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an extension of existentialism. it is the belief that that life is pain and suffering and hold no point. there are few nihilists around, as they tend to find no reason to be anymore.
person 1: i think i’m just going to crawl in a corner and die….
person 2: man! please don’t say you been reading up on nihilism. it’s bad for your brain.
it’s useless to define it.
it’s useless to give an example…
a belief in the pointless of existance. the absence of truth. the absence of reason.

those who see it as a self-defeating argument are people who still have something to believe in.

despite the universe being so mind-numbingly complex and consciousness itself being so much of a mystery, many people actually believe that nihilism is invalid because the ‘logic’ possessed by what we think of as our consciousness doesn’t allow it to make sense.

a christian might argue that god must exist because there must be some infinite force in the universe. they would then argue that god is the creator of all life, and that things like logic come from god, and in fact are a part of god (as he is infinite). unfortunately, this is also self-defeating, because by using logic to prove the existance of god (and thus logic) is just as absurd as nihilism. this, in turn, leads to the logic that nothing can be known. this then continues and endless loop of logic and anti-logic, making existance seem pointless, insane, and absurd. and that is what nihilism really is.

nietzsche is commonly -ssociated with nihilism, although from what i’ve been able to figure out without actually studying it in school (while researching it in my spare time), he was not a nihilist himself. rather, he seems to be more of someone who defined it and contemplated the intricacies -ssociated with it.

trent reznor, creator of nine inch nails is generally considered to be a true nihilist, which is represented by the lyrics, feeling, and sound of his music. even nothing records, a record company started by reznor, embraces this concept in its name.
exmaple 1:

person a) god must exist. finite things have to come from somewhere, and only something infinite can make something finite.

person b) that is based on so many -ssumptions that my brain wants to explode just thinking that someone can actually believe that the universe is that simple. just become a nihilist. it’s a lot easier, and still allows you to function in society without being racist, h-m-phobic, or s-xist.

person a) okay.

person b) ph34|2.

example 2:

person a) i sure am p-ssed that nine inch nails tour sold out in under 5 minutes.

person b) shrug.
a philosophy based on extreme skepticism. in it’s most basic form (before it was clouded by ideas involving politics, social rhetoric, s-x, drugs, rock and roll etc.), which we can refer to as “epistemological nihilism”, simply denies the possibility of knowledge of truth.