Are you a nihilist ..... ?

I'm a nihilist on the "meaning of life" issue and on "objective" knowledge, mainly because of the way my college philosophy course went. I actually came out of it nihilistic and slightly left-wing. Ask 3 random people the meaning of life and you'd probably get different answers. As for objective knowledge, it's just logically impossible to have it. With morals though, I have my own vague principles - mainly because if everybody was a moral nihilist, imagine how the world could be.

Life before nihilism felt relatively less empty, if I'm honest. I really wouldn't recommend nihilism to anybody. Life as a nihilist of sorts feels sometimes like wanting to get a house but being given bricks and cement with some tools, instead.

I'd say that I'm a weird person and that I think too much.

I am not nihilist...

My opinion about nihilism?

Being nihilist means being extremist because nihilism is very extreme in his predispositions about any other system of ideas, or even every particulary idea wich trying to explain role of man on Earth and Universe.

probably in that I dont think anything means anything - I came from a hugely dysfunctional family - so never bonded to any idea - when things got crazy in our house I used to feel responsible for everyone sure that someone was going to kill someone else so I would worry and worry till I exhausted myself and got to a place of "I dont know!" then I could sleep -So I was in tune with no-thing-ness at an early age . I think I would call myself an anarchist first and foremost a word I found that applied to my thinking when I was fourteen going to an Aldermaston march and heard older teens talking about it and realised it described my thinking perfectly. I think my life is fun I am enjoying it I have mental health issues from my strange abusive childhood (D.I.D) but that just fits in really well with my outlook. I suppose you can always be a happy or miserable nihilist camus was a creative one and I hope that as an a textile artist I am too. I dont think about it very much and just accept my difference because it seems most of humanity has needs to be connected to meanings - I am not in the business of deconstructing other peoples realities so just a bit of an outsider and sometimes I play the games without believing in them just to feel a bit more real.

Nihilism is a vague term. There are actually 6 distinct branches of nihilistic philosophy. Someone can accept the premise of one form without having to accept the others. Therefore you might wish to review them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism and then rephrase your question accordingly.

The book "Nihilism," Eugene Rose, is worthwhile and brief.

Imo, nihilism is not the highest form or forms of philosophy, in that Kant notes that individual awareness conditions philosophical awareness, and that techniques such as Vipassana meditation are known to improve awareness beyond the "void."

Another reference re nihilism: an encounter with the "void," as in Sunyata's and Tanabe's writings. These are more instructive, as they navigate within that construct or experience.

Pretty much. Because nothing else makes any sense.

It was the same as it is now.

No change.

Someone who sees things completely differently.

who cares

I have no idea.

what