NihilusRavager7780 wrote: It means to believe in nothing.

Inno A Satana wrote:

Wouldn’t that count as Atheism?

Inno A Satana wrote:

Wouldn’t that count as Atheism?

NihilusRavager7780 wrote:

I wouldn’t say so. Atheism is to not believe in God or any gods that people believe in. This is Nihilism

Nihilism (from the Latin nihil, nothing) is a philosophical position which argues that Being, especially past and current human existence, is without objective meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value. Nihilists generally assert some or all of the following:

* there is no reasonable proof of the existence of a higher ruler or creator,
* a “true morality” does not exist, and
* objective secular ethics are impossible; therefore, life has, in a sense, no truth, and no action is objectively preferable to any other.

The term nihilism is sometimes used synonymously with anomie to denote a general mood of despair at the pointlessness of existence.

Nihilism can be a charge leveled against a particular idea, movement, or group; however, it is also a philosophical position to which one may overtly subscribe. Movements such as Dada, Futurism, and deconstructionism, among others, have been identified by commentators as “nihilistic” at various times in various contexts. Often this means or is meant to imply that the beliefs of the accuser are more substantial or truthful, whereas the beliefs of the accused are nihilistic, and thereby comparatively amount to nothing (or are simply claimed to be destructively amoralistic).

Nihilism is also a characteristic that has been ascribed to time periods: for example, Jean Baudrillard and others have called postmodernity a nihilistic epoch, and some Christian theologians and figures of religious authority have asserted that postmodernity and many aspects of modernity represent the rejection of God, and therefore are nihilistic.

Nihilism differs from skepticism in that skepticism doesn’t reject claims to truth outright; it only rejects these claims if there is insufficient empirical evidence to support them. Additionally, skepticism does not necessarily come to any conclusions about the reality of moral concepts nor does it deal so intimately with questions about the meaning of an existence without knowable truth.

In the domain of ethics, nihilist or nihilistic is often used as a derogatory term referring to a complete rejection of all systems of authority, morality, and normativity, or one who purportedly makes such a rejection. Either through the rejection of previously accepted bases of belief or through extreme relativism or skepticism, the moral nihilist is construed as one who believes that none of these claims to power are valid. Nihilism not only dismisses received moral values, but rejects 'morality' outright.

Inno A Satana wrote: Does anyone in here know anything about Nihilism? I’ve often heard of it and read in different places about it, but I’ve never really found out what it is all about. Maybe because I’ve never met anyone that is a Nihilist.

petrofsky wrote: What I believe as Nihilist:

Human existence does not really have value. Our creation was not on purpse, but was merely an accident by evolution, as is every creature/plant on the earth.

Emotion does not exist, in a way. People imagine emotion in a way that it has nothing to do with our chemistry. Instinct makes us feel certain things so we can contemplate what we need in order to survive. It is just your body telling your brain if you need something.

God does not exist. There is no evidence to support the idea of the existance of a God. Even if there was a God, why should we worship him? What did he ever do for us?

Religion as a whole does not exist. It is a figment of our imagination that works just like a story. We visualize the story, but because we are told that it is true, we believe the story, and can imagine it easier than bedtime stories, even though both religion and bedtime stories are both just as hard to believe.

RebornChibiDiscoDhaos wrote:
So basically you consider yourself worthless? I can agree to an extent, we are not part of some magical plan, but I believe we make our own meaning in life. We may not be 'chosen' but yeah, I think you get what I mean.

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Morals do not exist (there is no such thing as right or wrong) What is good or evil differs from one person to the other. There were no such thing as laws before government, so what would stop someone from murdering someone, or something like that? Even if we did murder someone, what is the difference between that and killing an animal? None.

Emotion does not exist, in a way. People imagine emotion in a way that it has nothing to do with our chemistry. Instinct makes us feel certain things so we can contemplate what we need in order to survive. It is just your body telling your brain if you need something.

God does not exist. There is no evidence to support the idea of the existance of a God. Even if there was a God, why should we worship him? What did he ever do for us?

Religion as a whole does not exist. It is a figment of our imagination that works just like a story. We visualize the story, but because we are told that it is true, we believe the story, and can imagine it easier than bedtime stories, even though both religion and bedtime stories are both just as hard to believe.

Itachi Uchiha wrote: Hmmm... so we are robot that moving on its own...???