RE: Nihilistic Murderer
March 6, 2015 at 4:23 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2015 at 4:24 pm by Mudhammam.)
(March 6, 2015 at 4:14 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:I don't think meaning requires measuring the value of time, but if we choose to do so, the fact that nothing is meaningful in the long term makes it that much more meaningful in the short. This idea that the only thing that can have definite meaning is a thing that exists eternally and necessarily is a non-sequitur.(March 6, 2015 at 4:11 pm)Nestor Wrote: But you do find it meaningful, just not independently of your moment. I take a nihilist to deny even the semblance of meaning, which to me doesn't work since without semblance meaning loses its meaning.
No, I don't think that anything is meaningful. Not in the long term certainly. I don't find this to be depressing though. It actually makes some things sort of funnier than they would be otherwise. I was far more prone to depression before I became a nihilist. Although I could certainly see how it would be depressing to many people.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza