Nihilism isn't a philosophy. You didn't strike a victory, I just didn't bother to respond to you since you said it was your last post.
If you want a response, then I say that just because subjectivity is all we can achieve, doesn't make it meaningful.
If every single human, from Hitler to Hell bender to myself, can make their own meaning, then meaning becomes meaningless. If anything can become meaningful, simply by my decision that it is, including completely contradictory things, what is the point? Why should I make one thing meaningful and not the other? What if I give meaning to slaughtering children? Am I a God yet according to Nietzche?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb#Trial
If you believe in evolution, you cannot believe in free will. Humans are animals too, although most of them cannot see the wood for the trees. Ultimately we are controlled by genes. Where in evolution is there meaning? You may as well say that the planets in their orbits create their own meaning, and their meaning consists of revolving around a star until it engulfs them. A sad version of meaning.
The main thrust of existentialism seems to concern our choice of what is and isn't meaningful. But my determinism precludes me from this.
Nietzche is a lot of fun, especially when he calls women cows, and the psychology of his aphorisms is cutting. But I don't turn to him for advice on how to live my life.
You became nihilist because the search for the truth is impossible, the consequence of nihilism is that the truth is irrilevant, but your becoming nihilistic was dued to the very search of truth and in this way you gave the truth the relevance that your philosophy denies...
I found the truth, it is nihilism. Not impossible.
I made the presentiment that truth was meaningful when I began my 'search'. If I had begun with attempting to prove that truth was meaningful, I would have reached nihilism before I began.
The truth is irrelevent. I am not better than you, because I am right and you are wrong. We'll both die. Probably you are happier than me. Happiness too is meaningless, but I still want for it, because I am not as inhuman as some believe. Does the fact that I want for it make it meaningful? No, that is a naturalistic fallacy.
Incidentally, Nietzche would be disappoint with you, because he said to get rid of your slave morality and make your own :) not to keep the slave morality and then just quote Heidegger's arguments all the time.
Yes, rosston, I get outraged when someone calls me a sociopath based on little to no evidence. That's not a medical opinion, that's an insult. So fuck you.
And please be good rosston, try not to slaughter any unbelievers this Christmas, as your Holy Book commands you. And if God tells you to take a child up a mountain and sacrifice him, please don't, no matter what Kierkegaarde says.
And if you feel I over-reacted to any of these subhuman scum
I didn't expect anyone to interpret this correctly, since it is difficult in text, but this is merely irony.
Wether this be with gun control or whatever. You coming on here and blatantly trying to offend people is just sad
The first thing is exactly what I said. Moros and others mentioned African children. Sweet baby Richard Dawkins, what a bunch of morons you all are.
I never tried to offend anyone. Mine eyes were offended by Hell bender's original post. I was then sneered at by Boston Phoenix, Lolowut, Gui and others.
If my weltanschaaung offends you, it amuses me. If you think I'm not going to make jokes because of
dukkha, you're wrong. Like Trollussa says, we make our own meaninglessness, and this is my particular brand.
