Does a nihilist value life/their life as much as an atheist?...and an atheist more than one who is spiritual?

Question

How about a nihilist vs. a spiritualist? I won't use human vs. human crime as my example, so let's say each one was swimming at the beach, and was attacked by sharks.

Well, the human on human crime would be better, cause one would be more likely to be at ease acknowledging that they are about to die by nature's hands. I won't add details, but just imagine each one of them dying by being a victim of crime, the point being the added facet of not having control of your own death or having died for no good reason, leaving socio-economical reasons out of it as well.

Will the nihilist not give a damn, because to them nothing matters anyways? Will the atheist think, "oh well, dust to dust"? Of course the spiritual one believes there is an afterlife.
Does the human factor (feelings/emotions/whatever) play into it all on exactly the same level? Does, or can, a nihilist's or atheist's conviction, ever equal or surmount a spiritualist's devotion?

Answer 1

Oh you little philosopher. When are you going to realize that history is the true philosophy?

To counterargue may I propose:

I would believe that humans are a part of nature. There is no indication to our knowledge that we are living a lie and that there is some reality outside of the one we know. What does seem to be true is that we have hallucinations and dreams but that hallucinations and dreams are all tied to something real and tangible that in our mind does not seem to change.

And, if we are computer controlled beings, then we cannot know that and the programmer must know so why should we fight it?

So far as naturalism goes, a nihilist believes in lack of order and not lack of anything. There are some atheists in American who believe in nothing but the belief in nothing is also somewhat Socratic and useful. Everyone has to have belief in something. It appears that "I am constituted in others." The guy started with an H. What the hell was his name?

Anyways, to be a nihilist is both Socratic, skeptical and silopsist. To be an atheist is to be void of religion specifically but to be nihilist is to believe in nothing and essentially the chaos of things.

Answer 2

Nihilsm is not a depressed or negative philosiphy. Some people do see it that way, but not everyone. Buddhists for instance, are in some sence nihilists too. They value life the most of all other religions.

I think that Atheists are more aware of the fact that they exist, because they believe that there is no afterlife. If you belevieve you go to heaven, you might value your life less, because your next will be better anyway. I can even state that some religious people work their whole life, only to end up in heaven eventually. Setting all pleasures aside, just because they want that God likes them and grants them permission in the kingdom of Heaven.