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19928689 No.19928689 [Reply] [Original]

I can't remember the last time i've seen a nihilist give an intelligent, nuanced take on ANYTHING. And for "believing in nothing", most of them are so conformist it's disgusting, their idols and role models are all corrupt billionaire businessmen and politicians like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Fauci, etc.

Whereas all the most intelligent and accomplished people in the World tend to think under frameworks and are overwhelmingly anti-nihilistic on average, Einstein, Newton, Feynman, Plato, Socrates, Nietzsche, Boyle, Da Vinci, Maxwell, Shakespeare, MLK, Gandhi, Tesla.. pick any list of the greatest people who ever lived, and you'll see only a handful of people who could be ARGUED to be nihilists.

The psychology of the nihilist is overwhelmingly that of a coddled suburbanite NPC who is not only too intellectually cowardly to pick a framework to think under; But also, has a penchant for rationalizing their laziness to confront their own problems and psychological deficiencies with common trends like "i simply don't give a fuck, so i'm gonna play videogames and watch anime all day" and "nothing matters anyways, so i have no moral obligation to anyone, but i'm also gonna morally shame you if you do something "wrong" because morality is suddenly objective now". Self-describing as some sort of pseudo-schopenhauerian pseudo-pessimists, regurgitating quotes along the lines of "life is so terrible, no God could create this World filled with so much violence and suffering, desire is the root of all suffering, hope is the worst of all evils because it drives man to continue his torment, i hate the Universe so much". But despite acknowledging the abhorrent state of nature they never think or act out the logical implications of pessimism like asceticism or compassion, nope, they just continue being materialistic hedonistic NPCs who consoom funko-pops and Marvel movies and worship Elon Musk, because they don't even genuinely believe that life is terrible or any other pessimistic beliefs like that, they just say they do to seem smart.

>> No.19928696

>culture war thread
not even about nihilism what a bore

>> No.19928697 [DELETED] 

>MLK
Burger brain picked ML(K) instead of ML(the father of Protestantism)

>> No.19928768

>>19928689
didn't read

>> No.19928779

Most people I used to know who took interest in it or talked about nihilism just used philosophies like that to be drug addicts and whine about mental issues that were realistically just their personality disorders trying to mimic other forms of more "in vogue" mental illnesses to add to their personal mythology

>> No.19928785

>>19928689
Not reading all that, life is too short

>> No.19928793

>>19928689
You're just observing that low to mid IQ people cite surface level philosophical tropes as a way to excuse their own shortcomings. Nihilism obviously attracts a lot of these characters because the surface level trope is your pic related.

>> No.19928814

Nihilism and the only thing that I have to be at the end of it was a bit like a fat kid. The original plan was to be a role model and provide for someone else to be a role model. I respect your decision on the original text soon enough.

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>> No.19928936

>>19928689
Live for pure entertainment.
If that's Nihilistic, so be it.

>> No.19928970

>>19928689
as long as you are not theist, politically right-oriented or any sort of traditionalist, even a kidshaver, then you are good.

>> No.19929052

>>19928689
Fuck i forgot to remove the "Sage and Report" name i used from a previous offtopic thread

>> No.19929056

>>19928696
legit

>> No.19929180

>>19928970
What?

>> No.19929203

>>19928689
the irony is that you use the term NPC when this whole post could've been written by an AI that was fed millions of the same shit internet posts that have been made for the last 4 years, ive read every single sentence youve said a thousand times before in slightly different ways, none of what you said is remotels profound

>> No.19929216

There's some arguments for nihilism, I don't really find any of them convincing but they're there.

>> No.19929229

>>19929203
apart from the fact that this group of people the way you describe barely exists that much in real life, youre not ranting about real people, youre ranting about an imagined meme basedjak whos watching porn in his room full of funko pops and talking about rick and morty or whatever, bla bla bla, im sure this type of person is actually a really significant demigraphic and not just a caricature created in your head by being on the internet all day

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>>19929229
Not OP, but personally I have a cousin with a wall of funko pops who plays video games when he isn't at work. I don't consider him the death knell of civilization and he is not meaningful in the grand scheme of things, but you can smell OP's ressentiment over the fact that such people are entirely unfazed by what causes him anguish. I for one respect anyone who can cause that much seething simply by affirming his own life. If he wants to gather all the funko pops of his favorite pantheon of characters because they bring him joy, how much greater is that joy for the misery it inspires in OP. It's a beautiful thing to see someone get so angry, and in the true spirit of all ages to point and laugh at them for their insecurities over other people enjoying their lives

>> No.19929296

>>19929229
Wrong. The redditor archetype remains current

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>>19928689
holy shit ur mentally ill, stop watching yt for a month.

Here look, i made a .png for you maybe you understand it now.
Nihilism is an border to cross not a place to be.

>> No.19929783

>>19928689
>/pol/ the post
Grow up kid, or worse manchildren, not everyone is the reddit bogeyman that likes and idolizes the same non-sense you see there and eco all day long on /pol/.

>> No.19929945

>>19929724
Is this image trolling? If not read literally anything outside the 20th century.

>> No.19929979

I think nihilism is pretty cool, I'll incorporate it into my next personality