Beat Mango
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I say to people I don't care about anything. That there is little I value, at least not enough to chase it. People respond by saying I'm depressed. I disagree, and think I'm simply nihilistic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism
Is there a difference, between nihilism and depression?
I'm also curious what your underlying metaphysical view of the world is. If it's not nihilism, then why not?
My view is that any values we have are arbitrarily conceived from our gender, our bodies, our social standing and other temporal things we have no control over. We don't make our values, our values make us. We can do what we want, but we cannot will what we will.
Part of nihilism is recognising "no necessary norms, rules, or laws"... if our values that these norms, rules and laws arise from are based on such fleeting things such as our bodies and social position, then I don't see how somebody can argue that they are necessary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism
Is there a difference, between nihilism and depression?
I'm also curious what your underlying metaphysical view of the world is. If it's not nihilism, then why not?
My view is that any values we have are arbitrarily conceived from our gender, our bodies, our social standing and other temporal things we have no control over. We don't make our values, our values make us. We can do what we want, but we cannot will what we will.
Part of nihilism is recognising "no necessary norms, rules, or laws"... if our values that these norms, rules and laws arise from are based on such fleeting things such as our bodies and social position, then I don't see how somebody can argue that they are necessary.