im not saying im a nihilist, but a lot of things make so much sense in nihilism?

Question

is it bad if i sorttt ooof like neitzche?

Answer 1

No, it's not bad. Not healthy, by the standards of some, but not bad. And it is possible to like Nietzche's work and philosophy without being a nihilist. :) Whatever makes sense to you.

Answer 2

It is perfectly all right to like Nietzsche. If you are revolted by Nihilism (which I do not believe you should, but you are free to do so...), I think he can be seen far more as a Proto-Existentialist, rather than a Nihilist: He found meaning in the affirmation of the self, rather than no ultimate meaning at all. The area in which you may still be off-put by Nietzsche is his rejection of God as a significant factor in man's life: If that sets off alarms, you may retreat at will!

Answer 3

If you want to be an annihilationist go ahead. It's just that when you get to the center of yourself someday and you already have the belief that nothing is there, and you think you've achieved nothingness, you'll go psycho like Neitzche did. After all his talk about NOTHING, and about the SUPERHUMAN OVERMAN, and about the weak will of people who actually feel things, he ran out of the house sobbing one day over somebody beating a tired horse, and did not talk again for several years until he died. I would advise to not follow his lines of thinking too far.

Answer 4

In answer to your question, the following poem I wrote is what I understand to be your meaning of a nihilist:

I'D RATHER BE A NOTHING
----------------------------------------

I'D RATHER BE A NOTHING
THAN BE A LIVING THING
THAT CAN BE HURT OR HURTFUL

I'D RATHER BE A NOTHING
THAN BE A LIVING THING
THAT IS GUARANTEED TO DIE
AND SEE MY LOVED ONES DIE

I'D RATHER BE A NOTHING
THAN BE A LIVING THING IN PAIN
AND FEEL THE PAIN OF THE ONES
I CARE ABOUT AS WELL

I'D RATHER BE A NOTHING
THAN HAVE A HEART FILLED WITH SORROW
AND WISH THERE WAS NO TOMORROW

I'D RATHER BE A NOTHING
THAN SUFFER FROM THE ANGUISH IN MY MIND
EVEN THOUGH I AM STILL KIND

I'D RATHER BE A NOTHING
AND ALLOW MYSELF TO DIE
SO I NO LONGER HAVE TO CRY

C) 2006

I looked up the word nihilist and one meaning for the word was: ''nothingness or nonexistence.''

Answer 5

some nihilism thoughts could be making sense at first, but since one of the major beliefs is the unmoralism, it doesn't make much sense to me. it's like starting to get somewhere, but becoming an arrogant halfway down.

Answer 6

Honest nihilism leads to suicide or insanity. There is nothing in nihilism that requires truth when good feelings are all you have.

Answer 7

A lot of things will normally make a lot of sense in any philosophical trend. That's precisely what makes them popular.

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

Perhaps it is the positivist side of existentialism that lightens your spirit for it could not be one-sided negativism could it?

'I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.
(Fritz Perls, 1969)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_prayer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihlism

Is your nihilism negative individualism, that you are only you when negative. I hope not.


The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 9

Ignoring existence?

Might as well be dead.