(August 23, 2023 at 11:16 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: If there doesn't seem, to you, to be a difference between nihilism as you understand it and absurdism or existentialism, then you're probably an absurdist or an existentialist.
Existentialists believe that life has whatever value or meaning we create. Absurdists believe that whatever we value or create and all that exists is...well...absurd, and nihilists believe that life is in vain.
These don't seem mutually exclusive to me. I'd accept all 3 as true.