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minus-squarewallmenis@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up92arrow-down1·4 months agoNothing matters (so do nothing because there is no reason to do something) Nothing matters (so do anything because why not!?)
minus-squarevzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up44·4 months agoI consider myself as mostly existentialist (nothing matters, so find your own meaning), but absurdism has a strong pull, I must admit.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·4 months agoExistentialism 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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minus-squarevzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 months agoThanks for pointing that out. I was trying to be concise and keep in style with the OP, but I may have gone overboard there.
minus-squareKayana@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-24 months agoBecause 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.”
Nothing matters (so do nothing because there is no reason to do something)
Nothing matters (so do anything because why not!?)
I consider myself as mostly existentialist (nothing matters, so find your own meaning), but absurdism has a strong pull, I must admit.
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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Thanks for pointing that out. I was trying to be concise and keep in style with the OP, but I may have gone overboard there.
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.”