It's no good saying "look at it this way" because I'm not looking at it in any way. Nihilism isn't a choice, it's what happens when you don't make a choice. I just want the ability to make a choice. — daldai
…In other words : why am I in that body ?
it's like there's not enough "me" there for someone to form I deep connection with — daldai
Nihilism is the absence of a world-view. I really did think this might be the one forum where I didn't have to explain this. — daldai
There's no such thing as "nihilist thinking", it's just thinking with an open-mind and only believing what you know is true. Then everything you know is true all fits neatly into place with no contradictions. Nihilism is the psychological effect. — daldai
it's like there's not enough "me" there for someone to form I deep connection with — daldai
except that I've never felt that there should be objective meaning in the universe. — daldai
All I know is that my lack of a belief-system has left me feeling isolated from other people when it comes to building strong relationships. — daldai
I don't know, but it would explain why I seem to be suffering from such a severe form of nihilism that even other nihilists, reformed or otherwise, find it hard to understand me. — daldai
I don't have a religious view of science. — daldai
For me, what we experience and observe is the universe, unless you want to get into the whole brain in a vat thing. Modern science describes this almost completely and it doesn't require faith. We are not told science, like we are told religion, we are shown science. Every piece of it is a little part of how the universe works and the fact it all fits together so perfectly and has given us all this amazing technology is proof - you don't have to believe medicine is going to cure you in order for it to cure you. — daldai
I have beliefs in the sense that "I believe that it's going to rain this afternoon" but absolute belief in anything that I don't know to be true, I really don't think so and this is what I mean by nihilism — daldai
Again, I can't stress this enough, it seems, but I don't have a "certain approach" - the universe approached me and said "go on, make sense of this." — daldai
Oh come on, it's perfectly normal to feel bitter and helpless in the face of what's going on in the world, no reasoning involved, and that's something I know I'm not alone in, so that's not leaving me isolated. — daldai
I never said I was having a philosophical crisis. I don't have a philosophy so how can it be in crisis. — daldai
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