- proust.:
- Alyxxthefall.:
- Does anyone actually know a real life Nihilist? :shifty
Because, honestly, I can't see someone living in that whole mindset for the remainder of their life.
Hmm, philosophy is by definition something you know, not something in which you believe. Although not a nihilist in the modern sense of the word, Nietzsche was a real person and he acknowledged the fact that nihilists exist in the modern world and that nihilism is a veritable crisis of the (Western?) modern spirit.
I think. In any case, nihilism does exist and we see it everywhere around us in art.
Sure. I know a nihilist. My friend Suze. Oh, and Jaymie's pretty disappointed with life, too.
A few of my friends (who live all over the world) are nihilists. What they say is 'Why act like there's gonna be a happy ending when the whole universe's going to end someday? Why try to be happy until then? You'll only disappoint yourself and hurt more when it's all taken away from you in one second.'
Because I feel like as long as there's something good, then you should celebrate it. That doesn't mean I don't necessarily not ever get especially sad. That happens, quite often too. But nihilism is perfectly possible and existent. I feel like denying the existence of something that you know exists isn't right.