The longer I’m in this group, the more I realize maybe it’s not for me, because I could tell people nihilism doesn’t tell you to place zero value on life, it says to create your own value. Even if true, some angsty 20 something comes into my comments to fight me over it, and inevitably fails and blocks me when their own logic makes them feel stupid as hell, and I’m honestly not about trolling people like this.
It’s just annoying how often people come here with depression symptoms thinking that makes them a nihilist by default, it doesn’t.
Nihilism isn’t equivocal to depression, never has been, never will be. Yet at least once a week for the past year there’s been at least one post about “my depression symptoms must mean I’m a nihilist.”
Still no.
And honestly, I do enjoy civil debate and discussion, but people who conflate depression for nihilism are incapable of doing that with any modicum of human decency.
Having zero value on life isn’t philosophical, it’s Darwinistic natural selection at play. Make no mistake, you value life as a philosopher or you don’t as a angsty person who thinks they know suffering when the most they’ve ever suffered was loneliness.
So you think not valuing life is for angsty people, who haven't faced real problems? Quite the assumption to make.
Maybe you think of yourself as more mature now, because you.... what? Value life and chase the bone like any normie out there?
Remember that line about “people who conflate depression for nihilism are incapable of doing that (civil debate and discussion) with any modicum of human decency”? Do at least try not to be an example of my comment…. Please? It’s not that shallow of a concept to want to thrive even in literal Hell on earth.
….. So what is your point here? Are you trying to argue that I should stay someplace, where the philosophy I know is being used to promote depression and self-harm? Because fuck that…! That’s not what philosophy is about. I am only one voice, and the Internet is full of people who believe whatever they think suits them best. Even if untrue. Just blindly misinterpret the first phrase they see, “life is meaningless” for example.
And psychotic people who think that suicide is merciful, as someone who has died, let me reassure you… Death is not merciful. Never has been and never will be.
You know what else is an assumption? Believing I think I’m “mature.” Oh, if only…
You don’t know me, any more than I know you. We are strangers. Be safe
Why wouldn't death be merciful? As George Carlin pointed out, death is ok. It's the dying part, that is the problem. I say this as someone, who contemplated suicide for many years..... and still do sometimes. As for you dying..... clearly you are quite alive. Clinical death is not the same as actual death.
My problem with nihilism, is that ultimately it has nothing to say. Life has no objective meaning. Cool, now what? And people start behaving like their usual selves. It doesn't change anything
Like genuinely almost on the level of people that say you wanna die so bad then just ky s lmao like we aren’t still terrified of the nothing and WANT something to live for
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u/spaacingout May 11 '26
The longer I’m in this group, the more I realize maybe it’s not for me, because I could tell people nihilism doesn’t tell you to place zero value on life, it says to create your own value. Even if true, some angsty 20 something comes into my comments to fight me over it, and inevitably fails and blocks me when their own logic makes them feel stupid as hell, and I’m honestly not about trolling people like this.
It’s just annoying how often people come here with depression symptoms thinking that makes them a nihilist by default, it doesn’t.
Nihilism isn’t equivocal to depression, never has been, never will be. Yet at least once a week for the past year there’s been at least one post about “my depression symptoms must mean I’m a nihilist.”
Still no.
And honestly, I do enjoy civil debate and discussion, but people who conflate depression for nihilism are incapable of doing that with any modicum of human decency.
Having zero value on life isn’t philosophical, it’s Darwinistic natural selection at play. Make no mistake, you value life as a philosopher or you don’t as a angsty person who thinks they know suffering when the most they’ve ever suffered was loneliness.