I disagree with nihilism. I think juggling matters. I think looking up to to heaven filled with glowing stars matters. I believe feeling seen matters. I believe playing chess with a friend matters. I believe dancing silly matters.
Our existance is a meaningful existance.
Sure we die, but we continue to live in others, physically and mentally. Our physical selves become earth, and earth becomes a tree, and the tree falls to feed insects and the insects gets eaten by birds. We continue to stay in the cycle of life. Our mental selves are transferred through stories, through our attitudes, through a guiding hand. We give meaning to the people around us, and when you die, they want to bring forth your energy. You do not simply vanish.
None of the stuff we’re told matters matters, there is no default state of what matters and what doesn’t. The universe doesn’t care what we do, only people do, there is no grand plan set for us.
Nihilism frees us to decide our own things that matter for us. For you it’s what you’ve listed, for others it’s other things. That’s nihilistic.
It sounds more like what you are saying that meaning isn’t bestowed upon us, but rather that we are growing forth the meaning each and one of us. That doesn’t sound like there is no meaning, but rather that meaning comes from people, that it is distributed, or spread out like butter. So I think I’d be more willing to identify myself as a butterist.
Nihilism is great, it means accepting nothing matters and instead choosing your own things that matter to you and disregarding the rest.
I disagree with nihilism. I think juggling matters. I think looking up to to heaven filled with glowing stars matters. I believe feeling seen matters. I believe playing chess with a friend matters. I believe dancing silly matters.
Our existance is a meaningful existance.
Sure we die, but we continue to live in others, physically and mentally. Our physical selves become earth, and earth becomes a tree, and the tree falls to feed insects and the insects gets eaten by birds. We continue to stay in the cycle of life. Our mental selves are transferred through stories, through our attitudes, through a guiding hand. We give meaning to the people around us, and when you die, they want to bring forth your energy. You do not simply vanish.
None of the stuff we’re told matters matters, there is no default state of what matters and what doesn’t. The universe doesn’t care what we do, only people do, there is no grand plan set for us.
Nihilism frees us to decide our own things that matter for us. For you it’s what you’ve listed, for others it’s other things. That’s nihilistic.
It sounds more like what you are saying that meaning isn’t bestowed upon us, but rather that we are growing forth the meaning each and one of us. That doesn’t sound like there is no meaning, but rather that meaning comes from people, that it is distributed, or spread out like butter. So I think I’d be more willing to identify myself as a butterist.
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Exactly. When nothing matters then we are free to choose for ourselves instead of having it imposed on us.