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Hey Nihil/lit/s,

Don't despair. You can live on welfare and petty scams and theft.

>>2966807
Nietzsche of course wasn't a proponent of nihilism, but he did break of most of the old values. Then, when he has destroyed everything he tries to offer his own alternative. But as far as I'm concerned, he fails. Most people gobble up his negative philosophy (in the sense that he dismantles a lot) but his positive philosophy doesn't really catch on. The Übermensch and the revaluation of values (in so far as he even succeeded) ring as empty as any other ideal.

So while he didn't willingly subscribe to nihilism, he does tend to cause it. And I belief that he was at heart a nihilist himself and that he didn't believe in his own answers to the crisis. I also think that was partly responsible for him going insane before creating what was to be his magnum opus.

>>2944427
Use this: http://catalog.neet.tv/lit/
CTRL+F it when needed.

>mfw I always search it for nihilism, existentialism and absurdism and otherwise don't post or make a thread about those things myself

2/2

Ultimately, personal meaning is nothing more than a personal value judgement, so it's quite an non-issue I'd say. If you proclaim you like chocolate ice cream, that's really all there is to it. The same goes for ascribing meaning to your life I guess. The problem starts where people justify their liking something, that's probably where nihilists and rationalists get mad. If you say "I just like the taste of it" concerning the ice cream, no one will blame you for it. If you start making up arbitrary systems for it, people might call you out in it. So saying you value and enjoy life is perfectly fine, but using faulty rationalisations to make this up might make things difficult and insincere.

I myself like the idea of the jolly nihilist. A rakish figure who enjoys the void, so to speak. Living life without falling for the urge to systematize falsely and still love it for what it is. Sort of a Nietzschean amor fati without trying to get past nihilism, but making your home in the abyss. Which in turn sounds much like gutsy zen buddhism, I guess.

>>2620788
>not understanding that pessimism is the negative version of optimism and that nihilism is beyond those two
>not knowing that by embracing it you please yourself beyond good and evil
>not realising that one hereby frees oneself of the grandest false dichotomy of human civilisation