I don't identify as such at this point even though probably technically I am. Nihilism is not despair. Meaning does not have to be intrinsic to be worthwhile or inspiring.

On the other hand there was a time when I was reluctant to accept the label "atheist" for largely the same reasons; it's often wrongly equated to nihilism and/or despair.

It's just that nihilism is a good deal more elaborate and detailed and extensive an idea than atheism and it might benefit from a little re-branding. Nietzsche did not frame his philosophy as morose, but rather, as robust and inspiring. This tells me that most people don't understand it as he did ... just as most people don't understand agnosticism as Huxley did. Both terms have been hijacked by people who never bothered to understand them and now confidently identify with something rather different by the same name.

Atheism at least has the virtue of being drop-dead simple, it's lack of belief concerning even one deity. And people don't even get that right. They see it as unbelief, they see it as unbelief specifically in the Christian god, or a bunch of other stuff it's not.

I'm a Nihalist. My friend Nihal is pretty cool, and his granny is from India and makes a great curry. Count me in for that philosophical school.

no, and i am saddened by how many of y'all say you are.

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Yes! I keep looking for alternatives, but there’s no way around the truth!

Whenever people mention ‘nihilists’ I think of the inept kidnappers in The Big Lebowski... so no, I am not one of those.

Religion is ridiculous. Still, the universe seems so orchestrated. I voted no.

We all believe in something.

NOPE. Life is wonderful!!

Scientific method, I see....or not. Some will read it as a call to like-minded folk. Everyone turned off by the idea of nihilism will have to overcome that aversion to even bother voting. I also wonder how many respondents will have differing personal definitions for the term.

Ni!

If I answer the poll I am not a nihilist as it means I care about contributing to a pointless question. If I don’t answer the poll I have read the question which means I care what was written so as I have read the post and not answered the poll I am not a nihilist.

Don't label me dammit!

God no.

No, not really. Free will means that any of us can profess our own reality, and those realities are objectively observable. I think there are objective facts, and even though anyone's life relates to them differently than anyone else's, they are there and knowable. But that's just me. ?

Nihilism from Latin nihil, meaning 'nothing' is the philosophical viewpoint that suggests the denial or lack of belief towards the reputedly meaningful aspects of life.
I guess that pretty much sums it up for many on this site.
BTW why did you pick Diogenese for your id? You do know there were 2 Diogenes' one Turkish (Sinop) and one Greek. I was stationed in Turkey at a small site which was known as Det. 4 Diogenese station.I learned a lot about this philosopher.

Probably

What in truth is a nihilist? In the mid-nineteenth century, a number of Russians embraced what they perceived as nihilism. For example, is it the concepts expounded by Pisarev? Turgenev in his novel, OTSY I DETI (Poorly translated as FATHERS AND SONS) offers the character of Bazarov whom some so-called nihilists embraced and others dismissed as an absurdity.

I have nothing to say