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| | ====== Nihilism is Right ====== |
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| | Nihilism is right when it says things like: |
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| | ...human values are baseless, that life is meaningless, that knowledge is impossible, or that some set of entities does not exist or is meaningless or pointless. |
| | <cite>-- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism|Wikipedia]]</cite> |
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| | – or – |
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| | ...all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. |
| | <cite>-- [[https://iep.utm.edu/nihilism/|Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]</cite> |
| | </blockquote> |
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| | The universe does not know or care that you exist and pretending otherwise is [[ideas:wooshit]]. But, [[ideas:it_matters_to_this_one|it matters to this one]], and that's why we don't stop at nihilism, because [[ideas:if_you_care|if we care]] then the universe cares. |
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| | The "universe" is not a monolith. It's a collection of atoms, or quarks or whatever shit physicists have made up recently, that exploded a long time ago and are now in motion. It is not a person and therefore it does not know or care about things, it just is. We often pretend otherwise because living in a universe like that it scary. Being a scared little monkey is no fun so we try to feel less scared by pretending the universe loves us. That just makes us more unhappy and what we //should// do, is just accept. |
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| | FIXME - Link acceptance, and do a bunch of other stuff. |
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