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.
:( you are right. Is it nihilistic to not be sad about this. To accept fate?
We believe in nothing, OP. Nothing!
The void, the empty set. The abstract nothingness. I believe in the number 0.
But we still want the money!
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)
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
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If I look around me and continue to find everyone else just complaining and arguing than doing something about their problems, then why the fuck should I be the one to do it for them?
I mean yes, I’ve been having scenarios in my mind about how glorious it’d be to assassinate Trump, Musk, Vance and whoever I can get my hands on who are Republican and messing with power.
But then a couple striking things came to my mind. If I did that, throwing everything and everyone away in my life to accomplish a pretty slim chance in achieving such a goal, what are the odds the American people will later vote in someone just as bad if not worse than Trump? Then my valiant effort would’ve been in vain. Would it have been worth it?
Then the other thought is, people are just going to go back to being shitty among themselves and infect that to everyone else near them so it wouldn’t have fucking mattered anyways. I would’ve only made things feel good for the moment and for a little while until the dust all clears and things will be back to “normal” soon enough.
Because then I’d also realize, that for real change to happen, needs to be a grand collaborative effort and we aren’t there yet and probably may not be there ever. Sure, I’ve disposed of one of those targets, but there’s still a deal of corrupt wealthy assholes around. What I’d do isn’t going to incite people to do the same, they’re just going to sink back into their armchairs and give a big sigh of relief that someone else did something they wish they could do.
And at that point, yeah I’d rather care now about shit that don’t matter to people but matters to me because of those few facts.
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 ?
1d5+5 out of 10 on any given day
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’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
