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Roughly speaking, nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and generally isn't a very suitable topic for (office) small talk. However, the philosophy can still inspire some relatable jokes.
So we decided to put together a little something for those of you with a darker sense of humor and came across the Facebook page 'Nihilist Memes' as well as a subreddit of the same name. Below you will find a collection of their most popular posts.
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Victoria 1 year ago
For me it's not believing everything is going to be okay. But internalizing the idea: This too shall pass. I've gone through some tough times, wondering how I'll get through them. Looking back, I'm surprised I got through those times without too much scarring. Now, when I am in a tough spot; I try to remember I have gotten through some terrible times and this too shall pass.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
As Firefall would say, "Just remember I love you. And it'll be all right."
tuzdayschild 1 year ago
So far so good. I really don't need to be here. I'm a bit of an optimist.
Aint buyin it chief 1 year ago
This has already been debunked, stop spreading misinformation and fake news.
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Nihilist viewpoints traditionally receive bad press and blunt condemnation for being the root cause of what people perceive as widespread cultural and moral malaise.
But Tracy Llanera, who is a research fellow at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney and assistant research professor at the University of Connecticut, is still passionate about nihilism and believes it's very misunderstood.
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Panda Kicki 1 year ago
I actually did that when my youngest son died at birth. I delivered in another county and the paperwork got messed up. 3 months later ye was found and I was allowed to get him. Did that right away and took the little coffin with me. Had assumed every church could take him and went to my local one. Their morgue was closed since 30 years. Lots of calls later I did a walk in at the big morgue without paperwork and they took him in and fixed paperwork later. The whole thing was surreal.
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DragonofMordor 1 year ago
I've been using my cat. Hard to have a void when you have the most perfect living being to ever exist sleeping on top of your legs.
"Defending it really makes me feel like the madman in Friedrich Nietzsche's The Gay Science," said Llanera. "You know, 'You've come too early! It's not yet time! Don't rock the boat!' But we think that it's about time and that's why we're making the case."
The philosophers' case depends on separating the premise that life has no cosmic meaning from the many negative conclusions people tend to draw as a result.
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Auntriarch 1 year ago
We've got the usual soupy plaques around our lake, Eileen who loved the lake, Jim who planted daffodils around the lake, etc. Mine's going to be, Auntriarch who picked up several tons of greyhound poo around the lake.
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The Shark 1 year ago
People think I'm joking when I say my retirement is a bottle of liquor and a handgun 😂
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LizzieBoredom 1 year ago (edited)
Cheer up. You might get hit by a tipsy Amazon Delivery driver!
Son of Philosoraptor 1 year ago
I'm retiring in 3 years. Takes a being married and both of us have had 40 year careers. Advice? Get a job that helps other people or you will burn out.
Erik Godfrey 1 year ago
If this is how you feel about your job, you need to find a different one. Life is to short to have a job that you do not want to go to.
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Floeckchen 1 year ago
But soon every cigarette also costs about 7 minutes of your student loan
similarly 1 year ago
I stopped smoking about 7 months ago. I used to say the smoking was S'cide with the world's slowest bullet. I used to think that if I did an OBVIOUS self-exit, it would hurt people. People tend to take it very personally. BUT, if slipped out because I hadn't taken care of myself ... well, people could just shake their heads and say I was stupid, and they wouldn't take it so hard. I'd think "They may be able to guilt me into not taking an obvious self-exit, but they can't make me take care of myself." I finally just decided after 30 odd years to give it up. Took awhile. The physical addiction isn't hard, it's the wanting to hurt myself that was hard to overcome, the throwing my hands up in the air saying "Why am I bothering?" I'm still not mentally well, but I quit smoking.
J C 1 year ago
You should go see someone, I know that you probably already were given that advice, but I felt obliged to say it anyway because truthfully, you can feel better. It is not uncommon to do "slow suicide" not just by smoking, but also by not taking care of yourself. But you don't HAVE to live this way.
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detective miller's hat 1 year ago
I take great comfort in the fact that they might kill me before things actually get worse.
Weaponized Beef 1 year ago
They could be brutally honest and just tweet something like "Our product will definitely k!ll you," and sales would not drop.
A common fear is that a person who considers life ultimately meaningless will embark on a destructive rejection of life itself, potentially endangering others or at least falling into despair.
But Llanera finds no compelling logical connection between nihilism and antisocial behavior or a choice to waste one's life on trivial, unrewarding obsessions.
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The Shark 1 year ago
"It'll be over before you know it..." Phrase I repeat to myself every time I'm conscious. 😂
Sharkbait1313 1 year ago
Someone, please but these for my bday!!!! Oh wait.... I have no friends, I am a mommy loner by choice.
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LSD 1 year ago
I don’t think people realise just how long it would take to terraform Mars. I’m confident humanity will have wiped itself out well before Mars is ready to sustain human life.
Jon Steensen 1 year ago
How about we start terraforming another, and much more Eartlike planet, like you know the one we already live on? Fixing this one should still be a lot easier than starting form scratch.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
If you can't solve your problems on earth, you won't be any better off on mars.
MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
people can't even save enough to travel across the country must less travel to Mars, admit it we are all stuck here till death do us depart!!
Brian Droste 1 year ago
If humans was able to transform Mars, that would be another planet they would pollute and mess up.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Well, that was his own choice and doesn't make me obligated to listen to him
tuzdayschild 1 year ago
That's exactly what the bible says. It's people who keep trying to force it.
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TribbleThinking 1 year ago (edited)
Yes! The question nobody will answer for me is "Why did his dad *need* the sacrifice?". Couldn't god have just said "Thank you, but I'm good. No need for that.". For starters, it would have saved his boy a lot of hassle.
Kyle Shade 1 year ago
Jesus had to be tortured and murdered by people, so the all powerful god could forgive people…what about that doesn’t make sense?
zach phelps 1 year ago
Accualy 👆🤓 he died for me becuase im more important and im the moon the earth revaves around me Peroid skibibi toilet :)
And while a lack of ultimate sources for the meaning of one's life cannot directly justify good behavior either, it can release people from harmful mistaken beliefs and damaging mindsets.
Llanera hears often from students that they consider themselves "not religious, but spiritual," a description she personally believes can be concerning.
"It strikes me that people are always looking for something to hold onto — tarot cards, the luck of the stars. I think [that's] being used to fight against this threat that life will become meaningless," Llanera said.
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Anne Roberts 1 year ago
That's hilarious I never did like that book and I was a preschool teacher.
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Charlotte A. 1 year ago
I'm pretty certain it can be considered "Disturbing the peace" or some such.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Won't make you popular at a funeral...especially if you're the one in the coffin.
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Depends on context. During band practice today the instructor had to threaten to call police on some idiots who wouldn’t stop running to the door of the hall to scream into the building before running away. Not that there would really be any reason to, but it worked to scare them off
RyanRyanRyan 1 year ago
Disturbing the peace. Inviting alarm. Different names in different jurisdictions.
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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
Imagine the world if Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders had both won.
She criticizes some non-nihilist philosophers for spreading the message that the best way to respond to a sense of meaninglessness is to tap into non-human sources, such as a sacred entity or a magical realm. According to her, this amounts to misdiagnosing the problem.
"The problem is egotism," Llanera said, "our attitudes of wanting to have an authority controlling and giving us answers, rather than being responsible for our own lives."
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I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
I've always found them so depressing
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Display name here 1 year ago
🤣 Ommie's expression is just too on the nose! I'm right there with ya little buddy.
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Mason Kronol 1 year ago
This reminds me of almost every road trip my husband and I take. We could go explore but hey, we have wine and who else is gonna watch all those ducks congregate on the river edge? Or in this city the barges are so long it’s still going by when I’m done with my shower. Oh and the time our hotel overlooked a Canes and we learned people will que 25 cars deep for chicken fingers and fries. We had never heard of them at that point, they are all over near us now. I don’t eat fried food.
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Linda van A. 1 year ago
Someone downvoted you but I upvoted because it is true. People who smoke stink but they don't smell it themselves.
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clairebear 1 year ago
Cancer is a painful and humiliating death. It destroys you. Eats you alive. It's a horrible way to die. Plus you stink to high heaven. You can't smell it, but we can.
Despite her passion for defending nihilism, Llanera sees the central point of life's meaninglessness as neutral, rather than good or bad news. She hopes that more people will simply outgrow their sense that the cosmic meaninglessness of their lives poses a threat. In her view, life does not need a larger context of meaning to add weight to a private or social sense of morality or joie de vivre.
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ʁɨɂɥɒ 1 year ago
What if the kid became the owner of a business and make others his/her slave. What if kid becomes politician
justanotherweirdo 1 year ago
“No, we already know that. We just need to know how much it’ll cost us”
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The Shark 1 year ago
I sent this to my deadbeat dad I met only once at 35. 😂 My only response after asking "Why?" when his proposal to get lunch when he was coming to the area, with his awkward offer "you can yell at me some more" as his weird incentive for me to go. 🤣 Rather freak out the awful old man as his last memory of me lol (guy was president of a fraudulent children's charity and pocketed the money- dad was never a good person)
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Gen X Feral 1 year ago
Oh forget that. I want to be reincarnated as a octopus, no back problems because I've no spine. I also get to slap the hell outta fish when I'm having a bad day and I don't end up in handcuffs.
"Those things could be understood in a familiar, ordinary sense, like you need to take responsibility for your dog, you need to not cheat on your partner or you need to protest horrendous acts of genocide or ethnic cleansing. All of those things are part of the human condition," Llanera explained her point of view.
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similarly 1 year ago
Gomez and Morticia actually have a very healthy relationship. They respect and adore each other.
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Mary Green 1 year ago
This is what I tell the college kids I work with. Better enjoy it now while you can because there's no way global civilization can last another 30 years.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
To old people: Don't be too concerned about old age. It won't last long.
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Robin DJW 1 year ago
Life has no meaning but that's OK with me. Why should it have any meaning? Among the trillions and trillions of life forms that have lived and died on Earth, my own only matters to me and about 5 other people. In 100 years, I will be completely forgotten. That's OK with me, too.
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
I joined a Repair Cafe last year, and every time I manage to repair something I just KNOW that life has a meaning.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
life is about being silly, weird, gross little creatures
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"They matter and they mean something to our individual lives and to human society," Llanera added. "But this kind of meaning doesn't extend beyond our human context. And we think that those who defend the meaning of life, they're just very uncomfortable with that idea."
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Rosemary 1 year ago
According to my older sister I screamed nonstop for 2 years.
Load More Replies... Mike Rodrick 1 year ago
When the 1st thing that happens outside the womb is getting your a*s smacked to make you cry, you know it's all downhill from there.
Thom Serveaux 1 year ago
I was born drowning in my own feces. I tell myself nothing can possibly be that miserable. Gives you a sense of perspective.
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Chihuahua Mama 1 year ago
It's slightly less horrible looking at this cute baby opossum, at least
Joanne Mendonza-Earle 1 year ago
Look at that adorable little poss poss!!! So cute. He have class. He give sass. Most importantly he scream at own a$$.
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Long John Silver 1 year ago
Why does this actually comfort me? I'm actually pretty motivated now😭😭😭❤
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Karina 1 year ago
This has always comforted me in a sad way. Same with pollution. Because with all the nuclear plants scattered around and our inability to make good animated systems, plus our sciientists illusion that tomorrows minds will some how make a magical fix - we are just floating around on a ticking timebomb. Sorry, but this is that kind of post.
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Sam Todd 1 year ago
If you aren't upper-decking the toilets of unsuspecting friends and family members, what are you even doing with your life?
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Jeremy Klaxon 1 year ago
"Go lots of places" and "Be poor" are incompatible. Just pointing out this little detail.
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Hile Troy 1 year ago
Same machine as what? There's no extra charge for commas today.
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Whoopdeedoo 1 year ago
This is just gibberish that we know how to read! I swear I'm going to have am existential crisis at 13 from reading this thread
Ephemeral Mochi 1 year ago
"all these pronouns are made up woke nonsense!!" every word ever is made up
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I might have possibly agreed with you had you not started calling me names while swearing at me.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
So, you've never heard of celebrities, "influencers" or anyone that's well known or famous, who's tried to brand themselves in someway? They usually find one way or another to get their fans/followers to purchase something that will line the pockets/benefit only themselves.
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Valli Cawte 1 year ago
Except most of the rest of the world gets 4 - 5 weeks holiday and Free Health Care
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Junebugjump! 1 year ago
I had this book when I was a kid. It was filled with a bunch of cool ideas. Also, I was loose on the enormous Irvine ranch back when it was all farmland. We lived in an old house near families that had a million kids and we were completely unsupervised in the summer for more than 12 hours a day, Oh, the mischief we would get up to alone and in the gang.
Joanne Mendonza-Earle 1 year ago
I looked up this book and apparently it has a very positive message, despite the title.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Very useful book. Most artistic and creative people already know how to do this.
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J C 1 year ago
grab a board (or get a blank one probably at craft store), paint it white if you want and then grab a sharpie and get creative.
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Koalafied to komment 1 year ago
I love this stuff! Everything is so funny and unsettling at the same time. I love how every human being looks slightly deformed, like some alien made a study.
Load More Replies... justagirl 1 year ago
you know—interesting tidbit—your a**s is the first thing that forms when you become a fetus—at least that's what my book said.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Same holds true for life in general. A******s finish first
Load More Replies... MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
Spend 9 months waiting to get out and the rest of your life wanting back in
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OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
Bad phrasing, the sun will make the moisture evaporate and the pillow will once again be fluffy. It works
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SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Put it in the sun??? Yeah, I'll just whip out my handy spaceship and fling it out to be burned up then!!!... Sorry, had to! 😄
Regina Holt 1 year ago
Fluff it up faster?? We need to have that time to relect on the poor decisions we've made.
Load More Replies... TribbleThinking 1 year ago (edited)
Nihilist housekeeping sounds very practical. Only problem is that we will only be able to practice it 8 times a year in the UK, as we don't really see the sun the rest of the time.
#43
Castles 1 year ago
Do you think aliens would rip our skin off to see the real us like in movies were we rip off their exoskeletons to reveal the nasty inside?
clairebear 1 year ago
We are actually just colonies of bacteria. Moving worlds for the microscopic to live on. And they control us.
MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
To think they can do that and still can't find a pinched nerve in my back; amazing!!
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Dani 1 year ago (edited)
Or... people are just too damn curious to not try it... we didn't build everything around us as a species because we just love doing nothing...I'm happy enough sitting alone daydreaming, but if I'm told this thing gives mild shocks... I'm gonna want to test out what "mild" means
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I was an electronics tech. Getting shocked is not all the joy it is made up to be.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago (edited)
I’m happy being alone with my thoughts. They’re my demons so they’re familiar
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
I bought some shock pens for work because guys were always taking them off my desk and not returning them. Turned into a where can you hurt the most. Guys pressing on their necks and temples. It was funny as heii butt weird too!
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Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Every day Mon thru Fri 8-5 when it feels like I talk I talk to 95 0/0 of calls have no freaking clue.
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Regina Holt 1 year ago
You forgot to count the time they were still inside the pregnant woman.
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I first threatened self-exit about 45 years ago. I threatened to jump out a window. My mother helpfully opened it for me and told me to go ahead. I first actually ATTEMPTED self-exit, and very nearly made it, about 40 years ago. Since then, I've been on the edge more times than I can count. I'm either not very good at it, or just really good at talking myself out of it. It would probably help a lot if I were just a little bit more mentally ill, because then I might not realize I was ill, and I might think my impulses were normal and rational and a really great idea. As it is, I know I'm ill, so I know I'm not the best judge of the best way to spend my evenings.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
I don't try to self exit, because I fear I will screw up and put myself in more pain and misery.
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MondoLogo 1 year ago
When your species name is God spelled backwards you're probably already clued into this.
Mike Rodrick 1 year ago
Given that these creatures have the ability to train hoomans, I'd say we're all slaves to them.
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K B. 1 year ago
Honor matters regardless of the dead, or we are no better off than they are. (Arguably worse)
Historyharlot93 1 year ago
I don’t know what this means but I’m going to upvote it any way
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#50
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Been feeling that way ever since I was 11, I genuinely can’t see a future where I’m older
Lou Cam 1 year ago
Just one day at a time Stardust. Helps if you have a TV show to look forward to I find. As in "well I could die tomorrow but then I'd miss the next episode of..."
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Linda van A. 1 year ago
This is a good boy in every situation, everywhere, everytime.
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Breadcrumb. 1 year ago
They'll do that for you in Canada. Our free health care is s**t and we know it so the doctors will off you early or even if you're just done with life.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Yeah, our healthcare's so s****y my late husband fought stage 4 throat cancer for 10 years at one of the world's best cancer hospitals, Sunnybrook, for free. Neither one of us drive, so our crappy system gave us driver volunteers (Wheels of Hope through the Cancer Society). Three rounds of chemo, 33 shots of radiation, countless MRIs, scopes down his throat, bloodwork etc. and literally the only thing we paid for was a cup of coffee and sandwich in the food court. I'm getting so tired of people telling me how lousy our healthcare is in this country. Is Doug Ford here in Ontario trying to kill our system? He sure is. Hopefully we'll take care of him at the ballot box.
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Regina Holt 1 year ago
Chocolate sauce on mashed potatoes are also comforting. I've asked for it at restaurants. I love the look of "are you serious or are you pulling my leg" Yeah, I'm serious.
Load More Replies... Phoebe Bean 1 year ago (edited)
Sorry, but all I see is this: brown earthworms. Ewwwwwww. (Edited to add "ewwwww")
BewilderedBanana 1 year ago
Nutella is great on bread or pizza. This might look vile but i see potential :D
Auntriarch 1 year ago
That's no worse than pain au chocolat (which is in auntie's opinion sufficiently heinous of itself but I digress) and I bet it's a treasured recipe of an Italian childhood somewhere
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Regina Holt 1 year ago
Everyone's recipe for better baked beans is weeping your tears into the pot.
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Regina Holt 1 year ago
Is this circular math? The math everyone understands, like, better than calculus?
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Regina Holt 1 year ago
Can we make the list shorter? Asking for a friend.
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Cerridwn d'Wyse 1 year ago
I keep staring at the guy behind him hands and arms and wonder what a I drew that picture
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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
People who put stickers of bees on their cars, like they're not part of the problem.
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Chihuahua Mama 1 year ago
Now, is this your own body or someone else's? Because that changes the context here quite a bit
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Manana Man 1 year ago
The pain you feel today will be utterly forgotten, as will you. (I can do this nihilist s**t, no problem)
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BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Are these nihilistic or depressed? Of course life is meaningless. That's what makes it so much fun. The question is why are we waisting or time mourning the loss of something we never had. Once people realize this, then they can rebel against the absurdity of capitalist demands that we spend our days toiling for our masters. This is our only time on this stupid planet, let's make it good
Gandalf the Pink 1 year ago (edited)
These are definitely depressed, and I think some of them dangerously bordering on suicidal ideation, which is very damn irresponsible for BP to publish in my opinion. This is coming from a nihilist: if nothing else, live to spite the world.
Load More Replies... VNES101 1 year ago
I thought this post was really entertaining and I laughed a bunch. But that's just me so...
Maudelin 1 year ago
As a natural cynic who has dealt with depression for over 40 years I'm glad to say I did not connect with these. I must be doing rather well these days.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
It is curious that BP censor certain words to avoid triggering people or upsetting minors, yet hitting them with the pointlessness of their existence seems to be absolutely fine.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
BP, if you're going to censor the posts you copy/paste, forget the paste. Please.
Floeckchen 1 year ago (edited)
A lot of these comments are getting really concerning. Especially when you all revel so much in the thought of your own depression/sadness. As if you see that as a new trend or something to be proud of. Get help! Also this posts only do feed into this, painting nihilism as funny or cool.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Are these nihilistic or depressed? Of course life is meaningless. That's what makes it so much fun. The question is why are we waisting or time mourning the loss of something we never had. Once people realize this, then they can rebel against the absurdity of capitalist demands that we spend our days toiling for our masters. This is our only time on this stupid planet, let's make it good
Gandalf the Pink 1 year ago (edited)
These are definitely depressed, and I think some of them dangerously bordering on suicidal ideation, which is very damn irresponsible for BP to publish in my opinion. This is coming from a nihilist: if nothing else, live to spite the world.
Load More Replies... VNES101 1 year ago
I thought this post was really entertaining and I laughed a bunch. But that's just me so...
Maudelin 1 year ago
As a natural cynic who has dealt with depression for over 40 years I'm glad to say I did not connect with these. I must be doing rather well these days.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
It is curious that BP censor certain words to avoid triggering people or upsetting minors, yet hitting them with the pointlessness of their existence seems to be absolutely fine.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
BP, if you're going to censor the posts you copy/paste, forget the paste. Please.
Floeckchen 1 year ago (edited)
A lot of these comments are getting really concerning. Especially when you all revel so much in the thought of your own depression/sadness. As if you see that as a new trend or something to be proud of. Get help! Also this posts only do feed into this, painting nihilism as funny or cool.
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