I just stumbled upon that term today. I read up on nihilism before but Existential Nihilism basically holds that life does not have any real meaning or value. I started looking up nihilism when my aunt accused me of being one. When I read about it, it seems to follow my thought process. I see it as more of a neurologically built in philosophy
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I guess you can use both terms simultaneously… Nihilism is the extreme end of Atheism thinking in my opinion. Only few people see reality from a nihilistic perspective, all the rest are swimming in endless delusion
As for me, I think life is meaningless and pointless because we are all going to die anyway. People like me just wanna speed up the process and get it over with. We are born to lose in the end, all of us.
As for me, nature is nihilistic. I really have no choice to look at reality in a nihilistic way if I want to be honest with myself, and what I observe from the world around me.
I don’t see the difference between one form of nihilism and the next. When nihilism is applied to any facet of life (epistemological, existential, metaphysical, moral etc), the conclusion is the nullification of the perceived truth. Adding a prefix of suffix onto nihilism means that you must hold onto some other belief, but nihilism itself is the rejection of everything. That’s why there are atheists/pantheists/agnostics etc, for people still tied to one thing or another.
Nihilism is the black hole of philosophical ideas. It is ultimate and complete rejection of reality.
I’m a natural nihilist due to my brain chemistry and what I observed in reality. I’m not a nihilist because of philosophical purposes.