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Nihilism

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Anyone live their life according to this ideology?

How has it affected your life?

For Better/worse?

Advantages/disadvantages?

What caused you to come to this ideology and embrace it?

Once fully comprehended were you able to revert back to previous ideologies regarding life?
 
I believe true nihilism is an impossibility; everyone tends toward actions, even tends to hold value abstractly, nihilism itself, however it is interpreted, is a value. Making sure that you incorporate it so that it lacks intrinsic value is a value. etc.

Also, is it to be adhered to as a rejection of all forms (a skepticism?) or an unbiased acceptance of all forms as they flatly manifest with nothing more given beyond (a positivism?) Those could be mutually exclusive in many different ways.
 
I dont believe there is any meaning nor purpose to anything, nor in anything beyond the material, nor do i believe in free will or choice but rather a deterministic universe in which everything we do is as a result of the current variables relating to the situation.
As for whether thats nihilism....
 
I have some certain "nihilistic" tendencies. In particular when it comes to morality, I do not buy into any inherent right/wrong. I prefer to think in terms of cause/effect.

It can be a comfort to remind myself sometimes that ultimately, it just doesn't matter. But that doesn't mean from moment to moment I can't find my own meaning in what I'm doing.
 
^That kind of thinking is termed moral nihilism, or "expressivism" - it's an interesting concept, a brain-bender to comprehend due to modern societal conditioning though :)
 
Anyone live their life according to this ideology?

How has it affected your life?

For Better/worse?

Advantages/disadvantages?

What caused you to come to this ideology and embrace it?

Once fully comprehended were you able to revert back to previous ideologies regarding life?

1: To postulate how these may effect an attempt at a thorough-going nihilism, to make this conversation more robust since no one has taken a point by point yet; I'd say many have though whether they've achieved what it entails remains up for question.

1: I'd say nihilism may, in terms of the cognitive dissonance developed from partaking in scruples and squabbles from any ideology, be a minimalist approach that would take the key factor to affect ones life in avoiding them.

2: A true nihilist may not be able to answer 'better or worse' and remain a nihilist, or see such a question as a bait (and also in so doing cease to be nihilistic, for making value of ones own nihilism).

3: Advantages & disadvantages may be internally countered the same way, but from an outside view of functionality and consistency, the advantages may be the stillness of internal mental considerations, perhaps a type of 'peace of mind', from in the earlier mention of effect upon ones life. They may also include recklessness from avoiding social conventions of any type. A tendency to not mesh with the prevailing considerations, though without specifically resisting them, as a disadvantage.

4: Anything that would make one approach true nihilism, would, in my opinion, require one to reject the very rationale that led them to embracing and carrying out such a position to begin with; otherwise it would live out 'non-nihilistic' residua in their world view. It would be a last volition of sorts, a volition to end all confluence of volitions.

5: Would one be able to revert back? Depends on how much of will is conscious, if true nihilism was possible and will is completely conscious, then having achieved nihilism is conceivably a static state from which one does not leave without having strands and traces of sentiment to follow back that were not severed to truly be nihilistic at all.

Now were persons unable to be nihilistic, that entities or bureaus without identity could is another matter and whether those could be seen as unbiased points of loyalty for persons completely comprehending them as such still seems entirely likely.
 
I went from nihilism to Buddhism, and now I'm on to hedonism
 
Back home already? What happened?

Planned on going to the monastery after going to Koh Tao (google image search if you don't know what Koh Tao is). Stayed there for a week and decided I couldn't give up the material life-- now I'm home to make a little money to return to Koh Tao long term.

Taking on robes can always wait... right? Is there something wrong with knowing the answer and ignoring it? Dunno...
 
Taking on robes can always wait... right? Is there something wrong with knowing the answer and ignoring it? Dunno...

I feel like i've been ignoring it for some time, i seem to be caught in-between doing something and doing nothing.
 
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I feel like i've been ignoring it for some time, i seem to be caught in-between doing something and doing nothing.

Since I can't commit to either side exclusively, I don't worry about it. Either one day I'll be able to say yes or no, or that day won't come. Just go on living in the mean time.
 
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