Who enjoys Nihilism?

Fruttasecca said:
lol no you are the one who implied somebody cannot be a philosopher because of having a different formal education, wtf do you think a philologist of ancient Greek reads?
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I never said that. None of the Ancient Greek philosophers had the same education in philosophy that we do today. Aristotle was a doctor by trade and Plato a mathematician. Hell, Kurt Godel wa a mathematician and Pierre Duhem was a physicist and I hold them in high regard as philosopher. Nietzsche's training in philology clearly didn't translate into actual meaningful philosophical insights barring ones that were anyone can deduce with enough common sense (being a complete passive sheep all your life is bad, mass culture is not good,etc). Just because someone is a good philologist doesn't mean they will be a good philosopher, especially when you see how spurious and non-connected Nietzsche's thought is compared to people that actually build systems of thought like Aristotle, Averroes or Augustine. He's not that great of a thinker. I can even say that someone like Jeremy Bentham, the mind behind utilitarianism, or Kant is more consistent than Nietzsche by a wide margin and while I disagree with their philosophies, they at least attempt to make a coherent point and build a logical system of thought instead of coping with childhood traumas that only literal children think is deep.
 
Virago Esteemer said:
I never said that. None of the Ancient Greek philosophers had the same education in philosophy that we do today. Aristotle was a doctor by trade and Plato a mathematician. Hell, Kurt Godel wa a mathematician and Pierre Duhem was a physicist and I hold them in high regard as philosopher. Nietzsche's training in philology clearly didn't translate into actual meaningful philosophical insights barring ones that were anyone can deduce with enough common sense (being a complete passive sheep all your life is bad, mass culture is not good,etc). Just because someone is a good philologist doesn't mean they will be a good philosopher, especially when you see how spurious and non-connected Nietzsche's thought is compared to people that actually build systems of thought like Aristotle, Averroes or Augustine. He's not that great of a thinker. I can even say that someone like Jeremy Bentham, the mind behind utilitarianism, or Kant is more consistent than Nietzsche by a wide margin and while I disagree with their philosophies, they at least attempt to make a coherent point and build a logical system of thought instead of coping with childhood traumas that only literal children think is deep.
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Cool story bro but a lot of people would disagree with you on that.
 
Psychological and spiritual strength through the form of self mastery is the ultimate synchronization of life itself. Working through the cycle of self dissatisfaction, self improvement, and self discovery is fundamental to answering the problem of meaning and value in life. So long as your goals of growth are what you deam an idealized life affirming version themselves and it makes life into something worthwhile and personally redeemable.

Life is inevitable suffering, so, it's not a matter of if but for what. How can anyone have any of this or grow as a person if they are a nihilist and nothing matters?
 
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Kill Your Idols said:
If a mass shooter decides to go off and you're his first target, are you going to care about the moral value of his actions?
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Honestly, yes. Why you do something matters about as much as what you do.

If the shooter is trying to kill the pedo teacher who is raping his baby sister, and I catch a bullet in the crossfire, before I bleed out I’m going to wish him luck finding the teacher.

But I have an odd moral code to begin with.
Matt Damon said:
Did you ever read any Nietzsche?

He never advocated a philosophy of nihilism. Everything he ever wrote was warning against it, predicting how the death of Christianity would bring it into the world, and the best way to fight against it in a world without God.

If his disjointed writing ever had a single coherent thesis, that was it. I don't think there's ever been a philosopher where his beliefs were more different from the normie "common knowledge" about him.
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Where’s that 4chan meme when I need it… oh yes:
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