Nihilism

[Meretrix]

There is no appropriate thread for this, but it is closely related with its foundations in existentialism. I was wondering if anyone here would consider themselves a 'nihilist.' And I am referring to a modern nihilist, not such as one that Nietzsche preached against. For more help read some things at ANUS (http://www.anus.com) (American Nihilist Underground Society), especially the definition. There are numerous other definitions online and things that classify people as nihilists, but I believe that only individual people can say what they are.

[L.A.Matthews]

Hahaha!...ANUS...That's funny.:tongue:

[Truckin']

I'm a nihilist but I don't like to call myself a nihlist. I don't like to call myself any kind of -ist. I just don't feel the need to lump myself in with any certain group.

But anyway, here's another great article on nihilism:

Nihilism - The Continuity of Life (http://www.corrupt.org/data/files/nihilism/)

[Meretrix]

I'm a nihilist but I don't like to call myself a nihlist. I don't like to call myself any kind of -ist. I just don't feel the need to lump myself in with any certain group.

But anyway, here's another great article on nihilism:

Nihilism - The Continuity of Life (http://www.corrupt.org/data/files/nihilism/)That makes sense. The only reason I normally group myself with nihilists is because they are the closest thing I can relate to so people will understand at all what I believe in without having to explain it everytime. While I differ from some nihilistic views, I agree with the majority of them.

[smarmine]

If you take the definition as basically (as that continuity of life website states): "rejection of objective truth, social conventions, and moral meaning" than yes, I am a nihilist.

[AdreSac]

sure fuck it, im a nihilist.

[mati]

I consider myself a nihilist along the lines of the budhist teacher Nagarjuna

[Meretrix]

I consider myself a nihilist along the lines of the budhist teacher Nagarjuna

I don't know who that is. Care to explain?

[L.A.Matthews]

Nihilism shouldn't really be in the existentialism sub-forum.

[Meretrix]

Didn't see where else it could go. And it is similar to existentialism, or at least parts of it are.

[questing400]

If you were really a nilihist, how could you type?

[Meretrix]

http://www.anus.com/zine/nihilism/

I think you should read that about Nihilism.

Nihilism is NOT fatalism.

[questing400]

I don't deny nililism. I deny reality instead.

[mati]

see the budhist forum. I deny the "externality" of relations. All is illusion, including the "I". "nothing exists, whether of ourselves, others, or nothing whatsoever." (nagarjuna)I don't know who that is. Care to explain?

[famewalk]

Because we tend to hide economic judgment from the capacity of government administrations to fix or improve situations, Nihilism is the means of purpose which loses all baring on the concrete consequentialism of how and why we would mind our changes amd change the mind of the, now, nothing consequentially valued for the Material Man (mind is the in the sensing of matter for opaque spongeing). Such is the Nihilism which fixes Physics for all time.

[stratface]

i don't understand how one can subscribe to nihilism.

[freexspirit29]

I think nihilism is interesting and I thought I was a nihilist....but the whole idea of it really depresses me so I stopped thinking it