How unconcious chance produces extremes of fortune thereby creating mutually exclusive worlds of experience, its random nature meaning the most vulnerable may be dealt the worst hands, etc - — Robert Lockhart
That makes sense to me. I just don't get what it's supposed to have to do with nihilism. Or "logical reality." — Terrapin Station
And yet could be a nihilist, having the kind of luxury to put their morality and sense of meaning on a shelf, having less or little struggle and less need for the motivations inherent in non-nihilist belief systems.A psychologically stable individual, his experience through good fortune circumscribed by a benign situation, necessarily thereby suspecting nothing outwith his resultant bliss. — Robert Lockhart
who might also be a nihilist, but then might suprise us (or not) and be deeply embedded in various objective value, transcendent or other meaning paradigmns.A psychologically unstable individual, his experience through misfortune circumscribed by a malign situation, likewise necessarily thereby suspecting nothing outwith his resultant misery. — Robert Lockhart
Such nihilism would in principle be an example of the degree of possible inequity innate to a situation descended solely from a logical reality - would it not? - its manifestation therefore perhaps being symptomatic of the nature of our situation. — Robert Lockhart
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