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I have no idea what nihilism is. But I think I should shut up now because I've helped to contribute to the hijacking of this thread.
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nihilism is skepticism to the extreme.
it is the belief that all values are without base and that nothing can ever truly be known.
in it's earliest use, nihilists were revolutionaries in 19th-century Russia that believed by destroying existing social and political anchors and institutions, change could be initiated and that that was, in fact, the ONLY way to instigate change.
in its modern day interpretation, nihilism is the belief[much like i described above] that traditional values and morals are pointless.
and to a further extreme, that nothing has value.
if nothing has value and you put value on nothing, then everything and anything is pointless.
i would go on some more about it, but it's an interesting subject that has many facets to it.
supermunch, you cannot define someone's life with your own views on purpose.
you say that that person's life is pointless because they did not propagate.
why? in what sense?
and the spontaneous generation theory is so ridiculous, it's amazing.
by simply forgoing reproduction[a theme explored in many books and movies, one being Y: The Last Man], this does not invoke purpose.
it may make the human species extinct, but it does not mean that procreation was the point to life.
this is akin to saying that if a burrito's purpose is unknown and is to be eaten, but does not get eaten, that being eaten was its purpose.