osanna@lemmy.vg There’s a vast, vast gulf between “life is not imbued with inherent meaning” and “I just don’t see the point in anything”. Nihilism, as a world view, isn’t generally crippling. It just boils down to “this is what this is, and nothing more”.
You don’t sound like a nihilist, you sound deeply depressed. You can be a nihilist and depressed, but what you’re expression sounds much more like depression rather than nihilism.
Exactly. Nihilism is a philosophy—a cognitive approach to understanding the world. It doesn’t mean that nothing in the world has value to me. Rather, I recognize that nothing has intrinsic value. I am the one who must assign value to things.
If you can’t see or feel any value in things, that isn’t nihilism. In that case, you have an emotional problem, such as depression.
osanna@lemmy.vg There’s a vast, vast gulf between “life is not imbued with inherent meaning” and “I just don’t see the point in anything”. Nihilism, as a world view, isn’t generally crippling. It just boils down to “this is what this is, and nothing more”.
You don’t sound like a nihilist, you sound deeply depressed. You can be a nihilist and depressed, but what you’re expression sounds much more like depression rather than nihilism.
Exactly. Nihilism is a philosophy—a cognitive approach to understanding the world. It doesn’t mean that nothing in the world has value to me. Rather, I recognize that nothing has intrinsic value. I am the one who must assign value to things. If you can’t see or feel any value in things, that isn’t nihilism. In that case, you have an emotional problem, such as depression.