Personal Meaning According to a Nihilist

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[TheOldNihilist]

My personal belief or "meaning" is that nihilism is an "attitude" vs personal meaning which is a belief.Look up nihilism in the dictionary the only definition that comes close to "personal belief" is "philosophy" which regarding nihilism can be true or false.

[maksiiiskam2]

I can't remember how I put it in this video, but I'm sure what I meant is better phrased this way: one cannot justify (rationally, logically... whatever) a meaning in one's life, but that does not prevent one to have irrational unjustified psychological elements effecting their world-view in manners that can be translated into folk psychology in terms of meaning and value. These elements are injustifiable, but injustification is not an argument for inexistence.

(cont)

[maksiiiskam2]

Evolution, for one, is a factor that is likely to select for elements of value when they yield reproductive success. Upbringing is another: every one is trained to value things to the point of some values being almost reflexes: I "value" education because of this, but I know that there is nothing inherently preferable in education.

(cont)

[maksiiiskam2]

In other words, I believe that people can and may have values, but that they have no reason for it.

Concerning the statement "If you're a true Nihilist,then you have no real personal meaning in your life", I refer you to my other video about my apathy, in which I explain that even though nihilism compels me to be apathetic, I see as a major part of apathy the fact of not fighting against these unconscious factors: there is no reason to go out of my bed in the morning,

(cont)

[maksiiiskam2]

but I would do myself more violence resisting eating, peeing, walking and all than otherwise.

What I call apathy is probably the nearest I get to your nihilism viewed as an attitude, for I really treat nihilism as an epistemological position about value and meaning: a belief.

[TheOldNihilist]

If you're a true Nihilist,then you have no real personal meaning in your life.But we know this cannot be true.For everyone must have some personal meaning in their lives.Otherwise they would have no reason to live,no reason to be a nihilist.

[maksiiiskam2]

When I do not believe in certainty or knowledge, how can this question apply?

I am not certain, because I do not believe in being right. I am not uncertain neither, because I am personally certain of it.

The best I can say is: Questions concerning the Truth of Nihilism are meaningless and talking accuratly about nihilism is impossible anyway, I would have to assign some meaning to my words.

The most formal I could get, I did in my other videos.

[FatGermanBastard]

Wouldn't you say that nihilism is uncertain regarding itself ?

[maksiiiskam2]

I do not consider possibilities of wrongness: I do not believe in wrongness. If something happens to be True or False, it is not my concern: I give it no importance.

In a sense, one can say that everything is compatible with nihilism; I would rather say that nothing is compatible with nihilism, not even the claim of nihilism. In the end it is impossible to claim nihilism, as it is impossible to write against language or to reason against reason, I can only attempt to communicate a feeling.

[FatGermanBastard]

> I think that statements that are not

> compatible with nihilism would include

> assertions of existence, not of

> truth. "There is an objective morality"

> or "there is a God", for example.

But a part of the nihilistic theory is the possibility of it's own wrongness. The idea that nihilism may be false is part of nihilism and therefore no statement can be incompatible with nihilism. Not even "God exists and I know it for sure".