The biggest bummer to me is knowing that I'll never truly see how far humanity will go. It's like joining a game half way through and leaving before it ends. There's no closure to that.
Nihilism has been my comfort for many years now. A feeling of escape in realism. The fact that nothing has any inherent meaning and nothing lasts forever I find reassuring
well, do you believe that the naturally occurring morality of humans is created and established by humans? young children feel guilt for something they know they shouldn’t do, even when they have never been told not to do that action, it’s a natural morality. How do you suggest the organization of the universe and the creation of life is random or meaningless? I have never seen an organized design without an intelligent creator.
Everything we know in this world has no true meaning, because its not meant to have a meaning and is beautiful that way a good example of this is when you let life be by being in a flow state things become less frictional and peaceful than when you are constantly trying to achieve things , when you flow and let life give whatever it can offer you are less afraid of death and peaceful knowing that one day you will die you just stop trying to put sense in life and let it create its own sense in a beautiful way . We all run to religion because we are afraid of death and we try to control life.the world is more beautiful without ego and striving for achievement, you realise that life is too fleeting for you to make enemies and hold own to grudges , you learn to forgive . The nature of existence is quite strange and you can't put it words and numbers ,it's just meant to be experienced. When Friedrich nietzsche said "God is dead" he meant to say that we have. separated ourselves from all of existence and become to individualised, we think we are separate from all of creation but actually we are one with it. We would no be alive now if plants did not exist because all living thing benefit from them and the plants would not exist without the sun which they use to survive and produce food , we are all just part of the binary of existence and the means in a way we are part of what we on earth like to call God. Only those who are strong accept ideas similar to nihilism .
@@emperorpalpatine4032young children feel guilty because they are sponges and soak up culture faster than you’d think. A child born in absolute poverty with no parents , surviving by eating scraps and dead animals - they would steal , kill, and do anything to survive. Humans at their basic level to survive will kill with no guilt. We’ve seen it time and time again throughout our history . Imagine thinking our ancestors grew up thinking about right vs wrong and mortality when they’re hunting tigers and bears with STICKS. Survival is the only thing that matters. Animals eat their young all the time. Monkeys have been proven to clan fight each other for territory . To the death. There’s so many examples. So yeah mortality and ethics were most definitely“created” by humans. It doesn’t just exist in nature. Animals and nature are cruel
how does one truly be a nihilist when by doing so, the concept of nihility itself is contradicted by the construct of wanting to believe in the idea of "nothingness" or "meaninglesness"
It seems all that I know is the fact that my lack of knowing anything triggers an infinite number of paradoxes... including the fact that I know that even though I said I didn’t... and now that I know that too ruins the paradox so I don’t really know anything... or do I? Now I do... now I do- fucking ow my head
@@sigigle In some form, yes. But what form? That is the question. The only real thing you're certain of is your existence. Everything else, the other guy just doesn't get.
@@appledough3843 Yes that's true, we don't know what is intrinsic/essential to us other than our consciousness. Every thing else, our minds, our emotions, may be no more us than the bodies we find ourselves in, something bestowed upon us from the outside by some unknown means. That is possible. It's also possible that absolutely everything could be considered to be us, and everything in between those 2 extremes. All we know for sure about what we are, is that we are conscious.
I find the nihilism strangely comforting. I grew up in a catholic home and went to catholic school. The pressure of heaven and hell not existing and being able to just live in the moment is the most free I've ever felt tbh
I am the same. I went to catholic school for 10 years. I feel like they can't get christ off the cross. Their ideology is to shame you into submission. If thier is a God there's no way that could be the way we're designed to live. The truth is we're no different from a blade of grass or a branch on a tree. It is quite fascinating to live. But life is random and completely meaningless. It's not a bad thing. It's just how it is.
How did you reached the point of saying there is no hell? I grew up as a Muslim and had a strong faith, but recently I'm doubting Religion in generell. Questions like: how can hell be justice for good people or is it fair that I was born in a Muslim family but others are not, I mean most people are born in a religion and just die. Every moment I ask myself what will happen when I die right now? I'm living in fear so how did you escape this world view?
@@UgiMukliwatch videos on people that have died (flatlined) and come back. many people say dying is peaceful, and usually do not describe any version of hell at all because our brains relax us with chemicals as we die
I am not a Muslim, but I have struggled about finding the purpose of life for years and honestly nihilism looks like the most logical and nearest to truth.I don't necessarily like it but it is what it is........@@UgiMukli
The freedom through Nihilism comes when you realize that everything with meaning and value is what you have subconsciously created, and that you can consciously change or remove whenever you like.
Nihilism is kinda a paradox for me, I think a true Nihilist would reject Nihilism kinda like Dostoevsky’s Kirillov. If nothing truly means anything then making your own meaning out of it is pointless and kinda crazy. I find more comfort in Absurdism.
There is no freedom through Nihlism, you’re a slave to nothing at that point. Nothing to live for or die for, nothing to care about. Those type of people are cringe asf. And demolishing to all work and progress. Usually a teenager whos too stubborn to grow up and find a meaningful life. If you really think everything is for nothing, You’re either mental or Democrats 😂 tryna make a power grab for your own benefit.
@Sam Farza uhhh ok mate. i don't exactly care what profound wisdom is, i just somehow resonate with it. basically i'm dumb, i'm comfortable with being dumb (because honestly the pursuit of knowledge seems tiring and i just want to do whatever), and that's it. a lot of people don't care about things.
He would probably cover topics like. B is the second letter in the English alphabet. 2B or not 2B Words that's start with B: Be, bee. Beef, Bear, beep, beam, bean, beat, been. Beast, breeze, breath. He could talk about the Bees and how they be.
B, it is a wild Letter you could say that the letter b represents the feeling of almost being their but not quite, it represents the feeling of being second, as it is the second letter in the alphabet; But at the end B will always be behind A
I really like how you touched on how good/evil is all relative and essentially irrelevant. I’ve been nihilistic for a while now. It started as negative but over the years has become positive. It used to make me so suicidal thinking about how I am just going to die in the end and nothing I do really matters. Sometimes I still think like that but I’ve gotten better at seeing nihilism in a positive way. Whenever I’m extremely stressed out I remind myself that in the end I will be dead and so in the grand scheme of things whatever I’m stressed out about doesn’t matter. That can be comforting sometimes
"Evil is relative and irrelevant" Bro really has never heard of p*dophiles. Or are you going to say they're "not evil" and how that's perfectly okay? Pretty fucked up that you support that, and human trafficking and serial killing and other "not-evil" things according to your outlook. Meanwhile in a sane world, yes normal people actually tend to agree that all those things are objectively evil due to the sheer harm they cause. But go ahead and say how saving a stranger's life is "no more good" than human trafficking.
Yeah....but what's the point? in spite of making some meaning, life will just be a trip from maternity to crematorium. Remember you can not define emotions; so there's nothing called "excitement". *THINK AGAIN*
I have genuinely come to 90% of these conclusions in my mind for my entire life, and you just put the perfect words out there to describe it. Thanks mate
If humans created morality and values, and humans exist, then how can you claim these morals and values don't exist or mean anything? It's true that when you look at the universe and the way matter and consequently life is, it's fragile, temporary, small... etc it seems that we are an not a big part of the 'story' but that's all relative. Money is literally an imaginary agreement between people in the form of paper bills (sometimes just numbers) but that doesn't make it less valuable to us in daily life. Your phone is just plastic, metal and glass and has no real superior value compared to a piece of metal ore or sand in their rudimentary form but you won't throw your phone out of the window or treat it as a random piece of plastic and metal because it has value to you, and you are again part of the universe and reality, maybe it's not that big of a deal but again value is real, albeit relative and limited in scope to us at some point in time.
@@JeffreyBenzodiazepines morals and values is taught to u by culture. If your culture wasn't different or had a particular culture. That piece of plastic wouldn't have value to you!
@@johnsimpson5471 "If your culture was different you would have different values" Well, that's true for a lot of things. If my parents didn't conceive me 25 years ago I wouldn't be here to make this comment, but they did and that's reality. The fact that morals and ideals are relative doesn't make them any more or less meaningful. the earth is stationary relative to you, but spins around the sun, both of them are real facts. By pointing out the existence of alternatives does not in any way diminish what's there.
I think the freeing part of Nihilism is that since nothing has meaning, you can literally do WHATEVER you want, live life on your own terms and to be happy, it’s all up to you.
@@6dirt philosophy student here. What has been described in this comment isn’t nihilism, but another philosophy called “existentialism” (or maybe “absurdism”). Nihilism is basically just depression, and the moment a nihilist believes in doing things that go against the “it-will-all-amount-to-nothing-anyway” sentiment, they are not a nihilist anymore.
im a nihilist, but it gives me great comfort, there is no meaning to life, why would there be? why does it matter? Ive never understood why people care about it having a meaning?? nothing means anything, you find your own joy in life. I dont see why or understand how anyone cares about it? we all die, so what? the world is so beautiful. In the grand scheme of things nothing matters, it makes me very happy to know that.
Exactly life is meaningless. But who cares. Does a fish question why it swims? No beacuse there not self aware. They don't swim with reason they just do it. If a fish questioned why it swam it would be in misery beacuse it would realize is swims without meaning
It seems to me that humans have always sought meaning in life. That's why it's so absurd. We were looking for meaning in meaningless life so to cope we gave life fake meaning (religions, traditions, goals, etc.). That's how I see it.
Exactly. It's not like I gain anything from living or dying, so why toy with this precious but meaningless life? Why do people hurt themselves, others, and do things for personal gain when there is truly nothing to gain but the very values we have constructed. "Social construct" describes the average person's existence in the modern world. Conforming and working for things that have been manufactured by generations gone. Why work for things that people have achieved, just to lose again? Why work for the thrill when the thrill is nothing but hormones rushing to different parts of the brain in this vessel we live in? There is nothing that matters to gain, but instinctually, we want to live and conquer things that don't even matter. People wonder why Nihilism is becoming popular, they think it is just negativity and depression. But in reality, it is the answer to the pointless suffering we give ourselves. The answer is that life is precious and miraculous. There's nothing else to it, it just is.
Fun fact: there is a kind of depression called nihilist depression, and basically people feel like nothing matters and basically what was said in the video
why might you see depression as a bad thing? even if it goes as far as suicide, why is death seen as a bad thing to happen to someone? is it because people fear things like death? i guess that's only natural because humans by default only fear what they don't understand. but why is it "bad" to feel bad? people are driven by moral concepts. i will say though, if morality didn't exist then society couldn't function properly. things like good and evil objectively don't actually exist. but in the end, if people didn't exist what would be good and what would be bad in the world?
@@tjxdivinity Because despair is the result of not understanding enough. It's a result of guilt, shame, anger. Stemming from fear itself. If there's one thing I've learned about fear it's that fear is a lie. I have no shame, no gruilt, no despair, no doubts. No fear. No anger. Was very different in the past. In the past I used to do nothing but despair. Now I find apathy comforting. Getting others to feel nothing gets them to be something. It's wonderful. People tend to enable being "sorry". Why? Mistakes are a learning opportunity. People enable toxic positivy/false hope. Why? because their lives are devoid of meaning and purpose and thus they enable others to be like them. Misery loves company. I play a different game. It's called honesty. Correct every spoken lie. Question why people feel what they do. Remind them of their own actiions/choices. Seriously, the reminders go a long way. Here's the funny thing. Telling someone I can destroy them is why they became my lover. warn and inform. This matters. It's important that people are made aware of the situations they're in. If nothing mattered then you would not ask. It's the desire for answers. Honesty itself. That matters. Catch 22: What people THINK is honest most often isn't honest. What people ASSUME is honest tends to be a LIE. Thus the desire for "nothing" indicates to not have the lies and instead make something from honest apathy. There is a logic in that. People that start with nothing become something. Chaos, being chaos, will not abide by the expectations of others. Nothing makes sense. No, really. Nothing actually makes sense. What does "nothing" mean though? It means letting go of expectations. To not assume. If you don't feel anything that doesn't have to be a bad thing, despite what others would claim. With the right support it can lead to intimacy very quickly (talking ASAP). I'm glad I been able to be there for my lover. I personally had to learn on my own. Wouldn't want them too. People can think they're nothing. Often (most commonly), this is actually denial. Of inner guilt, fear, anger. Only when pushed by others to be nothing will people actually learn what it means. All uphill from there. Provided people do know the worst properly (talking really dark shit here). "Nothing" is the first step. The answer is "Be the danger". And be honest about it. Communication done the "right" way. The feeling of being offended indicates ones own insecurities. If you experience that then that's not nothing. That's something to take note of.
Usually I get depressed when I think about how there are essentially no answers and no meaning, but when I watched this I got a feeling I can't understand what I am feeling
Well who and what defines meaning? Is there supposed to be some particle of meaningium or something in the world? Or should it be given from on high? Would you even want to live in a world where either of such things were the case? Isn't more interesting to be in a world with endless surprises?
@@joriskronig5319 yeah it doesn't but it is werid to think about the fact I will one day cease to exist and every one I know would cease to exist and every good and bad thing I did has no meaning it is a very werid thought and it gives me a weird feeling but you're right just enjoy life and have those happy and fun moments
I'm both sometimes I'm like "gosh why do I put in effort if nothing truly matters, I'm gonna die anyways" But when adrenaline got the rush of me during 3am "HOLY SH1T , NOTHING TRULY MATTERS. WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE. I'mma ask my crush out whether I get rejected or not , it doesn't matter. Ima do random stuff to embarrass myself cause WHY NOT??? Nothing truly matters anywayssss"
I guess i am a Nihilist in many ways, but I'm okay with that. I've accepted my existence and that life itself is happening, I'm here for the ride but I don't expect it to matter after I die. Great video
@@aliagha160 I said "i don't expect it to matter". You can't just say I'm wrong for having no expectations for what happens after i die. That doesn't make sense, you can't assign a "right" or "wrong" to the unknown lol
"You see that farmer over there growing apple trees? Live like that farmer... You see that king over there with his grand knights? Be like that king... You see that ant over there with his brothers and sister on top of a suger dew? Enjoy like that ant... If you can do just that, then it's all you need... But don't over do it.", not a quote but a measure.
@@svenheuseveldt7188 And yet... Here you are. Still living and breathing until the end. If you didn't truly care to exist, then you wouldn't be here or you've spent your time at full. Like a ghost, you chose to stay for a reason deep within your own subconscious.
I prefer the Eastern philosophy that life is its own gift. Make of it what you want. It doesn't last forever, but neither does your awareness. It's your own private slice of eternity.
@@denerocharles9704 Life doesn’t end at death, death has been defeated a long time ago and your afterlife will start once you are judged for your earthly actions. Whether or not which heaven exists, using Pascal’s wager you should be the most moral person just in case the possibility of judgement and heaven is there.
@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 Im a christian and i reason that if there is no God or heaven, at least i enjoyed my life believing in them and i wont know the difference once im dead.
Both and neither is what I would say truth is subjective to one's own definition and looking for absolute truth only reveals conflict in the nature of reality
@@michaelb4415 But then again, maybe that's how that reality works and just dying from fatal injuries is the life. Not gonna test if death is gonna end my life cause I'm a bitch.
Just watched a video on stoicism, and it made me feel terrible. But every time I hear about nihilism, it makes me feel so relieved and relaxed. It means there is nothing to worry about because nothing matters. So I can smile. 😊
I'm Turkish, we always pronounce it as neelishm and in English it's usually nylisim. So they both sound correct to me. But at the end of the day "it doesn't really matter."
Growing up in a non-religious household, I was never pressured to adopt any particular belief system. By around age 9 or 10, I began contemplating the meaning of life and the nature of our daily existence. I quickly concluded that life had no inherent meaning, and that we are merely intelligent apes on a floating rock awaiting our eventual end. When I shared these thoughts with my parents, they seemed somewhat unsettled, as such reflections are unusual for a child of that age. Nevertheless, they didn't challenge my perspective. Now, as a philosophy major, I've come to believe that the only purpose in life is the one we choose to create for ourselves-nothing more, nothing less.
Nihilists like to say "northing has any meaning" as if it's a meaningful idea. It's an idea that collapses in on itself immediately: it's a snake that ate its tail.
I love this man cause he literally drives me into an existencial crisis with the philosophical topics and then somehow manages to get me out by the end of the damn video
I've always considered myself an optimistic nihilist. Yea, sure, life is meaningless, but I still want to maximize mine and everyone else's enjoyment from birth to death, because it's all we have.
Exactly! That is what I am thinking. Kind of like yeah sure nothing actually matters. But that is exactly what should make everything in this short life better. Cause nothing matters! So you might asi well do anything what makes you or your close ones happy.
Exactly, tried to tell this to the judge like 20 times but she still convicted me. Like come on I was trying to maximize my fellow humans enjoyment, how was I supposed to know the heroin had fentanyl in it?
Yes. All my senses only happen because of conciousness and i find it confusing and not real. Like whats the purpose of it, but it's all I can be or feel, because i would feel like an animal with the only thought of surviving.
@M V why? Even if we die one day it doesn’t mean that we want to live our entire lives in boredom and suffering. Have fun as much as you can until death comes
yeah life is great though i go through pain i love life .Life is ajourney which ahs startng point and through that journey you experience joy ,pain and anxiety ect and then an end.
My own conclusion is not this one it that life is not worth and not in a bad way of killing everyone but just personally wish to never been born in the first place and no new humans should arrive this world.
It’s a sad statement. U don’t want to live just because u have life. All of us got our own purposes. Family, friends, loved ones. Seeking higher purpose like God etc is another thing. But I agree that we should never give up on our life. The life we all get is only once in this world, so just do your best.
To me, it's like this really long trip. What I love most about my journey here so far is this beautiful planet. We are so lucky to have this portal of life. I really love breezes and frogs croaking. I'm just here enjoying all of that.
There's this idea in philosophy ( I don't know if it has a proper name) that some of those paradoxes are simply a matter of the limitations of language. From that perspective, something might only be paradoxical because our vehicle for communicating the idea forces it to be. It can be difficult to really grok that, but once you get it you start to question just how much of the great paradoxes we've dismissed might actually hold water after all, only not in a fashion readily communicable.
Finally a take that doesn't portray nihilism as negative. Just because we believe life is meaningless doesn't mean we cannot enjoy it, there's a sense of peace in knowing that nothing matters and that we don't need purpose or reason
If you are a nihilist why would you even care and feel "relieved" by the fact that someone actually doesn't portray nihilism negatively when people usually say the otherwise if you simply don't care about everything? Stop shoving these thoughts into your head and thinking it is feel relevant to you when you don't actually understand shit.
No you missed the point what he is saying is that nihilism doesnt mean A negative outlook on the world or a positive how can you enjoy nothing if you believe in nothing you retard i myself am realizing that nothing matters and in of it self my comment means nothing yours doesn't either im wasting time and your wasting yours its an infinite paradox of nothingness i am losing the will to live as there will always be someone better than me than you and the opposite atleast if i kill myself i wont have to think about it im so tired might aswell save myself the trouble im 17 years old male so at the very least (which is the closest you can go meaning) i can "rest "
there’s also positive nihilism. if nothing really matters, you’re the only one who can truly assign the meanings and live your life the way you want because it’s there only for so long and nothing will come of it in the end anyway whatever you do edit: i mixed up some existentialism there, oops. can’t be helped since they’re a bit similar
The thought that nothing matters and everything we'll experience in life, both good and bad, is all for nothing has helped me tremendously with my fear of failure and anxiety over whether I'll ever fulfill my dream. Nihilism was what I needed to become a happier person!
I feel the same way. some people say they fear to leave the world without having achieved something great or have influenced as many people as possible in a positive way. this stressed me so much, I could never think that way. knowing I will be forgotten after my life ended is soothing to me. knowing it doesn't matter how little I do helps me with my anxiety as well.
The real question is: if nothing matters, then why not create meaning? If nothing is important, then why follow the unimportantance of it? instead make something of it? It doesn't matter either way but at least a story happened... even if it makes no difference.
@@rednarok By giving my own life meaning i pretty much destroyed myself mentally (and a bit physically, if you catch my drift). It's cool if you want to give your own life meaning, but i feel happier just living life and enjoying my short time in this universe. If that happens to be a sort of meaning, then i guess that's that.
@@remotehuman9267 well, you dont need to care at all but at the same time, I don't think we should be careless with other people beliefs even though it really doesn't matter in thebgrande scheme of things, but I think of it as a fantasy... dont have to play with it but also you don't have to destroy it for others.. if your in the middle of a majority that lives a fantasy, I try to respect it and go along with it to my tolerance level. I wouldn't be someone who tries to destroy it because what is better then knowing the truth? Dreaming. I think this is why we let kids be naive... because the world just feels better that way. Ofcourse eventually they need to be introduced to reality, it doesn't need to be absolute reality, just somewhere in between so that people can live happy ignorant.. after all, the truth is so dark in comparison to our societies fantasy, then perhaps it better to live as an ignorant. This is very sad but the reality is equaly sad.
In the beginning of the video, I have considered myself a nihilist, but by the end, I remembered when my friend asked me, "Why do you play Minecraft, when it has "no purpose"? This was before the dragon and the "End" were added to the game. I told him: "You learn about the mechanisms, you survive your first night, build something that you get attached to and you will be hooked, before you knew it. It's the same as building in the sand. Creation, - just like virtue - is its own reward." Several years later, watching this video, I realised, that this is how you find the purpose in your life: You "play the game", you create, protect and survive. Eventually, through these experiences, you will find meaning and purpose. They will not be objective or universal, but they will be definitive and satisfying for you.
I have depression and I wish I could see the world like you do. But for me, as of right now, there is no joy in anything. So why the hell shouldn’t I just stop playing this game of life if nothing matters anyway? Why live another day with this horrible pain? These questions haunt me. Nothing Matters.
@@Steven-gs8oh Try watching the video about optimistic nihilism! If nothing matters in this world, and everything is meaningless, the failures and rejections have no weight either. You can be bolder in your approach towards life, since you have nothing to lose.
I take comfort in the fact that nothing matters. If its all for nothing, then lets all be kind to ourselves. Engage in things that make you happy, because there's even less of a point if your forcing yourself down to ideals that makes you miserable. If we exist for nothing, then lets not restrict ourselves.
People take nihilism as inherently depressing and bad. So often when someone says they are a nihilist, everyone around them thinks they are just sad or angry. I think that it has such meaning to others because they don't see that nihilists don't have to be some depressed ppl who plan to kill themselves or are angry at the world because life has no meaning, but are just someone who has no belief that some higher power or such a thing as destiny exists.
yeah, and as a rule nihilists are more happy because they have no shackles preventing them to live like they want, not like society want. PS. Sorry for my English
I feel as though you simply leave out a multitude of strokes that are apparent in the painting of nihilism, they contain no morals and try not to create morals of their own, nothing is grotesque to them even the genocide of innocents, nothing is beautiful to them even the most striking simple moments, doing anything become a seemingly pointless endeavor for there existence leading them to either hedonistic displays or indolence.
@@ezekielromero2730 yes, but if you already feel something you can be enjoy or sad because of this. For example, even if you become nihilist you will not stop love animals only because you decide this is logical - love to animals is in your blood. Hope, I said my though right
@@ПАУК-о2я I wouldn't say that's a rule. Mostly because It's completely false. There really is no correlation having what you want and being happy, because having more makes you want more. The more you have, the more you realize there is more to be had. From my personal experience, and my whole family's personal experience, and all of my friend's personal exprience, those who have and do whatever they want are the people who hate life the most. People who believe that there is no meaning believe exactly that. That there is no meaning. And if there is no meaning to the bigger picture of life, there is no meaning to your life individually. If there is no meaning to your life individually, then it leaves you questioning why you even exist in the first place. Why are you there to experience some of history when it really is so useless and you'll never see the final culmination of humanity's prowess? That's the issue. I'm a happy person, but the last time I met a truly happy person that believed any of this stuff about the world not having meaning was never. I never have, but I've met plenty of happy people who believe in something. And not those who just think something exists, but those who genuinely dedicate themselves to what they believe. Yes, there are people who are "happy" with their life because they can do anything, but this whole claim that "as a rule nihilists are more happy" is false. Maybe you have had a different experience, but on average the world is already sad as it is, so putting that into perspective, the only happy people I meet have a belief in meaning.
My father told a story that was related to this some time ago. One of his friends is a philosophy professor, and he was talking about an exam he made at the end of the year. There was a lot of philosophical questions and I don't remember most of them, but there was one question and also one particular answer to said question that caught my eye. The question was simply: "Why?". It was at the end of the exam with a whole page to write about and since it was worth about 40 points, a lot of people wanted to get this question right(The word "Right" is a obsolete word in philosophy in my opinion since there is no right or wrong but you get what I mean). The professor showed me some of the answers that the students wrote, lots of them were 2 - 3 pages long, consisting of very long paragraphs and complex words. But, as I looked at the papers, I saw one that wasn't all paragraphs and long text. It looked extremely short compared to the other ones. I saw that it had 40/40 points, and wondered how he got such a high score on such a hard question, while also being the shortest among them all. And, with curiousity, I looked at the answer he gave. It was... interesting. There were only two, simple words on the whole page: "Why not?"
Honestly, as a nihilist myself, I personally don't see why it often has such a negative connotation. Why it's so frowned upon or why it's always so heavily associated with depression. For example, I've never been depressed or anything like it. I mean, don't get me wrong, I get that perhaps for some personality types, it's not really a mindset that's healthy to adopt, especially those who are easily susceptible to things like anxiety or existential dread or those who desperately need meaning and purpose in life to keep functioning, but for the rest of us... I don't see anything wrong with being a nihilist. I'm perfectly happy and content with just existing for no reason at all. It's much more liberating if you ask me. I mean just think about it. There's no true responsibility, you can do whatever you see fit. The whole planet and by extension the whole universe is basically your playground and everything in it your playthings. I guess, you could call me an optimistic nihilist lol A glass isn't half-full or half-empty, it just exists and there's some water in it. Simply drink it, as that's what we invented a glass for, and go do something fun like watching a tv show or a youtube video or, idk, meet with your friends xD
@@maddeningmonk9585 Lol knowing how most people are, this is exactly the kind of response I expected. I was even surprised that the other ones were so positive. I am curious though, why you think that, because my life is everything but sad, at least for me/from my perspective.
@@gamster2865 cause you've got no clue who you are or why are you here or what even is happening all around you. Life to you is a complete mystery part of which can be blamed onto your ignorance and naivety. Perhaps you seem to be young and still haven't found the answers yet, but considering what you've settled on to, clinging to this sad, sad dumb ideology just makes me pitty you and people like you. But I'm pretty sure you ain't the only one. Theres ton of people like you. Sad but thats that. Nothing i can do about it.
It`s the mechanism of the human brain. Seeing patterns where there often is none. And when we have problems to face the facts of nature. We panic!. Nihilism is the ilusjon of not facing up to once tasks in life and trying to escape into nothingness. Reality is that it is just cowardice and narcissistic. And that is nothing to be ashamed about. Nature made us cowards and narcissistic for a reason. That is to surive and replicate. This fact is so ultra simple and minimalistic that is hard for most people to even grasp that they`re precius ego is just the tool of evolution. The real question is not what is the meaning of life, because if we look at other lifeforms it is obvious that the " meaning" is indeed to survive and replicate and to adapt to the changes of the universe. The real question is " what is the purpose with intelligence?" . And is intelligence even a atribute that will make us survive in the long run or will it destroy us?. There are even lifeforms living in the sea that dont even have a brain and they have survived for billions of years and hardly ever changed. That is a species dont even need a brain!. That is the real joke ;-)
One of my professors had a shirt that said "'God is dead' -Nietzsche" on the front and "'Nietzsche is dead' -God" on the back and freshmen in his philosophy class would crack up when they saw it for the first time. He was a cool guy, I hope he's doing well now:)
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche Creating your own meaning, making your own contribution to the world, is meaning enough. There may not be any apparent ultimate meaning to the universe, but if you give yourself meaning you will be able to endure almost any suffering to see it through.
It's all relative, isn't it! There's no meaning to life, ultimately. That said, whilst alive you might as well try enjoy it - or it's really going to drag.
Terry Pratchett had a line that went something like "humans need the little fairy tale type lies to believe the big ones, like morality and honor. When the person asked what's the point to any of that then, the response was something like "to make those concepts reality"
@ it doesn’t matter what someone else thinks of your meaning. It’s your meaning after all, not theirs. So what relevance does their opinion of it hold?
Friends, it’s not like that. One doesn’t go to hell because of lack of belief in GOD. We MATTER TO GOD! Its like this, you know how when you walk into a dark room and you turn a light on, darkness just flees away. Because darkness and light can not dwell together. It’s like that with GOD, HE IS LIGHT and we are of darkness of sin, if we come into GOD’S LIGHT we would be OBLITERATED and suffer a worst fate then hell. So GOD made a way that we could come back into His presence and not be Obliterated. Okay, listen for a minute,we all inherited sin and death from Adam and Eve. It’s genetic. We inherited their sin gene. As they acquired a destination of hell because they actually gave over their authority and souls to the devil. This made us of the darkness of satan. You see the Bible says hell was originally made for the devil and his imps , but when man chose to side with the devil then he became man’s slave master., and we became bound in satan’s darkness Now GOD in His Mercy, knew the only way to resolve this was for a man to get back our souls from satan , But that man had to be sinless . So all GOD came down in human flesh and lived a sinless life and died as payment to buy the souls back of whoever would join His Family. So When Christ died, because He lived a sinLESS life, death and hell could not hold Him . Christ then arose from the grave. And made the offer that whosoever would be BORN AGAIN in His Family and loose the darkness of sin, be set free from satan and hell and would nullify the inheritance which we received from Adam and we would now receive the inheritance from Christ. Which is eternal Life and become Rulers of worlds into worlds in a new Heaven and a New Earth .So this is what Christ’s Will and testament gives us as His family . You see this is the reason we are Born here in this realm of time. We are all here to make a choice. WHERE SHALL WE SPEND ETERNITY! Now when we chose Christ we MUST be Born Again which is first Repent and then get Baptized in The Name of Jesus Christ and He will give us of His Spirit which will Birth us into His Family This is found in John 3:3-5 and Acts 2:38 in the KJV Bible. And Now we will also inherit the disposition of no longer having the desire to sin. I saw sooo many people in these replies saying they wish they knew the ending to this world. They want to know how far mankind gets. They regret that they will not be here to see how it all turns out. But we already know what happens. We already know how it ends. It is written in The Bible . There are already sooo many prophecies which the Bible tells which have come to pass. Yes even the corona plague it was foretold in the Bible. So yes The Bible is TRUE , and there IS HOPE I Truly pray for you that you too would receive this BLESSED TRUTH! Because I really do care
But isn't that all it is anyway? At least as far as anyone knows for certain. Everything else is just stories we tell ourselves as we whistle past the graveyard.
Life is not against you, you might just be walking in the wrong direction. A river always flow, its neutral, whether you float down it or struggle upwards, the river remains the same.
I'm a christian but I struggle with nihilism a lot, especially lately with all the war going on. our individual lives are meaningless in the grand scheme of history, unless you Make history. But most of us won't, we're just a blip or a number according to society. While I hate these thoughts it does feel nice to finally put a name to what I've been feeling.
Nihilism is underrated! You get less sleep, you feel more pain, people talk to you less, and the list goes on. Edit: Feel free to argue against this, but I hear what a lot of you are saying, and my understanding of nihilism and its general purpose has changed a lot now, thank you!
doesn't sound like fun to me tho it just sounds like suffering and depression with extra steps imagine not motivating yourself to find the meaning of life and connect to your creator sounds like a nightmare.
i mean its entirely prespective. it doesnt matter how you view life because you cant change it. it should be somewhat comforting to know that once you die its all over. maybe you dont know how or why you exist but that doesnt really matter because once you die its over.
@@MunchingMaia it’s really nothing like that imo. It’s comforting to know that nothing that happens really matters. Even if it’s good or bad. Because how could it? I feel like it’s hard to describe. Kind of like true freedom. If nothing matters, then you can just do anything because why not?
People think nihilism is all but pain and sadness. You guy know you can still enjoy life even if it’s meaningless, right? Just because something is meaningless doesn’t mean you should be sad or depressed about everything, you can still find and enjoy something in this wide world.
This is both scary and comforting to think about. With this belief, everything we do is fruitless and meaningless. Yet this give us the freedom to create our own meaning in everything we do. We create our meaning in life and we are not bound by a purpose that we have to fulfill.
Don't jump to conclusions just yet, all of this begs the (in my opinion) main question, why do we advance? How much of our ideas and progress are because of consciousness? and how much is guided by the fact that we are, at the end of the day, animals?
It gives us the freedom to do whatever like murdering and abusing children because in the end everything dies. This is one of the most horrifying beliefs out there. They believe there is no evil and good. So they see a child abuser as the same moral ground as one who has saved multiple children. I can see no good in such ideology.
@@krioque thanks for letting me think of it that way, I honestly don't know I didn't before. I don't fear death though, I'm not too scared about dying, I'm pretty tired of living at the moment tbh. Though that could easily just be my dumbass consciousness again. Well now I sound like an edgy 13 year old lol.
The problem with all of this is, no one is without emotion. That's what drives me nuts about people who think they know nihilism. I know that nothing matters objectively, but that doesn't mean I dont feel. I care about other peoples feelings, even though I know in the end that their feelings don't matter. You can objectively know something, while simultaneously recognize the subjectivity that others feel. And because I care about other people (subjectively) even though I know that nothing matters (objectively), I still take them into consideration. I also recognize that not everyone is a nihilist and I have no right to force myself or my beliefs on others (again, not that I think it matters *objectively* in the end). People like to say "Well if nothing matters, off yourself", but objectively, it doesn't matter if I off myself or not. So if I do it tomorrow or 50 years from now, it's all the same. And since I'm not hurting and I'm having a decent time, might as well live it til I'm bored.
Well. Nihilism is the the idea that those feelings don't matter. Offing yourself doesn't matter. Nothing matters, not death, not life. Nothing. That's TRUE nihilism. It'd essentially be a vegetable of a person doomed to die not because they want to but simply because they don't care about anything at all. Not their emotions and not their surroundings.
@@brancodiaz6019 You're correct, nihilism IS the idea that nothing there truly matters. That doesn't stop us from having those emotions, despite knowing they mean nothing. Also, we're all doomed to die LOL
@@BrienDoesIt yes but a true nihilist would feel those emotions and simply say "they don't matter" and not explore those emotions. Those emotions would essentially become mute.
It used to be a scary concept to me, that I was irrelevant and meaningless, and even if I make a small impact on another person, in the universe, I'm still insignificant. It became comforting to me after realizing that perhaps being insignificant isn't so bad, it made me more accepting of my flaws and made me less obsessed in trying to be seen. Being an artist is what makes it kind of hard. Okay, we're already alive, so go out with a bang, I guess. Humans feel in complicated ways, but there is not a way to express "nothing" in art, so, at the same time, I have to believe "something" to express that complicated way to feel that you were assigned with in your free trial of existing (unfortunately).
I am a nihilist. In the beginning, I was like, "If life is meaningless why am I still living." Then I understood if life has no meaning, why must death be any different. And here I am, still living a meaningless life.
"The Meaning of Life is just to be alive. It's so plain and simple, yet everyone rushes around in a great panic, as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."😔 -Alan Watts
But what it means to be alive is different to everyone, and most people don't even know what it is to them. If you create a computer program designed to count the seconds, then its meaning of life is to count the seconds. So in order to understand our meaning of life, should we look at humanity and come to an understanding of a general meaning of life that applies to everyone or just look at ourselves?
@@luscious9797 Here's my subjective answer. If you try to look at humanity to get a general meaning of our existence, You'd become a Nihilist. Astronomy puts everyone in their place. If you try to look at yourself individually, you become an existentialist. That's if you feel your own individual life and actions have meaning to you, not to the Universe(it doesn't). Here's how I see Human life and Existence as a whole. Do you see the sand on the seashore? There's a Lot of sand particles in there, probably trillions. You're wearing a flip flop, and you step on some sand particles, probably hundreds as you walk down to the street. Along the way, numerous sand particles just land randomly in different parts of your journey.(some on the alleyway, some on the park), there was absolutely no "greater" reason behind how they got there. Your act of walking was just so random, just like everybody else. Some of the sand particles eventually find themselves on the street you decided to just casually stroll to. What is the point of that illustration? Well it's this: Those sand particles are human lives, Those Flip flops you wear are the puppeteers. Well, I won't actually say they're completely puppeteers because there's no reason behind the puppeteering. It's all just a huge cinematic universe of random integration. That's exactly how I see Human life. Random Pointless Circumstances, no Inherent meaning. Any meaning inscribed, is that brought forward by people who are scared of accepting their enormous insignificance in the Cosmos and in the grand scheme of things. I know it sounds harsh, but that's my analogy and my philosophy of human existence.
The moment you find yourself in a potentially life threatening situation is the moment you will finally think clearly and all the buzz will be gone. You'll appreciate the little things in life and see the good in people. Then when you realize that you'll be fine and your life isn't in danger, you'll go back to neuroticism of every day life.
This is my first time learning about this. I don't exactly know what it means even if I have experienced something like this before or maybe I haven't. But this idea seems to be somewhat comforting and also familiar to me. I thought I had found my "safe zone", when I feel too overwhelmed by the environment, I enter it and it reminds me that whatever I think is happening in my life right now, might not actually be happening. After all, it's all in my own head. this thought has really saved me from a lot of problems that are mainly caused by my own thinking.I would definitely wanna know more in the future.
Nihilism sparked such joy in me. Living a life full of anxiety, full of what if's and if only, brought up in a strict religious home then wondered off and found sense in all other religions that were being condemned then being in a spiral about what religion to pick lest I burn in hell FOREVER....it was a great break to think that even with all this going on what if it doesn't matter at all? What I do, say or choose to believe...what if I let go of all the cringe, shame, fear and embarrassment that comes with being human and live it out like a movie where the goal is for me to just feel, experience, live and once that movie is over it's over...the credits will be rolled at my funeral...main character-the girl in the casket supporting cast: first 3 front rows background cast- everyone else The end. I lived.
I love this. I had the complete opposite reaction. I was terrified of the unknown and the vastness that this feeling brings at times. However, I've come to terms with it. As you said, life is a movie. Life can be what you can make it.
But why do we always view absence of meaning as something intrinsically negative? Ambitious and goal-seeking folks are extremely likely to live in pain of never meeting their expectations.
I have depression. I suffer horribly every second I’m awake. I see no meaning in life. Why should I live another day? This is why nihilism is viewed negatively. Because there is no answer to the why, and thus my will to live is lost. And what I said is true.
@@Steven-gs8oh Derpession firstly makes you unhappy and then your mind tries to somehow justify this poor mental state with pretentious claims. In your case the justification is absence of meaning. However once you heal, absence of meaning will not bother you in the least, because it itself is not something intrinsically negative. People with a clearly defined meaning, for instance, certain education, certain success in science or career, are likely to work 24/7 and still be left behind by a luckier competitor, never reaching their goal. People without a clear meaning can just enjoy their live more. Anyway, stay strong fighting your disease!
@@glebanful I never said nihilism caused my depression; it didn’t. But with severe depression, I look for a reason to endure this hell, but my nihilism tells me “there is no reason at all”. So my will to live is gone.
@@Steven-gs8oh From my own experience, depression steals the ability to think rationally. Whether or not it makes sense to live through this hell will be known only when you recover. Also your beliefs and thoughts during the harsh times will likely seem dumb and inappropriate after recovery. Thus now there is obvios sense and meaning to your life, which is doing everything possible to win the battle over your disease.
@@glebanful I think I should just try to be a christian again. I honestly don’t care how irrational it is, I just need a profound reason to endure this. And heaven seems like a good reason. Totally illogical and stupid, but a good reason.
I never heard about this philosophy but hearing about it now makes me feel a sense of peace. If people try to find meaning in anything or everything, it'll be exhausting and probably a lot of disappointment too.
I don't consider myself a nihilist, but I definitely believe in nothing. I've never been able to recognize a god, or see any religion as true. I believe that there is no good or evil, yet I still see some things as good and evil. I don't believe life has a meaning, but I still find myself wanting to appreciate the little things in life.
theres another word for that i forgot search up a philospher that lived in a box i forgot his name edit: his name is Diogenes another edit search up: cynic philosophy
With Nothingness, there is purpose. Unless you mean Oblivion but that's beyond this era. Could there be a God?... Well... What is a human? There are objective Good and Evil. However, mankind is marred by corruption. Their agenda is prone to faults beyond computational logic. Purpose... Everyone has a place where they would choose to stay. For those who only want control for their pitiful existence? I pity their sorry souls but such is their design.
@@kingbillion5916 I could never speak in the way I write... Too many fragments trying to steer the wheel... But I digress. If I chose to save this world, then mankind would have been given the Book of Fate. But humanity has not earned it yet. Although, maybe they don't need it... Mankind is on their own. Upon the World's End... I await all.
I know this video is almost two years old and the comments section is full of debate and harsh language, but on the off-chance that the video creator reads this comment, I just want to let you, or whoever else worked on this video know, that this video changed my life. I was in a place in my life that involved a lot of intense introspection and attempts to discover myself, and I would regularly have mental breakdowns on the daily over pondering existence and the relevance of things. This was the reason that I discovered my mindset, that nothing having a meaning or purpose is good because that means you can do whatever you want. I seriously do not know where I would mentally be right now without discovering this video. Seriously, thank you.
[Quran Chapter 39] In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. 1. The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Mighty and Wise. 2. We sent down to you the Book with the truth, so serve Allah, devoting your religion to Him. .... 5. He created the heavens and the earth with reason. He wraps the night around the day, and He wraps the day around the night. And He regulates the sun and the moon, each running along a specific course. He is indeed the Almighty, the Forgiver. 6. He created you from one person, then made from it its mate, and brought down livestock for you-eight kinds in pairs. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, in successive formations, in a triple darkness. Such is Allah, your Lord. His is the kingdom. There is no god but He. So what made you deviate? 7. If you disbelieve, Allah is Independent of you, yet He does not approve ingratitude on the part of His servants. And if you are thankful, He will approve that in you. No bearer of burden can bear the burden of another. Then to your Lord is your return; and He will inform you of what you used to do. He is aware of what the hearts contain. www.quranwow.com
@7:24 the answer is attachment , when we become attached to something saving it is saving a part of ourselves it's a form of extended self preservation.
That does not actually preserve anything at all, only making you believe that you saved part of yourself - it still means nothing at all, just another illusion of Dellusion.
One of my favorite quotes is from a book called “Why does the world exist” “If there were nothing instead of something. Than there would be no laws. And if there were no laws. There would be nothing to prevent something from happening. There for, nothing is self forbidding”
Laws don't exist. They're descriptions of reality we came up with that correspond to how things work. If how things work is that nothing ever exists, then a law of nonexistence would be accurate.
Kinda just seems like he’s playing word games, I don’t think that proves that something must come from nothing. That is a great book either way though.
@@netosampaio8548 Have you even read Nietzsche? You know, the father of nihilism and showing that the ultimate consequences of it are existential crisis that need to be overcome by finding a second well to hold ourselves against since we crashed through the first one being god.
Everyone’s experience is different, for me nihilism was a horrific black hole that swallowed everything I knew as a child and teenager. “Life is meaningless- so why continue living?” But there’s a moment in every man’s life when he learns the meaning of life is up to the man, not up to those around him. My moment was filled with euphoria, sudden self worth, and massive realizations. It’s how I came to the conclusion that life has as much meaning as you give it- but what REALLY matters is wether that meaning you have given it makes you happy. Being a nihilist did not make me happy, but being an exestentialist has… but what I HADNT realized until recently, is that what actually happened was I had ACCEPTED that life was meaningless. With that simple shift, from constantly fighting it, I had opened up areas of my mind I hadn’t known existed. Nihilism is a tricky trap door that in the surface may seem to have no way out once your dropped in, but really you just have to figure it out
(There are two TL;DR versions for any curious readers, one just has a lot less suggestion of structure and leaves a lot more room for "bad" things) I would most definitely agree, friend. To me, true Nihilism is in it's best form if you start accepting that life simply is meaningless, simply because one individual life is incomprehensibly short compared to any real grand scheme. 200 years seems like an immensely long time, but at the same time, that's between 2 and 3 generations ago, "3 people ago" as Joe Rogan once said. So if you only live one people long, there really isn't a comprehensible point to anything you do. Not to yourself at least; but living your life and doing all the things you want to do, without thinking about it too much, that is what makes nihilism great, when not exacerbated. "I shouldn't regret the things I do with my life, if I feel that I genuinely want to try and/or do what I'm contemplating. After all, there really isn't a point to everything I do for myself up until death; because the moment I'm gone, as far as I'm concerned, it will be irrevocably gone from existence. But then again, shouldn't that be the beauty of it? I should aspire to do all the wonderful, artistic, creative, and joyous things I wish to do, simply because; as frivolous as it may come to the next person who were to judge my existence, it would matter to me not, as my reality will be no longer that of the one who would cast such a judgement. I shouldn't waste my time bothering someone, even if it were what I wanted, because if someone else wanted that upon me, ironically, I would no longer feel this freedom to bother another as I had so wished and chose. Instead, I should simply choose to make the utmost of my existence, in the most positive and beneficial way that I can find in myself, under my own definition; but with regard to not interfering with my neighbors." Nihilism to me is understanding that life is not forcing changes, Nihilism is making choices. Choices lead to more choices, and others making more choices. And eventually, through the magic of science, choices will make the changes that you were touching on by making such a choice. Everything you do has a massive impact at a point when you longer exist, which effectively means there is no impact. No one would ever notice the impact, as one day there would be no remnant of the the thing you worked to change. Perhaps history books and recordings, but it would have merely phased out things people do. The world burns when we try to force changes, because we do an awful lot far too quickly, trying to stay on a roll. So quit trying to force changes immediately, it makes it too hard to keep up, and it removes any façade of a real life, seeing as you just completely tore down everything that you thought was a real life just a very short time ago. * TL;DRv.1.0: Slow down; stop stressing, trying to force change, and causing conflict over the things that you as one person simply cannot control; and MOST importantly, make the best out of your life and enjoy it, because if you don't, no one else ever will. **TL;DRv.1.01: Might as well throw down while you're here bro, no one else is gonna do it for you, no one's gonna care whether or not you did once you're done, and you damn sure don't get to come back and do it a second time.
Yess thanks for sharing nihilism has done nothing but make me unhappy. My beliefs that i once believed as a child had turned useless, and everything had just become useless to the point... where doing daily actions for me seemed so useless. ITS gotten so bad that I can't even have a mind of my own because "what is anything??" All of this really started from when i watched a youtuber talk about how nothing matters. And i guess it bothered me because I'll never know what life really is or the truth and it makes me feel like I'm living in a lie. this has been my reality for months. but I've been wanting a change for some time now. But i did not know where to start. Soon or a later i ended finding my way and it's been hard as hell. crying everyday knowing that you won't ever be free (seeing everyone else free minded and not caring) or you will always live life trapped because you live in a reality where life doesn't matter anyways I've came a long way from how severe it was 🙂. Fighting it doesn't work and you will figure it out! Im still coming out of it but i know that that statement is true . Something
@@her8454 My own conclusion is that life is not worth and not in a bad way of killing everyone but just personally wish to never been born in the first place and no new humans should arrive this world could you give a word I appreciate your help thank you
For me it's comforting, it doesn't matter when I die, what I do or why I am, I could invent the cure for cancer tomorrow or die tomorrow, would it matter? No. And I have the freedom of choice.
Somehow after listening this i feel better and my feelings to end myself has somewhat stopped and I can happily accept this concept like a free bird 🕊️
@@extremelynoobgaming4742 nope i can't fly but it doesn't matter ... Nothing matters and that is what nihilism is. .... Nobody matters ... Either way death is inevitable ... So live as u want and do whatever u want ...
I think nihilism is so freeing, to know that there doesn’t have to be a one thing that happens because it is “important” but just because it *did* happen
@@Malmorious freeing that nothing I do right now really matters, none of my conflicts will follow me after my death. It makes me feel like I can live my life and do whatever I want, my legacy doesnt matter since i wont be able to witness it, if people forget about me im fine with that since I wont be there to witness it.
Nihilism to me is terrible. The beleif that nothing you do matters includes all kinds of actions, including all the negative ones. I bet nihilists make a good percentage of murderers since the ideology is quite literally "So what if I killed my parents? Both them and I would die eventually".
I’m a nihilist. Life is like music or dancing. There’s no point to dancing. The whole purpose of the dance is the dance. The “why” doesn’t matter. Life is pointless in the same way music and dancing is. But you may as well play the game.
The why doesnt matter. Im going to explore that. I think thats key. Used to say what if you could get an answer for sure what would you ask. Mine is Why? And if it doesnt matter that should be liberating and if my life is to have been worthwhile after all i can find action productivity and results with out a why. It doesnt seem si to me but if i could really embrace it doesnt matter without it seeming like a downer. Ill try
@@cynthiamarston2208 well this is the problem. People think nihilism = negative. How can a 0 be a negative? If you have to ask a question that implies that that you’re looking for an answer to a problem. There is no problem. There’s no expectations except the ones you put on yourself. There’s just experience. And you are the agent of that. Wow. Amazing
Lucid Dreaming actually made me question my nihilism quite a bit. In that state, it’s much more possible to just do whatever you want without being bound by anything but your own creativity, once you are able to control them. If you could exist in that state at all times, it would definitely feel more meaningful.
At some point, after existing in this state and doing everything you ever wished for, don't you think, you're going to get bored? Don't you think, everything will lose it's meaning? I'm not judging or saying it will be, just pointing out something that had me thinking a long time.
@@hakimahmad2420 I definitely didn’t make it sound like this on my original comment, but I think a mixed bag of waking and dreaming would be optimal, specifically being able to exist in whichever one you want whenever you want. Even having the time for each one mostly predetermined for me, it’s helped massively. I can’t imagine how much more awesome life would be if I could zap myself in and out of dream states. Hell at that point the “Dream World” might be more widely accepted to be truly “real” because everyone could access it whenever they wanted, a barrier that I think definitely causes the general attitude to be that “it’s just fantasy land” and not real. Lucid Dreamers I’ve found always think of the dream world as more real than people who can’t/don’t do it, so I’m basing my assumption off that. But I have not yet hit an overall wall, even flying which I’ve been able to do in dreams 99% on command for years now, is still amazingly exhilarating and carries over for the first couple hours when I wake up. On a cosmological timescale, I’d probably eventually run out yes. I guess that’s where the limits of my humanity actually come in because I’m not worried about ever actually being able to do it forever. I have hardly any hopes for being able to access it easier before I die, though I heard MIT is doing some serious research on dreams right now, hopefully they crack it. Thanks for your comment though, it seems like a surface level concern but maybe that’s also a testament to how great it is, I’ve been having too much fun with it that I never bothered to think of that for the whole time I’ve done it (10ish years) but the relationship between waking and dreaming and how they complement each other to some degree or another, I hadn’t realized just how much that existed in the background without my noticing it until now. Now, shared Lucid Dreaming?? Different story. That could keep me going for who knows how many lifetimes, because even animals dream, I’d wanna go into different dreams of different animals not just humans. Alright I gotta cut this before I write a short novel lol.
@@tmtmtg Where did you get stuck? Were you having vivid dreams? Did you get that far? I’m honestly not the best teacher since I learned it pretty young and had lots of natural circumstances that helped me, so I don’t know what it feels like to have to gain those through effort, fortunate for me unfortunate for everyone I could help. I can try my best though.
I have long been a nihilist. And it pretty much made my life a better life to live, I live the life I want to live, I do the things I want to do and I follow the path I want to follow. Indeed, the path I desire to follow might lead me to starving or dying. But, why does that truly matter? I like being alive, yes. But being alive isn't the reward, it's the tool that allows me to achieve happiness. And if I want to achieve happiness, I will do what I think is right. Since nothing matters. Nothing matters, so I believe I should strive for my happiness and those around me.
@@liamjean5261 sometimes it takes an active imagination that can defy our current understanding to create something new and potentially better, or In other words thinking outside the box and mixing the alike parts and cutting out a few different parts to make something that fits a group of people that were previously nameless
@@liamjean5261 if you think they contradict, u don't understand either of those philosophies. Stoicism is literally just nihilism with extra steps. Every single stoic philosopher also talked about nihilism, buddha and nietzche are the biggest examples of this. Nihilism is that nothing matters, stoicism is nothing EXCEPT virtue matters, how do they contradict? It's just sad that these philosophies are mostly preached by 17 year old edgy teenagers nowadays who don't bother to study enough to form educated opinions about these ideologies. Stoicism and nihilism both come from the same source of cynicism, so they are extremely similar although they seem different on the surface level.
Why are we here, not for misery, our core values, but why, does it matter, nihilism the ideology makes people pessimistic, good should defeat evil, created morality to be positive, cynicism and apathy from self-interest, do you exist for your pleasure or purpose, who invented life and is there a god, is religion a hoax, unexplainable the mystery of life has yet to be solved🔯💲✅
i agree with existential nihilism, I feel like we don’t have a higher purpose from a superior entity. We should just make the best and try our best to achieve things that the society in this time period finds desirable.
That leaves one big problem. Life is suffering. What could possibly make suffering worth going through? Only meaning can do that. Meaning = purpose. There is something going on that is bigger than us. And you can take the path that makes it better for you and those around you (following Jesus imo) or you can choose the path that makes it worse for you and those around you (declaring yourself god). Nihilism basically comes to the conclusion that we are God, not that, God doesn't exist.
@@dennisd.4726 I strongly disagree with your sentiments. You’re depicting the glass half full/empty thing perfectly. Life is not suffering, life is what you make it. There are MANY amazing aspects to life such as the constant thirst for knowledge and expansion. To say there HAS to be a reason we’re here for it to be fun or good, is blatantly absurd. No form of entertainment HAS to exist, just like life doesn’t have to exist. Living is just something to do to pass time until you’re gone. You don’t live for yourself, you live for humanity as a whole and to continue the moving machine of progression
This is so true. It annoys me to no end when I hear people say God has a plan for your life. Does he really? So there is supposed to be a specific purpose for everyone of the one billion people on the planet. No. People fuck like rabbits and keep producing the useless eaters. Point blank period. There is no "plan" for an animal born out of animal lust and instinct. Humans are highly evolved animals and I use highly evolved very loosely
Because when it ends, a part of you is left behind with it until there's nothing of you left that seens new and exciting so we tend to go back and try to reproduce and relive that part of us once more, "everlasting happiness" is an ilusion yet the ultimate goal
@@Willskull Who hurt you? I'm... Just speechless... I don't know what happened but... Sorry for your loss? I feel like you've lost something...? I know you're just a person on the internet and all but... I wish better for you alright?
@@Willskull "It's not 'how hard you try', it's simply how you try. You tried taking a hard path over and over, now try and see what path you want and try to make an easy one. Something you like maybe, or maybe not like? Idk. You know how you'd like to try. You figure it out." -Wise words of someone who exists/existed that I take to heart
I feel like nihilism is so misunderstood. Just because I believe in nothing, doesn't mean I enjoy nothing. I don't need to know why we exist to enjoy my time here.
@@VER_TRISTEZA Well hate to break it to you, but enjoying life no matter where you are isn't linked whatsoever to being "lazy" and a "psychopath". It's something called "let it go, try to be flexible as life goes on and enjoy life with what you have even if it's really awful." in case you haven't heard of it. Guess it's interpretation depends on person to person though, but that's my take on life. These are just the blabbing of a random internet girl though, you don't have to listen but I just want to clear it up. Also, since life does spiral out and sometimes you feel lost, why not just be lost? Embrace the dark and sink until you're at the bottom of the endless pit? Why try to care so much about what happens just because it affects you so much that you can't breathe? If you can't breathe you need to focus on your breath first otherwise you'll overventilate. After all of that is when you assess the situation (I know this is ironic, but sometimes I stop caring in order to know how to care better kind of like what I said. Another example is me just stop caring about these negative thoughts first right before trying to care for yourself otherwise you'll bring yourself down and negativity doesn't benifit anyone unless you use it to your advantage but as of the moment it's clouding your thoughts). Can't you just feel through the situation without looking at anything? Trust whatever's happening? Maybe not when you feel like you can't go anywhere no matter how hard you try but you could if you're willing to try. Diving into the dark and embracing it doesn't mean that you have to like it or be thankful for the negative behalf of living, but it's the understanding, tolerance and looking in depth to it is what counts.
I already had this thought as a kid that "life is just life". Why do we need to make a meaning out of life instead of just enjoying it until one day we depart? I still think about it this way and even though for some the fact that there is no meaning in life is scary, for me its soul freeing. Basically I take life as it is and don't think on something that I will never figure out in my lifetime, it's nice.
Beautifully and very well worded. I think this video would be a great tool to help people, like me, explain how the world is veiwed to nihilistic people. Great content.
Yeah, because clearly there is only one form of existential nihilism 🙄 You really think people who know nothing are watching this? It's mostly zoomers who already adopted meme nihilism and want to feel good about themselves.
"Life alone is reason enough for living" This made me cry. I've been going through so much I had lost a certain meaning to mine and lost the sight that life is valuable whatever happens. Thank you for reminding me of that.
What is valuable in life for one's existence and what is valuable in one's existence itself? to say that life is valuable, you should specify what it is adding value to, your existence is just your life and if it isn't valuable then your existence itself isn't valuable
The biggest bummer to me is knowing that I'll never truly see how far humanity will go.
It's like joining a game half way through and leaving before it ends. There's no closure to that.
I like this comment, i believe this is the same way i feel about humanity
I agree. You’ll never see how far our intelligence goes
Well, it's a lot more like a relay race, getting the baton from the people before us, and passing the baton to the people to come after us.
Maybe they will find a cure for ageing and you will see it
Honestly humanity probably won’t go far
"I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter" -Friedrich Nietzsche
Did he really say this quote? I have heard this line in a song
It's literally a song
I think Linken Park ripped him off.
@@rahilamin2239 It's a joke🤣
lmao nice
In the big picture nothing matters. But we live in the little picture where everything matters.
Everything matters. Your thoughts, your actions.
It takes courage to accept this great responsibility called life.
best comment I've ever seen on YT
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@@choicethetaurus Ngl i thought this was gonna be some trash self promo but i was wrong
Nihilism has been my comfort for many years now. A feeling of escape in realism. The fact that nothing has any inherent meaning and nothing lasts forever I find reassuring
well, do you believe that the naturally occurring morality of humans is created and established by humans? young children feel guilt for something they know they shouldn’t do, even when they have never been told not to do that action, it’s a natural morality. How do you suggest the organization of the universe and the creation of life is random or meaningless? I have never seen an organized design without an intelligent creator.
Everything we know in this world has no true meaning, because its not meant to have a meaning and is beautiful that way a good example of this is when you let life be by being in a flow state things become less frictional and peaceful than when you are constantly trying to achieve things , when you flow and let life give whatever it can offer you are less afraid of death and peaceful knowing that one day you will die you just stop trying to put sense in life and let it create its own sense in a beautiful way . We all run to religion because we are afraid of death and we try to control life.the world is more beautiful without ego and striving for achievement, you realise that life is too fleeting for you to make enemies and hold own to grudges , you learn to forgive . The nature of existence is quite strange and you can't put it words and numbers ,it's just meant to be experienced. When Friedrich nietzsche said "God is dead" he meant to say that we have. separated ourselves from all of existence and become to individualised, we think we are separate from all of creation but actually we are one with it. We would no be alive now if plants did not exist because all living thing benefit from them and the plants would not exist without the sun which they use to survive and produce food , we are all just part of the binary of existence and the means in a way we are part of what we on earth like to call God. Only those who are strong accept ideas similar to nihilism .
@@emperorpalpatine4032young children feel guilty because they are sponges and soak up culture faster than you’d think. A child born in absolute poverty with no parents , surviving by eating scraps and dead animals - they would steal , kill, and do anything to survive. Humans at their basic level to survive will kill with no guilt. We’ve seen it time and time again throughout our history . Imagine thinking our ancestors grew up thinking about right vs wrong and mortality when they’re hunting tigers and bears with STICKS. Survival is the only thing that matters. Animals eat their young all the time. Monkeys have been proven to clan fight each other for territory . To the death. There’s so many examples. So yeah mortality and ethics were most definitely“created” by humans. It doesn’t just exist in nature. Animals and nature are cruel
@@Paul-g7lIM STRONG THEN
how does one truly be a nihilist when by doing so, the concept of nihility itself is contradicted by the construct of wanting to believe in the idea of "nothingness" or "meaninglesness"
i have a joke about nihilism, but i guess it doesn't matter
hahahaha xD
ok and?
@@Kriegter You don't seem to get the joke.
@@Kriegter I'd have told you the rest of it but it probably doesn't matter
@@swanihilator6748 "ok and" is a reference to nihilism in that I simply don't care about anything and that nothing, not even the nihilist joke matters
To quote Socrates: "the only thing I know is that I know nothing".
well he knows that..
I'm your 69th like.
Facts 🔥
Ironically, he knows that he knows nothing.
It seems all that I know is the fact that my lack of knowing anything triggers an infinite number of paradoxes... including the fact that I know that even though I said I didn’t... and now that I know that too ruins the paradox so I don’t really know anything... or do I? Now I do... now I do- fucking ow my head
bro i don't even know if we actually exist
This is the matrix. Or worse something so confusing that we’d never understand it. 😂
Epistemology. When you look into that you start questioning reality. Nihilism is baby talk. Epistemology makes you question everything.
If you're conscious, you exist.
@@sigigle
In some form, yes. But what form? That is the question. The only real thing you're certain of is your existence. Everything else, the other guy just doesn't get.
@@appledough3843 Yes that's true, we don't know what is intrinsic/essential to us other than our consciousness.
Every thing else, our minds, our emotions, may be no more us than the bodies we find ourselves in, something bestowed upon us from the outside by some unknown means.
That is possible.
It's also possible that absolutely everything could be considered to be us, and everything in between those 2 extremes.
All we know for sure about what we are, is that we are conscious.
I find the nihilism strangely comforting. I grew up in a catholic home and went to catholic school. The pressure of heaven and hell not existing and being able to just live in the moment is the most free I've ever felt tbh
I am the same. I went to catholic school for 10 years. I feel like they can't get christ off the cross. Their ideology is to shame you into submission. If thier is a God there's no way that could be the way we're designed to live. The truth is we're no different from a blade of grass or a branch on a tree. It is quite fascinating to live. But life is random and completely meaningless. It's not a bad thing. It's just how it is.
How did you reached the point of saying there is no hell? I grew up as a Muslim and had a strong faith, but recently I'm doubting Religion in generell. Questions like: how can hell be justice for good people or is it fair that I was born in a Muslim family but others are not, I mean most people are born in a religion and just die. Every moment I ask myself what will happen when I die right now? I'm living in fear so how did you escape this world view?
@@UgiMukliwatch videos on people that have died (flatlined) and come back. many people say dying is peaceful, and usually do not describe any version of hell at all because our brains relax us with chemicals as we die
I am not a Muslim, but I have struggled about finding the purpose of life for years and honestly nihilism looks like the most logical and nearest to truth.I don't necessarily like it but it is what it is........@@UgiMukli
The freedom through Nihilism comes when you realize that everything with meaning and value is what you have subconsciously created, and that you can consciously change or remove whenever you like.
Nihilism is kinda a paradox for me, I think a true Nihilist would reject Nihilism kinda like Dostoevsky’s Kirillov. If nothing truly means anything then making your own meaning out of it is pointless and kinda crazy. I find more comfort in Absurdism.
@@madzzz2001 yeah I’m a fan of The Rebel, and The Myth of Sisyphus. I also enjoy his novels.
It’s just depressing
These conversations and ideas are nothing more than a luxury
There is no freedom through Nihlism, you’re a slave to nothing at that point. Nothing to live for or die for, nothing to care about. Those type of people are cringe asf. And demolishing to all work and progress. Usually a teenager whos too stubborn to grow up and find a meaningful life. If you really think everything is for nothing, You’re either mental or Democrats 😂 tryna make a power grab for your own benefit.
"Because nothing actually matters, we can choose what matters to us"
I like this idea
@@hellogtea it's basic, and unthinking.
your profile picture is oddly scary
@Sam Farza uhhh ok mate. i don't exactly care what profound wisdom is, i just somehow resonate with it. basically i'm dumb, i'm comfortable with being dumb (because honestly the pursuit of knowledge seems tiring and i just want to do whatever), and that's it. a lot of people don't care about things.
yep, optimistic nihilism
This man could sit me down and talk to me about the letter B for an hour and I would LISTEN.
STICKY FINGASS
OI GIORNO
He would probably cover topics like.
B is the second letter in the English alphabet.
2B or not 2B
Words that's start with B:
Be, bee.
Beef, Bear, beep, beam, bean, beat, been.
Beast, breeze, breath.
He could talk about the Bees and how they be.
B(runo) B(ucellati)
B, it is a wild Letter you could say that the letter b represents the feeling of almost being their but not quite, it represents the feeling of being second, as it is the second letter in the alphabet;
But at the end B will always be behind A
I really like how you touched on how good/evil is all relative and essentially irrelevant. I’ve been nihilistic for a while now. It started as negative but over the years has become positive. It used to make me so suicidal thinking about how I am just going to die in the end and nothing I do really matters. Sometimes I still think like that but I’ve gotten better at seeing nihilism in a positive way. Whenever I’m extremely stressed out I remind myself that in the end I will be dead and so in the grand scheme of things whatever I’m stressed out about doesn’t matter. That can be comforting sometimes
man i hope your life gets better❤
@@nunu4evaaa thank you ❤️
There is meaning in laughter, it means your happy
@@Power_Prawnstar bark bark
"Evil is relative and irrelevant"
Bro really has never heard of p*dophiles. Or are you going to say they're "not evil" and how that's perfectly okay? Pretty fucked up that you support that, and human trafficking and serial killing and other "not-evil" things according to your outlook.
Meanwhile in a sane world, yes normal people actually tend to agree that all those things are objectively evil due to the sheer harm they cause. But go ahead and say how saving a stranger's life is "no more good" than human trafficking.
I was once told, " if life has no meaning, then that means you can make your own meaning, turn nothing into something"
Very true.
But is something better than nothing?
Yeah....but what's the point? in spite of making some meaning, life will just be a trip from maternity to crematorium. Remember you can not define emotions; so there's nothing called "excitement". *THINK AGAIN*
@@sharanyosengupta1930 the point is there is no point. So why not
optimistic nihilism
I have genuinely come to 90% of these conclusions in my mind for my entire life, and you just put the perfect words out there to describe it. Thanks mate
seems like u had a tough time. Hope u succeed one day
If you interact with something else than you had meaning
If humans created morality and values, and humans exist, then how can you claim these morals and values don't exist or mean anything?
It's true that when you look at the universe and the way matter and consequently life is, it's fragile, temporary, small... etc it seems that we are an not a big part of the 'story' but that's all relative. Money is literally an imaginary agreement between people in the form of paper bills (sometimes just numbers) but that doesn't make it less valuable to us in daily life. Your phone is just plastic, metal and glass and has no real superior value compared to a piece of metal ore or sand in their rudimentary form but you won't throw your phone out of the window or treat it as a random piece of plastic and metal because it has value to you, and you are again part of the universe and reality, maybe it's not that big of a deal but again value is real, albeit relative and limited in scope to us at some point in time.
@@JeffreyBenzodiazepines morals and values is taught to u by culture. If your culture wasn't different or had a particular culture. That piece of plastic wouldn't have value to you!
@@johnsimpson5471 "If your culture was different you would have different values" Well, that's true for a lot of things. If my parents didn't conceive me 25 years ago I wouldn't be here to make this comment, but they did and that's reality. The fact that morals and ideals are relative doesn't make them any more or less meaningful. the earth is stationary relative to you, but spins around the sun, both of them are real facts. By pointing out the existence of alternatives does not in any way diminish what's there.
I think the freeing part of Nihilism is that since nothing has meaning, you can literally do WHATEVER you want, live life on your own terms and to be happy, it’s all up to you.
@another re:stxrt. you completely missed the point of the comment
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@@6dirt philosophy student here. What has been described in this comment isn’t nihilism, but another philosophy called “existentialism” (or maybe “absurdism”). Nihilism is basically just depression, and the moment a nihilist believes in doing things that go against the “it-will-all-amount-to-nothing-anyway” sentiment, they are not a nihilist anymore.
@@iaminsideyourhome6620 its optimistic nihilism btw
@@6dirt that’s synonymous with absurdism
im a nihilist, but it gives me great comfort, there is no meaning to life, why would there be? why does it matter? Ive never understood why people care about it having a meaning?? nothing means anything, you find your own joy in life. I dont see why or understand how anyone cares about it? we all die, so what? the world is so beautiful. In the grand scheme of things nothing matters, it makes me very happy to know that.
Exactly life is meaningless. But who cares. Does a fish question why it swims? No beacuse there not self aware. They don't swim with reason they just do it. If a fish questioned why it swam it would be in misery beacuse it would realize is swims without meaning
It seems to me that humans have always sought meaning in life. That's why it's so absurd. We were looking for meaning in meaningless life so to cope we gave life fake meaning (religions, traditions, goals, etc.). That's how I see it.
Exactly. It's not like I gain anything from living or dying, so why toy with this precious but meaningless life? Why do people hurt themselves, others, and do things for personal gain when there is truly nothing to gain but the very values we have constructed. "Social construct" describes the average person's existence in the modern world. Conforming and working for things that have been manufactured by generations gone. Why work for things that people have achieved, just to lose again? Why work for the thrill when the thrill is nothing but hormones rushing to different parts of the brain in this vessel we live in? There is nothing that matters to gain, but instinctually, we want to live and conquer things that don't even matter.
People wonder why Nihilism is becoming popular, they think it is just negativity and depression. But in reality, it is the answer to the pointless suffering we give ourselves. The answer is that life is precious and miraculous. There's nothing else to it, it just is.
@@InfamousAMH There is no answer. Nihilism it not an answer for everyone. There is no one truth. It's just another perspective to look at things.
help im confusing this with existentialism TT
''Life alone is reason enough for living.''
I liked that, thank you.
Why?
@@ig884 haha my balls itch
@@ig884 why not
@@JPdraws_ I shitted
@@adrian969 I’m on 3 different narcotics and I’m itching my butthole uncontrollably there’s why not
Fun fact: there is a kind of depression called nihilist depression, and basically people feel like nothing matters and basically what was said in the video
why might you see depression as a bad thing? even if it goes as far as suicide, why is death seen as a bad thing to happen to someone? is it because people fear things like death? i guess that's only natural because humans by default only fear what they don't understand. but why is it "bad" to feel bad? people are driven by moral concepts. i will say though, if morality didn't exist then society couldn't function properly. things like good and evil objectively don't actually exist. but in the end, if people didn't exist what would be good and what would be bad in the world?
A consequence of achieving peak self awareness.
@@METALADIX it truly is
I hear you bro 😢
@@tjxdivinity Because despair is the result of not understanding enough. It's a result of guilt, shame, anger. Stemming from fear itself. If there's one thing I've learned about fear it's that fear is a lie.
I have no shame, no gruilt, no despair, no doubts. No fear. No anger. Was very different in the past. In the past I used to do nothing but despair. Now I find apathy comforting. Getting others to feel nothing gets them to be something. It's wonderful.
People tend to enable being "sorry". Why? Mistakes are a learning opportunity. People enable toxic positivy/false hope. Why? because their lives are devoid of meaning and purpose and thus they enable others to be like them. Misery loves company. I play a different game. It's called honesty. Correct every spoken lie. Question why people feel what they do. Remind them of their own actiions/choices. Seriously, the reminders go a long way. Here's the funny thing. Telling someone I can destroy them is why they became my lover. warn and inform. This matters. It's important that people are made aware of the situations they're in. If nothing mattered then you would not ask. It's the desire for answers. Honesty itself. That matters.
Catch 22: What people THINK is honest most often isn't honest. What people ASSUME is honest tends to be a LIE. Thus the desire for "nothing" indicates to not have the lies and instead make something from honest apathy. There is a logic in that. People that start with nothing become something.
Chaos, being chaos, will not abide by the expectations of others. Nothing makes sense. No, really. Nothing actually makes sense. What does "nothing" mean though?
It means letting go of expectations. To not assume. If you don't feel anything that doesn't have to be a bad thing, despite what others would claim. With the right support it can lead to intimacy very quickly (talking ASAP). I'm glad I been able to be there for my lover. I personally had to learn on my own. Wouldn't want them too. People can think they're nothing. Often (most commonly), this is actually denial. Of inner guilt, fear, anger. Only when pushed by others to be nothing will people actually learn what it means. All uphill from there. Provided people do know the worst properly (talking really dark shit here).
"Nothing" is the first step. The answer is "Be the danger". And be honest about it. Communication done the "right" way. The feeling of being offended indicates ones own insecurities. If you experience that then that's not nothing. That's something to take note of.
Usually I get depressed when I think about how there are essentially no answers and no meaning, but when I watched this I got a feeling I can't understand what I am feeling
Well who and what defines meaning? Is there supposed to be some particle of meaningium or something in the world? Or should it be given from on high? Would you even want to live in a world where either of such things were the case?
Isn't more interesting to be in a world with endless surprises?
But you dont have to think about it you can just let it go and enjoy your life, if there isnt meaning to life doesnt make it any less fun
@@joriskronig5319 yeah it doesn't but it is werid to think about the fact I will one day cease to exist and every one I know would cease to exist and every good and bad thing I did has no meaning it is a very werid thought and it gives me a weird feeling but you're right just enjoy life and have those happy and fun moments
If you feel something, that means you are alive be it sad or happy.
Same, but we can give a life a meaning I guess Idk
2 types of nilists
1: nothing in life matters😔
2: NOTHING IN LIFE MATTERS!🥳
I'm second one
first one is the worst one.
I'm both sometimes I'm like "gosh why do I put in effort if nothing truly matters, I'm gonna die anyways"
But when adrenaline got the rush of me during 3am
"HOLY SH1T , NOTHING TRULY MATTERS. WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE. I'mma ask my crush out whether I get rejected or not , it doesn't matter. Ima do random stuff to embarrass myself cause WHY NOT??? Nothing truly matters anywayssss"
"Is the cup half-empty or half-full?"
Well, were you emptying it or filling it?
THIS
Wait a minute
I think you're onto something.
bruh that's the best response to it
i've found a god in disguise
I guess i am a Nihilist in many ways, but I'm okay with that. I've accepted my existence and that life itself is happening, I'm here for the ride but I don't expect it to matter after I die.
Great video
There's no reason to live and there's no reason to die
No that’s wrong but everybody have a different thoughts
@@aliagha160 I said "i don't expect it to matter". You can't just say I'm wrong for having no expectations for what happens after i die. That doesn't make sense, you can't assign a "right" or "wrong" to the unknown lol
"You see that farmer over there growing apple trees? Live like that farmer... You see that king over there with his grand knights? Be like that king... You see that ant over there with his brothers and sister on top of a suger dew? Enjoy like that ant... If you can do just that, then it's all you need... But don't over do it.", not a quote but a measure.
@@svenheuseveldt7188
And yet... Here you are. Still living and breathing until the end. If you didn't truly care to exist, then you wouldn't be here or you've spent your time at full. Like a ghost, you chose to stay for a reason deep within your own subconscious.
That's why I believe that we being aware of our existence is the biggest curse in our universe.
Edit: Thank you for the 2K likes.
I prefer the Eastern philosophy that life is its own gift. Make of it what you want. It doesn't last forever, but neither does your awareness. It's your own private slice of eternity.
@@joesterling4299 not really private tho
@@joesterling4299 or eternal lol
@@denerocharles9704 Life doesn’t end at death, death has been defeated a long time ago and your afterlife will start once you are judged for your earthly actions. Whether or not which heaven exists, using Pascal’s wager you should be the most moral person just in case the possibility of judgement and heaven is there.
@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 Im a christian and i reason that if there is no God or heaven, at least i enjoyed my life believing in them and i wont know the difference once im dead.
This is exactly how I feel right now. Thank you so much for being able to put it into words for me. I feel a lot more comfortable in my brain now.
Happy to help!
Optimists: "the cup is half full"
Pessimists: "the cup is half empty"
Nihilists: "the cup"
What cup?
Eh
why the cup?
the cup has water
“the cup is half filled”
“ When we are awake we forget our dreams, and when we are asleep we forget reality. The question is which one is the truth?”
- someone
Both and neither is what I would say truth is subjective to one's own definition and looking for absolute truth only reveals conflict in the nature of reality
All I know is that while dreaming a death will most likely not end your life
What's strange is that I remember my dreams and am aware when I am actually asleep...
@@michaelb4415 But then again, maybe that's how that reality works and just dying from fatal injuries is the life.
Not gonna test if death is gonna end my life cause I'm a bitch.
It doesnt matter anywaya
“I used to be indecisive, but now I’m not so sure”.
Bars
@@brazzyreece6936 haha ikr preach
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Same, i might believe in nihilism since it feels better to be that
Just watched a video on stoicism, and it made me feel terrible. But every time I hear about nihilism, it makes me feel so relieved and relaxed. It means there is nothing to worry about because nothing matters. So I can smile. 😊
"To live is to suffer. To survive is to find some meaning in the suffering"
Nietzsche
He also said life can only be justified on aesthetic grounds
@@PushnButton62 True, he never said he was nihilist too haha
well i cant accepted , there should be a better way , to change it rather using to it
@@mohammaddh8655 You can adopt other philosophy you find useful for your life.
All suffering is rooted in desires.
Buddha
Fun fact: The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million
Why?
Thank you for a very fun fact
Say a fun fact about the letter E
God damn
But was it alive...
I asked my friend how nihilism is pronounced.
Neelishm or nylisim.
He said “it doesn’t matter.”
I'm Turkish, we always pronounce it as neelishm and in English it's usually nylisim. So they both sound correct to me. But at the end of the day "it doesn't really matter."
I pronounce it the way it is. (Im turkish)
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I can't tell if my friend is nihilistic or suicidal
But now he's dead, it doesn't matter
@@Michealthekiller I'm in the same situation, the difference is just I'm still alive
Growing up in a non-religious household, I was never pressured to adopt any particular belief system. By around age 9 or 10, I began contemplating the meaning of life and the nature of our daily existence. I quickly concluded that life had no inherent meaning, and that we are merely intelligent apes on a floating rock awaiting our eventual end. When I shared these thoughts with my parents, they seemed somewhat unsettled, as such reflections are unusual for a child of that age. Nevertheless, they didn't challenge my perspective. Now, as a philosophy major, I've come to believe that the only purpose in life is the one we choose to create for ourselves-nothing more, nothing less.
Apathy: It doesn’t concern me
Stoicism: It won’t affect me
Nihilism: It was never there to begin with
Absurdism: "it happened lol"
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Hedonism: "Try again" (◠‿・)
Glad to see that someone mentioned Absurdism, thanks.
I think nihilism is more it doesn't matter to begin with rather than never there
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Me having fun in the summer, enjoying the heatwave, tanning in the garden.
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same. i see youtube wanted to remind me that life is meaningless WE'RE GOING TO DIE ANYWAY
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We will die but why not have fun before it happened?
@@regreteverycommentsivepost6819 ofc, that's why I'm okay with death, I'd rather die happy than sad about the fact that my life doesn't have sense ✨
@@stylowychleb8642 but you will forget that anyways
Imagine being able to tan lmao
“Is the glass full or empty?”
Nihilist: *”We’re all gonna die anyway”*
Nice pfp from my favourite game
@@iceicicle3046 mine too, Plantera is my favorite boss
@@lifefruit9917 not my favourite boss, I love the design but hate fighting it. The music is pretty sick too
actually the glass must be half full.. empty implies zero volume. You can not have half of zero.
Nihilists like to say "northing has any meaning" as if it's a meaningful idea. It's an idea that collapses in on itself immediately: it's a snake that ate its tail.
I love this man cause he literally drives me into an existencial crisis with the philosophical topics and then somehow manages to get me out by the end of the damn video
I've always considered myself an optimistic nihilist. Yea, sure, life is meaningless, but I still want to maximize mine and everyone else's enjoyment from birth to death, because it's all we have.
Exactly! That is what I am thinking. Kind of like yeah sure nothing actually matters. But that is exactly what should make everything in this short life better. Cause nothing matters! So you might asi well do anything what makes you or your close ones happy.
Exactly, tried to tell this to the judge like 20 times but she still convicted me. Like come on I was trying to maximize my fellow humans enjoyment, how was I supposed to know the heroin had fentanyl in it?
Yes. All my senses only happen because of conciousness and i find it confusing and not real. Like whats the purpose of it, but it's all I can be or feel, because i would feel like an animal with the only thought of surviving.
Jesus is king ✝️🙏
@M V why? Even if we die one day it doesn’t mean that we want to live our entire lives in boredom and suffering. Have fun as much as you can until death comes
"Born Too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the stars, *born just in time to browse dank memes"*
-*some guy*
The perfect time to explore the workings of our bodies and minds.
The perfect time to watch anime and hentai
Bro I just love the idea of living in the 1800s and just deciding,you know what imma go live in the wild and do whatever the fuck I want
-pessimist
You can’t just leave out “born just in time to browse dank memes” which was kinda the point of the original sentence
"Life alone is reason enough for living." Best line I've ever heard in my life.
Edit: Uhm there's an ongoing debate down there....
yeah life is great though i go through pain i love life .Life is ajourney which ahs startng point and through that journey you experience joy ,pain and anxiety ect and then an end.
But it’s not reason enough for caring.
This goes against what nihilism entails.
My own conclusion is not this one it that life is not worth and not in a bad way of killing everyone but just personally wish to never been born in the first place and no new humans should arrive this world.
It’s a sad statement. U don’t want to live just because u have life. All of us got our own purposes. Family, friends, loved ones. Seeking higher purpose like God etc is another thing. But I agree that we should never give up on our life. The life we all get is only once in this world, so just do your best.
To me, it's like this really long trip. What I love most about my journey here so far is this beautiful planet. We are so lucky to have this portal of life. I really love breezes and frogs croaking. I'm just here enjoying all of that.
The moment you start to believe in nihilism, you stop believing in nihilism.
:()
it's not that literal
Life is pointless just think real hard
I’m a walking fucking paradox - Tyler
There's this idea in philosophy ( I don't know if it has a proper name) that some of those paradoxes are simply a matter of the limitations of language. From that perspective, something might only be paradoxical because our vehicle for communicating the idea forces it to be. It can be difficult to really grok that, but once you get it you start to question just how much of the great paradoxes we've dismissed might actually hold water after all, only not in a fashion readily communicable.
Round earther: The earth is round!
Flat earther: The earth is flat!
Nihilists: The earth is !
The earth Is earth ._.
more like:
*nothing
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Nihilist: Who cares. we're all going to die.
Finally a take that doesn't portray nihilism as negative. Just because we believe life is meaningless doesn't mean we cannot enjoy it, there's a sense of peace in knowing that nothing matters and that we don't need purpose or reason
If you are a nihilist why would you even care and feel "relieved" by the fact that someone actually doesn't portray nihilism negatively when people usually say the otherwise if you simply don't care about everything? Stop shoving these thoughts into your head and thinking it is feel relevant to you when you don't actually understand shit.
So much pressure goes away.
In the end I feel part of the universe, In a literal sense, I am the universe... muHUHaiahuahahahaa
Do you mean to say that peace and enjoyment are meaningful to you?
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No you missed the point what he is saying is that nihilism doesnt mean A negative outlook on the world or a positive how can you enjoy nothing if you believe in nothing you retard i myself am realizing that nothing matters and in of it self my comment means nothing yours doesn't either im wasting time and your wasting yours its an infinite paradox of nothingness i am losing the will to live as there will always be someone better than me than you and the opposite atleast if i kill myself i wont have to think about it im so tired might aswell save myself the trouble im 17 years old male so at the very least (which is the closest you can go meaning) i can "rest "
this video gave me chills.. the voice, the music, the whole video.. good job
there’s also positive nihilism. if nothing really matters, you’re the only one who can truly assign the meanings and live your life the way you want because it’s there only for so long and nothing will come of it in the end anyway whatever you do
edit: i mixed up some existentialism there, oops. can’t be helped since they’re a bit similar
How is that different from existentialism?
That’s called absurdism I think
Glass half full, glass half empty? Why does it matter? It has water in it. *drinks*
I get what you are coming from, but I don't think nihilism is a "negative thing".
Kurzgesagts ideology!
The thought that nothing matters and everything we'll experience in life, both good and bad, is all for nothing has helped me tremendously with my fear of failure and anxiety over whether I'll ever fulfill my dream. Nihilism was what I needed to become a happier person!
I don’t care ;)
I feel the same way. some people say they fear to leave the world without having achieved something great or have influenced as many people as possible in a positive way. this stressed me so much, I could never think that way. knowing I will be forgotten after my life ended is soothing to me. knowing it doesn't matter how little I do helps me with my anxiety as well.
The real question is: if nothing matters, then why not create meaning? If nothing is important, then why follow the unimportantance of it? instead make something of it? It doesn't matter either way but at least a story happened... even if it makes no difference.
@@rednarok By giving my own life meaning i pretty much destroyed myself mentally (and a bit physically, if you catch my drift). It's cool if you want to give your own life meaning, but i feel happier just living life and enjoying my short time in this universe. If that happens to be a sort of meaning, then i guess that's that.
@@remotehuman9267 well, you dont need to care at all but at the same time, I don't think we should be careless with other people beliefs even though it really doesn't matter in thebgrande scheme of things, but I think of it as a fantasy... dont have to play with it but also you don't have to destroy it for others.. if your in the middle of a majority that lives a fantasy, I try to respect it and go along with it to my tolerance level. I wouldn't be someone who tries to destroy it because what is better then knowing the truth? Dreaming. I think this is why we let kids be naive... because the world just feels better that way. Ofcourse eventually they need to be introduced to reality, it doesn't need to be absolute reality, just somewhere in between so that people can live happy ignorant.. after all, the truth is so dark in comparison to our societies fantasy, then perhaps it better to live as an ignorant. This is very sad but the reality is equaly sad.
In the beginning of the video, I have considered myself a nihilist, but by the end, I remembered when my friend asked me, "Why do you play Minecraft, when it has "no purpose"? This was before the dragon and the "End" were added to the game.
I told him: "You learn about the mechanisms, you survive your first night, build something that you get attached to and you will be hooked, before you knew it. It's the same as building in the sand. Creation, - just like virtue - is its own reward."
Several years later, watching this video, I realised, that this is how you find the purpose in your life:
You "play the game", you create, protect and survive. Eventually, through these experiences, you will find meaning and purpose.
They will not be objective or universal, but they will be definitive and satisfying for you.
wow i just realized that
as another user said, you are indeed an existentialist
but for me, minecraft is boring, so does life.
I have depression and I wish I could see the world like you do. But for me, as of right now, there is no joy in anything. So why the hell shouldn’t I just stop playing this game of life if nothing matters anyway? Why live another day with this horrible pain? These questions haunt me. Nothing Matters.
@@Steven-gs8oh Try watching the video about optimistic nihilism! If nothing matters in this world, and everything is meaningless, the failures and rejections have no weight either. You can be bolder in your approach towards life, since you have nothing to lose.
I take comfort in the fact that nothing matters. If its all for nothing, then lets all be kind to ourselves. Engage in things that make you happy, because there's even less of a point if your forcing yourself down to ideals that makes you miserable. If we exist for nothing, then lets not restrict ourselves.
People take nihilism as inherently depressing and bad. So often when someone says they are a nihilist, everyone around them thinks they are just sad or angry. I think that it has such meaning to others because they don't see that nihilists don't have to be some depressed ppl who plan to kill themselves or are angry at the world because life has no meaning, but are just someone who has no belief that some higher power or such a thing as destiny exists.
yeah, and as a rule nihilists are more happy because they have no shackles preventing them to live like they want, not like society want. PS. Sorry for my English
I feel as though you simply leave out a multitude of strokes that are apparent in the painting of nihilism, they contain no morals and try not to create morals of their own, nothing is grotesque to them even the genocide of innocents, nothing is beautiful to them even the most striking simple moments, doing anything become a seemingly pointless endeavor for there existence leading them to either hedonistic displays or indolence.
@@ezekielromero2730 yes, but if you already feel something you can be enjoy or sad because of this. For example, even if you become nihilist you will not stop love animals only because you decide this is logical - love to animals is in your blood. Hope, I said my though right
@@ezekielromero2730 the same way injustice and atrocities can hurt you, so you will war against injustice
@@ПАУК-о2я I wouldn't say that's a rule. Mostly because It's completely false. There really is no correlation having what you want and being happy, because having more makes you want more. The more you have, the more you realize there is more to be had. From my personal experience, and my whole family's personal experience, and all of my friend's personal exprience, those who have and do whatever they want are the people who hate life the most. People who believe that there is no meaning believe exactly that. That there is no meaning. And if there is no meaning to the bigger picture of life, there is no meaning to your life individually. If there is no meaning to your life individually, then it leaves you questioning why you even exist in the first place. Why are you there to experience some of history when it really is so useless and you'll never see the final culmination of humanity's prowess? That's the issue. I'm a happy person, but the last time I met a truly happy person that believed any of this stuff about the world not having meaning was never. I never have, but I've met plenty of happy people who believe in something. And not those who just think something exists, but those who genuinely dedicate themselves to what they believe. Yes, there are people who are "happy" with their life because they can do anything, but this whole claim that "as a rule nihilists are more happy" is false. Maybe you have had a different experience, but on average the world is already sad as it is, so putting that into perspective, the only happy people I meet have a belief in meaning.
My father told a story that was related to this some time ago. One of his friends is a philosophy professor, and he was talking about an exam he made at the end of the year. There was a lot of philosophical questions and I don't remember most of them, but there was one question and also one particular answer to said question that caught my eye. The question was simply: "Why?".
It was at the end of the exam with a whole page to write about and since it was worth about 40 points, a lot of people wanted to get this question right(The word "Right" is a obsolete word in philosophy in my opinion since there is no right or wrong but you get what I mean). The professor showed me some of the answers that the students wrote, lots of them were 2 - 3 pages long, consisting of very long paragraphs and complex words.
But, as I looked at the papers, I saw one that wasn't all paragraphs and long text. It looked extremely short compared to the other ones. I saw that it had 40/40 points, and wondered how he got such a high score on such a hard question, while also being the shortest among them all. And, with curiousity, I looked at the answer he gave.
It was... interesting. There were only two, simple words on the whole page:
"Why not?"
Philosophy at it finest. Great story, and whoever was the student taking that test, is quite clever and makes a valid point.
whoever wrote that answer has a great common sense. Philosophy truly is a bastion of knowledge.
Bruh you copied this from funny exam answer pics
@@sydn2698 uhh this actually happened to me idk why you are blaming me for that but ok
@@Kraumyke the speech difference in your answer to SyDn compared to the whole paragraph comment you said is... confusing
My favorite quote is "Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me."
I can't have what pleases me, except for another beer.
You literally make yourself feel pain to just feel happy later
Literally this is a proof why nihilism could be right
Honestly, as a nihilist myself, I personally don't see why it often has such a negative connotation. Why it's so frowned upon or why it's always so heavily associated with depression. For example, I've never been depressed or anything like it. I mean, don't get me wrong, I get that perhaps for some personality types, it's not really a mindset that's healthy to adopt, especially those who are easily susceptible to things like anxiety or existential dread or those who desperately need meaning and purpose in life to keep functioning, but for the rest of us... I don't see anything wrong with being a nihilist. I'm perfectly happy and content with just existing for no reason at all. It's much more liberating if you ask me. I mean just think about it. There's no true responsibility, you can do whatever you see fit. The whole planet and by extension the whole universe is basically your playground and everything in it your playthings. I guess, you could call me an optimistic nihilist lol A glass isn't half-full or half-empty, it just exists and there's some water in it. Simply drink it, as that's what we invented a glass for, and go do something fun like watching a tv show or a youtube video or, idk, meet with your friends xD
Exactly
Couldn’t have said better myself
You live a sad life
@@maddeningmonk9585 Lol knowing how most people are, this is exactly the kind of response I expected. I was even surprised that the other ones were so positive.
I am curious though, why you think that, because my life is everything but sad, at least for me/from my perspective.
@@gamster2865 cause you've got no clue who you are or why are you here or what even is happening all around you. Life to you is a complete mystery part of which can be blamed onto your ignorance and naivety. Perhaps you seem to be young and still haven't found the answers yet, but considering what you've settled on to, clinging to this sad, sad dumb ideology just makes me pitty you and people like you. But I'm pretty sure you ain't the only one. Theres ton of people like you. Sad but thats that. Nothing i can do about it.
"We aren't obligated to understand the chaos of reality, just to laugh at it".
It`s the mechanism of the human brain. Seeing patterns where there often is none. And when we have problems to face the facts of nature. We panic!. Nihilism is the ilusjon of not facing up to once tasks in life and trying to escape into nothingness. Reality is that it is just cowardice and narcissistic. And that is nothing to be ashamed about. Nature made us cowards and narcissistic for a reason. That is to surive and replicate. This fact is so ultra simple and minimalistic that is hard for most people to even grasp that they`re precius ego is just the tool of evolution.
The real question is not what is the meaning of life, because if we look at other lifeforms it is obvious that the " meaning" is indeed to survive and replicate and to adapt to the changes of the universe. The real question is " what is the purpose with intelligence?" . And is intelligence even a atribute that will make us survive in the long run or will it destroy us?. There are even lifeforms living in the sea that dont even have a brain and they have survived for billions of years and hardly ever changed. That is a species dont even need a brain!. That is the real joke ;-)
@@Ikaros23 Mate u literally blowed a sandstorm on my brain's eye
One of my professors had a shirt that said "'God is dead' -Nietzsche" on the front and "'Nietzsche is dead' -God" on the back and freshmen in his philosophy class would crack up when they saw it for the first time. He was a cool guy, I hope he's doing well now:)
"He is dead" _ oussama
Thanks actually so fucking fire lmao
Hell naww God be roasting Nietzsche💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
"Shut up ans take my money !" - Fry
Just may look for that T shirt. Brilliant comment. Peace be unto you.
This man's voice is truly relaxing. The most beautiful voice I have ever heard
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Creating your own meaning, making your own contribution to the world, is meaning enough. There may not be any apparent ultimate meaning to the universe, but if you give yourself meaning you will be able to endure almost any suffering to see it through.
It's all relative, isn't it! There's no meaning to life, ultimately. That said, whilst alive you might as well try enjoy it - or it's really going to drag.
"at the end of everything, hold on to anything" night in the woods
"And there may not be meaning, so find one and seize it" Achilles come down
Terry Pratchett had a line that went something like "humans need the little fairy tale type lies to believe the big ones, like morality and honor. When the person asked what's the point to any of that then, the response was something like "to make those concepts reality"
@ it doesn’t matter what someone else thinks of your meaning. It’s your meaning after all, not theirs. So what relevance does their opinion of it hold?
Friends, it’s not like that. One doesn’t go to hell because of lack of belief in GOD. We MATTER TO GOD! Its like this, you know how when you walk into a dark room and you turn a light on, darkness just flees away. Because darkness and light can not dwell together. It’s like that with GOD, HE IS LIGHT and we are of darkness of sin, if we come into GOD’S LIGHT we would be OBLITERATED and suffer a worst fate then hell. So GOD made a way that we could come back into His presence and not be Obliterated.
Okay, listen for a minute,we all inherited sin and death from Adam and Eve. It’s genetic. We inherited their sin gene. As they acquired a destination of hell because they actually gave over their authority and souls to the devil. This made us of the darkness of satan. You see the Bible says hell was originally made for the devil and his imps , but when man chose to side with the devil then he became man’s slave master., and we became bound in satan’s darkness
Now GOD in His Mercy, knew the only way to resolve this was for a man to get back our souls from satan , But that man had to be sinless . So all GOD came down in human flesh and lived a sinless life and died as payment to buy the souls back of whoever would join His Family. So When Christ died, because He lived a sinLESS life, death and hell could not hold Him .
Christ then arose from the grave. And made the offer that whosoever would be BORN AGAIN in His Family and loose the darkness of sin, be set free from satan and hell and would nullify the inheritance which we received from Adam and we would now receive the inheritance from Christ. Which is eternal Life and become Rulers of worlds into worlds in a new Heaven and a New Earth .So this is what Christ’s Will and testament gives us as His family .
You see this is the reason we are Born here in this realm of time. We are all here to make a choice. WHERE SHALL WE SPEND ETERNITY! Now when we chose Christ we MUST be Born Again which is first Repent and then get Baptized in The Name of Jesus Christ and He will give us of His Spirit which will Birth us into His Family This is found in John 3:3-5 and Acts 2:38 in the KJV Bible. And Now we will also inherit the disposition of no longer having the desire to sin.
I saw sooo many people in these replies saying they wish they knew the ending to this world. They want to know how far mankind gets. They regret that they will not be here to see how it all turns out. But we already know what happens. We already know how it ends. It is written in The Bible . There are already sooo many prophecies which the Bible tells which have come to pass. Yes even the corona plague it was foretold in the Bible. So yes The Bible is TRUE , and there IS HOPE
I Truly pray for you that you too would receive this BLESSED TRUTH! Because I really do care
"life is nothing more then a trip from the maternity ward to the crematorium" that hit hard
But isn't that all it is anyway? At least as far as anyone knows for certain. Everything else is just stories we tell ourselves as we whistle past the graveyard.
Everyone knows this....but why were we born...and why we die...no one knows...
Life is not against you, you might just be walking in the wrong direction. A river always flow, its neutral, whether you float down it or struggle upwards, the river remains the same.
there is no directions in life
why it is wrong?
@@roshaney6801 or are there???? *Vsauce theme starts playing*
@NexusGen Inc. NO
@@roshaney6801 The results of the choices are temporary
I'm a christian but I struggle with nihilism a lot, especially lately with all the war going on. our individual lives are meaningless in the grand scheme of history, unless you Make history. But most of us won't, we're just a blip or a number according to society. While I hate these thoughts it does feel nice to finally put a name to what I've been feeling.
What's a Christian?
Nihilism is underrated! You get less sleep, you feel more pain, people talk to you less, and the list goes on.
Edit: Feel free to argue against this, but I hear what a lot of you are saying, and my understanding of nihilism and its general purpose has changed a lot now, thank you!
doesn't sound like fun to me tho it just sounds like suffering and depression with extra steps imagine not motivating yourself to find the meaning of life and connect to your creator sounds like a nightmare.
@@MunchingMaia i was being sarcastic lol
i mean its entirely prespective. it doesnt matter how you view life because you cant change it. it should be somewhat comforting to know that once you die its all over. maybe you dont know how or why you exist but that doesnt really matter because once you die its over.
@@MunchingMaia it’s really nothing like that imo. It’s comforting to know that nothing that happens really matters. Even if it’s good or bad. Because how could it? I feel like it’s hard to describe. Kind of like true freedom. If nothing matters, then you can just do anything because why not?
People think nihilism is all but pain and sadness. You guy know you can still enjoy life even if it’s meaningless, right? Just because something is meaningless doesn’t mean you should be sad or depressed about everything, you can still find and enjoy something in this wide world.
This is both scary and comforting to think about. With this belief, everything we do is fruitless and meaningless. Yet this give us the freedom to create our own meaning in everything we do. We create our meaning in life and we are not bound by a purpose that we have to fulfill.
Don't jump to conclusions just yet, all of this begs the (in my opinion) main question, why do we advance? How much of our ideas and progress are because of consciousness? and how much is guided by the fact that we are, at the end of the day, animals?
Well that's existentialism
It gives us the freedom to do whatever like murdering and abusing children because in the end everything dies. This is one of the most horrifying beliefs out there. They believe there is no evil and good. So they see a child abuser as the same moral ground as one who has saved multiple children. I can see no good in such ideology.
@@krioque when does it stop becoming a failsafe, and starts becoming greedy expansionism?
@@krioque thanks for letting me think of it that way, I honestly don't know I didn't before. I don't fear death though, I'm not too scared about dying, I'm pretty tired of living at the moment tbh. Though that could easily just be my dumbass consciousness again. Well now I sound like an edgy 13 year old lol.
The problem with all of this is, no one is without emotion. That's what drives me nuts about people who think they know nihilism. I know that nothing matters objectively, but that doesn't mean I dont feel. I care about other peoples feelings, even though I know in the end that their feelings don't matter. You can objectively know something, while simultaneously recognize the subjectivity that others feel. And because I care about other people (subjectively) even though I know that nothing matters (objectively), I still take them into consideration. I also recognize that not everyone is a nihilist and I have no right to force myself or my beliefs on others (again, not that I think it matters *objectively* in the end). People like to say "Well if nothing matters, off yourself", but objectively, it doesn't matter if I off myself or not. So if I do it tomorrow or 50 years from now, it's all the same. And since I'm not hurting and I'm having a decent time, might as well live it til I'm bored.
Exactly!
Well said! (Not that it matters).
Well. Nihilism is the the idea that those feelings don't matter. Offing yourself doesn't matter. Nothing matters, not death, not life. Nothing. That's TRUE nihilism. It'd essentially be a vegetable of a person doomed to die not because they want to but simply because they don't care about anything at all. Not their emotions and not their surroundings.
@@brancodiaz6019 You're correct, nihilism IS the idea that nothing there truly matters.
That doesn't stop us from having those emotions, despite knowing they mean nothing.
Also, we're all doomed to die LOL
@@BrienDoesIt yes but a true nihilist would feel those emotions and simply say "they don't matter" and not explore those emotions. Those emotions would essentially become mute.
It used to be a scary concept to me, that I was irrelevant and meaningless, and even if I make a small impact on another person, in the universe, I'm still insignificant. It became comforting to me after realizing that perhaps being insignificant isn't so bad, it made me more accepting of my flaws and made me less obsessed in trying to be seen.
Being an artist is what makes it kind of hard. Okay, we're already alive, so go out with a bang, I guess. Humans feel in complicated ways, but there is not a way to express "nothing" in art, so, at the same time, I have to believe "something" to express that complicated way to feel that you were assigned with in your free trial of existing (unfortunately).
I am a nihilist. In the beginning, I was like, "If life is meaningless why am I still living."
Then I understood if life has no meaning, why must death be any different. And here I am, still living a meaningless life.
Your trying to convince yourself that doesn’t seem like you genuinely believe that
It is to replicate ur genetic code with another
@@hoodieap2858 how could you infer that, just from those sentences or do you know him irl
@@esseymicheal7161 nope but everybody seems to do this basically as a coping mechanism instead of actually confronting it
I have depression and I wonder whether living another day is worth the horrible pain, because life is meaningless. Nothing matters.
"im not here for a long time, im here for a good time" lived by that motto my whole life and have never been happier
If u spent ur whole life like this , how do uk that u will not be happy the other way around!?
Not sure how far you take that idea. Hedonism is hollow after a few years.
@@abdullahahmed6534 stop leave Islam u will be happy
@@ademonizedwretchguy003 what...
@@ademonizedwretchguy003 💀
"The Meaning of Life is just to be alive. It's so plain and simple, yet everyone rushes around in a great panic, as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."😔 -Alan Watts
Yeah, most people are self serving.
@@danlightened it's sad. in a way, because it really means nothing in the end.
But what it means to be alive is different to everyone, and most people don't even know what it is to them.
If you create a computer program designed to count the seconds, then its meaning of life is to count the seconds. So in order to understand our meaning of life, should we look at humanity and come to an understanding of a general meaning of life that applies to everyone or just look at ourselves?
@@luscious9797 Here's my subjective answer.
If you try to look at humanity to get a general meaning of our existence, You'd become a Nihilist. Astronomy puts everyone in their place.
If you try to look at yourself individually, you become an existentialist. That's if you feel your own individual life and actions have meaning to you, not to the Universe(it doesn't).
Here's how I see Human life and Existence as a whole.
Do you see the sand on the seashore? There's a Lot of sand particles in there, probably trillions.
You're wearing a flip flop, and you step on some sand particles, probably hundreds as you walk down to the street. Along the way, numerous sand particles just land randomly in different parts of your journey.(some on the alleyway, some on the park), there was absolutely no "greater" reason behind how they got there. Your act of walking was just so random, just like everybody else.
Some of the sand particles eventually find themselves on the street you decided to just casually stroll to.
What is the point of that illustration?
Well it's this: Those sand particles are human lives, Those Flip flops you wear are the puppeteers. Well, I won't actually say they're completely puppeteers because there's no reason behind the puppeteering.
It's all just a huge cinematic universe of random integration.
That's exactly how I see Human life. Random Pointless Circumstances, no Inherent meaning. Any meaning inscribed, is that brought forward by people who are scared of accepting their enormous insignificance in the Cosmos and in the grand scheme of things.
I know it sounds harsh, but that's my analogy and my philosophy of human existence.
The moment you find yourself in a potentially life threatening situation is the moment you will finally think clearly and all the buzz will be gone. You'll appreciate the little things in life and see the good in people. Then when you realize that you'll be fine and your life isn't in danger, you'll go back to neuroticism of every day life.
This is my first time learning about this. I don't exactly know what it means even if I have experienced something like this before or maybe I haven't. But this idea seems to be somewhat comforting and also familiar to me. I thought I had found my "safe zone", when I feel too overwhelmed by the environment, I enter it and it reminds me that whatever I think is happening in my life right now, might not actually be happening. After all, it's all in my own head. this thought has really saved me from a lot of problems that are mainly caused by my own thinking.I would definitely wanna know more in the future.
Nihilism sparked such joy in me. Living a life full of anxiety, full of what if's and if only, brought up in a strict religious home then wondered off and found sense in all other religions that were being condemned then being in a spiral about what religion to pick lest I burn in hell FOREVER....it was a great break to think that even with all this going on what if it doesn't matter at all? What I do, say or choose to believe...what if I let go of all the cringe, shame, fear and embarrassment that comes with being human and live it out like a movie where the goal is for me to just feel, experience, live and once that movie is over it's over...the credits will be rolled at my funeral...main character-the girl in the casket
supporting cast: first 3 front rows
background cast- everyone else
The end. I lived.
I love this. I had the complete opposite reaction. I was terrified of the unknown and the vastness that this feeling brings at times. However, I've come to terms with it. As you said, life is a movie. Life can be what you can make it.
that's not nihilism bro. Nihilism is depression because even what all you do it's all for nothing. nihilism is for edgy 12 year olds
what you're thinking of is existentialism
@@wagyubeans1399 lol wrong
@@ethereal946 lol how
But why do we always view absence of meaning as something intrinsically negative? Ambitious and goal-seeking folks are extremely likely to live in pain of never meeting their expectations.
I have depression. I suffer horribly every second I’m awake. I see no meaning in life. Why should I live another day?
This is why nihilism is viewed negatively. Because there is no answer to the why, and thus my will to live is lost. And what I said is true.
@@Steven-gs8oh Derpession firstly makes you unhappy and then your mind tries to somehow justify this poor mental state with pretentious claims. In your case the justification is absence of meaning. However once you heal, absence of meaning will not bother you in the least, because it itself is not something intrinsically negative. People with a clearly defined meaning, for instance, certain education, certain success in science or career, are likely to work 24/7 and still be left behind by a luckier competitor, never reaching their goal. People without a clear meaning can just enjoy their live more.
Anyway, stay strong fighting your disease!
@@glebanful I never said nihilism caused my depression; it didn’t. But with severe depression, I look for a reason to endure this hell, but my nihilism tells me “there is no reason at all”. So my will to live is gone.
@@Steven-gs8oh From my own experience, depression steals the ability to think rationally. Whether or not it makes sense to live through this hell will be known only when you recover. Also your beliefs and thoughts during the harsh times will likely seem dumb and inappropriate after recovery. Thus now there is obvios sense and meaning to your life, which is doing everything possible to win the battle over your disease.
@@glebanful I think I should just try to be a christian again. I honestly don’t care how irrational it is, I just need a profound reason to endure this. And heaven seems like a good reason. Totally illogical and stupid, but a good reason.
Life alone is worth living that quote might of just saved me from my anxiety break downs
I never heard about this philosophy but hearing about it now makes me feel a sense of peace. If people try to find meaning in anything or everything, it'll be exhausting and probably a lot of disappointment too.
Religions sell you a Purpose, because they need Slaves. if no one will become nuns or priest, they lose trillions of dollars.
Common sense lol thats what this is no offense
@@eduardochavacano religions≠christianity
@@theegoatt8851 ?
..... Yes 😔
I don't consider myself a nihilist, but I definitely believe in nothing. I've never been able to recognize a god, or see any religion as true. I believe that there is no good or evil, yet I still see some things as good and evil. I don't believe life has a meaning, but I still find myself wanting to appreciate the little things in life.
theres another word for that i forgot search up a philospher that lived in a box i forgot his name
edit: his name is Diogenes
another edit search up: cynic philosophy
you can look up absurdism.
With Nothingness, there is purpose. Unless you mean Oblivion but that's beyond this era.
Could there be a God?... Well... What is a human?
There are objective Good and Evil. However, mankind is marred by corruption. Their agenda is prone to faults beyond computational logic.
Purpose... Everyone has a place where they would choose to stay. For those who only want control for their pitiful existence? I pity their sorry souls but such is their design.
@@absolstoryoffiction6615 i used to know a person who used to say the exact same thing that guy was preatty cool
@@kingbillion5916
I could never speak in the way I write... Too many fragments trying to steer the wheel... But I digress.
If I chose to save this world, then mankind would have been given the Book of Fate. But humanity has not earned it yet. Although, maybe they don't need it... Mankind is on their own.
Upon the World's End... I await all.
His videos are great for lying down on bed and staring at the wall, just listening
How old are you?
You're goddamn right
Yes
@Mee Acownt wrong, you flipped the question, he asked why do you think an animals life is worth more than a humans.
@Mee Acownt that's like saying intelligent adults deserve to live more than children. I would pick my dog over some people in my family
The only video that allowed me to play RUclips on background.
You got new sub
Its not always about the 'why' but sometimes we need to consider about the 'why not'
Please elaborate
That's just optimism
agreed
@@rahmad4137 why
@@piranhabones Why not
I know this video is almost two years old and the comments section is full of debate and harsh language, but on the off-chance that the video creator reads this comment, I just want to let you, or whoever else worked on this video know, that this video changed my life. I was in a place in my life that involved a lot of intense introspection and attempts to discover myself, and I would regularly have mental breakdowns on the daily over pondering existence and the relevance of things. This was the reason that I discovered my mindset, that nothing having a meaning or purpose is good because that means you can do whatever you want. I seriously do not know where I would mentally be right now without discovering this video. Seriously, thank you.
It truly is an ideology of freedom. I'm happy for you and thankyou for the comment :)
It’s God sent
You need god. This ideology leads to self-destruction
[Quran Chapter 39]
In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.
1. The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Mighty and Wise.
2. We sent down to you the Book with the truth, so serve Allah, devoting your religion to Him.
....
5. He created the heavens and the earth with reason. He wraps the night around the day, and He wraps the day around the night. And He regulates the sun and the moon, each running along a specific course. He is indeed the Almighty, the Forgiver.
6. He created you from one person, then made from it its mate, and brought down livestock for you-eight kinds in pairs. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, in successive formations, in a triple darkness. Such is Allah, your Lord. His is the kingdom. There is no god but He. So what made you deviate?
7. If you disbelieve, Allah is Independent of you, yet He does not approve ingratitude on the part of His servants. And if you are thankful, He will approve that in you. No bearer of burden can bear the burden of another. Then to your Lord is your return; and He will inform you of what you used to do. He is aware of what the hearts contain.
www.quranwow.com
@@countryboyred yes but in prison :D:D:D:D
“I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.”
― Charles Bukowski
joy = meaning, preventing suffering = meaning
...chuck?
@@emmadionne9233 wait whos chuck haha I dig that playlist tho.Nice
@7:24 the answer is attachment , when we become attached to something saving it is saving a part of ourselves it's a form of extended self preservation.
That does not actually preserve anything at all, only making you believe that you saved part of yourself - it still means nothing at all, just another illusion of Dellusion.
One of my favorite quotes is from a book called “Why does the world exist”
“If there were nothing instead of something. Than there would be no laws. And if there were no laws. There would be nothing to prevent something from happening. There for, nothing is self forbidding”
"If there's is no God, everything is permitted"
Laws don't exist. They're descriptions of reality we came up with that correspond to how things work.
If how things work is that nothing ever exists, then a law of nonexistence would be accurate.
Wait I lost my remaining two braince..l...ls
Kinda just seems like he’s playing word games, I don’t think that proves that something must come from nothing. That is a great book either way though.
@@luker.6967 the entire book is everything you just said in much greater and funnier detail. I highly recommend it
Welp, I guess I’m going to bed with an existential crisis lmfao
don’t worry bro that was me😂
Will this existential crisis crap ever stop?
Hey God's waiting for u to accept him
@@netosampaio8548 Have you even read Nietzsche? You know, the father of nihilism and showing that the ultimate consequences of it are existential crisis that need to be overcome by finding a second well to hold ourselves against since we crashed through the first one being god.
@@mikoi7472 Yes I have, and I'm sick and tired of these witty 'existential crisis' comments on any video about life.
Everyone’s experience is different, for me nihilism was a horrific black hole that swallowed everything I knew as a child and teenager. “Life is meaningless- so why continue living?”
But there’s a moment in every man’s life when he learns the meaning of life is up to the man, not up to those around him. My moment was filled with euphoria, sudden self worth, and massive realizations. It’s how I came to the conclusion that life has as much meaning as you give it- but what REALLY matters is wether that meaning you have given it makes you happy. Being a nihilist did not make me happy, but being an exestentialist has… but what I HADNT realized until recently, is that what actually happened was I had ACCEPTED that life was meaningless. With that simple shift, from constantly fighting it, I had opened up areas of my mind I hadn’t known existed. Nihilism is a tricky trap door that in the surface may seem to have no way out once your dropped in, but really you just have to figure it out
(There are two TL;DR versions for any curious readers, one just has a lot less suggestion of structure and leaves a lot more room for "bad" things)
I would most definitely agree, friend. To me, true Nihilism is in it's best form if you start accepting that life simply is meaningless, simply because one individual life is incomprehensibly short compared to any real grand scheme. 200 years seems like an immensely long time, but at the same time, that's between 2 and 3 generations ago, "3 people ago" as Joe Rogan once said. So if you only live one people long, there really isn't a comprehensible point to anything you do. Not to yourself at least; but living your life and doing all the things you want to do, without thinking about it too much, that is what makes nihilism great, when not exacerbated.
"I shouldn't regret the things I do with my life, if I feel that I genuinely want to try and/or do what I'm contemplating. After all, there really isn't a point to everything I do for myself up until death; because the moment I'm gone, as far as I'm concerned, it will be irrevocably gone from existence. But then again, shouldn't that be the beauty of it? I should aspire to do all the wonderful, artistic, creative, and joyous things I wish to do, simply because; as frivolous as it may come to the next person who were to judge my existence, it would matter to me not, as my reality will be no longer that of the one who would cast such a judgement. I shouldn't waste my time bothering someone, even if it were what I wanted, because if someone else wanted that upon me, ironically, I would no longer feel this freedom to bother another as I had so wished and chose. Instead, I should simply choose to make the utmost of my existence, in the most positive and beneficial way that I can find in myself, under my own definition; but with regard to not interfering with my neighbors."
Nihilism to me is understanding that life is not forcing changes, Nihilism is making choices. Choices lead to more choices, and others making more choices. And eventually, through the magic of science, choices will make the changes that you were touching on by making such a choice. Everything you do has a massive impact at a point when you longer exist, which effectively means there is no impact. No one would ever notice the impact, as one day there would be no remnant of the the thing you worked to change. Perhaps history books and recordings, but it would have merely phased out things people do. The world burns when we try to force changes, because we do an awful lot far too quickly, trying to stay on a roll. So quit trying to force changes immediately, it makes it too hard to keep up, and it removes any façade of a real life, seeing as you just completely tore down everything that you thought was a real life just a very short time ago.
* TL;DRv.1.0: Slow down; stop stressing, trying to force change, and causing conflict over the things that you as one person simply cannot control; and MOST importantly, make the best out of your life and enjoy it, because if you don't, no one else ever will.
**TL;DRv.1.01: Might as well throw down while you're here bro, no one else is gonna do it for you, no one's gonna care whether or not you did once you're done, and you damn sure don't get to come back and do it a second time.
Yess thanks for sharing nihilism has done nothing but make me unhappy. My beliefs that i once believed as a child had turned useless, and everything had just become useless to the point... where doing daily actions for me seemed so useless. ITS gotten so bad that I can't even have a mind of my own because "what is anything??"
All of this really started from when i watched a youtuber talk about how nothing matters. And i guess it bothered me because I'll never know what life really is or the truth and it makes me feel like I'm living in a lie.
this has been my reality for months. but I've been wanting a change for some time now. But i did not know where to start. Soon or a later i ended finding my way and it's been hard as hell. crying everyday knowing that you won't ever be free (seeing everyone else free minded and not caring) or you will always live life trapped because you live in a reality where life doesn't matter
anyways I've came a long way from how severe it was 🙂. Fighting it doesn't work and you will figure it out! Im still coming out of it but i know that that statement is true . Something
@@her8454 My own conclusion is that life is not worth and not in a bad way of killing everyone but just personally wish to never been born in the first place and no new humans should arrive this world could you give a word I appreciate your help thank you
same. that's why I'm an existentialist instead of a nihilist as well.
For me it's comforting, it doesn't matter when I die, what I do or why I am, I could invent the cure for cancer tomorrow or die tomorrow, would it matter? No. And I have the freedom of choice.
Somehow after listening this i feel better and my feelings to end myself has somewhat stopped and I can happily accept this concept like a free bird 🕊️
So you can fly now?
@@extremelynoobgaming4742 nope i can't fly but it doesn't matter ... Nothing matters and that is what nihilism is. .... Nobody matters ... Either way death is inevitable ... So live as u want and do whatever u want ...
I think nihilism is so freeing, to know that there doesn’t have to be a one thing that happens because it is “important” but just because it *did* happen
freeing of what? what are you bound by?
@@Malmorious freeing that nothing I do right now really matters, none of my conflicts will follow me after my death.
It makes me feel like I can live my life and do whatever I want, my legacy doesnt matter since i wont be able to witness it, if people forget about me im fine with that since I wont be there to witness it.
Nihilism to me is terrible. The beleif that nothing you do matters includes all kinds of actions, including all the negative ones. I bet nihilists make a good percentage of murderers since the ideology is quite literally "So what if I killed my parents? Both them and I would die eventually".
I’m a nihilist.
Life is like music or dancing. There’s no point to dancing. The whole purpose of the dance is the dance.
The “why” doesn’t matter.
Life is pointless in the same way music and dancing is. But you may as well play the game.
Do you like minecraft
Who hurt my mans?
The why doesnt matter. Im going to explore that. I think thats key. Used to say what if you could get an answer for sure what would you ask. Mine is Why? And if it doesnt matter that should be liberating and if my life is to have been worthwhile after all i can find action productivity and results with out a why. It doesnt seem si to me but if i could really embrace it doesnt matter without it seeming like a downer. Ill try
@@cynthiamarston2208 well this is the problem. People think nihilism = negative.
How can a 0 be a negative?
If you have to ask a question that implies that that you’re looking for an answer to a problem.
There is no problem. There’s no expectations except the ones you put on yourself.
There’s just experience. And you are the agent of that.
Wow.
Amazing
@@lukerussell2076 ah that reminds me something i know. I have always expected too much of myself and everything…why? Ha ha.
Lucid Dreaming actually made me question my nihilism quite a bit. In that state, it’s much more possible to just do whatever you want without being bound by anything but your own creativity, once you are able to control them. If you could exist in that state at all times, it would definitely feel more meaningful.
Damn bro this is just more reason for me to try to practice lucid dreaming, I've attempted it but could never do it, pisses me off lmao
edit: spelling
So true
At some point, after existing in this state and doing everything you ever wished for, don't you think, you're going to get bored? Don't you think, everything will lose it's meaning? I'm not judging or saying it will be, just pointing out something that had me thinking a long time.
@@hakimahmad2420 I definitely didn’t make it sound like this on my original comment, but I think a mixed bag of waking and dreaming would be optimal, specifically being able to exist in whichever one you want whenever you want. Even having the time for each one mostly predetermined for me, it’s helped massively. I can’t imagine how much more awesome life would be if I could zap myself in and out of dream states. Hell at that point the “Dream World” might be more widely accepted to be truly “real” because everyone could access it whenever they wanted, a barrier that I think definitely causes the general attitude to be that “it’s just fantasy land” and not real. Lucid Dreamers I’ve found always think of the dream world as more real than people who can’t/don’t do it, so I’m basing my assumption off that.
But I have not yet hit an overall wall, even flying which I’ve been able to do in dreams 99% on command for years now, is still amazingly exhilarating and carries over for the first couple hours when I wake up. On a cosmological timescale, I’d probably eventually run out yes. I guess that’s where the limits of my humanity actually come in because I’m not worried about ever actually being able to do it forever. I have hardly any hopes for being able to access it easier before I die, though I heard MIT is doing some serious research on dreams right now, hopefully they crack it.
Thanks for your comment though, it seems like a surface level concern but maybe that’s also a testament to how great it is, I’ve been having too much fun with it that I never bothered to think of that for the whole time I’ve done it (10ish years) but the relationship between waking and dreaming and how they complement each other to some degree or another, I hadn’t realized just how much that existed in the background without my noticing it until now.
Now, shared Lucid Dreaming?? Different story. That could keep me going for who knows how many lifetimes, because even animals dream, I’d wanna go into different dreams of different animals not just humans. Alright I gotta cut this before I write a short novel lol.
@@tmtmtg Where did you get stuck? Were you having vivid dreams? Did you get that far? I’m honestly not the best teacher since I learned it pretty young and had lots of natural circumstances that helped me, so I don’t know what it feels like to have to gain those through effort, fortunate for me unfortunate for everyone I could help. I can try my best though.
I have long been a nihilist. And it pretty much made my life a better life to live, I live the life I want to live, I do the things I want to do and I follow the path I want to follow.
Indeed, the path I desire to follow might lead me to starving or dying. But, why does that truly matter? I like being alive, yes. But being alive isn't the reward, it's the tool that allows me to achieve happiness. And if I want to achieve happiness, I will do what I think is right. Since nothing matters.
Nothing matters, so I believe I should strive for my happiness and those around me.
"Fuck nihilism. All my homies recognise the absurdity of life and give it our own meaning."
where did this quote come from?
@@kiannarogers8089 its basically existentialism memefied
how can you say fuck nihilism? you dont choose what you believe.
That's literally what Nihilism is smh...
@@Willskull but if you give something meaning... then there is meaning...
Life is meaningless, but cats are cute.
Yes indeed
But that doesn’t matter
@Varg lies!
cats are life. fin
@Varg Nono, fact
I enjoy Stoic Nihilism while having my own made up god of memes
no he doesn't know why we are here, he's just here to make us suffer less
noice
this seems to be the only true God if he's helping to ease our suffering
There's no such thing as stoic nihilism. Those philosophies contradict.
@@liamjean5261 sometimes it takes an active imagination that can defy our current understanding to create something new and potentially better, or In other words thinking outside the box and mixing the alike parts and cutting out a few different parts to make something that fits a group of people that were previously nameless
@@liamjean5261 if you think they contradict, u don't understand either of those philosophies. Stoicism is literally just nihilism with extra steps. Every single stoic philosopher also talked about nihilism, buddha and nietzche are the biggest examples of this. Nihilism is that nothing matters, stoicism is nothing EXCEPT virtue matters, how do they contradict? It's just sad that these philosophies are mostly preached by 17 year old edgy teenagers nowadays who don't bother to study enough to form educated opinions about these ideologies. Stoicism and nihilism both come from the same source of cynicism, so they are extremely similar although they seem different on the surface level.
Your videos are perfect to watch in the early morning. They are so thought-provoking ❤
"No Donny, these men are nihilists. Theres nothing to be afraid of."
Nihilists? … Sounds exhausting.
Mark it zero
I see we have a fellow enjoyer of high cinema here.
Why are we here, not for misery, our core values, but why, does it matter, nihilism the ideology makes people pessimistic, good should defeat evil, created morality to be positive, cynicism and apathy from self-interest, do you exist for your pleasure or purpose, who invented life and is there a god, is religion a hoax, unexplainable the mystery of life has yet to be solved🔯💲✅
The scene with the ashes in the wind !!!!!hahaha so great hahahaha
i agree with existential nihilism, I feel like we don’t have a higher purpose from a superior entity. We should just make the best and try our best to achieve things that the society in this time period finds desirable.
History has shown, people during some type period desired some ugly things, really really bad things
Society? You mean the people that branwash you into feeling obiagted and care because it's what they want instead of what your own choices?
That leaves one big problem. Life is suffering. What could possibly make suffering worth going through? Only meaning can do that. Meaning = purpose. There is something going on that is bigger than us. And you can take the path that makes it better for you and those around you (following Jesus imo) or you can choose the path that makes it worse for you and those around you (declaring yourself god). Nihilism basically comes to the conclusion that we are God, not that, God doesn't exist.
@@dennisd.4726 I strongly disagree with your sentiments. You’re depicting the glass half full/empty thing perfectly. Life is not suffering, life is what you make it. There are MANY amazing aspects to life such as the constant thirst for knowledge and expansion. To say there HAS to be a reason we’re here for it to be fun or good, is blatantly absurd. No form of entertainment HAS to exist, just like life doesn’t have to exist. Living is just something to do to pass time until you’re gone. You don’t live for yourself, you live for humanity as a whole and to continue the moving machine of progression
This is so true. It annoys me to no end when I hear people say God has a plan for your life. Does he really? So there is supposed to be a specific purpose for everyone of the one billion people on the planet. No. People fuck like rabbits and keep producing the useless eaters. Point blank period. There is no "plan" for an animal born out of animal lust and instinct. Humans are highly evolved animals and I use highly evolved very loosely
Why is there a need for something to have an objective purpose to make it meaningful? Why cant something be meaningful just for the moment it lasts?
Because when it ends, a part of you is left behind with it until there's nothing of you left that seens new and exciting so we tend to go back and try to reproduce and relive that part of us once more, "everlasting happiness" is an ilusion yet the ultimate goal
@@Willskull But thats addiction isnt? We can accept change and learn to enjoy many things without getting attached to them, cant we?
@@mahmoodaalam235 I wouldn't know, I for one tried for as long as I've lived in this planet and that question repetedly shows to be only "no"
@@Willskull Who hurt you? I'm... Just speechless... I don't know what happened but... Sorry for your loss? I feel like you've lost something...? I know you're just a person on the internet and all but... I wish better for you alright?
@@Willskull "It's not 'how hard you try', it's simply how you try. You tried taking a hard path over and over, now try and see what path you want and try to make an easy one. Something you like maybe, or maybe not like? Idk. You know how you'd like to try. You figure it out."
-Wise words of someone who exists/existed that I take to heart
If The nihility is the darkest of shadows then
Behind that shadow there MUST be the most fervent source of light in the world…
I feel like nihilism is so misunderstood. Just because I believe in nothing, doesn't mean I enjoy nothing. I don't need to know why we exist to enjoy my time here.
Agreed. Just vibin' is already enough, I don't care about anything that's happening or what exists. I just like existing in itself.
@@dreamydailine 😐 I think it's called being lazy and psychopath
@@VER_TRISTEZA Well hate to break it to you, but enjoying life no matter where you are isn't linked whatsoever to being "lazy" and a "psychopath". It's something called "let it go, try to be flexible as life goes on and enjoy life with what you have even if it's really awful." in case you haven't heard of it. Guess it's interpretation depends on person to person though, but that's my take on life.
These are just the blabbing of a random internet girl though, you don't have to listen but I just want to clear it up.
Also, since life does spiral out and sometimes you feel lost, why not just be lost? Embrace the dark and sink until you're at the bottom of the endless pit? Why try to care so much about what happens just because it affects you so much that you can't breathe? If you can't breathe you need to focus on your breath first otherwise you'll overventilate. After all of that is when you assess the situation (I know this is ironic, but sometimes I stop caring in order to know how to care better kind of like what I said. Another example is me just stop caring about these negative thoughts first right before trying to care for yourself otherwise you'll bring yourself down and negativity doesn't benifit anyone unless you use it to your advantage but as of the moment it's clouding your thoughts).
Can't you just feel through the situation without looking at anything? Trust whatever's happening? Maybe not when you feel like you can't go anywhere no matter how hard you try but you could if you're willing to try. Diving into the dark and embracing it doesn't mean that you have to like it or be thankful for the negative behalf of living, but it's the understanding, tolerance and looking in depth to it is what counts.
@@dreamydailine guess I’m a psychopath
@@user-mq9lx9im3x lol
I already had this thought as a kid that "life is just life". Why do we need to make a meaning out of life instead of just enjoying it until one day we depart? I still think about it this way and even though for some the fact that there is no meaning in life is scary, for me its soul freeing. Basically I take life as it is and don't think on something that I will never figure out in my lifetime, it's nice.
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6. Neglect of Personal Well-being
Because it’s hard to enjoy something with no meaning.
So basically, it’s just “What’s the fuckin point.”
More like: "There is no fuckin point"
@Michael P that's so inaccurate lmfao
No, it's just:
no
@Michael P he just a slave to work
Beautifully and very well worded. I think this video would be a great tool to help people, like me, explain how the world is veiwed to nihilistic people. Great content.
That's why I'm here, a friend tried to explain and shared this
Yeah, because clearly there is only one form of existential nihilism 🙄
You really think people who know nothing are watching this? It's mostly zoomers who already adopted meme nihilism and want to feel good about themselves.
"Life alone is reason enough for living"
This made me cry. I've been going through so much I had lost a certain meaning to mine and lost the sight that life is valuable whatever happens. Thank you for reminding me of that.
Keep it strong buddy, no feeling last forever
What is valuable in life for one's existence and what is valuable in one's existence itself?
to say that life is valuable, you should specify what it is adding value to, your existence is just your life and if it isn't valuable then your existence itself isn't valuable