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minus-squarevzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up44·4 months agoI consider myself as mostly existentialist (nothing matters, so find your own meaning), but absurdism has a strong pull, I must admit.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·4 months agoExistentialism doesn’t necessarily claim that nothing matters, so yours sounds more like optimistic nihilism, which is very similar if not identical to absurdism.
minus-squarevzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 months agoThanks for pointing that out. I was trying to be concise and keep in style with the OP, but I may have gone overboard there.
minus-squareZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoI would probably label myself an optimistic nihilist, and I’m one of the main people spreading such ideas right now.
I consider myself as mostly existentialist (nothing matters, so find your own meaning), but absurdism has a strong pull, I must admit.
Existentialism doesn’t necessarily claim that nothing matters, so yours sounds more like optimistic nihilism, which is very similar if not identical to absurdism.
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.
I would probably label myself an optimistic nihilist, and I’m one of the main people spreading such ideas right now.