? Why? I just don't know, so, I figured it was best to opt out! I don't even know if this is right!?

 

[Quarky00]

I think it's pointless but I'm not a nihilist , since

the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.

I don't reject moral principles

extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence.

I think there is real substance

But it is pointless.

 

[Circles]

Definitely more pointless than most people realize. Whether you die young or old it makes no difference cause as soon as we're dead it'll be like we never existed at all and won't remember any of it. If life is about making memories then even the good ones will be altered as we age and vanish forever as soon we die. And if life is then about 'living in the moment ' then even that is tainted by depression, the drudgery of everyday life, etc. to ever truly appreciate any actual 'moment'. No matter how you see it, it feels like there's no winning move if we continue living like we're literal nothing waiting to be part of the void once again. Whenever I think of the sheer pointlessness I think of this quote:

"We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness." - Peter Wessel Zapffe

 

[Arrow]

not really. i have some hope for the future, i just know that the world is still going to be a mostly shitty place even long into the future.

 

[narval]

well, i've think about this time ago. I don't believe i'm nihilist at 100%. I believe there's no god (or gods) also i believe that life 's purpose is inexistent and life value isn't sacred, being it's value almost inexistent except to relateds. also there's no universally valid moral or ethic. Also we exists in this world without reason, only as coincidence. At the end, there is nothing out there giving us higher value.
Why i sai i'm not nihilist?
Because we live with our circumpstances and we do our best. I know that's more complicated (historic, economic and social context involucred), but... this is "we born with good luck or bad luck and all depends in us". We have done big things and we'll do great things. But many will fall in the road defeated by reasons". Yes, i have hope in humanity. all we'll do will come from us, no from destiny or upper wills. (LOL, i still despiting the humanity in a certain mode)

PD: i tried to explain good, so if i wasn't clear, let me know

 

[Deleted member 1465]

I don't think it's pointless, so much as absurd. Life has what meaning you give it, the value is in the interpretation. I envy those with faith or those who can walk one singular path. I don't cling to any one philosophy and I seem to be incapable of feeling faith.
Those who don't understand this have called me a nihilist. But that is just a label given out by those who choose not to dig deep enough.
I don't reject anything, quite the contrary; there are so many paths to follow and so many interpretations that I think that no one perspective can encapsulate realistic understanding.
But this means that the more I try and understand, the more absurd and paradoxical everything seems to me.
I regard myself as a wholist, though tbh I'm not even sure if that's a thing. so if people call me a nihilist, often I just agree with them because people do like their quaint little labels.

 

[Jean Améry]

Nihilism is a self-defeating proposition. If you believe in nothing and nothing has any value, why do anything? Including writing you're a nihilist.

 

[SpottedPanda]

I think with a focus group who are by their admission focused on ending their own lives, you're bound to see a degree of apathy towards life that you might not see popping up elsewhere in such abundance

 

[nerve]

(Oldy but a goody)

 

[narval]

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I don't saw this in particular but... I find it pretty accuracy

Edit: i was thinking. by bad memory I forgot that, in fact, i can be considered as nihilist without any problems

 

[JustHeckinKillMe]

Existential nihilist

 

[lostangel]

Yes, I am one.

 

[BridgeJumper]

Life is a terminal, sexually transmitted disease with 100% of mortality.
Nothing matters. Nothing works. Morality of people is callous.
Lets gaze into the abyss.

 

[Sensei]

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This one really got me thinking; thanks for sharing. I've always been idealistic, but as my illness breaks me down, I'm becoming more and more nihilistic. Or rather, I'm becoming selectively nihilistic. Is existence pointless? Yes. Is compassion pointless? No. And so on. It does make life a little bit easier to bear, no two ways about it. I come to think of an old joke: "I feel so much better since I gave up hope." There's probably some truth to that.