r/nihilism

Say life has no meaning but we are born are first feeling is love without seeing where we come from
Race and religion are a toxic condition that they teach to us when we are born
Wars have the falling the victors are calling
They give out there medals for scares
But the inside the a soldiers crying for all the death that he caused

I don’t know if losing interest in my goals made me recognize their meaninglessness or if their meaninglessness made me lose interest in them.

I used to be so obsessed with making money, educating myself, having high status, dating, external validation, material gain, you name it. I just realized how meaningless it is. Yeah, sure you can enjoy those things as long as your alive. But I was hit by an epiphany and come to realize that if I really got everything I ever wanted, I’d still be the same apathetic, pessimistic, and empty person I am behind all the facades and phases I’ve had.

I had a hedonistic view on life and I thought my only happiness would come from material gain, relationships, traveling, extravagant experiences etc. It was my reason to get out of bed for years until one day I just realized that those things will never make me happy. And spirituality is definitely not the answer to this emptiness.

Nothing will make me content, happy or fulfilled. Everything is underwhelming. I’m not depressed. I just think there’s no point in pursuing some of these hedonistic and materialistic goals anymore because they won’t make me as happy and fulfilled as I thought they were. To be honest, I miss having that slave mentality of worshipping money, material possessions, status, and superficial stuff. At least it gave me consolation and happiness in my perplexing existence.

I genuinely can’t find motivation anymore, even though I function properly. Like I said, I’m not depressed. I just feel a sense of apathy and nihilism. The most unrealistically extravagant rewarding experience I could think of when I was a full blown hedonist, would give me the same dopamine spike that eating pizza in my bed would.

What do I do now? Do I just hope I return to my normal state? Hedonism is delusion, but I enjoy the delusion.

is it more strange that we exist at all, or that at the end of it all, we will not exist at all, for all eternity?

I've read the works of intelligent minds like Nietzsche who think deeply about every aspect of humanity and I find it interesting majority not all, seem to come to a similar conclusion about a particular gender or haven't said anything 'nice' to write about them. Why is that?

I wouldn't say im a nihilist (kinda) but I have been thinking about death and the point of life a lot for the past 2 months. Its crazy we're just on a planet in an endless void of space. Its crazy how anything works really. I'll be driving and just stop and look around and freak out realizing im a flesh of meat that could die at any moment and how un important my life really is? Ive also thought about how im just gonna grow old and die, why not get it over with while im young you know? Get it out the way now especially if everything ends eventually? Im 16f by the way. Back to the point, I do kinda fear death but I do remind myself its probably like sleeping with no dream so yea, which i dont mind? I wanted to see others opinions on this? Like if anyone is scared of death in general? And if your not why? And if you are why?

Nihilism at this age is incredibly confusing, I’ve thought about suicide for a long time, but I’m terrified of the exsistence of hell, agonizing death that repeats over and over. I’m still in high school, yet I find myself questioning the point of it all and why existence was created in the first place. Like, we're supposedly created solely to worship God, so why is all of this even necessary? I don’t know what to do, I feel like a walking corpse because I’ve contemplated suicide so many times. Now, I feel like I’m left with only a few emotions, and that has completely shifted my perspective on everything.

Building and doing things is meaningless

Theres nothing special about It.

From the past 3 years i feel like i have noticed a sudden increase in sympathy towards everyone , i feel sad towards the one who are suffering and also that i suffered quite much during that period so could it be because of that​​​​​​?

We often celebrate birth as the beginning of something beautiful.

But from an antinatalist perspective, birth can also be seen differently:

To be born is to enter a world where pain, illness, loss, fear, aging, and eventually death are unavoidable.

Life creates the wound.

We spend our existence trying to heal it—through love, pleasure, achievement, relationships, purpose, and countless distractions.

And eventually, death brings the final end to the experience of suffering.

This is not a celebration of death.

It is a philosophical question about whether creating a life that can suffer is morally necessary at all.

If no one is born, no one experiences hunger.

No one experiences grief.

No one fears death.

No one needs to escape suffering.

Antinatalism asks us to consider whether preventing suffering is better than creating another person and hoping their life will be worth the cost.

Maybe the deepest question isn't:

"How can we make life better?"

Maybe it's:

"Why create a being that needs life to become better in the first place?"

If you try to explain it to any of your family/friends/loved ones, etc., they automatically assume you are either crazy or just suffering from depression.

Does anyone have any better luck than I do with this situation or is it just what it is?

As the title suggests. I am done with everything. I don't understand if life has no meaning, so why do we humans exist? It's tiring... humans are rotten to core, they are so evil and insensitive. I get targeted by my school teachers every day. There's a lot of things going in my life right now.

I srsly don't understand, why do other people even try so hard? Why can't we just live and let others live? I don't even have a will to live. But I can't die either. I am tired.