Explain nihilism
ni·hil·ism
ˈnīəˌlizəm,ˈnēəˌlizəm/
noun
the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.
synonyms: skepticism, negativity, cynicism, pessimism; More
PHILOSOPHY
extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence.
historical
the doctrine of an extreme Russian revolutionary party circa 1900, which found nothing to approve of in the established social order.
There's nothing to it.
>>354692
Nothing has any inherent value or meaning.
The word meaning is meaningless.
>>354694
I said explain not define smartass.
>>354692
why bother?
>>354705
Neither of those words have any true meaning.
Why bother?
Why brother?
Choosing a purpose despite none being given to you by the nature of your existence is correct.
Choosing to not to have a purpose is probably a mistake and usually just an emotional response to realizing that life has no inherent purpose.
>>354692
It's what happens when we ethical subjectivists get into a bad mood.
>>354692
It's the negation of reality, when you choose (consciously or unconsciously) to believe that something is true when it's not, or that something is false when it's true.
>>354692
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>>354692
Does nihilism correlate with mental illness such as psychopathy?
There is no ultimate authority, like God, to derive things like purpose, value, morality and meaning from.
It's meaningless
Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism but at least it's an ethos.
>>354692
there are many kinds of nothing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism#Forms_of_nihilism
>>355218
Fucking Nihilist, they killed Donnie.
>>354692
That there doesn't exist anything that has intrinsic value.
Note "intrinsic".
