ah, so here nihilism is mostly understood as disenchantment with a particular kind of solution to meaning?
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I use it to mean the stance that there is no meaning. (Not the only definition, but fairly standard)
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Or, is depressive nihilism an unusual and unnecessary bug/risk/temporary failure mode in the process of broadening understanding?
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... but you don't have to. Nihilism without despair is the only truly consistent perspective.
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I don’t actually think nihilism is right, but if it doesn’t cause problems, then that is good!
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Nihilism seemed inevitable outside my Schafferesque evangelicalism, until I left. Then inconceivable b/c world more wondrous.
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I had had this belief that awe and wonder were exclusively religious phenomena and life would be dull w/o Jesus --was SO wrong.
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: Interesting chat. Something about this pattern does feel inevitable. Or at least it has been a deep pattern that stands out.
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seems to show up a lot: descent in service of ascent, trough of disillusionment, dark night of the soul, etc.
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