Ask A Nihilist: Free Deconstructive Service
Have a question only someone who believes in nothing can answer? An idealogy you'd like tested? Sick of thinking up your own arguments? Just Curious? Feeling Mischievous?
Ask a Nihilist!
Seriously.
Wait, what's the catch?
No catch! Absolutely free of charge.
There may be some side-effects of reading Nihilistic material including, but not limited, to:
Identity crisis, temporary or permanent ego-loss, a complete personality take-over by your Jungian Shadow, acting out unfiltered thoughts and impulses from the Id, misplaced apathy from incomplete acceptance of Nihilistic concepts, and no longer recognizing yourself when you look in the mirror.
Nihilism offers many unique things!
What's in it for you, then?
Pure fun of it. For the love of Nihilism.
Who is this, anyway? What makes you qualified for this?
As a General Nihilist she applies Nihilistic thought to any and all matters of the known Universe; her trade is possible because there is an external objective reality which humans experience similarily enough to blabber on about indefinitely. She posits that to acknowledge meaning, purpose and value-judgements as entirely subjective is the closest thing to universal truth.
Radioactivities has 20 years experience deconstructing beliefs of all varieties. She chose to begin specializing in Nihilism during high school when she began reading Nietszche, scribbling ‘there is no good and evil’ on public washroom stalls, and not listening to anybody else even when in her best interest.
In her spare time she enjoys a journey into Transcendental Nihilism; overcoming any purposefully cultivated or involuntarily ingrained socio-cultural beliefs by engaging in countless audacious, rebellious and morally repugnant activities. Over the years her Nihilistic practice has become all the more sophisticated via independent study of a plethora of topics she read for the hell of it.
If you’d like to see her Professional credentials, just look in the mirror while holding up your middle finger. On the other hand, if you’d like a topic deconstructed, anything at all, she abides just one mantra: “if she can, she will.”
I'm actually writing a piece on nihilism, but i'm not sure if i'm one. Here's a small part of what I've written -
I wonder if I framed it well enough. What do you think?
My first thought was "Life has no inherent meaning" is more apt than "Life is meaningless." The latter is a sub-set of "life has no inherent meaning", which is apathetic-nihilism. The term ‘meaningless’ is somewhat a floating signifier in the general purpose use. It may be useful to you to include the sub-categories of nihilist thought.
Someone could identify with "Moral Nihilism", yet not "Existential Nihilism; focusing on how morality and religion are subjective constructs, yet they could accept biological imperative as humanity's raison d'etre.
I think there is a confusion between material reductionism and nihilism that may be worth mentioning. As some nihilistic thought posits we enact with generally agreed upon external reality (eg. interest of self-preservation) yet some nihilists may acknowledge how a mnority of people who chose to be self-destructive signify other impulses. Thinking that people are a product of reacting from biology and neurochemistry is not necessarily Nihilism.
An Existential Nihilist could adopt less materialistic explanations when questioning the nature of existence. It can be argued that materialistic interpretations are just as much social constructs.
A General Nihilist accepts most or all Nihilistic subsets (which I think that's what you're describing?)
For fun I'll mention the common flimsy rebutal thrown at Nihilists:
" Isn’t belief in nothing a belief?” Yet it isn’t, and that is a semantic argument. Belief has faith behind it. Nihilists are adaptable, and malleable in what concepts they adopt. The central thing is always questioning personal beliefs and truths we adopt throughout life; a genuine ('practicing' as I'd say) Nihilist puts their own accepted constructs to the test before anyone elses. "Nihilism ain't easy"
Just throwing some thoughts out there. I think you got it down and apt aside from the misunderstandable 'life is meaningless'.
I think all post-modern cultures are essentially nihilists too. Especially considering how commonly accepted 'cultural relativism' is in the globalist age. Nietszche predicted the conundrum of it; the inability of people/cultures to stand for something due to inherent nature subjectivity.
hell am I looking forward to your post!!!
Lol seems like Nihilism, or at least something like that is wayyy underrepresented here.
Hmm i think the flavours of nihilism are kinda weird, almost selective. To refine:-
Google's first explanation:-
Can't relate much to this.
But this, ok -
The google'd explanation is crass. Sounds like something written by a person angry at subjectivity/changing values, associating nihilism with todays problems of 'the youth' Or an angsty metalhead
I'm working on a detailed response. Love the topic, naturally! :D
I've been pretty much like that since forever, and thought the stance is pretty underrepresented here.. so yeah, having it as a draft