• wallmenis@lemmy.one
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    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
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      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.

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        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.

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      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.”