Jeff K. Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 oh, brother, seriously I have no idea where you get that I can't articulate what you ask me from. I'm assuming what the characteristics of nihilists are to be known by you... seems like I'm wrong there.I'm not a nihilist because I have a purpose and I find a meaning in life. Amazing you can't figure that one out. Do me a favor and read this, please: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NihilismAnd what is your purpose after death or is it merely that upon death you become a nihilist? And your entire life is merely a shallowness of imagined purpose which does nothing after you are gone. What purpose do you possibly hold that makes effort and sacrifice something beyond self preservation and momentary pleasure?You describe yourself as not being a nihilist and yet beyond a few vagaries you have trouble expressing how that is versus you nihilistic views?
elguanteloko Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 And what is your purpose after death or is it merely that upon death you become a nihilist? And your entire life is merely a shallowness of imagined purpose which does nothing after you are gone. What purpose do you possibly hold that makes effort and sacrifice something beyond self preservation and momentary pleasure?You describe yourself as not being a nihilist and yet beyond a few vagaries you have trouble expressing how that is versus you nihilistic views?nihilists don't have a purpose and plainly reject ethics. I do have a purpose (or several) in life and I don't reject ethics.after death I am neither a nihilist nor anything else... that's not being a nihilist. nihilists take a specific approach to a non-afterlife. Bother to read the article I provided.
Jeff K. Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 No, you are incorrect nihilists exist under situational ethics, and therefore all have ethics.Actually your views of the relatively quick and permanent end are most nihilistic. Your ethics has no permanence and will change according to the situation you find yourself. So ethics are really simply a veneer and more to the point empty or if you will nihilistic.
elguanteloko Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 No, you are incorrect nihilists exist under situational ethics, and therefore all have ethics.That's actually quite a good point, man (if I understand what you mean by "situational ethics") though you need to recognize ethics isn't the same thing as morality. They may have morals but not ethics. At any rate, though, it doesn't matter if they are contradicting themselves by saying they don't believe in morality and ethics since the point is that they deny such systems. That's the difference.Actually your views of the relatively quick and permanent end are most nihilistic. you keep on saying this but you need a little bit more, bro.Your ethics has no permanence and will change according to the situation you find yourself. So ethics are really simply a veneer and more to the point empty or if you will nihilistic.Even if we say my ethical systems are arbitrary that doesn't make one a nihilist since a nihilist denies ethics altogether... or at least he has to say he denies it for him to be a nihilist. I really can't make it any more clear and I'm sorry you aren't getting such a simple concept. Don't expect any more clarifications from me without you first a MINIMUM amount of effort to study what nihilism is in other places.
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