What do you live for if you do not believe in any form of God?

Question

I ask this honestly. I am a Nihilist (basically, an atheist but I don't believe in anything, not just God).

I wake up every day feeling hopeless. For a while this didn't really bother me. I don't need a God but I do need motivation. I need a reason to keep on living. I recently lost everything I have. I'm basically homeless and have $15 to my name. I live with the only family I had that would take me in a piss-ant town called Huron, SD. They beat me and yell at me. I just don't know what to do anymore. I can't seem to find any reason to keep on living this dreary life. I could leave here, sure, I drifted before I came here, I can be a drifter again, but I don't see the use. I mean where does a person like me go in a world full of religious zealots, hypocrites, and emo kids? I just don't know. Please, someone, help me.

Answer 1

Didn't you just ask this question a few days ago? What are hoping to accomplish with this? It smells a lot like bait.
God hates a lying tongue, did you know that? We don't need to lie in order to talk about the amazing power and love of Jesus Christ.

Answer 2

You know The Last, it is possible the asker could be lying (people do that online) but even if he is, what could it possibly matter to you? It doesn't hurt you any. He's not asking for financial help, not trying to con anyone out of their own goods or money. Besides I would rather take someone at their word that they are suffering than scoff at them and then later find out that I was wrong.

And touching on that, Friedrick, I've never experienced what you're going through so I'm not sure how helpful my advice will be but here it is nonetheless;
Try and notice whatever good you can... a kindly gesture of a stranger (to you or someone else) nice weather, animals, a good thought or memory (etc) things that seem dumb and even childish but if you catch yourself smiling at something... anything, hang onto it, dwell on it as you usually would the awful things.

And remember what Nietzsche said, that suffering is no argument against existence. He should know. He suffered plenty himself from chronic illness, poverty, encroaching blindness and no one understanding what he was getting at (not least his own sister who could not have gotten his philosophy more backwards). Perhaps you even might consider emulating him and doing some writing of your own (if you don't already) write about your life. Imagine some future person who is going through what you are right now reading it and feeling somewhat better even just to realize they're not alone. That might be something worth living for.