/lit/ - Literature

>>10763955
>this is how gnostics behave

>>9958947
>mfw someone actualy goes to churchs in 2017 and actualy follows her practices as it had any real divine value

me dude, never is late to see the light that came from Tolouse

>>9680269
What could be more strong-minded than accepting the terms of a meaningless and actually very bad existence? People love to hold onto their comforting illusions of purpose and redemption and transcendence because they are weak-minded. And at its worst this manifests in the purest nihilism of all such as what you'll find in the french existentialists and which is covered up much better in the clarion call of Nietzsche and his perfidious language. Namely that we'll simply deliberately sit here and delude ourselves that we shall create some kind of purpose for ourselves and then proceed as though we are not actually just begging the question.

Meanwhile there is no conflation to be had between pessimism and nihilism because pessimism does recognize value, just not the of the kind people like. Its not nihilistic to say the cost of living in terms of both physical disutility and somewhat even more significantly, confusion and existential turmoil, is too high. Its not nihilistic to turn away from all our instincts no matter how it might grieve us. Its practically religious .