r/nihilism

Life is suffering. It's a consistent process. Suffering never ends. There are gaps in between, but it always returns. Nature is designed that way. 

A conscious person who is no longer willing to face pain, be it physical or mental, cannot be convinced otherwise using logic. There is no logic that can be offered to change his/her mind.

what if god is an evil clown. he doesn't even feel that smart but I could be wrong. maybe he is playing it low key. maybe he is a sadistic clown that is playing tricks on us. just look at world and tell me if divine or evil. like everything is f ed up and twisted. the fact that evil is so strong compared to other things is beyond comprehension. like why everything has to be so f ed up in this world. what's the point of all this evilness.

The first 20 years of an average person's life are largely spent on consumption: eating, sleeping, shopping, learning and repeating.

Then, reality strikes: working, paying for everything, supporting own family and navigating bureaucrats who create laws and regulations. By age 21, some individuals become hardcore nihilists, unprepared for the true challenges of life?

Self-overcoming isn’t a heroic ascent,it’s a constant undoing. The “self” isn’t stable; it’s just a temporary arrangement of competing drives. To overcome oneself is not to become stronger in any final sense, but to reorganize what one is under a new perspective.

The will to power, then, is less about domination and more about internal creation,an aesthetic reshaping. But every achieved form risks becoming rigid, even dogmatic, which means true becoming demands its own destruction. The danger of nihilism isn’t a flaw here—it’s the condition that makes genuine self-overcoming possible.

I don't get why some people view nihilism as this? As someone feeling often nihilistic myself; despite my thoughts, I see people being olymptic champions, academic geniuses and people with lots of other success in their life. Meanwhile people like me have never had an achievment in life not a single medal or a high grade.

I don't support the idea that nihilism always have to be associated with depression. I'm sure there are people out there who are nihilists and have great achievements (not saying they can't feel depression) but sometimes I feel like, speaking for myself, I use nihilism as an excuse to my unwillingness to participate in any productive activity because i dont have a goal to achieve in the first place. But I'm also aware of the point nihilism makes and I agree with them separetly from this and I fully support nihilism.

Im not really good at telling about how I feel but in short: I dont know if I'm a nihilist because I see the truth in the meaning of life or am I a nihilist just to make me feel better about myself and find an excuse to my own laziness and bitterness.

It's all the same; from using windmill or waterwheels to spin gears and cogs to function a mechanism out of torque and RPM, to using fossil fuels to spin turbines to power generators for electricity, to powering robots to do our factory works, and then to digital algorithms like AI to do works for us.

Automation will always be automation, if it automates the work for us. Nothing is ever new about it.

Nihilism presents itself as the conclusion of rigorous thought: all values are constructed, all meaning is projected, therefore nothing matters. But: this conclusion assumes a specific structural configuration of consciousness, one where the ego-pole (rational analysis, boundary enforcement, critical differentiation) operates so thoroughly that it dissolves every structure (including its own ground). The nihilist performs a specific cognitive operation: relentless critical analysis, until the operation consumes its own substrate. But: the operation isn't the whole of consciousness. Beneath the ego-pole's analytical capacity is the empathy-substrate: the felt pull toward another person's suffering, the mother's willingness to endure pain for a being that doesn't exist yet as an individual, the inability to walk past need without registering it. Nihilism can't touch this substrate because the substrate isn't a claim that can be analyzed. The nihilist who argues that empathy is evolutionary programming uses the ego-pole to generate an account of empathy - a demonstration that the ego-pole is operative, so consciousness is operative, so the substrate is functioning even in the act of denying it.

So I dont know wht my belief system is now, I dont think it matters anymore but I would like to know if there is a better word to describe my new view.

God was a mirror, we are a small part of it, gods body is the universe and we are a small part of it. When I met it, I realised that it was a mirror test of sorts, a very difficult one, it drives many people mad, makes them question morality, rules, reality, and their own body. It has led to new religions, and old ones. It is a surprisingly common experience.

I think I passed the test, I have been evaluated, and I have a clean enough mind that I dont require mental aid.

The model I use to describe gods experience is that it is just like ours. We have brain cells that talk to each other, argue, fight, they are born and they die. We dont understand their experience but we know that somehow they do stuff, and that means we do stuff. God has the same type of experience, and probably cannot understand it any more than we can.