Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

Gringostar posted:

i could go for some arbys

The existence of Arby's may be the best argument for nihilism.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

endlessmonotony
Nov 4, 2009

by Fritz the Horse

Gods_Butthole posted:

I don't think you could feel envious of organ donors without a meaningful framework that places them in a desirable position.

I don't think you can separate what I think and do from "suffering and dying".

err
Apr 11, 2005

I carry my own weight no matter how heavy this shit gets...

Gods_Butthole posted:

Does the existence of a definitive end point negate the possibility of meaning? Is meaning contigent on some kind of universal teleology? What does it mean to be lost to time? Meaning doesn't have to be permanent. Meaning as a subjective experience is of course always destined to perish with the individual experiencing it. Does your life not exist if it at some point comes to an end?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8x73UW8Hjk

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة

Colin Mockery posted:

when nothing matters on a grand scale, it really means that the smallest things matter just as much as the biggest things

sniffing a flower that smells nice is just as meaningful and important on a cosmic scale as some strangers you don't know standing on the moon several decades ago

so if u see a flower and find urself thinking "i want to smell it, i bet i would like that", u should remember that the universe doesn't care what you do, so u might as well give it a good sniff

The universe loves it when you sniff a flower, that's why the universe made them smell good. But yes, if nothing matters then everything matters equally.

Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

I've never seen true detective before, looks neat. Thanks!

Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

endlessmonotony posted:

I don't think you can separate what I think and do from "suffering and dying".

That sounds awful, I'm sorry.

Too Many Birds
Jan 8, 2020


lately i've been finding myself having my existential dread panic attacks again like i did in my mid-20s

anyway thats my post, thanks.

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Gods_Butthole posted:

I've never seen true detective before, looks neat. Thanks!

Yeah, too bad it only got one season before it was cancelled.

Admiral Bosch
Apr 19, 2007
Who is Admiral Aken Bosch, and what is that old scoundrel up to?
arby's sucks except for the curly fries. they should rebrand as a curly fry shack.

Korean Boomhauer
Sep 4, 2008
for the right price arbys is good

Viginti Septem
Jan 9, 2021

Oculus Noctuae
Doesn't the existence of this thread negate the core philosophical point of nihilism?

If you believe in nihilism you don't believe this thread exists. So what are you doing in it?

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Higher thought is a curse, are founding fathers made a mistake crawling out of the ocean and growing opposable thumbs. Consider the serene existence of the jellyfish or a rock :unsmith:

Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!
.

RadiRoot
Feb 3, 2007

Too Many Birds posted:

lately i've been finding myself having my existential dread panic attacks again like i did in my mid-20s

anyway thats my post, thanks.

is there a step beyond nihilism. i think im there.

endlessmonotony
Nov 4, 2009

by Fritz the Horse

samantonio posted:

Doesn't the existence of this thread negate the core philosophical point of nihilism?

If you believe in nihilism you don't believe this thread exists. So what are you doing in it?

gently caress does Cuno care?

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

I remember a post or article about a group of Georgian nihilists. They would just hang out together and drink in silence, there were strict rules of etiquette about not caring and sometimes they'd get into fights, maybe because someone cared about something. Seems weird since that also shouldn't matter but that was how they lived.

Maybe it was this
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317818439_Joyful_pessimism_Marginality_disengagement_and_the_doing_of_nothing

Grevling has issued a correction as of 08:16 on Apr 6, 2021

Crazypoops
Jul 17, 2017



I play this while I post in the nihilism thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcg6wekmCRA

Minera
Sep 26, 2007

All your friends and foes,
they thought they knew ya,
but look who's in your heart now.

SuppressdPuberty93 posted:

Bump every time you realize nothing matters

endlessmonotony
Nov 4, 2009

by Fritz the Horse

Crazypoops posted:

I play this while I post in the nihilism thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcg6wekmCRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj8MGKshSuQ

You could have gone way more nihilistic.

Viginti Septem
Jan 9, 2021

Oculus Noctuae

Grevling posted:

I remember a post or article about a group of Georgian nihilists. They would just hang out together and drink in silence, there were strict rules of etiquette about not caring and sometimes they'd get into fights, maybe because someone cared about something. Seems weird since that also shouldn't matter but that was how they lived.

Maybe it was this
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317818439_Joyful_pessimism_Marginality_disengagement_and_the_doing_of_nothing

Strict nihilism rules lol

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

samantonio posted:

Strict nihilism rules lol

Well unspoken rules I assume, it's not like they would have a sign that said "in this house we're strictly nihilist" but you might annoy somebody and get in a fight.

That paper wasn't the one I was thinking of as it turns out, it's very recent. It must have been a podcast from zerobooks about on a book by the same guy who wrote that article. In the article he revisits one guy he met the first time, it's pretty fun to read. They're mostly just really bored and have no reason to believe in a future so they don't care.

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

samantonio posted:

Doesn't the existence of this thread negate the core philosophical point of nihilism?

If you believe in nihilism you don't believe this thread exists. So what are you doing in it?



Lib and let die posted:

nothing matters, which owns, because it's a license to party on

laugh, and grow fat!

animist
Aug 28, 2018
who let all these goddamn existentialists into the nihilism thread

Viginti Septem
Jan 9, 2021

Oculus Noctuae

animist posted:

who let all these goddamn existentialists into the nihilism thread

What do you care?

/Nihilism burn

tiberion02
Mar 26, 2007

People tend to make the common mistake of believing that a situation will last forever.

animist posted:

who let all these goddamn existentialists into the nihilism thread

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


nothing matters....?

nothing matters!!!! :)

Viginti Septem
Jan 9, 2021

Oculus Noctuae
https://youtu.be/IZvFNQjYB6Q

Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!
The babes in politics thread gave my life meaning.

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

Gods_Butthole posted:

The babes in politics thread gave my life meaning.

gently caress the mods

Zhulik
Nov 14, 2012

The Montreal Star
whats nihilism

Zhulik
Nov 14, 2012

The Montreal Star
ok im looking into it now and it seems neat!

How are u posted:

Lots of things matter.

can you name 3? im having a midlife crisis and

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

20 Blunts posted:

weed matters

op immediately proven wrong, gas thread

skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

Maybe I'd be into nihilism if I wasn't so into feeling good

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
nihilism is a fun philosophy that let's you focus on what's really important: friends, family, and pitching a totinos pizza roll cereal to Post

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Zhulik posted:

whats nihilism

Nothink, what's nihilism with you

net work error
Feb 26, 2011

It's a river in Africa OP

TehSaurus
Jun 12, 2006

Humans make meaning from their existence in a number of ways. Love, experience, accomplishment, all of these things help humans find meaning. Even if nothing endures, reducing suffering, making someone else feel better is worthwhile.

What I'm saying is nuke the planet and end all suffering already you goddamn amateurs.

animist
Aug 28, 2018

samantonio posted:

What do you care?

/Nihilism burn

epic post

err
Apr 11, 2005

I carry my own weight no matter how heavy this shit gets...

Gods_Butthole posted:

I've never seen true detective before, looks neat. Thanks!

you are a fucker, but it doesn't matter because i am a nihilist

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

MLSM
Apr 3, 2021

by Azathoth
My favorite nihilist movies are The Thing and Alien 3: The Final Cut.

E; The Grey owns, too.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply