Obres wrote:
DC wrote:
You show me an absolute nihilist and I'll show you a liar.
How's that? Anyone can be an absolute nihilist. If life is without meaning, and nothing is better than anything else, then an individual can do absolutely anything and maintain consistency with nihilist beliefs. It's essentially no better to kill yourself than to live a life devoted to hedonism or accumulating wealth or crime or charity, or to live a "normal" life with a common job and raise a family, or to go retreat into the woods and go ascetic, or to be a community leader. So why kill yourself? You'll just move from one pointless state (existence) to another pointless state (nonexistence), which accomplishes nothing. Naturally, that would be just as good as living a life and accomplishing something, but certainly not better. So you might as well just toss a coin for it. Or not, since it doesn't matter anyway.
Ok.
Simple test.
Go and find a cliff that rises out of water where the water depth is at least 30 ft. (If you are lazy just go to Thailand)
Now climb ten feet up that cliff and jump off.
Now climb twenty feet up that cliff and jump off.
Now climb thirty...
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etc...
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... Getting high now.
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... Ow that hurts.
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... f**k it, I like living, I'll buy the drinks.
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A true nihilist would not stop before he died, but everybody stops. The 'alpha males' and the 'self confessed nihilists' tend to stop far, far earlier than everyone else. Go and prove me wrong.
31 Aug 2011, 4:01 pm
