This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== Nihilism is Right ====== Nihilism is right when it says things like: <blockquote> ...human values are baseless, that life is meaningless, that knowledge is impossible, or that some set of entities does not exist or is meaningless or pointless. <cite>-- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism|Wikipedia]]</cite> </blockquote> – or – <blockquote> ...all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. <cite>-- [[https://iep.utm.edu/nihilism/|Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]</cite> </blockquote> The universe does not know or care that you exist and pretending otherwise is [[ideas:wooshit]]. But, [[ideas:it_matters_to_this_one|it matters to this one]], and that's why we don't stop at nihilism, because [[ideas:if_you_care|if we care]] then the universe cares. The "universe" is not a monolith. It's a collection of atoms, or quarks or whatever shit physicists have made up recently, that exploded a long time ago and are now in motion. It is not a person and therefore it does not know or care about things, it just is. We often pretend otherwise because living in a universe like that it scary. Being a scared little monkey is no fun so we try to feel less scared by pretending the universe loves us. That just makes us more unhappy and what we //should// do, is just accept. FIXME - Link acceptance, and do a bunch of other stuff.
