Killing a nihilist actually vindicates their point. It shows that life is so worthless, even the people who supposedly care will take life away over a petty disagreement.

>>149207048 (OP)
They care about their own lives not yours.

>>149207048 (OP)
I don't think nihilists entertain the idea that life is worthless because they want life to be worthless, they're more upset that the value of human life is so low.

Why would an optimist be so ready to kill someone?

>>149207048 (OP)
Only if the nihilists in question genuinely doesn't give a fuck if they live or die.

>>149207097
Nope that’s not a nihilist a real nihilist doesn’t care if they do care they’re not a nihilist. Some things are black and white like people need air to live and water to drink to live. Simple as that and before you tell me about any kind of drink there’s water in it so shut up.

>>149207048 (OP)

>>149207252
Yes, again

>>149207235
Nihilism means believing life has no INHERENT value.
Money doesn't have inherent value either, it'd be useless if nobody believed in it, that doesn't mean you have to throw out all your currency. You can still care about being financially secure.
In the same way, nihilists can still care about life. They just don't think that care is prescribed by some inherent quality of the universe.

>>149207048 (OP)
whether life has value or not is not a petty disagreement, it's a big disagreement, and is working killing and dying for because life is inherently contradictory

>>149207615
*is WORTH*

>>149207511
Nope

>>149207677
nta but
>iphone screenshot of an AI response
come back when youre 18 will ya?

>>149207410
Shaved

>>149207727
What do you want me to pull out a dictionary boomer, is the text too small for you to read?google has been used since the 2000’s yeah they got AI now big deal is it that different from sources like Websters that you know it’ll pull from as one of its sources.

>>149207048 (OP)
First of all, optimists are not actually arguing in favor of killing nihilists, just that the nihilist's reaction to the prospect of their death is contrary to their philosophy in the way that it should not warrant fear. Second, Mr. Boss wasn't trying to make a point.

>inb4 fear is not contradictory because human beings' fear of death is hardwired into us regardless of the (lack) value we place on life
Almost as if nihilism is an absurd philosophy that falls apart like a house of cards the minute you start scrutinizing it.

>>149207985
>using boomer as an insult
alright, at LEAST until you're over 15, cmon i'm doing you a favor here

>>149207048 (OP)
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them.

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid

>>149208012
Hey at least I can back up my claim with a source. All you can do is slander.

>>149207048 (OP)
>smiling friends destroyed nihilism!
more like smiling friends gave everyone an incomplete, warped perception of nihilism.

>>149207677
You can still have subjective meaning

>>149207048 (OP)
The only possible way to cure the current mental health epidemic is through a full blown schizo holocaust. Contact your local government representatives urging them to enact new laws demanding that subhuman freaks like ihatesmilingfriends/neopuritanfag/industrycuck be rounded up and exterminated.

>>149207048 (OP)
Why do Rick and Morty fags on this board keep crying to start shit over smiling friends?

>>149208190
Because they are pathetic just like the Rick and Morty characters

>>149208126
Nah words have meaning that’s the whole point of this joke.
https://youtu.be/TNChSF5nqJs?feature=shared

I mean, Smiling Friends wasn't even commenting as much on general nihilism as much as it was on the online doomer culture which had taken root at the tail end of the 2010s.
Part of the whole idea is that Pim is someone who, if we met him in real life, we'd typically consider him an obnoxious naive fag who doesn't know how the world works while Charlie is by far someone more in-line with the average internet user.
Look at the specific things Satan is doing when Charlie encounters him. He's hitting a vape in particular, ordering delivery specifically from an app, and playing vidya.
The show took off precisely because it was the first one to actually try and engage with the whole "Gen Z are depressed and cynical" thing

>>149208342
That and old fags who love new grounds humor.

>>149207048 (OP)
Nihilism has a lot of coping and coping isn't nihilism, but its human. ALL is worthless, but understanding it doesn't stop you from feeling hunger. You're still tied to fulfilling your body's needs to avoid pain. Someone who is hedonistic or suicidal from nihilism isn't being nihilist but coping from it. As human you should cope.

Think of it as knowing that Santa isn't real. God isn't real. Being isn't real. You don't argue with that. Its all just children telling other children that Santa isn't real. It is human to believe in Santa. It is more human to believe.

>>149207185
Because killing nihilists is optimal.

I feel like the main problem with so many nihilists is that they refuse to take things seriously because 'nothing matters', but they will become very pressed if you don't take them seriously.

Of course they'll deflect and go "dude don't take it so seriously lol" if they say some shit that pisses people off, but if you refuse to give what they say any credence in general, then they'll get bitchy.

>>149208548
>Being isn't real
I would definitely argue with that, but I'm not a nihilist (unless "meaning is defined by the only entities we know of that can define things" means I am).

I find that the conclusions of nihilism are incompatible with being motivated to proselytize nihilism, and in practice this means the only people motivated to do so are disproportionately in the group described by >>149208624, which are less nihilists and more cowards shopping for philosophies that they think excuse behaviors they want to express without consequences.

>>149207252
>>149207410

>>149207048 (OP)

>>149207048 (OP)
............WELL DEATH ISN'T SCARY AT ALL

>>149207048 (OP)
Nihilism is a Pathetic, counterproductive and Self-destructive ideology that only lead to selfishness and arrogance to end in antipathy.

Only the Weak-Minded fools would think that life is Worthless and there's no meaning of live it.

>>149208548
You Pathetic Weak-soul fool.

>>149207511
Nihlism:

"The rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless"

Such a Pathetic way of Thinking, only for the Weak minded fools.>>149207511

>>149207048 (OP)
I miss when Rick Sanchez was a real nihilist and not the bleeding pussy he is today.

>>149207185
If this one has so little appreciation and respect for the value and importance of life that instead of just ending themselves, they promote their foolish way of seeing the universe to others but in the end showing how hypocritical they are when the moment of truth arrives.

does anyone earnestly enjoy this show or is it only getting praise because a bunch of e-celebs made it

>>149211327
Easily people enjoy it man, it’s cool if you don’t like it but don’t act like a retard.

>>149211327

I have no idea who any of the people behind this show are.

The show itself is okay.

>>149211219
The nihilism shit was fucking gay, zoomzoom.

>>149211310
This

We are 3 years past the point of Smiling Friends inciting its fans to murder atheists and there are still people defending this disabled mongoloid.

Does Zach believe in real Christianity or new-age culture war Christianity for people larping on the internet?

>>149207048 (OP)
Nihilism isn't a belief that "life is worthless" it's the belief that there is no inherent objective meaning to anything allowing people to impose their own subjective meanings on to it.

>>149212601
No, that would be existentialism. Nihilism doesn't believe any subjective meaning an individual chooses to give life has any value either.

>>149212601
AAAAARGH STOP INVOKING RORSHACH I’M GONNA BUST MY TREACLE TARTS

>>149211169
mean spirited

>>149207677
Your screenshot only affirms my definition. It specifies 'objective' and 'intrinsic'.

>>149212563
None of those you sperg.

>>149211219
Rick and morty suffers from what >>149208624 described

the whole show is tainted with this terminal irony-poisoning of deconstructing scifi tropes and narrative and haha dont take anything seriously wer're going to the Flimpy Nebula to smoke space hookas with the Loopsnoopians but also heres us trying to tell a serious and engaging narrative please take it seriously

>>149212316
Yeah.

>>149207048 (OP)
That doesn't really prove life pointless or worthwhile though.
It doesn't really sway the argument in either direction.

>>149212601
That's exactly the issue.
Fucking Universe Videos on YouTube.
Why should the Vastness of the Universe Affect me? It doesn't have to make me feel insignificant.
>>149211213

>>149207185
Killing is not incompatible with optimism.

>>149207185
because it will result in a brighter future

>>149214780
But is funny to show the little pussies they are when their "meanless and worthless" life become worth and with a reason to live it...

Thanks to their Survival instints.

Hey Jim when do i get my first pube?

>>149207234
Owlman wasn't a good nihilist either. Since someone who doesn't care wouldn't go out of their way to kill people either.

>>149212648
Both Existencialism and Nihilism are the Two Faces of the Same Crap.

Nothing matters, including the fact that nothing matters.
I don't see why I should care or shape my life around this idea anyway.

>>149214848
Weak spirit, Weak mind.

>>149214855
Because I don't care about nihilism enough to shape my life around it?

>>149214811
I do think it is kind of funny that the only real people to not fear death most of the time are the ones that do believe there is a purpose to life. Most nihilists I know of are scared of death because they know there is nothing after that and they will be forgotten and the few that are not scared try to kill themselves. But throw in a Christian or a Muslim who believe life does have purpose and they can face death casualy while nihilists struggle to maintain that level of irreverence. You can't even fault it under instinct because nihilists argue that seeking purpose or deeper meaning in things is in of itself a human instinct, so if they can surpass that through nihilism they should surpass the fear of death as well.

>>149215096
If they believe that, they are a Fucking shame, weak minded and weak of Spirit, everyone surely will be laughing at them in the Afterlife.

>>149214867
Yes, Like i said:
>>149211193
>>149214830

As someone who doesn't think life has any meaning, what I don't get is why I or anyone else should care that life is meaningless.
Like, why go around an try to "convert" people?
Okay life is meaningless, so what? Do they expect me to change my way off doing things just because they don't mean anything?
Changing would be meaningless too so why do it? Anything I do might be meaningless, but so is anything I don't do.
Why should I care either way?

>>149215146
>Like, why go around an try to "convert" people?
Basically post WW1 a lot of people were driving themselves actually insane trying to find the "meaning" in life and philosophy.
In steps the Nihilists to tell them that since we're not finding it despite all this effort, so it's likely that it doesn't actually exist.
And here's the part Smiling Friends and pretty much everyone else misses:
That's ok. It's not a big deal. We don't NEED life to mean anything, we can just enjoy the life we have. Nobody ever mentions that part, I guess because the idea that there's no cheese at the center of the philosophical maze is TERRIFYING or something.

>>149215146
it's just insecurity. No matter how meaningless they claim to find life, they still have the very human desire for validation.

>>149207677
You just proved his point.

>>149208007
>the nihilist's reaction to the prospect of their death is contrary to their philosophy in the way that it should not warrant fear.
Your hardwired survival response has nothing to do with moral philosophy.

>>149208548
>It is human to believe in Santa. It is more human to believe.
Gay

>>149215146
Weak mind, weak Spirit.

Nihilism is a Pathetic, counterproductive and Self-destructive ideology that only lead to selfishness and arrogance to end in antipathy.

>>149207677
>plz think for me jewgle
Make up your own mind you fucking nob

>>149208115
You're acting like that form of nihilism, the midwit edgelord's attempt at philosophy, isn't what most people already think nihilism is. Nobody actually reads Nietzsche, nobody ever actually makes the jump of
>if life has no intrinsic meaning then it is up to us to create meaning
they all get stuck on the first part because that's what a bunch of chuuni fucking edgelords parrot to pretend like they're hardcore. And the refutation to those doomer faggots is to just fucking kill them because you can't pretend to be cool about "the universe doesn't care you exist" when you're crying out for you mother while nursing a gutshot. There is no refutation for proper, non-idiot, socially healthy nihilism - besides the argument that life does have intrinsic meaning- because the entire point is that you're supposed to be the best human being possible to make a life worth living for.

>>149207048 (OP)
why are the same few threads reposted over and over again?

>>149215209
>That's ok. It's not a big deal. We don't NEED life to mean anything, we can just enjoy the life we have.
I get that, but what I don't get is the "badge wearing" types who, ironically, seem to think it's their life goal to try and spread the idea, as if it's some sort of mindblowing revelation that will make people completely change how they operate, even though it doesn't give them a reason to change.

>>149215293
I think you got it the wrong way round in that pic anon

Why are christoids afraid of dying if they think they're going to paradise?

>>149215554
Because they know they're going to hell.

>>149207048 (OP)
Why has nihilism become some sort of culture war topic during the past year or two?

>>149215571
See >>149215293 and >>149215463

>>149207511
That's Absurdism or Existentialism, retard.
"Nihil" doesn't mean "sometimes".

>>149215571
Because Christians have a foothold on the internet now and they’re trying to retake nerd communities.

>>149215747
You mean christlarpers. The culture war christians are just adopting the aesthetics and some of the rheotric and moralizing of christians, I wholesalely reject their claims that they are actually genuine believers in the supernatural or god. It is just an aesthetic "rebellion" they have against what they have deemed to be the culture and world view of their "enemies" as in leftists etc liberals who are genuinely atheistic and more inclined towards nihilistic world views.

Essentially, it is just football club mindset. The /pol/brained "christians" do not believe in god any more than they believed in god or supernatural shit back in gamergate days. It is all a massive larp.

>>149215785
>gamergate
>/pol/