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 (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.
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
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.
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.
http://www.anus.com/zine/nihilism/ I think you should read that about Nihilism. Nihilism is NOT fatalism.
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)
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.
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
Nihilism denies existence of anything, especially an objective truth. But at the same time, nihilists think nihilism is true. If there is no truth yet they believe firmly in something to be true, it's self-contradictory.
When you said "nothing is true", like when you say other statement, assume that the statement itself is true. As Kant has said, lingustics and the utility of language compels one to state what he thinks is true. Yet you said "nothing is true", which is self-contradictory. We must assume "nothing is true" is true, which contradicts with the statement itself. It is like saying "I am a liar", which is also self-contradictory, because if he is a liar, the statement he just says would be a lie, which in turn implies he's not a liar.
