nihilism

Over the past few years, I have formulated my philosophy of life, a 13-page Google Doc that may be found by Googling "Philo Sofer" and clicking on the first link ("My Philosophy by Philo Sofer"). In the first half of the document, I present and defend the following positions: atheism, afterlife...

I was arguing with a self-proclaimed nihilist yesterday about the supposed virtues of his philosophy. He kept insisting that as modern society becomes increasingly technocratic and religion loses its grip on people, nihilism will become the driving force of social reconstruction. I countered by...

Max Tegmark is a professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for his theory: "All structures that exist mathematically exist also physically." There are various formal scientific papers about that theory. I think I have a more consistent version of that theory based on small changes in the...

Full disclosure: I have a deep and abiding affection and respect for Dr. Harry Neumann. From The Claremont Institute--Vintage CRB--Vol. IV, No. 3--Letters to the Editor: Neumann's definition of nihilism: When asked whether by saying that nihilism is "true" one proves it "false", Neumann...

The root of fanaticism is not faith, but a lack of faith. It is a lack of faith in everything but God--and ultimately, in God as well. If someone lacks faith in humanity, in the ability of most ordinary people to do the right thing most of the time, then values must be based elsewhere than in...

I have an atheist friend who has recently completely embraced nihilism. He believes that as there is no purpose to life, no good or bad, no right or wrong, and therefore no ethics. We are all just matter going around trying to distract ourselves from the inevidability of death. I consider...

I was browsing through another forum, when I noticed the above article and link site.Site of source. This snipped piece below has me confused. The suggestion is nihilism is faith or a faith in God/need to believe in a God. However the dictionary term points to a whole other meaning also below...

This looks like the right place. 300th episode Bart blackboard: "I will not." followed by trashing said blackboard with an axe.