(August 11, 2023 at 2:46 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: Nihilism comes in a variety of flavours. Anyone here find nihilist a good descriptor for their worldview?
I describe myself as a nihilist.
In the strong sense, no. I don't think there's any premade ultimate purpose to existence, but in our introspections and observations as we interact with other people and things, we appear to be of use to others and that other people and things can be of use to us, meet whatever needs and wants we may have. In this sense, we've "discovered" functional purposes, you could say. But really, purpose is something we construct in a subconscious way.
But then again, isn't that something a nihilist would/could accept?
I'm of course overlooking all the variants and brands of nihilism, and thinking of nihilism in the sense that there is no purpose or meaning to life (never mind that some folks differentiate between purpose and meaning). And there's the struggle that often times we may be using the same word but using it differently from one another. I may not be a nihilist according to my definition, but a nihilist according to someone else's. This is why, as Bucky suggested, it's important to define relevant terms here.