• AssaultRifle15 [he/him]
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    368 months ago

    If your nihilism doesn’t make you happy, you’re doing it wrong. The absence of meaning should be a liberating factor, not a limiting one. It’s actually dope as fuck that there’s no greater purpose to your life, you can never fail as a person when there’s no standard you feel you have to meet.

    • @Zink
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      118 months ago

      Definitely. I think of it as “positive nihilism” or something like that.

      The fact that meaning and purpose, as we think of them, aren’t an inherent part of reality and are literally in our head… it’s liberating.

      • @hex
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        18 months ago

        It’s absurdism :)

    • @[email protected]
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      78 months ago

      basically life is minecraft: there’s no goal, we have to give ourselves reasons to live, and we can make those reasons precisely whatever the fuck we want, and that’s what makes it so fucking brilliant.

  • body_by_make
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    258 months ago

    “The big picture is made up of brush strokes”, absolutely love this. Gotta try to remember it.

  • Flying Squid
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    98 months ago

    It’s like the people who crow on about how we’re living in a simulation. Okay, so what? I still have to live my life as if I’m not living in a simulation. I still can see that what I do has effects that ripple out starting with those closest to me.

    • @[email protected]
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      88 months ago

      Yeah, if you can’t get access to the source code, whether it’s a simulation or not doesn’t make a difference.

  • Lurkerino [comrade/them]
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    68 months ago

    I think the fucked up part is not the not having meaning, its the, if there is no meaning why the fuck do we still have a society based on perpetual human suffering for profit. Lets make something better.

  • @[email protected]
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    38 months ago

    Things can still have meaning to you locally, and you can comprehend that ‘meaning’ at larger scales is reduced.

    This person sounds like they’re having a frantic existential panic attack.