I have been having a debate with a friend on what is actually the concept of Nihilism, and ended up entirely confused on it’s meaning after our conversation. I thought Nihilism meant believing that everything is meaningless and hence not doing anything. My friend says that it is more like Nihilism is questioning the meaning behind everything and accepting that we are the ones giving meaning. My take makes Nihilism seem like a bad thing, his take makes it seem really endearing. But what does it actually mean? I did check out earlier posts on this , but did just end up becoming more confused.
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Nihilism is the acceptance that literally nothing matters and that we are so small and insignificant in the face of the universe/reality that nothing we do will ever have an effect on this larger scale. In short we exist for no reason and trying to find purpose is pointless because in the end we’ll all be a rotting corpse that won’t be remembered 5 or 6 generations down the line.
This is how I would define nihilism but there’s a bunch of others who say nihilism means xyz so really just take your pick of which to believe.
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