Ask a Nihilist Atheist!

[Taverner]

About Nihilism

http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/nihilism.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism

Quick note: although we reject morality, not all of us reject ethics. There IS a difference.


And Atheism

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/nontheism/atheism/

[Sabriel]

1. Why do socks disappear in the dryer?

And why can't I get anyone else to scoop out the litter box?

[Taverner]

2. One sock sponaneously turns to lint when you hit the on button

Of course the sock is neither sock nor lint until you observe the outcome

As for the litter box, all I can say is you looked into the abyss, and it looked right back into you.

[Warpy]

7. Schroedinger's sock!

[wryter2000]

13. Actually, this question was solved in the 80's

There was a magazine called Science 80, Science 81, etc. They observed the disappearance of socks in the dryer and the mysterious appearance of wire coathangers in the closet. They positted that the sock was the larval form of the wire coathanger.

[Lucian]

3. Hmmmm...I agree with the Nihilistic philosophy.

I now label myself as an Nihilistic Secular Humanist.

Imagine that.

[Taverner]

5. It fits

You don't have to reject ethics and humanism

Just intrinsic meanings

After all, we, the world around us and everyone we know are just collections of atoms

And feelings are brain chemicals and electrical pulses

You aren't even one organism, but a collection of millions (mitochondrial DNA anyone?)

[RaleighNCDUer]

16. I've often wondered if mitochondrials are related in any way to

midichlorians - is The Force with us? But only on the mother's side>

[Boojatta]

18. DU is just strings of bits.

Can I reject the notion that your message has any meaning?

[navarth]

4. Interesting stuff! Thanks.

Reminds me of an old witticism I used to spread around: "I was going to be a nihilist, but I figured 'what's the use'?"

K & R

[NoPasaran]

6. What part of the chicken gives us the "nugget"?

:shrug:

[Taverner]

8. OK - you know when you're skinning chicken?

And that part between the skin and meat, that gelatiny gooey shit. Right there.

[GodlessBiker]

9. Every part. That's the problem.

[Goblinmonger]

10. Nihilists! Fuck me!

I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.

Sorry, this thread was begging for it.

[Meshuga]

23. No need to apologize

The Walter Sobchak quote is much appreciated.

[Goblinmonger]

11. No, Donny, these men are nihilists.

There's nothing to be afraid of.

Sorry. Last one; I promise.

[Taverner]

12. Shut the fuck up Donny

[Jester Messiah]

14. Ask one? I am one!

Well, more of an agnostic nihilist. Atheism implies far too much certainty. There's no evidence one way or the other, though the strong probability seems to come down on the "no god" side (at least to me.)

[laconicsax]

17. There probably is or there probably isn't. Pick a side, we're at war!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. Nihilism is a concept

Experience is experience.

Should you try to describe experience or simply experience it?

[cosmik debris]

19. Nihilists make a lot out of nothing.

But none of it matters.

[ZombieHorde]

20. Nothing is good! Nothing is worth dieing for!

[quaker bill]

21. Why get out of bed?

[Silent3]

22. To get to the other side!

:)

[quaker bill]

24. But there is no essential difference

between the sides. But then one must make the sacrifice so the great among us will thrive. You know, "better the suffering of a thousand ordinary men that the elite among us may thrive". Nihilism is all so uplifting. Pass the Xanax please.