(March 11, 2015 at 7:22 pm)wiploc Wrote: Why doesn't theism open the door to nihilism? Theists like to claim we're supposed to comply with an objective standard that we don't make up ourselves. We don't get to vote on it. We don't have to agree with it. It doesn't have to be good for us. There doesn't have to be anything good about it.Theists believe there is more to observable reality than we can perceive. They believe in purpose and intent.
If that isn't nihilism, what is?
And how does having this code dictated by an invisible eccentric make it "objective"?
A nihilist basically perceives all as a 'big game of billiards'. Simply particle-wave interactions that have no purpose or significance. There are several interpretations of nihilism, but they all pretty much boil down to this, IMHO.
Myself, I am a mereological nihilist. Basically, the whole does not exist, only the parts. What we perceive has nothing to do with reality.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
