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  • The purpose of life (Nihilist's perspective)
    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.
  • The purpose of life (Nihilist's perspective)
    It seems to me that I do not even know where or how I acquired this concept of need or so-called purpose, you name it, it just happened steadily, day by day, month by month... and there it is, boom, I am a fully developed nihilist.
    Ironically as it may sound, when I acquired the concept of purpose, I lost it right away. Ask yourself, what would have changed if you would not exist on Earth, (No offense intended, nor was targeted at you specifically) that's right, not a thing would have changed. Admit it.
    I am not trying to be a smartass or anything in that direction, I just rely strictly on logic rather than individualistic views that are for the most part subjective and I do not really see the purpose of life, speaking objectively.
    I consider myself as a decently adequate person, but the ascending mindset of nihilism goes far beyond my limits of comprehension. Another thing to mention is that I do not unleash my negativity upon others, I just do not see the purpose of acquiring the positivity, therefore I am not even capable of sharing the positive, which can also be seen through the text I guess. I just do what I am voluntarily forced to do.
  • The purpose of life (Nihilist's perspective)
    I did not have any intentions to project others because of my bad experiences nor have anything against those facts I stated in my post above. I have a decent everyday's Joe life, not a millionaire either, but still a comparatively comfortable life and nothing really worries me at the present moment, it just seems to me that I am losing the value of nearly everything and no, I do not with any purpose detest choices made by others; their lives - their choices, fair enough. I just figured out that I am steadily becoming highly negative, but I do not necessarily demonstrate my views on others as if to put them down in any way. I just don't get the life. What I seemingly get, and I always maintain objectivity, rather than individualistic views on the purpose is that the ultimate purpose might be how we affect others by what we do, but on the other hand this concept opposes my viewpoint to a certain extent.

Edward the Cactus

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