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Somehow the nihilism always creeps in - the older I get the less I seem to be able to believe in anything, as the evidence accumulates that no one else does eit
by silverquiet 2y ago
Somehow the nihilism always creeps in - the older I get the less I seem to be able to believe in anything, as the evidence accumulates that no one else does either. I suppose I'm one of those smart people who the OP suggested has pissed it all away, but I never really got what it was I was supposed to be doing.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI never quite understood nihilism as a problem. Why doesn't it mean that someone has a blank check to impose their own subjective meaning on life?
- silverquiet 2y agoIt doesn't feel like a blank check. You still gotta get up and go to work every day to pay the bills and then do whatever chores you can muster up the will and time to take care of.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI was thinking about meaning. My understanding is that nihilism is more about a lack of higher purpose, opposed to a lack of action. I agree that work and chores are tough if you don't have a reason to be doing them. Similarly, will and motivation also require a goal, so that would be a challenge without one.
- keybored 2y ago> Why doesn't it mean that someone has a blank check to impose their own subjective meaning on life? I never understood Existentialism as a serious proposal.