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minus-square@vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilink44•2 months agoI consider myself as mostly existentialist (nothing matters, so find your own meaning), but absurdism has a strong pull, I must admit.
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish25•2 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.
minus-square@vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilink5•2 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-squarePissipissini Johnson 🩵! :Dlinkfedilink2•2 months agoI would probably label myself an optimistic nihilist, and I’m one of the main people spreading such ideas right now.
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.
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.
I would probably label myself an optimistic nihilist, and I’m one of the main people spreading such ideas right now.