I'll quote someone >I can sympathize with a lot of nihilist outlooks on existence, but just because a lot of these might be true, they're not the only ways you

I'll quote someone >I can sympathize with a lot of nihilist outlooks on existence, but just because a lot of these might be true, they're not the only ways you can view your flesh or your place in these patterns, as an animal or as a cog in a machine. There are other elements to existence, like imagination, that is a good example. Emotions are a great vehicle for building your own universe and reality, where your function as an animal or cog in a machine doesn't force you into some rote role that drags you into this stripped down reality of raison d'être being purely utilitarian and unchangeable. You mentioned imagination, but emotions make things real. Does it really matter if your imagined reality isn't concrete or factual? What matters is your happiness, right?