To all dorks saying "Nihilism isn't about being depressed, it's about [text length of an average leftist meme]" I just ate a really good garlic bread and don't give a shit about what niche-ee had to say. All that time you spent typing out your dork 95 thesis on posting could have been used that to make some delicious garlic bread but you didn't
I would be a depressed nihilist if I were you, a person sans garlic bread
Coat whole peeled garlic with olive oil in an oven safe bowl or dish, roast it in the oven at °425 for like 20-30 minutes. Bam. Garlic confit and garlic infused olive oil. Confit Keeps in the fridge for a few weeks. Take some of your confit and mash it together with butter, some of the olive oil, and whatever seasonings you have. Honey or something spicy is a good twist. Spread on bread with cheese then throw it in the oven
Your OP meme is nihilist and existentialist. The “yet we dance” is saying “yes there’s no meaning, yet we dance”. That’s an existential nihilist position
Are you getting mad at your own meme?
existential nihilism doesn't require that there is no meaning, just that there is no inherent meaning. Meaning can still be created and received through recognition of others.
Those who stop at the breakdown of old morality and wallow in filth are nothinglords who missed the point of breaking down the old social constructs, that is, to build new better ones and even later break those down again and so on... That is what history is, that is what the dialectic is - the eternal process of change and exchange.
There is objectively no meaning in the universe, but IMO nihilism is cringe. Absurdism is the way to go.
Absurdism is just jokerfication for normies.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. It’s rather absurd that I get to live at all.
I feel like I understand the Buddha better as years go by. I want to enjoy this strange and mysterious opportunity to be without becoming too attached to all these temporary things, myself included. Indeed, my life today looks nothing like it did 10 years ago. I’m not sure I am the same person. In many ways, it’s like every day we die and become something new.
Actually I’m fine being attached to temporary things, experiencing loss and negative emotions is something I consider healthy for me. I don’t understand why we have these expectations for ourselves that we have to all become beings separate from the reality around us, and deny our emotions and feelings. Feeling remorse and sadness that something is gone does not demand that you cause harm because of it, and the fact we fear that remorse and sadness, not in the normal sense of trying to avoid it, but outright opting out of caring about what we lose or gain, means we haven’t learned to be a living being at all. I think maybe teaching people to feel pain and remorse in healthy ways may even lead to more happiness overall than trying to prevent it at all costs.
Edit: It makes me sad that I will die someday, but accepting that it makes me sad and yet I cannot change it makes much more sense to me than trying to change the fact I am fundamentally sad or attached to this life in the first place. I can accept my emotions and the reality around me at the same time, and in places I cannot, I think it is important to remember that we often experience emotions for a reason, because we are beings capable of changing things for ourselves and others. The important part is to ensure it does not let us hurt people (when not hurting people is a practical option)
Of course others might not feel the same way as me. But everyone is different
But my skills in fromsoft games will seize to exist
The meaning or lack thereof of life doesn't abrogate your responsibility in life: to change the world for the better. This could be as impactful as being the architect of a world-historic event and it could be as modest as being a good role model for kids who will grow up to not fuck up as much as you. But everyone has this responsibility, and this responsibility is completely orthogonal to whether life has meaning or not.
There's nothing more meaningless to question whether life has meaning or not.
Nihilism is just emo absurdism.
Too much thinking in this thread when obviously you should just flow like a river and smoke weed
I don't give a shit if God is dead, I want to know if God is giving head?
"What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest jerk off, and say to you, "This goon sesh as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it other than me sucking you off? but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and cumsplosion everything unutterably small or great in your Armenian conveyor belt with your bros will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence" ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: "You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine."
Yes, and that's WHY we dance
the wrong things turn to dust and the wrong things turn into the stones we build our world on
The dichotomy of wrong
no one wants to dance with me
