Past nihilism? We all know deep down that nihilism is the truth. Inherent meaning, purpose and objective value for random agglutinations of particles is a ridiculous concept.

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t-writescode 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Do we? Is it?

Having spent the last month staring into the abyss and Eldrich-level dread that is a pure, materialistic, reductionist universe, I wouldn’t wish that belief on anyone. There’s a deep, grasping of “there’s got to be more”, “this can’t all be chance”, “evolutionary hackery and garbage seems a poor explanation for love, compassion, empathy, and many other self-sacrificial practices we have”.

There’s only a few reasons that are slowly pulling me from that hell; but I cannot imagine that “most” people live here, even “deep down”.

	▲	dyauspitr 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have never understood that, what exactly is hellish about that situation. You just are, why does there need to be anything else, make up your own story if it’s that important to you. There obviously isn’t anything else unless you believe in a god or some other story. All those basic human behaviors can be explained by evolution easily. This is how I’ve always thought of the world even as a kid I must not be neurotypical or something.
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georgemcbay 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>> Looking forward to when it gets past nihilism to absurdism.

> Inherent meaning, purpose and objective value for random agglutinations of particles is a ridiculous concept.

Absurdism believes the same, but simply posits that we don't have to be a whiny baby about it.

	▲	dyauspitr 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting, I did not know that. However defining how to react to an “objective” truth doesn’t add much to a reality defining philosophy in my opinion but I guess that was Nietzsche’s whole thing.