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17 days agoNihilist here. Everyone acts like it’s sad or depressing (or fully unhinged/hedonistic), but I’ve personally found it to be freeing.
All meaning is a subjective experience, a transient feeling/thought combination. In other words, an illusion. A pile of chemicals and neural connections that can be synthesized in a relatively formulaic way, just look at pop music, romance novels, action movies, etc.
I still have ideals, personal convictions, opinions, hopes and dreams, I’m just no longer caught up in the illusion that any of it objectively matters, regardless of how I feel.
We’re just smart meat puppets, and that’s OK.
Precisely!