Can you elaborate some? Didn't Plato make a comment like that? Something along the lines of "All of life is just preparation for death." — Nicholas Mihaila
I don't know in what sense you use the term "nihilist" and why do you need to put a label on you, which I am quite sure cannot define you. "Labels" have this drawback: they cannot define people! They can only give an idea, and in most cases quite vague one, about them.I’ve basically become a nihilist over the years — Nicholas Mihaila
This is not what nihilism is, based on the definition I provided above. But I don’t think any other definition will claim that nihilism claims that "everything is baseless". Which, BTW, you nagate by saying later: "I see almost everything as completely pointless".It’s not a true nihilism in the sense that I believe everything to be completely baseless." — Nicholas Mihaila
I make good money and can afford to do what I like, but there’s nothing I want. — Nicholas Mihaila
We are all like flowers, doomed to wither and be forgotten, but this does not make life meaningless - it would be meaningless if it lasted forever - but it is precious and meaningful because it is unique and fleeting. — unenlightened
The problem is that it's just not enough. Any fulfillment I experience is dwarfed by suffering. — Nicholas Mihaila
You haven't actually done an actual analysis as to whether our life is unique, have you? — baker
One's own lived time is (a) good in itself, no? And we value scarce goods (re: high stakes loss) more highly than abundant goods (re: low stakes loss), no?So whence the idea that rare and fleeting makes life worth living? — baker
Awesome! Moments of bliss!That's what I'm trying to do. I'm currently in a cafe enjoying some coffee. The existential dread is like background noise, and the coffee tastes good. :) — Nicholas Mihaila
you wouldn't say that they make life worth living. They just don't. — baker
I'd say be eccentric!↪Nicholas Mihaila
Try Camus. Absurdism is probably the best path out of nihilism :) — I like sushi
We don't really want what we think we desire." — Slavoj Žižek
You could work your entire life only to make a scratch on the edifice, but you’ll surely be forgotten afterwards. — Nicholas Mihaila
There can be no up without down, and no value without cost. — unenlightened
You could work your entire life only to make a scratch on the edifice, but you’ll surely be forgotten afterwards. — Nicholas Mihaila
We can surmise you beat your spouse, so that they can appreciate your tendernesses. — baker
Just for the record, if a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, it absolutely does not make a sound. Rather, it makes a series of vibrations in the air. IF and ONLY IF someone is there to hear it, the vibrations become what we understand as sound.It would be like arguing that if a tree falls in the forest and there's nobody around to hear it, it wouldn't make a sound — Nicholas Mihaila
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