people that unrealistic idiots don't understand. its about realising that there is no essential value or purpose to existence or the universe, therefore everything that we do has no real point, and the hype isn't worth it.
I have an idea. Why don't you stop labelling Nihilism as a 'self-defeating philosophy' and actually declare what you think is the validation for existence. then you might have an argument.
by BadLieutenant November 9, 2004
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Nihilist - We believe in nothing, Lebowski. Nothing.
Nihilist: We thought we were going to get a million dollars! It's not fair!

Walter: Not fair? Who's the fucking nihilist?
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Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
by JLiebs December 24, 2003
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People need to stop confusing nihilism with being pessimistic. They are different. You can't be "unhealthily nihilsitic". Expecting the fall of humanity and our lifetime being pointless can be a positive way of life.

If you are just depressed and think life is not worth living, you are not a nihilist. Stop abusing the word.
Trevor said he was unhealthily nihilistic, but he is actually pessimistic, and not a nihilist.
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One that disreguards all that is not inherent to reality, and isn't fearing of death, though does not seek it. Nihilists have a tendency to love nature and detest concrete and plastic.
Death is the only certainty in life, therefore, giving life meaning.
by GROMM May 1, 2005
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Nihilist, a person whose motto is
"The point is: there is no point"

A true nihilist doesn't like to destroy because by doing so he is not gaining anything because there is nothing to gain. So those who try to destroy aren't true nihilists.
Heidegger was a nihilist

I don't believe in god i'm a nihilist.
by Xhamlliku November 3, 2004
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One whose active denial in the meaning or worth of life is typically based on an incongruity between life and that person's pre-conceived notions of justice, fairness, or meaning. In other words, one who is tortuously trying to follow an ethos which denies that there can be a meaningful ethos.
False Nihilist - "If people weren't so stupid they would learn to be miserable all the time like me."

True Nihilist - "To match the metric of our corporate vision, we must leverage our best people to think outside of the box and achieve strategic ubiquity and synergy.
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