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Who doesn't question the meaning of life now and again? Or maybe even all the time... It's easy to become disillusioned in this dark and twisted world. If you're currently in that phase, you'll be glad to know you're not alone. There's a whole community wallowing in the absurdity of existence, pessimistically bound together by their love of nihilistic memes.
Many can be found on an Instagram page called Existentialist Memes. It has more than 258,000 followers, all confronting uncomfortable truths while finding a sense of camaraderie in shared despair. They may feel lost but they find solace in laughter.
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Nihilism is a philosophy that rejects values and the valuation society places on people, objects, and life, and instead states that everything is meaningless. That's according to online learning platform, Masterclass.
But it's not that clear cut. It turns out there are different forms of nihilism. However, all discuss the human condition and its existence. And share some underlying principles.
One is that existence is useless. "A nihilist believes there is no purpose to having values or beliefs because everything in existence is unfounded," explains the Masterclass site.
They also believe there is no truth. "Everything is unfounded and useless, including the truth, so there are no reasons to uphold moral principles for your own sake or the sake of anyone else," states Masterclass.
The third principle is that everything is meaningless. If there is nothing, and nothing we do matters, then all things are meaningless, including the meaning of life.
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Serial pacifist 4 months ago
Is it ethical to burn incriminating evidence in Mar-A-Lago in order to become the President
Nihilists are usually portrayed as "moody, brooding or radical types who have decided that we are insignificant specks floating around an infinite universe, and that therefore nothing matters," says The Ethics Centre.
Think the Joker from Batman. He lives with the belief that the world has failed him, nothing matters, no-one cares, and therefore, we shouldn’t care about anything or anyone either. “Everything burns” in the end, he states. So why not speed up the destruction?
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We mentioned earlier that there are different forms of nihilism.... Well, here they are:
Epistemological nihilism is more than the skeptic who questions the validity of information. This person flat-out denies that knowledge exists altogether. In their mind, if there is knowledge in the universe, we cannot attain it, therefore it might as well not exist at all.
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
Be fair, the CEO will get a few million dollars bonus that year, so there is a bright side
An ethical nihilist basically believes that there are no ethics. In other words, there’s no reason to hold themselves or anyone else to any ethical standards.
And those who go by existential nihilism hold the belief that life has no meaning. "Everyone everywhere, at every point, has no value to the universe," explains Masterclass. "Existential nihilism overlaps with the branch of philosophy called existentialism."
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ColdSteelRonin 4 months ago
Try living on a farm and providing your own necessities and then tell me that's not work. Food, clothing and shelter are the bare minimums and to provide any of those things requires strenuous labor
Passive nihilism states that nihilism is its own end, and there is no reason to pursue higher values. While political nihilists believe that no-one should hold any political views and should instead try to tear down all political institutions.
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Earthquake903 4 months ago
My kids say this frequently, with my blessing, this nightmare bloodline ends here. No more procreation.
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Auntriarch 4 months ago
The third sentence is correct. The first sentence is not. (Not where I live anyway).
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Serial pacifist 4 months ago (edited)
Vegetarians never argue, there is never any beef between them.
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Vanessa Panerosa 4 months ago
Youre telling me a billionaire convicted felon who’s filed for bankruptcy several times isn’t the man for the job?
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
Me (as I get older) : I hope I'm still around to laugh, even just at myself
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Vanessa Panerosa 4 months ago
This is exactly how Spanish is spoken - the subjunctive always sounds so ominous to me. “Have a great day but anything could happen!”
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
"Observe the happy moron, he does not give a d**n. I wish I were a moron - my god, perhaps I am !"
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
I have always suspected that our 'companion animals' are laughing at us, in between meals
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ColdSteelRonin 4 months ago
After spending sufficient time with me you'd probably be moving quickly in the opposite direction as well
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Red Wyvern Emperor 4 months ago
I once saw three rainbows at the same time. Must've been one heck of a s**t then. XD
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Red Wyvern Emperor 4 months ago
Obviously, because we'd beat the everloving c**p out of him for all this.
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Uncle Panda 4 months ago
I had a flight turn around 10 minutes into the air because "we forgot to put gas in the plane." If you find yourself in that situation, it does *not* help to loudly announce, "I'm not even in the airline industry and *I* know that you put gas in the plane."
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
(Note to readers in the USA - this joke doesn't work so well when translated into most European languages)
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
In fact, {amount of shít you're unimpressed by} is a function of age - tending to 100% by middle-age. This mechanism is called 'experience' .
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
So, sit back, do nothing and await a glorious future? Not really that empowering ...
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Reemerger 4 months ago
I sometimes envy small children and the small world they live in. Then I see a tantruming toddler in the grocery store and am reminded of how easily their small world is shattered into pieces, only to be placated by the next best thing they urgently want right now. The disappointing aspect of this is that some people never seem to grow fully out of this mindset.
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Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
He said, right before they both collapsed into a seizing mess as dinosaurs do not possess the medical knowledge to know that eating drunk and high people is a counterindication for taking antidepressants.
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
Only when they've ensured that piracy is illegal and heavily policed. Basically, it's a shake-down.
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detective miller's hat 4 months ago
and don't forget having wings and being absolutely terrible at flying
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Red Wyvern Emperor 4 months ago
Do it like me and just ignore politics. You cannot do anything about it, so just make fun of it and keep going.
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
"Mental disorder" as judged by the people who don't think that way. In the Land of the Blind, the One-eyed person is clearly insane ... everyone else agrees ... (who wrote that story, btw?)
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
Looks as if you've already fed one of them, and the other is quite capable of making his own arrangements ...
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T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago
Well, my career sometimes involves badly-spelt letters that say, "I love you mam" and it makes it less soul-destroying.
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Auntriarch 4 months ago
I'd have made a good retired greyhound, sleeping, twice round the garden, eating, sleeping (farting optional)
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
Or even to find something better to eat/do ? But, yes, if my great-grandfather had a choice to live in this century instead of the 19th, he'd snap it up.
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
So, blame me, shame me, punish me, hate me - or I could mutter something about "Mars being in the ascendant" and walk away whistling? Tough choice ...
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keyboardtek 4 months ago
Trump and right wing media has twisted it into blaming all brown colored people for our problems.
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Andi 4 months ago
there has been research to show that there are micro structures in the brain that exhibit the signs that there is quantum activity going on ... they have speculated that this may have somethin g to do with consciousness - alien loving loons jumped up and did the rest. poor scientists - they try so hard only to have their careful study trashed by twats. https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-behaviour-in-brain-neurons-looks-theoretically-possible/
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
My grandmother found my 7th grade diary and read it. I will always hate her for that ...
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Rick Murray 4 months ago
Emotion? Hmm... that part of me hasn't worked correctly since forever. Maybe it's a paid optional extra or something?
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
The Blame Game is particularly harsh about those who take action - of any sort. Personally, I'd blame the bástárd who tied all those people to the tracks...
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Rick Murray 4 months ago
No, dude, a big noisy machine washed it and complex chemical processes dried it. All I did was move it from there to here and that's it, I'm done, it can rest on the drying rack until I either need to wear it or I need the space to dry something else.
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
"What doesn't k**l me, makes me stronger" - said no quadriplegic, ever
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
A cage has two sides - inside and outside. Choose carefully which you wish to inhabit.
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
It's clearly worked for her - she now owns her own bookshop :-) But I could do without that smirk ...
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keyboardtek 4 months ago
Governments take advantage of that by hard selling joining the armed forces. Then you come back from a foreign war with PTSD and no legs.
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
Trust me, it's not much fun with a older brain in a younger body, either
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Auntriarch 4 months ago
Well yes but some parts of it are more prisony than others. And some parts have wine.
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Andrew Keir 4 months ago
What the barber thought he heard - "I desire you to cut it back to the roots"
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Grm Moore 4 months ago
What do I think? Get out there and DO something, no wonder you're all miserable sitting around with your head up yourself musing on why you're not treated well. Grow things, help others, volunteer, read a book. We only get a short time, want to waste it moaning how terrible it is? Most of you are not starving, living in a ditch, hiding from soldiers, and limbless.
Julietta Dyer 4 months ago
Amen to this, we live in a great time, yes we have to work but you get paid. And you can buy things like marshmallows and rootbeer floats and a Netflix subscription. Rent an RV and take a break from it all. But just complaining to complain and creating a victim mentality “oh I’m suffering I have to exist in a world with global warming, woe is me.” We all do and yet every single one of us is still living and surviving through the hardship. The planet is getting hotter, work sucks and so does responsibility, but laying down and wallowing is meaningless. Find joy and find happiness. Be grateful for what you do have and help those who dont.
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What do I think? Get out there and DO something, no wonder you're all miserable sitting around with your head up yourself musing on why you're not treated well. Grow things, help others, volunteer, read a book. We only get a short time, want to waste it moaning how terrible it is? Most of you are not starving, living in a ditch, hiding from soldiers, and limbless.
Julietta Dyer 4 months ago
Amen to this, we live in a great time, yes we have to work but you get paid. And you can buy things like marshmallows and rootbeer floats and a Netflix subscription. Rent an RV and take a break from it all. But just complaining to complain and creating a victim mentality “oh I’m suffering I have to exist in a world with global warming, woe is me.” We all do and yet every single one of us is still living and surviving through the hardship. The planet is getting hotter, work sucks and so does responsibility, but laying down and wallowing is meaningless. Find joy and find happiness. Be grateful for what you do have and help those who dont.
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