Nihilism: The Belief in Nothing
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For some, the meaning of life is the love we share with friends, family, and our loved ones. Some others believe the existence of life in itself is what makes it worth living. But for nihilists, life is meaningless. All action, suffering, emotions both good and bad, are entirely senseless and meaningless.
This is Nihilism, the belief in nothing.
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i have a joke about nihilism, but i guess it doesn't matter
hahahaha xD
ok and?
@@Kriegter You don't seem to get the joke.
@@Kriegter I'd have told you the rest of it but it probably doesn't matter
@@swanihilator6748 "ok and" is a reference to nihilism in that I simply don't care about anything and that nothing, not even the nihilist joke matters
The biggest bummer to me is knowing that I'll never truly see how far humanity will go.
It's like joining a game half way through and leaving before it ends. There's no closure to that.
I like this comment, i believe this is the same way i feel about humanity
I agree. You’ll never see how far our intelligence goes
Well, it's a lot more like a relay race, getting the baton from the people before us, and passing the baton to the people to come after us.
Maybe they will find a cure for ageing and you will see it
Honestly humanity probably won’t go far
Apathy: It doesn’t concern me
Stoicism: It won’t affect me
Nihilism: It was never there to begin with
Absurdism: "it happened lol"
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Hedonism: "Try again" (◠‿・)
Glad to see that someone mentioned Absurdism, thanks.
I think nihilism is more it doesn't matter to begin with rather than never there
The cup
I find the nihilism strangely comforting. I grew up in a catholic home and went to catholic school. The pressure of heaven and hell not existing and being able to just live in the moment is the most free I've ever felt tbh
I am the same. I went to catholic school for 10 years. I feel like they can't get christ off the cross. Their ideology is to shame you into submission. If thier is a God there's no way that could be the way we're designed to live. The truth is we're no different from a blade of grass or a branch on a tree. It is quite fascinating to live. But life is random and completely meaningless. It's not a bad thing. It's just how it is.
How did you reached the point of saying there is no hell? I grew up as a Muslim and had a strong faith, but recently I'm doubting Religion in generell. Questions like: how can hell be justice for good people or is it fair that I was born in a Muslim family but others are not, I mean most people are born in a religion and just die. Every moment I ask myself what will happen when I die right now? I'm living in fear so how did you escape this world view?
@@UgiMukliwatch videos on people that have died (flatlined) and come back. many people say dying is peaceful, and usually do not describe any version of hell at all because our brains relax us with chemicals as we die
I am not a Muslim, but I have struggled about finding the purpose of life for years and honestly nihilism looks like the most logical and nearest to truth.I don't necessarily like it but it is what it is........@@UgiMukli
Optimists: "the cup is half full"
Pessimists: "the cup is half empty"
Nihilists: "the cup"
What cup?
Eh
why the cup?
the cup has water
“the cup is half filled”
In the big picture nothing matters. But we live in the little picture where everything matters.
Everything matters. Your thoughts, your actions.
It takes courage to accept this great responsibility called life.
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@@choicethetaurus Ngl i thought this was gonna be some trash self promo but i was wrong
I really like how you touched on how good/evil is all relative and essentially irrelevant. I’ve been nihilistic for a while now. It started as negative but over the years has become positive. It used to make me so suicidal thinking about how I am just going to die in the end and nothing I do really matters. Sometimes I still think like that but I’ve gotten better at seeing nihilism in a positive way. Whenever I’m extremely stressed out I remind myself that in the end I will be dead and so in the grand scheme of things whatever I’m stressed out about doesn’t matter. That can be comforting sometimes
man i hope your life gets better❤
@@nunu4evaaa thank you ❤️
There is meaning in laughter, it means your happy
@@Power_Prawnstar bark bark
"Evil is relative and irrelevant"
Bro really has never heard of p*dophiles. Or are you going to say they're "not evil" and how that's perfectly okay? Pretty fucked up that you support that, and human trafficking and serial killing and other "not-evil" things according to your outlook.
Meanwhile in a sane world, yes normal people actually tend to agree that all those things are objectively evil due to the sheer harm they cause. But go ahead and say how saving a stranger's life is "no more good" than human trafficking.
I think nihilism is so freeing, to know that there doesn’t have to be a one thing that happens because it is “important” but just because it *did* happen
Fun fact: The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million
Why?
Thank you for a very fun fact
Say a fun fact about the letter E
God damn
But was it alive...
“Is the glass full or empty?”
Nihilist: *”We’re all gonna die anyway”*
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@@iceicicle3046 mine too, Plantera is my favorite boss
@@lifefruit9917 not my favourite boss, I love the design but hate fighting it. The music is pretty sick too
actually the glass must be half full.. empty implies zero volume. You can not have half of zero.
Nihilists like to say "northing has any meaning" as if it's a meaningful idea. It's an idea that collapses in on itself immediately: it's a snake that ate its tail.
I already had this thought as a kid that "life is just life". Why do we need to make a meaning out of life instead of just enjoying it until one day we depart? I still think about it this way and even though for some the fact that there is no meaning in life is scary, for me its soul freeing. Basically I take life as it is and don't think on something that I will never figure out in my lifetime, it's nice.
Just watched a video on stoicism, and it made me feel terrible. But every time I hear about nihilism, it makes me feel so relieved and relaxed. It means there is nothing to worry about because nothing matters. So I can smile. 😊
To quote Socrates: "the only thing I know is that I know nothing".
well he knows that..
I'm your 69th like.
Facts 🔥
Ironically, he knows that he knows nothing.
It seems all that I know is the fact that my lack of knowing anything triggers an infinite number of paradoxes... including the fact that I know that even though I said I didn’t... and now that I know that too ruins the paradox so I don’t really know anything... or do I? Now I do... now I do- fucking ow my head
"I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter" -Friedrich Nietzsche
Did he really say this quote? I have heard this line in a song
It's literally a song
I think Linken Park ripped him off.
@@rahilamin2239 It's a joke🤣
lmao nice
As a long term Nilist, I would agree that my first thoughts were to burn it all down, but now I have come to the realization that if it doesn't directly affect my current life I shouldn't care because nothing matters. I then chose based on my happiness in life what direction and what battles I want to meet. It has actually given me more freedom in my life. As to why I don't burn it all down, its simple there are penalties in life. I gauge my actions with the possible outcomes and if I may get pain or have freedoms taken away I restrict my actions. One of the best things about Nilism is that I don't fear death. This alone removes a lot of stress from my life. I realize that life will always present challenges to me and that eventually I will tire of the challenges or not be strong enough to overcome them and then my life will end. Lastly there is a good probability that the answer to Why is Change.
Nihilism has been my comfort for many years now. A feeling of escape in realism. The fact that nothing has any inherent meaning and nothing lasts forever I find reassuring
I asked my friend how nihilism is pronounced.
Neelishm or nylisim.
He said “it doesn’t matter.”
Underrated comment
I'm Turkish, we always pronounce it as neelishm and in English it's usually nylisim. So they both sound correct to me. But at the end of the day "it doesn't really matter."
I pronounce it the way it is. (Im turkish)
😂😂
I can't tell if my friend is nihilistic or suicidal
But now he's dead, it doesn't matter
Life is meaningless, but cats are cute.
Yes indeed
But that doesn’t matter
@Varg lies!
cats are life. fin
@Varg Nono, fact
im a nihilist, but it gives me great comfort, there is no meaning to life, why would there be? why does it matter? Ive never understood why people care about it having a meaning?? nothing means anything, you find your own joy in life. I dont see why or understand how anyone cares about it? we all die, so what? the world is so beautiful. In the grand scheme of things nothing matters, it makes me very happy to know that.
Exactly life is meaningless. But who cares. Does a fish question why it swims? No beacuse there not self aware. They don't swim with reason they just do it. If a fish questioned why it swam it would be in misery beacuse it would realize is swims without meaning
It seems to me that humans have always sought meaning in life. That's why it's so absurd. We were looking for meaning in meaningless life so to cope we gave life fake meaning (religions, traditions, goals, etc.). That's how I see it.
Exactly. It's not like I gain anything from living or dying, so why toy with this precious but meaningless life? Why do people hurt themselves, others, and do things for personal gain when there is truly nothing to gain but the very values we have constructed. "Social construct" describes the average person's existence in the modern world. Conforming and working for things that have been manufactured by generations gone. Why work for things that people have achieved, just to lose again? Why work for the thrill when the thrill is nothing but hormones rushing to different parts of the brain in this vessel we live in? There is nothing that matters to gain, but instinctually, we want to live and conquer things that don't even matter.
People wonder why Nihilism is becoming popular, they think it is just negativity and depression. But in reality, it is the answer to the pointless suffering we give ourselves. The answer is that life is precious and miraculous. There's nothing else to it, it just is.
@@RewtB33R There is no answer. Nihilism it not an answer for everyone. There is no one truth. It's just another perspective to look at things.
2 types of nilists
1: nothing in life matters😔
2: NOTHING IN LIFE MATTERS!🥳
I'm second one
first one is the worst one.
@@user-hm6ji3hj1c Me too
"Born Too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the stars, *born just in time to browse dank memes"*
-*some guy*
The perfect time to explore the workings of our bodies and minds.
The perfect time to watch anime and hentai
Bro I just love the idea of living in the 1800s and just deciding,you know what imma go live in the wild and do whatever the fuck I want
-pessimist
You can’t just leave out “born just in time to browse dank memes” which was kinda the point of the original sentence
"Because nothing actually matters, we can choose what matters to us"
I like this idea
@@rumaisyahqa it's basic, and unthinking.
your profile picture is oddly scary
@Sam Farza uhhh ok mate. i don't exactly care what profound wisdom is, i just somehow resonate with it. basically i'm dumb, i'm comfortable with being dumb (because honestly the pursuit of knowledge seems tiring and i just want to do whatever), and that's it. a lot of people don't care about things.
yep, optimistic nihilism
This is exactly how I feel right now. Thank you so much for being able to put it into words for me. I feel a lot more comfortable in my brain now.
Happy to help!
I take comfort in the fact that nothing matters. If its all for nothing, then lets all be kind to ourselves. Engage in things that make you happy, because there's even less of a point if your forcing yourself down to ideals that makes you miserable. If we exist for nothing, then lets not restrict ourselves.
"Is the cup half-empty or half-full?"
Well, were you emptying it or filling it?
THIS
Wait a minute
I think you're onto something.
bruh that's the best response to it
i've found a god in disguise
This man could sit me down and talk to me about the letter B for an hour and I would LISTEN.
STICKY FINGASS
OI GIORNO
He would probably cover topics like.
B is the second letter in the English alphabet.
2B or not 2B
Words that's start with B:
Be, bee.
Beef, Bear, beep, beam, bean, beat, been.
Beast, breeze, breath.
He could talk about the Bees and how they be.
B(runo) B(ucellati)
B, it is a wild Letter you could say that the letter b represents the feeling of almost being their but not quite, it represents the feeling of being second, as it is the second letter in the alphabet;
But at the end B will always be behind A
I love this man cause he literally drives me into an existencial crisis with the philosophical topics and then somehow manages to get me out by the end of the damn video
To me, it's like this really long trip. What I love most about my journey here so far is this beautiful planet. We are so lucky to have this portal of life. I really love breezes and frogs croaking. I'm just here enjoying all of that.
I was once told, " if life has no meaning, then that means you can make your own meaning, turn nothing into something"
Very true.
But is something better than nothing?
Yeah....but what's the point? in spite of making some meaning, life will just be a trip from maternity to crematorium. Remember you can not define emotions; so there's nothing called "excitement". *THINK AGAIN*
@@sharanyosengupta1930 the point is there is no point. So why not
optimistic nihilism
bro i don't even know if we actually exist
This is the matrix. Or worse something so confusing that we’d never understand it. 😂
Epistemology. When you look into that you start questioning reality. Nihilism is baby talk. Epistemology makes you question everything.
If you're conscious, you exist.
@@sigigle
In some form, yes. But what form? That is the question. The only real thing you're certain of is your existence. Everything else, the other guy just doesn't get.
@@appledough3843 Yes that's true, we don't know what is intrinsic/essential to us other than our consciousness.
Every thing else, our minds, our emotions, may be no more us than the bodies we find ourselves in, something bestowed upon us from the outside by some unknown means.
That is possible.
It's also possible that absolutely everything could be considered to be us, and everything in between those 2 extremes.
All we know for sure about what we are, is that we are conscious.
It used to be a scary concept to me, that I was irrelevant and meaningless, and even if I make a small impact on another person, in the universe, I'm still insignificant. It became comforting to me after realizing that perhaps being insignificant isn't so bad, it made me more accepting of my flaws and made me less obsessed in trying to be seen.
Being an artist is what makes it kind of hard. Okay, we're already alive, so go out with a bang, I guess. Humans feel in complicated ways, but there is not a way to express "nothing" in art, so, at the same time, I have to believe "something" to express that complicated way to feel that you were assigned with in your free trial of existing (unfortunately).
You literally make yourself feel pain to just feel happy later
Literally this is a proof why nihilism could be right
The moment you start to believe in nihilism, you stop believing in nihilism.
:()
it's not that literal
Life is pointless just think real hard
I’m a walking fucking paradox - Tyler
There's this idea in philosophy ( I don't know if it has a proper name) that some of those paradoxes are simply a matter of the limitations of language. From that perspective, something might only be paradoxical because our vehicle for communicating the idea forces it to be. It can be difficult to really grok that, but once you get it you start to question just how much of the great paradoxes we've dismissed might actually hold water after all, only not in a fashion readily communicable.
That's why I believe that we being aware of our existence is the biggest curse in our universe.
Edit: Thank you for the 2K likes.
I prefer the Eastern philosophy that life is its own gift. Make of it what you want. It doesn't last forever, but neither does your awareness. It's your own private slice of eternity.
@@joesterling4299 not really private tho
@@joesterling4299 or eternal lol
@@denerocharles9704 Life doesn’t end at death, death has been defeated a long time ago and your afterlife will start once you are judged for your earthly actions. Whether or not which heaven exists, using Pascal’s wager you should be the most moral person just in case the possibility of judgement and heaven is there.
@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 Im a christian and i reason that if there is no God or heaven, at least i enjoyed my life believing in them and i wont know the difference once im dead.
If The nihility is the darkest of shadows then
Behind that shadow there MUST be the most fervent source of light in the world…
Nihilism is so calming to me. It reminds you that your problems don’t really matter
Fun fact: there is a kind of depression called nihilist depression, and basically people feel like nothing matters and basically what was said in the video
why might you see depression as a bad thing? even if it goes as far as suicide, why is death seen as a bad thing to happen to someone? is it because people fear things like death? i guess that's only natural because humans by default only fear what they don't understand. but why is it "bad" to feel bad? people are driven by moral concepts. i will say though, if morality didn't exist then society couldn't function properly. things like good and evil objectively don't actually exist. but in the end, if people didn't exist what would be good and what would be bad in the world?
A consequence of achieving peak self awareness.
@@METALADIX it truly is
I hear you bro 😢
@@torreyisaac2440 Because despair is the result of not understanding enough. It's a result of guilt, shame, anger. Stemming from fear itself. If there's one thing I've learned about fear it's that fear is a lie.
I have no shame, no gruilt, no despair, no doubts. No fear. No anger. Was very different in the past. In the past I used to do nothing but despair. Now I find apathy comforting. Getting others to feel nothing gets them to be something. It's wonderful.
People tend to enable being "sorry". Why? Mistakes are a learning opportunity. People enable toxic positivy/false hope. Why? because their lives are devoid of meaning and purpose and thus they enable others to be like them. Misery loves company. I play a different game. It's called honesty. Correct every spoken lie. Question why people feel what they do. Remind them of their own actiions/choices. Seriously, the reminders go a long way. Here's the funny thing. Telling someone I can destroy them is why they became my lover. warn and inform. This matters. It's important that people are made aware of the situations they're in. If nothing mattered then you would not ask. It's the desire for answers. Honesty itself. That matters.
Catch 22: What people THINK is honest most often isn't honest. What people ASSUME is honest tends to be a LIE. Thus the desire for "nothing" indicates to not have the lies and instead make something from honest apathy. There is a logic in that. People that start with nothing become something.
Chaos, being chaos, will not abide by the expectations of others. Nothing makes sense. No, really. Nothing actually makes sense. What does "nothing" mean though?
It means letting go of expectations. To not assume. If you don't feel anything that doesn't have to be a bad thing, despite what others would claim. With the right support it can lead to intimacy very quickly (talking ASAP). I'm glad I been able to be there for my lover. I personally had to learn on my own. Wouldn't want them too. People can think they're nothing. Often (most commonly), this is actually denial. Of inner guilt, fear, anger. Only when pushed by others to be nothing will people actually learn what it means. All uphill from there. Provided people do know the worst properly (talking really dark shit here).
"Nothing" is the first step. The answer is "Be the danger". And be honest about it. Communication done the "right" way. The feeling of being offended indicates ones own insecurities. If you experience that then that's not nothing. That's something to take note of.
“ When we are awake we forget our dreams, and when we are asleep we forget reality. The question is which one is the truth?”
- someone
Both and neither is what I would say truth is subjective to one's own definition and looking for absolute truth only reveals conflict in the nature of reality
All I know is that while dreaming a death will most likely not end your life
What's strange is that I remember my dreams and am aware when I am actually asleep...
@@michaelb4415 But then again, maybe that's how that reality works and just dying from fatal injuries is the life.
Not gonna test if death is gonna end my life cause I'm a bitch.
It doesnt matter anywaya
I have honestly always been a nihilist however it allows me to take a more optimistic view of the world allowed me to laugh at mistakes and allowed me to drive more towards individual goals that are my simple mission and that mission is simply to be happy and help those in need nihilism doesn’t necessarily need to be pessimistic in nature
Exactly! I find this concept more comforting and even happy, I'm glad nothing matters
Despite the fact that I’m an optimist I will say Nihilism is kinda beautiful in a sense. The idea that nothing matters yet we still find ways to have value in it. Some food for thought.
I guess if you're fine with those values being just as equally worthless and meaningless as any religion's values, sure. Actually, at least those religions have the benefit that multiple people believe in it unlike whatever you just make up on a whim.
''Life alone is reason enough for living.''
I liked that, thank you.
Why?
@@ig884 haha my balls itch
@@ig884 why not
@@JPdraws_ I shitted
@@adrian969 I’m on 3 different narcotics and I’m itching my butthole uncontrollably there’s why not
The freedom through Nihilism comes when you realize that everything with meaning and value is what you have subconsciously created, and that you can consciously change or remove whenever you like.
Nihilism is kinda a paradox for me, I think a true Nihilist would reject Nihilism kinda like Dostoevsky’s Kirillov. If nothing truly means anything then making your own meaning out of it is pointless and kinda crazy. I find more comfort in Absurdism.
@@madlvemusic1753 yeah I’m a fan of The Rebel, and The Myth of Sisyphus. I also enjoy his novels.
It’s just depressing
These conversations and ideas are nothing more than a luxury
There is no freedom through Nihlism, you’re a slave to nothing at that point. Nothing to live for or die for, nothing to care about. Those type of people are cringe asf. And demolishing to all work and progress. Usually a teenager whos too stubborn to grow up and find a meaningful life. If you really think everything is for nothing, You’re either mental or Democrats 😂 tryna make a power grab for your own benefit.
This man's voice is truly relaxing. The most beautiful voice I have ever heard
The question about the pet and the stranger has become even more polarising in 2023. Loved this video!
Usually I get depressed when I think about how there are essentially no answers and no meaning, but when I watched this I got a feeling I can't understand what I am feeling
Well who and what defines meaning? Is there supposed to be some particle of meaningium or something in the world? Or should it be given from on high? Would you even want to live in a world where either of such things were the case?
Isn't more interesting to be in a world with endless surprises?
But you dont have to think about it you can just let it go and enjoy your life, if there isnt meaning to life doesnt make it any less fun
@@joriskronig5319 yeah it doesn't but it is werid to think about the fact I will one day cease to exist and every one I know would cease to exist and every good and bad thing I did has no meaning it is a very werid thought and it gives me a weird feeling but you're right just enjoy life and have those happy and fun moments
If you feel something, that means you are alive be it sad or happy.
Same, but we can give a life a meaning I guess Idk
Round earther: The earth is round!
Flat earther: The earth is flat!
Nihilists: The earth is !
The earth Is earth ._.
more like:
*nothing
nt
Nihilist: Who cares. we're all going to die.
This is my first time learning about this. I don't exactly know what it means even if I have experienced something like this before or maybe I haven't. But this idea seems to be somewhat comforting and also familiar to me. I thought I had found my "safe zone", when I feel too overwhelmed by the environment, I enter it and it reminds me that whatever I think is happening in my life right now, might not actually be happening. After all, it's all in my own head. this thought has really saved me from a lot of problems that are mainly caused by my own thinking.I would definitely wanna know more in the future.
Nihilism is just the realisation that you should live in the now, instead of searching for that grand purpouse, which is just a good thing to realise
So optimistic nihilism leads to stoicism?
I think the freeing part of Nihilism is that since nothing has meaning, you can literally do WHATEVER you want, live life on your own terms and to be happy, it’s all up to you.
@another re:stxrt. you completely missed the point of the comment
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@@6dirt philosophy student here. What has been described in this comment isn’t nihilism, but another philosophy called “existentialism” (or maybe “absurdism”). Nihilism is basically just depression, and the moment a nihilist believes in doing things that go against the “it-will-all-amount-to-nothing-anyway” sentiment, they are not a nihilist anymore.
@@iaminsideyourhome6620 its optimistic nihilism btw
@@6dirt that’s synonymous with absurdism
“I used to be indecisive, but now I’m not so sure”.
Bars
@@brazzyreece6936 haha ikr preach
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Same, i might believe in nihilism since it feels better to be that
@7:24 the answer is attachment , when we become attached to something saving it is saving a part of ourselves it's a form of extended self preservation.
That does not actually preserve anything at all, only making you believe that you saved part of yourself - it still means nothing at all, just another illusion of Dellusion.
I agree with everything up to “our response to life is meaningless, should be to make the most of it.”
"To live is to suffer. To survive is to find some meaning in the suffering"
Nietzsche
He also said life can only be justified on aesthetic grounds
@@90spizzahut True, he never said he was nihilist too haha
well i cant accepted , there should be a better way , to change it rather using to it
@@mohammaddh8655 You can adopt other philosophy you find useful for your life.
All suffering is rooted in desires.
Buddha
Me having fun in the summer, enjoying the heatwave, tanning in the garden.
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same. i see youtube wanted to remind me that life is meaningless WE'RE GOING TO DIE ANYWAY
@@stylowychleb8642
We will die but why not have fun before it happened?
@@regreteverycommentsivepost6819 ofc, that's why I'm okay with death, I'd rather die happy than sad about the fact that my life doesn't have sense ✨
@@stylowychleb8642 but you will forget that anyways
Imagine being able to tan lmao
Great overview and detail. Well done!
bro, I love your content it's mind-blowing
I've always considered myself an optimistic nihilist. Yea, sure, life is meaningless, but I still want to maximize mine and everyone else's enjoyment from birth to death, because it's all we have.
Exactly! That is what I am thinking. Kind of like yeah sure nothing actually matters. But that is exactly what should make everything in this short life better. Cause nothing matters! So you might asi well do anything what makes you or your close ones happy.
Exactly, tried to tell this to the judge like 20 times but she still convicted me. Like come on I was trying to maximize my fellow humans enjoyment, how was I supposed to know the heroin had fentanyl in it?
Yes. All my senses only happen because of conciousness and i find it confusing and not real. Like whats the purpose of it, but it's all I can be or feel, because i would feel like an animal with the only thought of surviving.
Jesus is king ✝️🙏
@M V why? Even if we die one day it doesn’t mean that we want to live our entire lives in boredom and suffering. Have fun as much as you can until death comes
I guess i am a Nihilist in many ways, but I'm okay with that. I've accepted my existence and that life itself is happening, I'm here for the ride but I don't expect it to matter after I die.
Great video
There's no reason to live and there's no reason to die
No that’s wrong but everybody have a different thoughts
@@aliagha160 I said "i don't expect it to matter". You can't just say I'm wrong for having no expectations for what happens after i die. That doesn't make sense, you can't assign a "right" or "wrong" to the unknown lol
"You see that farmer over there growing apple trees? Live like that farmer... You see that king over there with his grand knights? Be like that king... You see that ant over there with his brothers and sister on top of a suger dew? Enjoy like that ant... If you can do just that, then it's all you need... But don't over do it.", not a quote but a measure.
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And yet... Here you are. Still living and breathing until the end. If you didn't truly care to exist, then you wouldn't be here or you've spent your time at full. Like a ghost, you chose to stay for a reason deep within your own subconscious.
Thanks for making this video, it has made me realize I really resonate with nihilism!
-venus
I'm a christian but I struggle with nihilism a lot, especially lately with all the war going on. our individual lives are meaningless in the grand scheme of history, unless you Make history. But most of us won't, we're just a blip or a number according to society. While I hate these thoughts it does feel nice to finally put a name to what I've been feeling.
I have genuinely come to 90% of these conclusions in my mind for my entire life, and you just put the perfect words out there to describe it. Thanks mate
seems like u had a tough time. Hope u succeed one day
If you interact with something else than you had meaning
If humans created morality and values, and humans exist, then how can you claim these morals and values don't exist or mean anything?
It's true that when you look at the universe and the way matter and consequently life is, it's fragile, temporary, small... etc it seems that we are an not a big part of the 'story' but that's all relative. Money is literally an imaginary agreement between people in the form of paper bills (sometimes just numbers) but that doesn't make it less valuable to us in daily life. Your phone is just plastic, metal and glass and has no real superior value compared to a piece of metal ore or sand in their rudimentary form but you won't throw your phone out of the window or treat it as a random piece of plastic and metal because it has value to you, and you are again part of the universe and reality, maybe it's not that big of a deal but again value is real, albeit relative and limited in scope to us at some point in time.
@@bakielh229 morals and values is taught to u by culture. If your culture wasn't different or had a particular culture. That piece of plastic wouldn't have value to you!
@@johnsimpson5471 "If your culture was different you would have different values" Well, that's true for a lot of things. If my parents didn't conceive me 25 years ago I wouldn't be here to make this comment, but they did and that's reality. The fact that morals and ideals are relative doesn't make them any more or less meaningful. the earth is stationary relative to you, but spins around the sun, both of them are real facts. By pointing out the existence of alternatives does not in any way diminish what's there.
"Life alone is reason enough for living." Best line I've ever heard in my life.
Edit: Uhm there's an ongoing debate down there....
yeah life is great though i go through pain i love life .Life is ajourney which ahs startng point and through that journey you experience joy ,pain and anxiety ect and then an end.
But it’s not reason enough for caring.
This goes against what nihilism entails.
My own conclusion is not this one it that life is not worth and not in a bad way of killing everyone but just personally wish to never been born in the first place and no new humans should arrive this world.
It’s a sad statement. U don’t want to live just because u have life. All of us got our own purposes. Family, friends, loved ones. Seeking higher purpose like God etc is another thing. But I agree that we should never give up on our life. The life we all get is only once in this world, so just do your best.
Before our birth there was nothingness , we did not exist. Then we lived our lives, then die, and back to nothingness. It is beautiful in its simplicity. The importance then is what we do when alive, and not be concerned of an unproven afterlife. “Be here now “ is profound and true, all we have is the here and now.
Thanks for the video. It helps me understand that my world view is a mix of nihilism and pessimism. I just don’t believe there’s any value in being here just to suffer. Or really any value at all.
Finally a take that doesn't portray nihilism as negative. Just because we believe life is meaningless doesn't mean we cannot enjoy it, there's a sense of peace in knowing that nothing matters and that we don't need purpose or reason
If you are a nihilist why would you even care and feel "relieved" by the fact that someone actually doesn't portray nihilism negatively when people usually say the otherwise if you simply don't care about everything? Stop shoving these thoughts into your head and thinking it is feel relevant to you when you don't actually understand shit.
So much pressure goes away.
In the end I feel part of the universe, In a literal sense, I am the universe... muHUHaiahuahahahaa
Do you mean to say that peace and enjoyment are meaningful to you?
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No you missed the point what he is saying is that nihilism doesnt mean A negative outlook on the world or a positive how can you enjoy nothing if you believe in nothing you retard i myself am realizing that nothing matters and in of it self my comment means nothing yours doesn't either im wasting time and your wasting yours its an infinite paradox of nothingness i am losing the will to live as there will always be someone better than me than you and the opposite atleast if i kill myself i wont have to think about it im so tired might aswell save myself the trouble im 17 years old male so at the very least (which is the closest you can go meaning) i can "rest "
My father told a story that was related to this some time ago. One of his friends is a philosophy professor, and he was talking about an exam he made at the end of the year. There was a lot of philosophical questions and I don't remember most of them, but there was one question and also one particular answer to said question that caught my eye. The question was simply: "Why?".
It was at the end of the exam with a whole page to write about and since it was worth about 40 points, a lot of people wanted to get this question right(The word "Right" is a obsolete word in philosophy in my opinion since there is no right or wrong but you get what I mean). The professor showed me some of the answers that the students wrote, lots of them were 2 - 3 pages long, consisting of very long paragraphs and complex words.
But, as I looked at the papers, I saw one that wasn't all paragraphs and long text. It looked extremely short compared to the other ones. I saw that it had 40/40 points, and wondered how he got such a high score on such a hard question, while also being the shortest among them all. And, with curiousity, I looked at the answer he gave.
It was... interesting. There were only two, simple words on the whole page:
"Why not?"
Philosophy at it finest. Great story, and whoever was the student taking that test, is quite clever and makes a valid point.
whoever wrote that answer has a great common sense. Philosophy truly is a bastion of knowledge.
Bruh you copied this from funny exam answer pics
@@sydn2698 uhh this actually happened to me idk why you are blaming me for that but ok
@@Kraumyke the speech difference in your answer to SyDn compared to the whole paragraph comment you said is... confusing
Beautifully and very well worded. I think this video would be a great tool to help people, like me, explain how the world is veiwed to nihilistic people. Great content.
That's why I'm here, a friend tried to explain and shared this
Yeah, because clearly there is only one form of existential nihilism 🙄
You really think people who know nothing are watching this? It's mostly zoomers who already adopted meme nihilism and want to feel good about themselves.
most of us just living 😢 just to live.
Honestly, as a nihilist myself, I personally don't see why it often has such a negative connotation. Why it's so frowned upon or why it's always so heavily associated with depression. For example, I've never been depressed or anything like it. I mean, don't get me wrong, I get that perhaps for some personality types, it's not really a mindset that's healthy to adopt, especially those who are easily susceptible to things like anxiety or existential dread or those who desperately need meaning and purpose in life to keep functioning, but for the rest of us... I don't see anything wrong with being a nihilist. I'm perfectly happy and content with just existing for no reason at all. It's much more liberating if you ask me. I mean just think about it. There's no true responsibility, you can do whatever you see fit. The whole planet and by extension the whole universe is basically your playground and everything in it your playthings. I guess, you could call me an optimistic nihilist lol A glass isn't half-full or half-empty, it just exists and there's some water in it. Simply drink it, as that's what we invented a glass for, and go do something fun like watching a tv show or a youtube video or, idk, meet with your friends xD
Exactly
Couldn’t have said better myself
You live a sad life
@@maddeningmonk9585 Lol knowing how most people are, this is exactly the kind of response I expected. I was even surprised that the other ones were so positive.
I am curious though, why you think that, because my life is everything but sad, at least for me/from my perspective.
@@gamster2865 cause you've got no clue who you are or why are you here or what even is happening all around you. Life to you is a complete mystery part of which can be blamed onto your ignorance and naivety. Perhaps you seem to be young and still haven't found the answers yet, but considering what you've settled on to, clinging to this sad, sad dumb ideology just makes me pitty you and people like you. But I'm pretty sure you ain't the only one. Theres ton of people like you. Sad but thats that. Nothing i can do about it.
"Fuck nihilism. All my homies recognise the absurdity of life and give it our own meaning."
where did this quote come from?
@@kiannarogers8089 its basically existentialism memefied
how can you say fuck nihilism? you dont choose what you believe.
That's literally what Nihilism is smh...
@@Willskull but if you give something meaning... then there is meaning...
Never heard of nihilism before but I have always had this ideology. I guess now I know what it’s called
You’re just on this world, nothing matters, and thats why I wanna live, I just like existing, nothing more, nothing less
The thought that nothing matters and everything we'll experience in life, both good and bad, is all for nothing has helped me tremendously with my fear of failure and anxiety over whether I'll ever fulfill my dream. Nihilism was what I needed to become a happier person!
I don’t care ;)
I feel the same way. some people say they fear to leave the world without having achieved something great or have influenced as many people as possible in a positive way. this stressed me so much, I could never think that way. knowing I will be forgotten after my life ended is soothing to me. knowing it doesn't matter how little I do helps me with my anxiety as well.
The real question is: if nothing matters, then why not create meaning? If nothing is important, then why follow the unimportantance of it? instead make something of it? It doesn't matter either way but at least a story happened... even if it makes no difference.
@@rednarok By giving my own life meaning i pretty much destroyed myself mentally (and a bit physically, if you catch my drift). It's cool if you want to give your own life meaning, but i feel happier just living life and enjoying my short time in this universe. If that happens to be a sort of meaning, then i guess that's that.
@@remotehuman9267 well, you dont need to care at all but at the same time, I don't think we should be careless with other people beliefs even though it really doesn't matter in thebgrande scheme of things, but I think of it as a fantasy... dont have to play with it but also you don't have to destroy it for others.. if your in the middle of a majority that lives a fantasy, I try to respect it and go along with it to my tolerance level. I wouldn't be someone who tries to destroy it because what is better then knowing the truth? Dreaming. I think this is why we let kids be naive... because the world just feels better that way. Ofcourse eventually they need to be introduced to reality, it doesn't need to be absolute reality, just somewhere in between so that people can live happy ignorant.. after all, the truth is so dark in comparison to our societies fantasy, then perhaps it better to live as an ignorant. This is very sad but the reality is equaly sad.
People take nihilism as inherently depressing and bad. So often when someone says they are a nihilist, everyone around them thinks they are just sad or angry. I think that it has such meaning to others because they don't see that nihilists don't have to be some depressed ppl who plan to kill themselves or are angry at the world because life has no meaning, but are just someone who has no belief that some higher power or such a thing as destiny exists.
yeah, and as a rule nihilists are more happy because they have no shackles preventing them to live like they want, not like society want. PS. Sorry for my English
I feel as though you simply leave out a multitude of strokes that are apparent in the painting of nihilism, they contain no morals and try not to create morals of their own, nothing is grotesque to them even the genocide of innocents, nothing is beautiful to them even the most striking simple moments, doing anything become a seemingly pointless endeavor for there existence leading them to either hedonistic displays or indolence.
@@ezekielromero2730 yes, but if you already feel something you can be enjoy or sad because of this. For example, even if you become nihilist you will not stop love animals only because you decide this is logical - love to animals is in your blood. Hope, I said my though right
@@ezekielromero2730 the same way injustice and atrocities can hurt you, so you will war against injustice
@@user-is9yv2gl3n I wouldn't say that's a rule. Mostly because It's completely false. There really is no correlation having what you want and being happy, because having more makes you want more. The more you have, the more you realize there is more to be had. From my personal experience, and my whole family's personal experience, and all of my friend's personal exprience, those who have and do whatever they want are the people who hate life the most. People who believe that there is no meaning believe exactly that. That there is no meaning. And if there is no meaning to the bigger picture of life, there is no meaning to your life individually. If there is no meaning to your life individually, then it leaves you questioning why you even exist in the first place. Why are you there to experience some of history when it really is so useless and you'll never see the final culmination of humanity's prowess? That's the issue. I'm a happy person, but the last time I met a truly happy person that believed any of this stuff about the world not having meaning was never. I never have, but I've met plenty of happy people who believe in something. And not those who just think something exists, but those who genuinely dedicate themselves to what they believe. Yes, there are people who are "happy" with their life because they can do anything, but this whole claim that "as a rule nihilists are more happy" is false. Maybe you have had a different experience, but on average the world is already sad as it is, so putting that into perspective, the only happy people I meet have a belief in meaning.
Nicely done!!
This helped me, thank you.
In the beginning of the video, I have considered myself a nihilist, but by the end, I remembered when my friend asked me, "Why do you play Minecraft, when it has "no purpose"? This was before the dragon and the "End" were added to the game.
I told him: "You learn about the mechanisms, you survive your first night, build something that you get attached to and you will be hooked, before you knew it. It's the same as building in the sand. Creation, - just like virtue - is its own reward."
Several years later, watching this video, I realised, that this is how you find the purpose in your life:
You "play the game", you create, protect and survive. Eventually, through these experiences, you will find meaning and purpose.
They will not be objective or universal, but they will be definitive and satisfying for you.
wow i just realized that
as another user said, you are indeed an existentialist
but for me, minecraft is boring, so does life.
I have depression and I wish I could see the world like you do. But for me, as of right now, there is no joy in anything. So why the hell shouldn’t I just stop playing this game of life if nothing matters anyway? Why live another day with this horrible pain? These questions haunt me. Nothing Matters.
@@Steven-gs8oh Try watching the video about optimistic nihilism! If nothing matters in this world, and everything is meaningless, the failures and rejections have no weight either. You can be bolder in your approach towards life, since you have nothing to lose.
"life is nothing more then a trip from the maternity ward to the crematorium" that hit hard
But isn't that all it is anyway? At least as far as anyone knows for certain. Everything else is just stories we tell ourselves as we whistle past the graveyard.
Everyone knows this....but why were we born...and why we die...no one knows...
I am so thankful for this video. This is exactly how i feel.
Yesss
why are you thankful?
@@nashandiephilipinson3340Probably because he has something to relate to
It's not a belief in nothing. It's an absence of belief without substance.
The application of Nihilism is Existentialism.
Nihilism is underrated! You get less sleep, you feel more pain, people talk to you less, and the list goes on.
Edit: Feel free to argue against this, but I hear what a lot of you are saying, and my understanding of nihilism and its general purpose has changed a lot now, thank you!
doesn't sound like fun to me tho it just sounds like suffering and depression with extra steps imagine not motivating yourself to find the meaning of life and connect to your creator sounds like a nightmare.
@@MunchingMaia i was being sarcastic lol
i mean its entirely prespective. it doesnt matter how you view life because you cant change it. it should be somewhat comforting to know that once you die its all over. maybe you dont know how or why you exist but that doesnt really matter because once you die its over.
@@MunchingMaia it’s really nothing like that imo. It’s comforting to know that nothing that happens really matters. Even if it’s good or bad. Because how could it? I feel like it’s hard to describe. Kind of like true freedom. If nothing matters, then you can just do anything because why not?
People think nihilism is all but pain and sadness. You guy know you can still enjoy life even if it’s meaningless, right? Just because something is meaningless doesn’t mean you should be sad or depressed about everything, you can still find and enjoy something in this wide world.
there’s also positive nihilism. if nothing really matters, you’re the only one who can truly assign the meanings and live your life the way you want because it’s there only for so long and nothing will come of it in the end anyway whatever you do
edit: i mixed up some existentialism there, oops. can’t be helped since they’re a bit similar
How is that different from existentialism?
That’s called absurdism I think
Glass half full, glass half empty? Why does it matter? It has water in it. *drinks*
I get what you are coming from, but I don't think nihilism is a "negative thing".
Kurzgesagts ideology!
Somehow after listening this i feel better and my feelings to end myself has somewhat stopped and I can happily accept this concept like a free bird 🕊️
So you can fly now?
@@extremelynoobgaming4742 nope i can't fly but it doesn't matter ... Nothing matters and that is what nihilism is. .... Nobody matters ... Either way death is inevitable ... So live as u want and do whatever u want ...
What a great video, it made me sad watching it because it’s really confirm the fact that I am very nihilistic
His videos are great for lying down on bed and staring at the wall, just listening
How old are you?
You're goddamn right
Yes
@Mee Acownt wrong, you flipped the question, he asked why do you think an animals life is worth more than a humans.
@Mee Acownt that's like saying intelligent adults deserve to live more than children. I would pick my dog over some people in my family
Welp, I guess I’m going to bed with an existential crisis lmfao
don’t worry bro that was me😂
Will this existential crisis crap ever stop?
Hey God's waiting for u to accept him
@@netosampaio8548 Have you even read Nietzsche? You know, the father of nihilism and showing that the ultimate consequences of it are existential crisis that need to be overcome by finding a second well to hold ourselves against since we crashed through the first one being god.
@@mikoi7472 Yes I have, and I'm sick and tired of these witty 'existential crisis' comments on any video about life.
this represents what's in my mind during the last school year instead of my studies 😎👍
Nihilism makes me disoriented and suicdl and I’m still recovering from nihilistic depression
"We aren't obligated to understand the chaos of reality, just to laugh at it".
It`s the mechanism of the human brain. Seeing patterns where there often is none. And when we have problems to face the facts of nature. We panic!. Nihilism is the ilusjon of not facing up to once tasks in life and trying to escape into nothingness. Reality is that it is just cowardice and narcissistic. And that is nothing to be ashamed about. Nature made us cowards and narcissistic for a reason. That is to surive and replicate. This fact is so ultra simple and minimalistic that is hard for most people to even grasp that they`re precius ego is just the tool of evolution.
The real question is not what is the meaning of life, because if we look at other lifeforms it is obvious that the " meaning" is indeed to survive and replicate and to adapt to the changes of the universe. The real question is " what is the purpose with intelligence?" . And is intelligence even a atribute that will make us survive in the long run or will it destroy us?. There are even lifeforms living in the sea that dont even have a brain and they have survived for billions of years and hardly ever changed. That is a species dont even need a brain!. That is the real joke ;-)
@@Ikaros23 Mate u literally blowed a sandstorm on my brain's eye
i needed this. not sure how long i can go
I am a nihilist. In the beginning, I was like, "If life is meaningless why am I still living."
Then I understood if life has no meaning, why must death be any different. And here I am, still living a meaningless life.
Your trying to convince yourself that doesn’t seem like you genuinely believe that
It is to replicate ur genetic code with another
@@hoodieap2858 how could you infer that, just from those sentences or do you know him irl
@@esseymicheal7161 nope but everybody seems to do this basically as a coping mechanism instead of actually confronting it
I have depression and I wonder whether living another day is worth the horrible pain, because life is meaningless. Nothing matters.
When you ask the quiet kid how his day was
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Mozart dies irae nihilist remix
*Quiet
Even though this video doesn't say Nihilism is bad, I have trauma that says otherwise from my late father who was such a Nihilist that every deep conversation would turn toxic and make me reach for my anxiety meds as soon as I could get away from him. Living with that 24/7 was exhausting, being told that life is horrible. Even now, after his passing I'm still thinking that way he did, but I know I can change to a more positive outlook with him, not here anymore. I want to make the most of my life and I'm not going to let ghosts stop me
Life is horrible though. We are here posting comments online in our safe countries because we carpet bomb other countries and let third world shit holes starve. Life is a meat grinder and it continues because people would rather pretend to be happy instead of being honest about the shit we’re daily trudging in
It's worth mentioning that "optimistic nihilism" is more of a meme philosophy than what any philosopher was actually rooting for. Nietzsche specifically was about not just insisting that life has no inherent meaning and you "create your own meaning", but also that you MUST actively and constantly reject everyone else's meanings so that you aren't influenced by them.
@@trustytrest nietzsche wasn’t a nihilist lol
Optimistic Nihilism >>>>
My favorite quote is "Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me."
I can't have what pleases me, except for another beer.
I don't consider myself a nihilist, but I definitely believe in nothing. I've never been able to recognize a god, or see any religion as true. I believe that there is no good or evil, yet I still see some things as good and evil. I don't believe life has a meaning, but I still find myself wanting to appreciate the little things in life.
theres another word for that i forgot search up a philospher that lived in a box i forgot his name
edit: his name is Diogenes
another edit search up: cynic philosophy
you can look up absurdism.
With Nothingness, there is purpose. Unless you mean Oblivion but that's beyond this era.
Could there be a God?... Well... What is a human?
There are objective Good and Evil. However, mankind is marred by corruption. Their agenda is prone to faults beyond computational logic.
Purpose... Everyone has a place where they would choose to stay. For those who only want control for their pitiful existence? I pity their sorry souls but such is their design.
@@absolstoryoffiction6615 i used to know a person who used to say the exact same thing that guy was preatty cool
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I could never speak in the way I write... Too many fragments trying to steer the wheel... But I digress.
If I chose to save this world, then mankind would have been given the Book of Fate. But humanity has not earned it yet. Although, maybe they don't need it... Mankind is on their own.
Upon the World's End... I await all.
I believe that spirituality is rooted in our nature as humans, and we as a species will always try to explain certain feelings or sensations through the supranatural.
I think I contemplated nilism, within that contemplation i choose optimism because really, if nothing matters then why not try and create the best outcomes whilst you ARE here. Also something in me, empathy, feels good when others are simulary happy. I think nilism is technically true but empathy lives freely within me and rewards you and others around you greatly. Optimism is kind of just going day by day, often for a purpose. except being aware of the fact that everything is meaningless, optimism is easier to believe in even without reward or purpose. The reward or purpose is simply, whatever, the ideology is to be a passive human I suppose. Act as which i am, not of most importance but i still am here, so might as well 🤷♂️ cheers to anyone who reads, i ramble
One of my professors had a shirt that said "'God is dead' -Nietzsche" on the front and "'Nietzsche is dead' -God" on the back and freshmen in his philosophy class would crack up when they saw it for the first time. He was a cool guy, I hope he's doing well now:)
"He is dead" _ oussama
Thanks actually so fucking fire lmao
Hell naww God be roasting Nietzsche💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
"Shut up ans take my money !" - Fry
Just may look for that T shirt. Brilliant comment. Peace be unto you.
So basically, it’s just “What’s the fuckin point.”
More like: "There is no fuckin point"
@Michael P that's so inaccurate lmfao
No, it's just:
no
@Michael P he just a slave to work