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Any Nihilists here?

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Any Nihilists here?
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#51
RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 18, 2023 at 5:02 pm
ni·hil·is·tic
adjective
rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless.
"an embittered, nihilistic teenager".

Well! I was put on Earth by Bast to take care of cats. I aspire to no higher purpose.
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RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 18, 2023 at 7:34 pm (This post was last modified: August 18, 2023 at 7:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-and that utterance failed the apparent nihilist test as soon as it employed the word "higher". Purposes cannot be higher or lower.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#53
RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 18, 2023 at 7:40 pm
No, But I did use to be a solipsist, Other people talked me out of it.
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#54
RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 18, 2023 at 8:42 pm
(August 18, 2023 at 7:34 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: -and that utterance failed the apparent nihilist test as soon as it employed the word "higher". Purposes cannot be higher or lower.

Nor can they be at all.
<insert profound quote here>
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#55
RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 18, 2023 at 9:22 pm
Religious folk assume that because atheists don't believe in God or gods or anything supernatural that then atheists are nihilists. - You believe in nothing. This is the common refrain used to insult us.
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RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 19, 2023 at 3:51 am
There does seem a pretty direct pipeline from atheism to nihilism, though. Certainly from physicalism/materialism to nihilism.
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RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 19, 2023 at 9:13 am
What pipeline?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 19, 2023 at 2:16 pm
In thought. So it seems to me that one position tends to lead to another. For example, materialism leads very directly to no freewill.
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#59
RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 19, 2023 at 5:16 pm
I will concede that there is a correlation between atheism and nihilism but I will not concede that the meaninglessness that we see around us has no science to it.
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RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 19, 2023 at 5:48 pm
(August 11, 2023 at 4:16 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:
(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.

Which flavor?

From my experience, nihilists taste of licorice.

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