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Poor Nietzsche, he didn't realize he WAS God. We all are. Oh hell, that's a whole different thread.
Anyone wanting to learn about nihilism could start with just about any Nine Inch Nails CD, lol.
Nihilism is a common phase for disenfranchised teenagers to go through, and some never leave it. You'll find a small percentage of us goths are nihilistic as well, though most of us are far more average than you think we are. As a philosophy, nihilism seems to be a dead end, an excuse for amoral hedonism. But the fact is, most true nihilists either commit suicide, or lead ordinary, everyday, harmless, unnoticed lives like the rest of us. I agree with whoever said that if you believe in nothing, you might as well select an amusing personal mythology and play with it. I don't think believing in the purple chicken gods is really ultimately any more absurd than worshipping invisible old white men in the sky, a dead rabbi, or the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet - whom I include because she happens to be one of the deities in my personal pantheon. Didn't want anyone to think I was leaving myself out of the mix.....
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