Quite frequently in discussions of nihilism one will come across some bit of bullshit from some jackoff who thinks he’s clever and original and is anything but. For example:
i don’t understand why you wouldn’t just kill yourself if ur a nihilist because if there’s no point in living life then why not . i mean ordinary people don’t want to hear a bunch of losers whining on bebo so basically if your not enjoying life why bother living it
You have went against Nihilism
Nihilists have no obligation to join this group even if they believe in such a religion
So basically ur a hypocrite by making this group
Nihilists Even Make Jokes!
This is what I like to call ‘retarded’. These people, who have all the philosophical erudition of a ball of yarn, take it upon themselves to spew their folk wisdom about nihilism. Of course, like most moralists and ideologues, they are incapable of imagining a world outside of their slavish delusions and thus frame everything in terms of their bullshit psychological fixations. Since they believe the reason people live is the magical stories, they can not imagine someone wanting to live without the magical stories. The whole thrust of existential nihilism and egoism is, of course, that these magical stories are in fact false and your actual reasons are personal and arbitrary. They demand justification from those who reject the concept, and act as though suicide or inaction were the default position – which is, evolutionarily speaking, absurd.
So, cunt-face, before you vomit forth that grammatical rape-fest you call an opinion, take ten seconds to actually know what you’re talking about before I decide to start hitting you stupid niggers with my car. There are a variety of nihilisms, some which nestle inside one another, but the one I will deal with is what I consider to be the most philosophically valid form: existential nihilism. Existential nihilism essentially contends that the individual, whatever his connexion to the world, is fundamentally an individual. His values, choices, ideas, consequences, etc. are his own. There is no non-arbitrary or extrapersonal basis for these experiences and values, they are part of him and essentially unjustifiable. Reason offers no way out, nor (if the word made sense) could God; the existence or nonexistence of coherence and divinity is irrelevant to existential nihilism. The problem is a personal problem and, while universal, is also unique to each of us.
Believing in Nothing Won't Make You Many Friends
Why does a nihilist do anything? Probably for reasons, if not the same, at least comparable to those that non-nihilists do things. In other words, because they have certain ideas and feel like accomplishing certain preferential states. Whether this is building a financial empire, remixing old P-Diddy tapes or beating off to Lolicon. The nihilist, unlike the idealist, is not forever seeking to ‘justify’ his actions as he knows it is impossible – indeed, fundamentally nonsensical – to try. The only stanard he has to go by is himself, and given the recursiveness of that it’s not clear that anything comes out on top. He does not, as the moralist, believe that alien and disembodied values impose or command him to do this or that. Indeed, the moralist is so fundamentally mistaken in this that he can not see that his ‘morals’ and ‘duties’ are nothing but his own values and ideas playing a kind of trick on him.
As for why people would take a nihilist position, there are a few. These may, or may not, have some psychologizing such as discontentment with life or inborn cynicism. What it is at its core, though, is being honest with oneself about the nature of value, existence, life and the world and not painting magical pictures and fantasy lands where ethereal beings (Mankind, Justice, Truth) use humans as
puppets for their own advancement. Nihilism is simply valid, and true, whatever one feels about it. Some people can handle reality. Others, obviously, can not. Fuck them. Losers.
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