can something realy be meaningless?? my thoughts against nihilism........?

Question

in my opinion nothing can be meaningless. its just not. alot of nihilists see life as meaningless, however that cant deny the fact that they are experiencing life. and the fact that your experiencing something means that the thing that is being experienced serves a purpose. and that purpose is to be experienced, which would mean that if something serves a purpose it cannot be meaningless. there are many things that people see as meaningless. such as, war,violence,racism,love,jealousy,and hate. however while the person thinks these things are meaningless, they are not. it serves a purpose in one way or another whether its there for you disagree upon or to make reference and base ideas for or against it. I think that the biggest flaw in nihilism is that the point of it is to prove the pointlessness in things such as life. However the fact that they are stating pointlessness is still nonetheless stating. And in order to state something you have to make a point. It’s a point in pointlessness. It’s a self defeating and a self contradictory way of looking at things.

Answer 1

Some things are meaningless and some things are not...it's simple.

Answer 2

Bravo!

Life is to be lived to the fullest. No human has the right to take away life from himself or any other human being. We are all on this Earth to serve some part of a higher purpose. Then how can any life be meaningless?

Answer 3

Purpose isn't necessitated by experience.

You can't have a purpose without a goal. And by any measure of objective reference there are no such things as ends-in-themselves. We live in a furtively undirected world, of means-means relationships, of deferral to systematicity and recursion which doesn't have any goal in sight. The economy, the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of freedom have no boundary. Even death isn't absolute for the majority who believe in a religion, and without God, death doesn't thereby become A GOAL. We fundamentally live without purpose.

"Why do you live? To live!"

Your equation of meaning to purpose is flawed. There are limitless meanings to be found in life, but not one objective, knowable, or agreed upon purpose or nature. And while there are meanings IN life, that doesn't make life-as-such meaningful! That's a composition fallacy. We've redefined ourselves over history and we'll do it again. A "nihilist" (your target really is existentialism) is more intellectually honest than your rushed characterization affords.

Answer 4

It means that everything is meaningless until you put meaning to it.
A culture might find delight in cannabilism, where we find it repulsive. Another culture runs around with boobs hanging out, while we don't.
So, which one is right and why?

You chose to put meaning to things. They in fact have no meaning. They are meaningless.
What color car would you like? The color is meaningless. It means nothing until you and everybody else accept the color as some happy or sadness.

Guys wear blue, Girls wear pink.
It is just accepted to be that way.
The colors themselves mean nothing. It is how we interpet them that makes all the difference.

See how the 2 previous people have put meaning to your words?
You find them meaningful and they see them as being nothing but gibberish. That is the point. Your words are themselves meaningless until somebody else puts meaning to them and find their own interpetation.
(I am no different)

Answer 5

i believe nothing is meaningless, this nihilism thing is so stupid. What a lazy way to live life to say that life is life and thats it. I say to all nihlists " there is a reason for life, go get it!!" Ya lazy bums

Answer 6

That rant was pretty meaningless. It's not even a proper question. Thanks for sharing your insights, though. It helped put me to sleep.