padriac Wrote:I thought existentialism was akin to nihilism. A kind of watered down version for French bourgeois Intellectuals.(?)v
Syna Wrote:Nothing inherently has a meaning - we ascribe meaning to it or saw meaning ascribed to it by others, hence affecting our perception of it.
The first part (in italics) is nihilism (that meaning/essence is not inherent). The latter part (in bold) is mostly existentialism
Hence one really can't be a nihilist without being an existentialist... and one really can't be an existentialist if they are not also a nihilist. Hence why I am a nihilistic existentialist
Thank you for saying everything that needed to be said Syna... I loved the Zerg joke too
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
