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Where can I find nihilists IRL? Where do they go?

>> No.3761563

Why does it matter anyway.

>> No.3761564

We stay home all the time because why not

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>>3761563

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relevant

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They're in nowhere, no determined space, constant walking, flâneurism/somnambulism 24/7.
Or alienated, stuck in a quietist catatonic solipsism state while their minds are lost in the nothingness.

>> No.3761620

LSD burnt homeless drug addicted young ppl. there a lot of them where I live. I believe these ppl are true and unintentionally nihilistic

>> No.3761627

>>3761560
Niihilism is always a negation. There is no general nihilism. So which type of nihilism are you looking for?

>> No.3761630

>>3761620
They're hedonists not nihilists.

>> No.3761640

>>3761627
People conscious of this ill society, active nihilists, desperate people who reject love.

>> No.3761666

>>3761630
Are they mutually exclusive? One might become a hedonist because you don't think there is any other meaning to life.

>> No.3761681

>>3761560
Generally smoking, doing drugs, and bitching about how boring things are in college, but they tend to be relatively boring
>>3761640
You'll stumble into them if you're generally blunt and openly critical
>>3761666
This, can embrace the mindset of hedonism without necessarily connoting value to pleasure and as such remaining nihilistic

>> No.3761689

>>3761640
On which basis would they judge society ill? Nihilists have no basis to do so. How would one be an active nihilist? It's like being an active atheist. The concept itself is a negation, it doesn't refer to any specific form of behaviour. A nihilist might live as a saint or he might be a serial killer. It's completely arbitrary and open to whimsy. Being desperate and rejecting love doesn't necessaries have anything to do with any form of nihilism at all.

What is your definition of nihilism?

>> No.3761694

>>3761666

Why is nihilism associated with "lazy drug addicted teens"?
Tell me your "meaning in life". You're saying that they're nihilists but then you say their purpose(meaning,) in life is pleasure (hedonism) why?
Isn't it a valid purpose?

>> No.3761704

>>3761689
To-don't-know-what-to-do, no purpose, no orientation, no meaning, angst, no supreme values, no aesthetics, no love, no affection, no illness, nothing, no basis. How many nihilism exist? tell me if i'm wrong.

>> No.3761718

>>3761689
An active nihilist would create from nothing. This is just the Nietzsche children building and destroying castles. I said society is ill with no basis, don't mind about it (dadaists thought society was ill)

>> No.3761733

>>3761704
>How many nihilism exist? tell me if i'm wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism#Forms_of_nihilism

The ones mostly referred to are no morals (moral nihilism) and no meaning and value (existential nihilism). This still leaves one's life wide open. If there is nothing one should or shouldn't do and no ultimate reason to do one thing over another, one is free to do as one please. So the practical consequence of being a nihilist is mostly doing what you want for no other reason than that you feel like it. Since people tend to be inclined to different things, there are as many sort of nihilists as there are nihilists individuals. A nihilist may be a hermit, a bum, a doctor or a general. There really is no reason for a nihilist to prefer one way of life over the other. You can find them anywhere and everywhere, although you will probably find more of them or at least more openly nihilistic people among young urban first world white people. Especially those not involved in wholesome activities. It's not that nihilists necessarily do less conventionally good things, it's just that among the people that don't do conventionally good things there are probably a lot of nihilists.

I think that a common misunderstanding that nihilism leads to doing 'bad' things. This is not often the case since nihilistic people still tend to dislike punishment. It's just that they don't feel inclined to some sort of dutiful behaviour either. Look among the NEETs.

>> No.3761773

You find them in the same place you find solipsists.

>> No.3761772

>>3761733
This
I think most of the misconception stems from a social conditioning to expect meaning from a very young age, and a disappointment when this expectation is not met which often leads to "despair" or a lack of energy/anger/etc. Active participation in the world is still valid though, and that's how most nihilists operate (as the post above me described). Camus puts it nicely at the end of Myth of Sisyphus when he describes Sisyphus taking in the mountain, although I wouldn't take his emphasis on rebellion at face value even it it is romantic at first impression

>> No.3761785

>>3761773
The internet?

>> No.3761789

>Where do they go?

Hell.

>> No.3761799

>>3761789
>implying you know gods plan

blasphemy

>> No.3761800

nihilists go to sky because in hell satan is the leader and has limited powers, but God is man, like, fucking admin and can rape you with no limits
so nihilists go to sky so God can torture them with no limits

>> No.3761806

>>3761799
Christ has stated infallibly that there will be people in Hell.

Mt. 7:23 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

>> No.3761812

>>3761806
Yet he never said it would be the nihilists.

>> No.3761816

>>3761806
are you a tripfag who quotes bible since 2009 and tries to christianize everyone and haves a tradition in /lit/ or what
fuck you MOTHERFUCKER
ANTIRACIST IS A CODEWORD FOR ANTICAT

>> No.3761819

in the kiddy pool

>>3761806
everyone gets out of hell eventually.

>> No.3761822

>>3761812
Jn. 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

>>3761819
Mt. 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

>> No.3761834

>>3761816
I'm not whoever you're referring to.

>> No.3762024

>>3761834
"I'm not a crook"

>> No.3762035

>>3761822
What exactly do you mean by "stated infallibly" ? That seems an odd choice of words.
I don't think it's possible to state something infallibly, unless there's the implication that you might not always say it. Either way, it makes no sense in that context.

>> No.3762051

>>3762035
It is impossible for his words to be incorrect. Christ is God and thus his statements are incontrovertibly true.