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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Icelander]
    #11370609 - 11/02/09 04:17 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

...and nihilists are human organisms; human organisms have the potential to assign value to phenomena.


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Poid]
    #11370626 - 11/02/09 04:19 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

sure but it really goes against what I consider a definition of Nihilism.


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Icelander]
    #11370652 - 11/02/09 04:22 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

What goes against your definition of nihilism, and how does your definition of nihilism differ from the dictionary definition of the term?


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Poid]
    #11370722 - 11/02/09 04:29 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

From the Encyclopedia of Philosophy.


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Poid]
    #11371289 - 11/02/09 05:43 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

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Icelander said:
Well there is truth to it. But why "deserves"?


Because everything is indefatigably pathetic, nothing is even close to being perfect. :satansmoking:




Somehow I doubt the word "indefatigably" is going to make you friends in the prison yard.

Or Not. :eek:


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #11372142 - 11/02/09 07:49 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

Icelander said:
Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

From the Encyclopedia of Philosophy.


You didn't answer my question! :mad2:



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Quote:

Poid said:
Quote:

Icelander said:
Well there is truth to it. But why "deserves"?


Because everything is indefatigably pathetic, nothing is even close to being perfect. :satansmoking:




Somehow I doubt the word "indefatigably" is going to make you friends in the prison yard.

Or Not. :eek:


Don't tell them ol' folks from the prison yard I said this, but they can suck on my big fat dick. :blowme:


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Poid]
    #11372157 - 11/02/09 07:52 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

But I did. I don't have a personal definition of nihilism. I was basing this thread on the dictionary.


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Icelander]
    #11372179 - 11/02/09 07:55 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

I think I now see the light. :levitate:


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Poid]
    #11372228 - 11/02/09 08:02 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

See, my point is that the word "deserves" doesn't belong. It's a value judgment and so meaningless. It show the persons bias toward cynicism IMO. Many cynics IMO, like to hide behind the banner of Nihilism.:monkeydance:


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Icelander]
    #11372261 - 11/02/09 08:06 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

So bona-fide nihilism is like "enlightenment"? :glittershitz:


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It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Poid]
    #11372270 - 11/02/09 08:08 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

I think it's got a much better chance than most of the wishful thinking that goes here for "spirituality".


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Icelander]
    #11372274 - 11/02/09 08:09 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

How much better? :strokebeard2:


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Poid]
    #11372382 - 11/02/09 08:20 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

This much:

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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Sleepwalker]
    #11372410 - 11/02/09 08:23 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

How 'bout this much? :naughty:




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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Poid]
    #11372446 - 11/02/09 08:26 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

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How much better? :strokebeard2:





A fuckload.


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Icelander]
    #11372454 - 11/02/09 08:27 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

A fuckload of what :tongue:


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Poid]
    #11372510 - 11/02/09 08:35 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

A fuckload of better.


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Icelander]
    #11372562 - 11/02/09 08:41 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

Is that good enough, though? Can it ever be?


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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Poid]
    #11372741 - 11/02/09 09:05 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

Too good is never good enough.:satansmoking:


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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Re: Roots of Nihilism? [Re: Icelander]
    #11372844 - 11/02/09 09:19 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

Why? Is it because 'good enough-ness' is necessarily beyond 'too good-ness'? :undecided:


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