Basically, I'm not a part of ANY cult, religion, or cause. I'm not a secular humanist, because I don't believe in morality. I can't even get behind statements like "Leave the world a better place than when you entered it." Why should I care about the world once I'm dead? The world doesn't have any inherent value, nor does anything in the universe have value.
What is this belief called? I need to put it on my Facebook profile under the "Belief" section or whatever.
Nihilism.
Nihilism.
Spiral out, keep going wrote:
Basically, I'm not a part of ANY cult
I need to put it on my Facebook profile
I think you might want to rethink the whether the above sentences are consistent.
Good Wigins wrote:
Spiral out, keep going wrote:Basically, I'm not a part of ANY cult
I need to put it on my Facebook profile
I think you might want to rethink whether the above sentences are consistent.
Corrected.
We wants the money Lebowski...
Is "not believing in anything" the same thing as "believing in nothing"?
clinical major depressive disorder?
First you describe skepticism, and then you switch to nihilism.
Make up your mind. Do you really not believe anything, or do you believe "the world doesn't have any inherent value," etc?
As with most European-type philosophies, both skepticism and nihilism dig themselves into a Cartesian hole of self-professed ignorance, and then proclaim the discovery of some guiding principle that reveals the world to them.
Toolism
Its called "being a wanker"
"Get rich or die tryin'"
haha just watched "The Big Lebowski" the other night. I can answer confidently by saying nihilism.
definalty a nihilist or at least of fan of tool :) but be careful when putting it as your religion, cause just like christianity it is impossible to defend with logic. you simply cant go beyond logic to find logic. look at it as a way to simply expereice different ideas of truth or lack therfore
Spiral out, keep going wrote:
Basically, I'm not a part of ANY cult, religion, or cause. I'm not a secular humanist, because I don't believe in morality. I can't even get behind statements like "Leave the world a better place than when you entered it." Why should I care about the world once I'm dead? The world doesn't have any inherent value, nor does anything in the universe have value.
What is this belief called? I need to put it on my Facebook profile under the "Belief" section or whatever.
I would agree with a lot of what you say, but I do think there is Right and Wrong. Do I think you get punished after you die for doing "wrong"- no. But basic things like stealing, killing, and lying are wrong.
They are wrong because doing so hurts the social order and doesnt allow the group/society to get beyond the most rudimentary meaning of "civilization", for example see Haiti or just about any country in Africa.
Tea Party
Not nihilism, which is the denial of inherent meaning, not the denial of existence (moral nihilism doesn't deny the existence of morality, it just claims that morality is not inherent and is therefore abstractly derived).
You may be thinking of solipsism, but since you focussed on religious belief in your post, you are probably thinking of skepticism.
Spiral out, keep going wrote:
Basically, I'm not a part of ANY cult, religion, or cause. I'm not a secular humanist, because I don't believe in morality. I can't even get behind statements like "Leave the world a better place than when you entered it." Why should I care about the world once I'm dead? The world doesn't have any inherent value, nor does anything in the universe have value.
What is this belief called? I need to put it on my Facebook profile under the "Belief" section or whatever.
You are...apathetic.
I told someone once that they were apathetic, and they thought I was insulting them (calling them "pathetic"), so just because of that, if you don't know the word "apathetic", please look it up.
Wrong - apathy (which is a feature of the nihilistic malaise) simply implies that, because the world is without inherent meaning, the OP doesn't care about religion, etc. Since the OP espouses a belief (he claims not to believe in any religion -which in itself is a belief system) he is not apathetic.
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