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6408197 No.6408197 [Reply] [Original]

What's the beef with nihilism? Why is it often portrayed negatively?

>> No.6408210
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>>6408197
What difference does it make?

>> No.6408212

>>6408210
That's not Morrissey

>> No.6408222

>>6408212
kek

>> No.6408229

Because so often it's just atheism that still thinks in a Christian way. If you say: Life has no meaning, what does that even mean? In one sense, life clearly *does* have a meaning. The events, things and people in life all mean something. So what is the nihilist missing? It must be that the nihilist wants a meaning that goes beyond life, i.e. a meaning that only a God and an immortal soul can give you. But if you were really, consistently atheist, you wouldn't pine for this shit.

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>>6408197
>You will never be that naive stupid 12 year old finding escapism from his "depression" in pure ecstasies of pointless grinding in Final Fantasy series on your PSP.
Why did you have to put on that image OP.

>> No.6408268

>>6408229
>In one sense, life clearly *does* have a meaning. things and people in life all mean something
>It must be that the nihilist wants a meaning that goes beyond life

have you actually ever read any nihilists?

>> No.6408274

>>6408233
>12 years
>psp
just how young are you?

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Why do Nips have such a fixation with inaccurate depictions of Kafka in their media?

>> No.6408306

>>6408274
The PSP came out 10 years ago anon

>> No.6408316

>>6408274
PSP got released in 2005 in the West and PSX classics got released a couple of years later so go figure.

>> No.6408392

I'm playing FF6 again. Kefka is such a shitty villain.

>LOL so insane!! what a nihilist nothing has purpose!!!

Why do Japanese games embrace philosophical themes superficially? The medium has potential to say something meaningful.

>> No.6408418

>>6408233
>Not being diagnosed with depression by 12
This board is crawling with plebs

>> No.6408426

>>6408392
They're children games.

>> No.6408430

>>6408392
>Why do Japanese games embrace philosophical themes superficially?
Not a specific tendency of Japanese games, but rather of all video games as a whole.
>The medium has potential to say something meaningful.
Really?
The medium was created with a purpose of pure entertainment and nothing more. It would be foolish to expect something philosophical out of this all since that is not within medium's goals, especially if target audience is kept in mind.

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>>6408306
>>6408316
thanks for ruining my night, bros

>> No.6408439

>>6408418
I was "diagnosed" but I knew that the diagnosis was bullshit and I refused to take the pills.

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>>6408197
going to post it again

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>>6408431
iktfb

>> No.6408477

>>6408197
it makes people uncomfortable so they try to discredit it as drivel for teenagers.

>> No.6408484

>>6408392
He's entertaining and antithetical to the themes of the story.

>> No.6408516

>>6408449
isn't the lack of inherent value a truism?

>> No.6408528

>>6408392
his name is Kefka

Kefka sounds like Kafka

Kefka is the world's first Kafkaesque villain


:^)

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>>6408528

>> No.6408676

>>6408430
Television since its inception has been predominantly entertainment, and has since proved its capacity for saying something meaningful.

Video games are no different.

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>>6408528
whoa...... a meme for the ages.....

>> No.6408697

>>6408676
Meaningful does not imply excessively deep.

>> No.6408702

>>6408697
Oh, bite me. Go jerk off to all the Odyssey references in Ulysses you found off Sparknotes.

>> No.6408711

>>6408697
any question about the potential meaning of TV or Vidya as a medium is unfalsifiable until you define what "meaning" is in the first place.

>> No.6408717

>>6408676
>since its inception

dropped

>> No.6408755

>>6408197
What is a man? A miserable pile of secrets.

>> No.6408764

>>6408229
If life has meaning then what is it? If you can't explain it then it's not obvious

>> No.6408800

>>6408197
because people who believe there are no objective morals are just idiots. plain and simple, if you can't comprehend it for yourself then you should stand clear of philosophy

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>>6408800
prove it

>> No.6408816

>>6408764

What certain things mean depends on the person. Take the madeleine episode from Remembrance of Things Past. There, the meaning of the madeleine is this childhood memory of Combray. In this way, every little thing in life has a certain meaning attached to it. Everything is significant and insignificant is only a word for something below a certain treshold of significance. You might want something else in life, but why? If you truly believe that you're gone after death, there's nothing else to want. There's nothing to compare life to of which it would only be a pale reflection.

>> No.6408821

>>6408800
sceptical slavic avian.jpeg