Looking at the bright and disturbingly hilarious side of a situation while never sacrificing the reality of that situation
Some say the divorce rate for marriage is going up while I say the death rate for marriage is going down. That is what optimistic nihilism is.
by optimistic nihilist May 22, 2014
by RoninRogue November 19, 2013
The atheistic viewpoint that numbers and geometric shapes don’t exist but are man-made—they are mere human constructs or abstractions that are often used as imperfect tools to make sense of the physical universe, be it for modeling or predicting purposes.
No one has control over numbers outside of their minds; no one can draw a perfect circle or square; solving all those oft-impractical word problems at best shows a certain degree of algorithmic or algebraic proficiency. Are these limitations, imperfections, or formulations mere instances of mathematical nihilism?
by Fasters March 20, 2023
v. to slip into nihilistic ideas, feelings or attitudes for no other reason than because it is very easy and tempting to do so, much in the way that a smoker who is fighting addiction may find it all too easy to slip back into the habit. The buzz of liberation from values is powerful but short with strong negative after-effects such as the meaninglessness of your choices.
"It's a repeating problem. I have ideas and values, but it all seems either pointless in the long run or futile in the short term so I fall back into smoking nihilism."
"Sometimes I really try to keep the relationship going, but then I smoke nihilism. It's not that I don't care all the time, but there are times when all my emotional attachment dies and I absolutely do not care."
"Sometimes I really try to keep the relationship going, but then I smoke nihilism. It's not that I don't care all the time, but there are times when all my emotional attachment dies and I absolutely do not care."
by Destroyer of Worlds March 25, 2006
There is no turning the shit-fest "capitalist" nightmare around before we fist fuck our species to extinction - Let's party!
What about a resource based economy, won't that.....ah fuck it, we're out of time, need partyboat nihilism to get through.
by Party boat nihilist January 12, 2016
The concept of light or language as the center of the mind.
The idea that ontology is effected from language and points toward the human mind.
Black light.
The idea that ontology is effected from language and points toward the human mind.
Black light.
Emanent nihilism solves the conundrum of deterministicism (arbitrariness) by pointing ontology at rather than away from the mind.
Ontology is effected to emerge from language rather than the mind.
This means that reality-in-the-mind is arbitrary as opposed to language centric; ie. the mind-in-reality emerges before reality-in-the-mind can modulate it with language.
Thus language-centricity is reality; and absolute.
Language-centricity--but not language--is absolute.
Ontology is effected to emerge from language rather than the mind.
This means that reality-in-the-mind is arbitrary as opposed to language centric; ie. the mind-in-reality emerges before reality-in-the-mind can modulate it with language.
Thus language-centricity is reality; and absolute.
Language-centricity--but not language--is absolute.
by metawave September 28, 2019
In keeping with Kantian ethics, Nietzsche dismissed aesthetic as deductive or effective. Aesthetic nihilism on the other hand views aesthetic as emergent.
by sandrashine August 9, 2018