• wallmenis@lemmy.oneEnglish
    911·
    4 months ago

    Nothing matters (so do nothing because there is no reason to do something)

    Nothing matters (so do anything because why not!?)

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      44·
      4 months ago

      I consider myself as mostly existentialist (nothing matters, so find your own meaning), but absurdism has a strong pull, I must admit.

      • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        4 months ago

        Existentialism doesn’t necessarily claim that nothing matters, so yours sounds more like optimistic nihilism, which is very similar if not identical to absurdism.

        • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          5·
          4 months ago

          Thanks for pointing that out. I was trying to be concise and keep in style with the OP, but I may have gone overboard there.

        • ZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.works
          31·
          4 months ago

          I would probably label myself an optimistic nihilist, and I’m one of the main people spreading such ideas right now.

    • Kayana@ttrpg.network
      4·
      4 months ago

      Because I didn’t know absurdism, I read the second one differently at first:

      [The] nothing matters.

      And I immediately had to think of this gem:

      “But it doesn’t do anything!” - “No, it does nothing.”