A GUIDE TO NIHILISM: Nothing Matters, Life Is Meaningless and Remember To Have Fun!
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Ironic.
How very UN-nihilistic of you.
Not the most inspired choice to announce your merch launch on the nihilism video.
The great thing about nihilism is the freedom and responsibility that it gives you. Even though life is meaningless, there no ultimate goal, we aren't going anywhere and there is zero purposes, you are free to write you own story and you are fully responsible for all your actions.
who are you responsible to?
No, there is no responsibility because there is no free will. If everything is meaningless, you cannot be made responsible for it.
freewill is an illusion.
@@cookqie8822 translation: I don't want to take responsibility for hurting others, so free will doesn't exist, it wasn't my fault.
@@marcsmoo can you prove free will exists
while giving me an existential crisis i found the smooth jazz music pretty soothing
Yes, housecat makes wonderful music
these kind of videos have comforted me as I've went through mine the past 3 months or so.
@@karifurai8479 there is more to come.
I don’t have existential crisis because the answer seems to be clear, I’m a nihilist and I embrace my freedom of living my life at it’s maximum, because it seems pretty obvious we don’t exist on purpose, I don’t know why people need to think they are very important and being the Center of the universe and being dictated by a path to be happy, it looks so much absurd, existential crisis is missing the point of life.
@@laitdejabot9890 same, i'm nihilist but alos bit of misantrophic. I see the world and society we live in as some kind of amusement park where some just enjoy it, some in fear, some too hysterical
What people don’t seem to understand is that Nihilism is supposed to be like a blank canvas upon which you, the artist, can paint, and not the painting itself.
Damn, this is a great way of framing nihilism.
I like it a lot!
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@@funkymunky inspiring
An optimist's view on nihilism, I'm surprised!
Nihilism is a state of mind that makes every painting impossible.
Tolstoy’s take on nihilism is the most accurate for me… oriented towards hedonism as the only logical pursuit, lack of interest/motivation in work and disillusion of faith giving a meaningless context for every experience I cannot lose myself in. I’ve recently had a recurring thought that if there is any adequate revival of meaning that could actually make life and it’s suffering seem tolerable, it would be faith. But, in the same way i can’t become genuinely calm when my brain knows there is something to be anxious about, i can’t genuinely believe in a higher power when my brain knows it’s highly irrational… If theres any how-to guide to Kierkegaard’s leap of faith lmk asap🙃
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I really hope you’re doing well dude, thanks for making so many people smile over the years.
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I will say though, his jump almost seems rational. From an objective view, he’s doing just as any religion has in regards to the unknown: explaining what cannot be explained with simple belief, or “faith”.
If that jump in thought was caused by influence from his environment, or if it was purely organic, it still makes sense as a way to find peace in the unknown.
I feel you - I've found that Mysticism scratched that faith itch without requiring any kind of "leap". The Buddha himself said not to take what he says in faith, but rather to experience it for yourself in an empirical manner. I'd recommend reading Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance as well, it's a great introduction to the subject!
@@basic_chain i read it a few years ago but don’t remember any of it so will do! I also delve pretty deep into Buddhism, mindfulness, non-dualism etc around 2018 but i’d only felt short moments of joy during hours of repeated practice so i decided it wasn’t going to “save me” so to speak like i had hoped
@@logancharis6820 i see where you’re coming from, but when i read that i just think of sam harris’ take on the “god of the gaps” argument which is what that sounds like
I've always liked Nietzsche's active nihilism. Although I don't agree with it, I think its still a positive way to approach life, rather than sitting around doing nothing. Traditional nihilism is like looking at a black canvas and simply complaining there is no art, while active nihilism makes you take the canvas and make your own art.
*Real* nihilism (if it exists) is not complaining.
Get down of your high horse for you have failed understandment
Nietzche was a nihilist?
@𝐖𝐢𝐥 its more integrated. Its like if a nihilist (i.e. someone who has denounced the existence of any higher power and become impotent and depressed due to finding no conceivable reason to do anything) becomes seized by a spiritual impetus, consciously or unconsciously, and becomes aware that there is actually a higher reason for one to be here, and therefore acting that out.
The lines can get blurred though because that individual has the symptoms of both sides of the spectrum. I didnt know Nietzsche but fron my personal observations it can take the form of zealous activity towards a goal or creative passion yet that patented stoic disinterest in the more mundane cultural affairs and behaviors, such as toxic aspects of culture, whats going on around you or engaging with strangers, shit like that
So in a sense, it is existentialism.
Depressed man finds god/purpose but still must deal with depression whilst fulfilling their purpose.
From doomer to bloomer to dloomer after the initial bloomer initiation wears off.
@@xiao9250 What's good about Nihilism? It teaches you that nothing matters, which unequivocally false. Even without social constructs, the simple fact that you can conceived children to set along more people can matter. And even if that didn't matter, then why not make the meaning: finding the beauty in conventionally disgusting, find the happiness in the frustrating. It can start by simply laughing at when you fall down, instead of getting frustrated.
Personally for me my philosophy is “Nothing matters, so why not?”. If nothing matters then go forth and pursue what you want!
for me it’s the opposite nothing matters so why try it’s pointless at the end of the day
@@money6951 because you might feel happy if you do what you want
@@money6951 and that's okay too. you do you.
@@money6951 nothing matters so you are both right :)
Does murder matter?
Philosophy must thrive on RUclips, thanks Sisyphus! Happy new year :).
To me nihilism is like painting on a canvas that is lowering it to lava. Because it doesn't matter if u paint, because it'll get destroyed, but because I enjoying painting, I'd paint. (Painting meaning living my life)
nothing matters, life is what you make of it, what meaning you give it, what fairy tales you want to tell yourself, and how you navigate through the boundaries of society.
Nihilism is useful as a transient phase.
It allows you to build your own meaning from the ground up.
I consider myself a Nihilist, and I believe that there is no intrinsic meaning to existence, there is no big purpose or higher power. But I don't believe that it is necessary to let go of desires, or what I think of as 'false purposes'. I think that it is entirely natural for people to create purposes for themselves and to have wishes and desires, and I don't think it is necessary to reject those things just because they have no intrinsic meaning. Nothing has any intrinsic meaning. Why should that matter? Whatever happens happens.
Someone confronted with nihilism might think, "why live, what real reason do I have not to just die?" and I say there is no real reason not to die. But consequently there is no reason TO die either. It is entirely up to you, if you wish to die, so be it. And if you don't, OK. But understand that whatever you do, you are doing it for no reason beyond your own motivations, which you may deem meaningless themselves. Nothing you do is for any intrinsic reason. You just do what you do. And that's OK. It's entirely natural. Do not fight it. Or do, either way it doesn't matter.
And my opinion on politics in this: someone might hear me say something political, and remembering what I've said here, they might say, "oh, why does is matter to you?" and I say that it matters to me the same reason politics might matter to them. Because morality is natural, and I say there is no reason to fight it, even if it has no intrinsic meaning. If you choose to be moral, you are moral. Simple as that.
Edit: spelling mistake.
Well put. I hope you have a nice night
But there is no logic to this. There are more reasons to die than to live. If you have a nihlistic view of life and life is meaningless then to live is meaningless and everything you experience is meaningless all the range of human emotions and 'experience' and most importantly suffering. If everything is meaningless what is there to live for? Everything is meaningless yet we ultimately know that it will end, we will die so therefore why live, why participate in the pantomime of life especially as nothing will ever bring any meaning...it's an awful viewpoint that one can get stuck in.
@@brooke1639 It's equally as pointless to die as it is to live. Sure, it's meaningless to live, so why not die? But it's also meaningless to die. So why not live? It's just a matter of picking one. If you end up killing yourself, I guess that's your choice, but you also might not. Either way, there is no meaning or resolve in what you're doing.
I believe what u say is true but I've heard this from someone as an answer to why do anything? Simply cuz u can't do nothing and desires will push u to do things.
Is this from a known philosopher I wonder?
@@brooke1639 that’s like saying why watch a movie or a show if you know it’s gonna end, why do kids play outside if there is no purpose in doing so, it’s because they like and enjoying doing so. So if you don’t want to live or do anything, you can because at the end of the day you are still at doing what you want to do which is not doing anything at all.
ah yes 2022 started with nihilism this year gonna be great!
Happy new year Sisyphus! Hope your final(?) semester goes well! Thanks for all this content!
I’m so happy a friend recommended this channel to me - I love the different topics you cover, and your voice is so calming too.
>Life is meaningless
>Have fun
That is a contradiction
Kierkegaard’s “The Present Age” discusses his concept of leveling in a way that made a lot of sense to me, and Hubert Dreyfus’s “Nihilism on the Information Highway” is really informative on leveling and nihilism in the face of the internet
Tolstoi's perspective is very similar to my own. Faith is a survival mechanism. I also have faith, not in a higher power, but in the value of life, despite knowing that life has no objective value. Every human being holds some sort of contradictory belief, because that's the only way to survive. If we didn't, we would fall into a pit of despair and hopelessness.
No matter what you do in this life, it will amount to nothing. Yet, your brain will force you to ignore this fact and actually do something with your life.
I once asked a girlfriend what the meaning of life was. Her answer was "to live." No hesitation and very sincere. Even though our relationship didn't last, that answer has stuck.
Yeah, you can be an edge-lord and say "tHaT dOeSn'T eXpLaIn AnYtHinG," but I'd argue you're missing the point. It's not supposed to. It's absurdism and she embraced it unknowingly.
It wouldn’t make someone an edge lord to say “that doesn’t explain anything”.
@@mlgfinfr. I believe the only way to “live” is through a purpose of some kind, without it you’ll feel trapped in a prison looking for a way out and purpose is the only true philosophy worth living forward to achieve a little bit of something that makes the world a little bit more bearable not only for yourself but for others as well.
@@TheManofLawless I wasn’t really talking about all that-
I just disagree that it would make someone an edge lord. Idk how many conversations you’ve had with ppl in comments of philosophy videos- sometimes ppl just have no idea what that’s supposed to mean or they’re genuinely confused bc they’ve never thought of that perspective before. Some ppl are bad faith assholes- yeah but I still don’t think I’d label them as “edge lords”
@@mlgfin I believe that it can go both ways. You can be a bad faith and say “that doesn’t explain anything” and you can be an edge lord and say the same. Only some people are able to find purpose in life itself but for many others they do not and see the future through their external /internal purpose or through a suffering pain which makes them believe life itself is meaningless. Those with a suffering pain still yet have to find a purpose and thats why they see the world as a meaningless suffering prison which typically leads them to escapism. I’m not sure how else to explain it and I think anybody who doesn’t find purpose in life itself can definitely say to “live” doesn’t explain anything because to them life is meaningless or meaningless without a purpose whether thats bad faith purpose or an internal purpose to make the world more bearable.
@@TheManofLawless Could you define “edge lord” then?
Bc from my understanding an edge lord is a “person that talks about controversial, offensive, taboo, or nihilistic subjects in order to shock other users in an effort to appear cool, or edgy.”
Simply saying “that doesn’t explain anything” doesn’t make them an edge lord…
Also you just love yapping, don’t you? Like a lot of what you said, wasn’t really relevant to bring up in this conversation.
I love the path that this channel is taking, improving what seemed that couldn't be improved. Keep it up Sisyphus!
stuff matters because i said so
I back that up because I said it
Thanks friends I was getting worried 😅👍
Existentialism be like
The universe is an Entropy machine (see Heat Death). Life, despite its wondrous variety, is an Order machine (see Grey Goo).
Reality is indeed subjective (Nietzsche's Red Apple) and so is Purpose (see Write Your Own Eulogy).
If you don't know what to do with your life don't panic it's totally normal. If you panicked anyway that's also totally normal.
I can confirm that faith can feel Quite Nice👌 (mine is literally what I've just written here). If you're still confused and you like diagrams see Ikigai Diagram. If you're still confused but you don't like diagrams don't worry; it will pass after a bit 👍
Great video however an opportunity was missed to bring to the table “optimistic nihilism”. The aspect of no intrinsic meaning inevitably results in the ability to construct ones own meaning, therefore, optimistic nihilism. For instance; I have the ability to derive a higher purpose or sense of meaning from whatever source I choose from, such as helping others or raising a child, etc. For me, that is what makes life worth living. If there was an intrinsic purpose that I perceived to be a burden, that would be rather insidious to my mental health.
I wish there was an all compassionate god. This free will thing is kinda exhausting
Or lack there of. My god
I used to think nihilism is silly, and a product of depression. Now I'm a promortalist and it just makes sense that people fall into nihilism
@@thotslayer9914 enough
To me all that matters is helping as many people as you can in your life & being happy. But I think that people can very easily get distracted by ugly things in the world. What helps me is understanding that do not have a lot of money & power to help others. So I focus on helping those around me. You can help a lot just by doing something small for someone else.
I kinda find myself in alignment with Nihilist thought quite often, but I also think that even though life on earth may have no meaning, how I go through life still has purpose, in the way that despite the chaos of the world, I am where I am because I happen to be here. I follow my desires, wants, and needs because as a human being I want these things and choose to live in that way. What I do may be completely arbitrary, but that is the nature of the universe and I am in tune with it. People always find ways to oversimplify the complexities and unpredictabilities of life because they want control over it.
nothing like a guide to nihilism to start 2022 on the right foot
Nihilism now coming at you in 3D! You gotta love it.
I'm thankful for your videos. Everytime you post a video like this or your more personal videos I take something out of them. They have brought me closer to myself by allowinge to understand what I feel and how I interpret things around me.
I'm glad this video is 3D-glasses compatible
What a great way to start my Monday morning. Thank you!
Ion even need to watch the video it automatically gets a like before it’s started cause all your vids are HEATTTT MAN
As they say "all great minds think alike" 💯✨
I thought Nietzsche other quote on nihilism was fascinating: "Man would rather will nothing than to will at all" 🤔
I think it's "Man would rather will nothingness than not to will (anything)" (German: "Der Mensch würde noch eher das Nichts wollen als nicht wollen"), from the Genealogy of Moral.
I've always found the conculsions of nihilist-esque philosophers quite confusing. To me if you are pressupposing that nothing matters, then anything that follows is kinda irrelevant. I understand "giving meaning to a life that isn't intrinsically meaningful" but to say "nothing matters so live your life how you choose/have fun" assumes that those things have value and matter in some way.
Do you mean that living a sort of anarchist 'YOLO' lifestyle, as a response to nothing mattering, assumes that living like that matters even though nothing is supposed to matter?? Funnily enough I'm confused by the confusion you've experienced because I think living a 'nothing matters do what you want' life is just doing what you want instead of being preoccupied with the crippling purposelessness of existing itself. I think that mindset acknowledges the meaninglessness of existence and continues on with life, like one should because nihilism is a passing state of mind
@@sithiboo But you’re presupposing enjoyment matters. In my eyes the “truly” nihilistic thing would be to draw no conclusions. After all, it doesn’t matter if you suffer. Neither is it that pursuing pleasure is actively wrong but if you conclude “nothing matters” and then “so I should live life to the max” I just think that’s contradictory.
It’s cognitive dissonance. By the way, what definition are you using for meaningless?
@@hamez1300 I suppose that makes sense. If suffering doesn't matter, enjoyment shouldn't matter either. By that principle, coming to the conclusion 'YOLO' after thinking 'nothing matters' wouldn't make sense because then that means somehow enjoyment matters. I guess I replied because I didn't understand what you meant.
And I guess what I mean by 'meaningless' is the absense of importance, because even if your individual life was important to something else that something else doesn't matter in the grand cosmic scheme of things. I'm not really going off any thought-out definition of 'meaningless'.
@@sithiboo I have nihilistic tendencies sometimes but when I’m not in that state I take comfort in existentialism. I think when you put meaning in the power of the individual it’s very powerful and it makes sense. As far as we know we’re the only ones who can interpret it, construct it and need it. As much as I sometimes feel like nothing matters because the universe will end and what have you, is that objectively true? Can I just learn to accept that over time and still feel as though getting up in the morning is worthwhile? I sorta live for the hope that it is possible haha.
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Thank you, Sisyphus 55
To believe that life has no meaning, is still a belief. Thus, meaning…. Best way to practice nihlism (if its possible) is to live mindlessly, without thought. But ofc thats impossible, so the other option is to just live life without thinking about its meaning and then adapt any philosophy,framework,paradigm, way of life, perspective, morals, convictions or w.e.Until eventually you die and then poof…. Now ofc i am talking about individual nihilism but as a network of people or biengs in world or the universe idk how social or cosmic nihilism would work. But even then cosmic is too out there and irrelevant to us because we just encompass our existence within one significant sliver of time and space. So now we have the social nihilism but even if we didnt believe in laws or social norms, wed still have to follow them because we live with other individuals who follow w.e government paradigm of whichever society they live within. Sort of like John Locke’s notion Tacit Agreements. So its kind of hard to live in this edgy nihilistic way of life when to practice or acknowledge the thought of meaninglessness is to create meaning of that nothingness.
Life has no meaning until you give it one.
@@mementomori4840 How do you know that is true?
@@dethkon How do you know it’s not?
@@mementomori4840 I don’t know if it’s true or not. I am asking so we can explore your statement more deeply.
First objection: Can what you wrote not be reformatted as this: “The meaning of life is for me to give life meaning?” And does this not result in a paradox?
Another critique is that I seem to be quite surrounded by meaningless, dumb life: a cactus growing alone in the desert, or a fish that’s born and immediately eaten. Even if we limit it to strictly Human life, does it account for a child that is born and dies before it can achieve self-consciousness or Subjectivity? It’s parents might derive meaning from it’s life, although the child didn’t. Does the statement hold true (does it hold that these things have lives devoid of meaning)?
I think you may be pointing towards something interesting (like a Kantian Idealism, or a radical Subjectivity), so I’m testing it against any objections I can think of.
@@dethkon I think what he means is by living itself is giving yourself meaning. Just because a cactus or whatever has a dumb purpose, doesnt mean it doesnt have meaning, it just simply exists and has to do its job. There isn’t much to talk about because we humans aren’t even supposed to know or comprehend the true meaning of life. We are still animals in a huge universe that doesnt care about us.
Love your videos, I’ve really learned a lot from them
Love you man
This is similar to the ideas behind the plot of Neon Genesis Evangelion, which is literally the new telling of the book Genesis.
Nah, I'd say Naoki Urasawa's Monster is the medium that handles this. Also, "Bokutachi Ga Yarimashita" deals with it with one of the characters (Tobio). Eva is about how individualism ruined life and we should all become a hivemind or something but the article of this interpretation isn't in English so I can't share it. What I'm trying to say is that eva never handled these ideas, and even if it did I think it didn't do it well because it never clicked with me when I watched it, Monster and Bokutachi ga yarimashita did though and kinda helped me out navigating these ideas.
I should really read more Tolstoy, because he sounds like he agrees with me. I have an optimistic faith in that the world will get better. I have evidence that it's getting better. That's all the faith I ever need. The rest of my life is bound up in responsibilities for myself and my loved ones.
Edit: without this optimistic faith in the world getting better, I would have killed myself a long time ago. I am fundamentally nihilistic. It's inescapable for me. At least I'll try to be optimistic with my nihilism. I don't mind absurdism either: may as well laugh at this situation I've found myself and everyone in.
This. Live, laugh, love. Even if it's seemingly pointless.
I've been unemployed for a year now and it's honestly been a great time for me aside from money struggles and what not but aside from the lack of money living the life of a parasite has been wonderful actually but a single tought of going back to the wage cage makes me despair im not sure how to interpret that i've never wanted to participate in life but im a bit too much of a coward to take my own life so i've been living hedonistically this past year because it really doesn't matter what i do is that also a form of optimistic nihilism or just self destructive behaviour?
Step back into the wage cage and make a plan to be free from it. Stop being a parasite, it's really hard on the person you're sucking blood from.
In a few years that lifestyle might start taking a toll on you, probably isn't worth it in the long run
doesn't really matter.
As nihilism concludes, it doesn't matter how you live your life.
Live ,die, be happy, be sad, neither of those are greater or lesser than one another. you're free to choose, so choose something or don't, it doesn't matter either way.
So, i guess after saying all this, i didn't really say anything significant that'll give you some answer huh!! I'll shut up now.
Its incredibly hard to unlearn years of so much Western , Capitalist indoctrination. Its difficult to fully realize that every aspect of our lives in modern society is to teach us not only to be workers, but to obey, to put off participation in the true meat of daily life in order to gain the "proper certificates" etc etc
IN always loved school but recently had it reframed after reading an article about unschooling and just the institution that school is and when/why America adopted in Nationwide in the late 1800s.
And college especially, putting off living more and more for longer lengths of time (often putting us in drownworthy debt) so when we leave we're enslaved , more obedient and not even aware or able to conceive or imagine any sort of alternative way to live and exist, economically or socially, all the while while we're in college at least they're teaching us to be valuable consumers . Its shameful
Money issues often are unavoidable I get it. We can't drop out of society unless we are privvy to at least some type of privilege. But I say forget what anyone else tells you. Pay attn to your intuition and gut and live how you think you want.
Its so sad often I hear people really caught up in the bullshit saying whats there to do if ur not grinding n working/trying to make money. Its like live!!!
Like do literally anything you enjoy. Learn, grow food, take up a hobby, whatever! Money is not truely real anyone, it is not and fundamental part of nature. Im blessed to have and housing voucher and at this point I don't really mind not working Cuzco with the fucked off way the US is, the second I got and job on the table again I'd end up having to work 40+ FRS just to try to ensure housing. So Ive been reading, listening to music, taking time for myself. Whatever.
, ya know?
I don't know man.
Wishin' you all the best.
The Profundity of the last statement is insane
Love the vids, always like a fresh of breath air 🤘🏿
Of course Tolstoy again lost his faith and died in despair, still looking for an answer to the unanswerable. His Confession is similar to the Ecclesiastes text, with the difference that Ecclesiastes succumbs completely to faith
I always had Nihilistic thoughts my whole life. But only today did I realize this is what I have been suffering from!
perfect video, perfect timing
Nihilism gives you a false sense of certanty, but the price payed for this certanty is all of your lives potential that isnt yet actualised and needs to be discovered in the unknown. I have been a nihilist/atheist/rationalist most of my life grounding my worldview in science and common sense, I asure you this is not the best way to live ones life even tough its brings alot of comfort and reasurance to think that you are probably on the rigth side.
Over time the world becomes bleak and science or common sense do not provide the means nececearly so one can move trough the intense suffering one encounters trough ones adulthood, especially the existnetial dread that comes with the belive that all is doomed to end up in entropy. Furthermore it takes alot of the mystery out of your life which is inescabable (if we are honest enough to admit it), but one of the most wonderfull things in life if you learn to appreciate it. Just think of the first time you fell in love, you don't know in the moment why you feel this way and your retroacive rationalisations why you feel in love can never capture the manyfold of the experience itself, they just point towards something.
My advice for anyone struggeling with the negative ecceses of a overly materialistic or rational world view is to honestly question ones assupmmtions and to look at things you perviously tought for certain with more openness. Get out of your comfortzone and try some things you previously tought where silly or stupid you will soon discover you where the one who is silly and stupid, with your prejudgements. Because even tough the world seems to be known it never really is to you. Go out and explore this your only life the only thing certain in it is that it will end.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung
If nothing matters you can only place value on your own actions. Regardless if it matters it's the only affect you can make so that personal value is all that can matter by said perspective.
I'm way past the midpoint of my life and I still don't understand what people are talking about when they say people need purpose and meaning. I like knowing things, I like learning, I like being entertained, I like comfort, I've never felt a need for purpose or meaning. Am I not human?
People who "need" purpose probably aren't enjoying life, Not everyone needs to have it
Basically u are doing nothing. NPC VIBEZ
Wow, that last quote really resonated with me 😳
Always a beautiful video
,,Malevolent Shrine differs from other types of Domain Expansion in that it doesn't create a seperate space using a barrier. The ability to realize one's innate domain without using a barrier is akin to an artist painting a masterpiece not on a canvas, but on air.
A truly divine technique."
Same goes for nihilism i'd say.
holy shit they added sukuna to philosophy
Glad to be on the early train with this one
Amazing video youre truly unique!
Thank you for inspiring me to, "write, my boy!"
very cool video! Love the work it is very interesting
Existence is Pain!!!
Dialectical monism, complexity science, and integrated information theory- hold many intrinsic truths.
I can do whatever i want
You are probably the same kind of person also who thinks young adults still using bounce houses is okay too
I think i would consider myself an optimistic nihilist (:
I much prefer Stirner's and Sade's or even the Taoist answer to Nihilism. A self-centered but ever evolving and negating Egoism or moreso in the Taoist sense - a non-spoken Being of I, an ever-changing I that has the Way.
Trying to not live as a parasite has been an important goal of mine in life. I’m constantly battling nihilistic impulses to not work, live in a van, and play all day. But when someone does that seeking pleasure in every day they become the last man. A world of pleasure seeking individuals that offer no contributions to humanity will see the destruction of man kind. I can not become the last man.
Great video man, I’ve found out too that faith is needed to live. It requires us to be a little humble and admitting we cannot know every answer
A great man once said "Life needs things to live"
Watching this channel makes me sad about the hundreds of awesome channels on youtube I don't even know exist
Loved this video :3
"It's a blank canvas, fill it how ever you please" But, I don't know what I want to fill it with past shallow hedonistic desires.
Truth is things move and if we think something is the cause it can be without changing the nature of the result. Cause, as true as it can be, doesn't change the result of life and it's end. Experience good and bad is life and chaos is just a part of it. Just keep your ego for yourself thinking there is only one good perspective and you may jot reach it but it's wrong to chase anyway since you'll find answer if they are available in nature. If everything is ideology like language hold truth you will miss it's purpose since silence is peace and learning is chaos. The purpose to find meaning is vain like trying to influence the influence itself to the point where you are part of it and nothing more unless you let live those who might think different and agree just so it doesn't spiral furter into something specific
It'd sure be interesting if you'd also made a video about Utilitarianism, in the same style. Especially interesting (for me at least) would be something about Negative Hedonistic Utilitarianism. Anyway great content.
I tend to define nihilism as not only the absence of intrinsic meaning but of any and all meaning. And so for that reason I find it hard to believe that nihilism would even be possible. I too believe that intrinsic meaning doesn't exist but I think that you can find/create your own meaning but I wouldn't define that as nihilism. That's more in line with Camus absurdism. I think the struggle to find meaning can itself produce meaning. But if you're a nihilist then even that would be meaningless. I think most of us are *selectively* nihilistic. For example I don't give a damn about sports. Couldn't care less who tackles who or which team won the super bowl this year or any other year for that matter. Also couldn't care less about cars. It blows my mind when I'm driving and the passenger in my car will say "Oh man did you see that Chevy Silver auto? So cool" and my response is: No. I saw a car but not a 'Chevy Silver auto'. Consequently in my view nihilism is related to care. If you care about something then ostensibly that thing has meaning for you, therefore precluding you from being a nihilist.
Nihilism is not the acceptance of the world in a chaotic realm, it is but a gateway to dematerialize the knowledge of humanity.
great video!
Any chance for versions without the chromatic aberration effect? I love your content but watching it really hurts my eyes
Have faith in Jesus, he gives freedom
The feeling of warm and fuzzy
I am an active nihilist, ideology of the future.
nice, relatable too
I never read Tolstoy, for which I am ashamed, he’s one of the greatest writers of my country. But if your retelling of his search for meaning is accurate. I’ve literally went through the same.
Maybe skipping the science part because modern world is already science based. I delved deeper into philosophy. Scrapping for anything I had to find. Now 6 years later of arduous labor I come to that “The only rational option is suicide, luckily we’re irrational.” I must put myself in denial of the facts of the world to have any chance at living a happy life. The denial which is essentially me turning to faith. Whatever it may be.
I also don’t know how else to approach the subject. I’m in a dead end of sorts.
If the only purpose of the world is to be saved from it, it does not matter.
3:53
How the hell does he eat with a stache like that?
Life and Existence is HELL!!!
You are probably the same kind of person also who thinks young adults still using bounce houses is okay too
Interesting. I am probably a nihilist then. For at least four decades I have wondered why people have insisted on arguing and fighting over whose "meaning" should be allocated to what parts of reality. I have wondered why they are so insistent that these parts "must" have a meaning. I can't understand why it never occurs to them that is not the end of the world if something lacks meaning, and any "meaning" they allocate is just a construct of their minds, not a property of that thing.
I have told people to get over this futile behaviour and value the world for its amazing beauty and complexity without assigning arbitrary "meanings" all over the place.
Mostly just get blank looks or religious drivel in response.
So, I am in the wrong, democratically speaking.
0:25 that is Kant...
I feel I am a nihilist plus a sociopath
So I can stare at walls for Day to no end
I feel months pass and I feel not even a second has passed I think of nothing
And when some ones says something about something I feel what's the point of it is and I will never understand why people cry when some one Dies
This is not what this video is about
real
We believe in nothig, Lebowsky, NOTHING!
Whenever people micro manage my nihilistic side kicks in full force and I'm not even much of a nihilistic
When r u making a video on transhumanism?
Nihilism is a double edged sword. The blade that points towards us is when we have permanent meaninglessness. This is when we can't accept anything or the value of things because it is not intrinsic. But the blade that point outwards, and in my view is MORE powerful, since things do not have intringic value we can create value out of it. There is a objective necessity for having value, as a being with a consciousness, because if we didn't... how could we sustain our life?
OH MY FUCKING GOD THAT REALLY WAS NOT A KANT
Would love to see an episode on Bukowski
Nihilism is redemption
To matter and to mean are outputs of minds. There is no external objective source of meaning, only those which are created and held to by a thinking sentient person. Nihisltic belief is a meaning of no meaning. One of thousands of belief sets (meanings) that humans live and die by.
You are it and life simply is. Enjoy the day and seed meanings at will.... or not (but that is meaningful too... )
Remember back in the good 'ol days when every man had to work 12 hours a day to hunt down the stag or produce enough to survive and didn't have enough time to wrestle with these trivialities?
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Says Jacobi
* SHOWS KANT *
I love being a nihilsm less drama less people
There will only be two options to choose from when it comes to what life is. There will always be difference in how each individual chooses which is the right answer to him but at the end the two answer are never accurate in a sense of fully understanding it as truth.
Free will doesn't exist, we can't choose.
It just boils down to what want of yours is more desirable to you than other options.
For example,
if your life is generally pretty good then you'll lean more towards optimistic nihilism as it validates for your current condition to continue, cause that good condition of yours is more desirable to you.
Even if someone has pretty shitty life, they could also lean towards optimistic nihilism as "pro-life and survival" is embedded in our DNA
Nothing can't matter since "it" doesn't exist
Change my mind
Where max stirner ?))