For a long time I didn’t like Nihilism because of the implied negativity. There’s no god, no reason no ultimate judge. So it says behave as you like, and I somehow read it as “don’t care about anyone else”.
Just I feel better when I treat people nicely, when I’m not an asshole. Not out of fear, but because I like to.
It was so eye opening when I found out this is known as optimistic nihilism.
This is the world. Shit happens, good things happen. There is no deeper reason behind it. Things are not important. I can make the world my hell or my playground.
Why not both all the time?
yeah i was kind of the opposite: became an absurdist because things were going wrong, was a nihilist when they were going right.
That’s what I was thinking looking at this meme. Being both is the only logical thing.
I think that’s pretty similar to Optimistic Nihilism except some subtle differences.
For a long time I didn’t like Nihilism because of the implied negativity. There’s no god, no reason no ultimate judge. So it says behave as you like, and I somehow read it as “don’t care about anyone else”.
Just I feel better when I treat people nicely, when I’m not an asshole. Not out of fear, but because I like to.
It was so eye opening when I found out this is known as optimistic nihilism.
This is the world. Shit happens, good things happen. There is no deeper reason behind it. Things are not important. I can make the world my hell or my playground.
Ehhhh maybe for some but I definitely hit both of the poles and I’m definitely not optimistic about anything.
That’s what a spectrum is