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RE: Is it possible to be a nihilist? (Part 1 of 'The Meaning of Life' series)

I think nihilism must be true

I never said Nihilism isn't true (unless I did, but then it was a mistake). I said no one can be a nihilist. I.e. even if nihilism is true, you can never comprehend such a truth. You could maybe enter all the information we have into a computer and program it to decide the question, and then the screen will blink and the result will be "yeah nihilism is so true you wouldn't believe", and then you'd blink, and say "well then I guess it's true", but you'd still be unable to comprehend this. Cos no living conscious organism can exist without values. Nirvana, as the Buddhists define it, would be a true state of nihilism, but it's unattainable in my view. Unless by Nirvana they just mean "dead", in which case okay.

As for the rest, I don't see how the nihilist can find value in all those things if objectively there is no value in them. You can't just throw "subjective" in there and declare the problem solved: either there is meaning and value in the things he does, or there isn't. If there isn't, why is he doing them? These French flaneur types who sit in bistros sipping cafe au laits declaring the truth of nihilism but living just like everyone else are hypocrites. I wanna see their words become action (hint: noose).

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Why would death represent nihilism?

Only dead things can lack values.

Life itself is an illusion.

We are just chemicals replicating. There is no life.

We exist as fire exists, only far more complex and focused. The illusion is easy to fall for, but the truth here is now revealed.

Evolution has forged us into complex creatures, but at the core, we are chemical-physical in origin, and life is only a useful word to categorize genetic code and beings produced by genetic code vs less ordered chemicals.

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