Well, there are things that people like. What more purpose or meaning than that is needed? That’s really all it comes down to. — Michael Ossipoff
You are right, that would be stupid to quarrel with this argument. I, however, at the given moment am totally lost what I like or even what I would like to do. A little bit off-topic, but take a look. In the past, I was a fitness addict and had a rather aesthetic figure that most of the people are dreaming of, but then, after a while, I totally detested an aspect of my "purpose" and it was an infinite intake of calories. I just stopped enjoying what I liked because of one or another aspect of whatever employment one likes to do. For example, I like to swim but am a chronic epileptic and cannot swim by myself because of sporadic seizures, therefore certain aspects of my purpose are to a certain extent constraining myself to like what I do and in the long run, I end up giving up on my purpose, it happened with me twice already. First time with gaming, now with fitness. I can give you a link for some images to prove that I am not lying about the above stated, although if you want not to, so let it be.
When, in some way or at some time, things haven’t gone so well, or aren’t going so well, there’s a tendency for negative feelings about life. Buddhists seem to imply that those negative feelings don’t stand up to examination, and I agree. — Michael Ossipoff
I can relate to that. I did not accustom nihilistic perspective at that moment, it already lasts about six months, but recently I was denied a grant to research in one of the leading universities in Sweden(I am from Latvia) in my major studies and yes, that increased my capacity of negativity and somehow decreased the hopes of my "purpose", which at the present moment is career-driven, I guess.
The remark about nihilists being materialistic might be and might not be necessarily true, although I myself am a rather materialistically inclined person. From a fundamental, unlayered level of nihilism might seem that the materialistic value, as the life itself, has no intrinsic meaning, therefore is meaningless, but I, contradicting here myself on purpose, support your idea. Since nihilists neglect the purpose of life they, to a certain extent, attain it through their possessions.
Well, if I hadn’t been born there’d have been a little less for Materialists at this forum to be angry at. — Michael Ossipoff
A little bit confused. I am not angry at you at all or was that a touch of sarcasm?
By the way, could you define Ontic Structural Subjective Idealist in a broad sense? A contrary to nihilism I would assume.