Nihilist here. Everyone acts like it’s sad or depressing (or fully unhinged/hedonistic), but I’ve personally found it to be freeing.
All meaning is a subjective experience, a transient feeling/thought combination. In other words, an illusion. A pile of chemicals and neural connections that can be synthesized in a relatively formulaic way, just look at pop music, romance novels, action movies, etc.
I still have ideals, personal convictions, opinions, hopes and dreams, I’m just no longer caught up in the illusion that any of it objectively matters, regardless of how I feel.
We’re just smart meat puppets, and that’s OK.
My stance regarding nihilism is this: nothing matters, so no thing mattering doesn’t matter. In other words, nothing matters, so what?
Determinism doesn’t really say that tho, it just says that events are predetermined, not that you must accept that or that doing so is the meaning of life. You can just as well be predetermined to not accept it
That’s exactly it. Determinism is the idea that all the various forces of the universe impact things in such a way that, however things play out, it’s how they were always going to.
Imagine a time in your life when you made an impactful decision, and imagine you can go back in time to that moment. However, when you do everything is the same - you’re thinking the same thoughts, feeling the same feelings. You’ve had all the same experiences, and are in the same frame of mind. Every single atom in the entire universe is exactly the same as it was in that moment. Would you ever actually make a different decision from what you had in that moment?
Determinism says no - if you had the capability to know the exact state of the universe in a single moment, you’d be able to tell what the next moment’s state would be, and on and on to the end of the universe, since it’s all nothing more than a single incredibly complicated chain reaction.
Colours are mostly indistinguishable. I’m not colourblind.
One of the biggest philosophies based on religious beliefs the world still follows … theism
And it’s considered prehistoric
Judging by how the world is thinking and acting these days … it sounds about right
Green strongly agree with. Yellow slightly agree with. Red disagree with. No colour neutral.
Note: I would have put green on humanism, but I’m vegan and humanism only focuses on humans instead of all sentient life.
You’re definitely better at picking colors than the chart illustrator.
I don’t see it mentioning 42 anywhere.