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Overwhelming feeling of nihilism
I can't seem to get over this feeling, the 'life is a game' feeling. Nothing seems meaningful like career, relationships anything. Anyone else have any similar experience or ways they got around this feeling?
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I thought the other day that if I was convicted of a crime (wrongfully) and I went to prison then it wouldn't really matter because, as you seem to think, life is just a sequence of ultimately meaningless experiences, and if I went to jail I wouldn't care because life doesn't really mean much to me anyway. Maybe I need to rephrase that, life does mean much to me, but I'm not bothered so much by what happens as some people seem to be. It (wrongful imprisonment) would just be another experience amongst many, and the fact that it would change my life dramatically wouldn't have any lasting significance because I'd just do something with my life other than I had originally planned. Perhaps the reality would be different, I don't know.
Is that similar?
Is that similar?
naivesincerity
I can't seem to get over this feeling, the 'life is a game' feeling. Nothing seems meaningful like career, relationships anything. Anyone else have any similar experience or ways they got around this feeling?
I know where you're coming from. The whole I-feel-depressed-but-dont-have-depression sort of thing. Do something constructive to make you feel like you've achieved something. It usually stems from a complete lack of self-worth. Make yourself somebody. Might fix it
Kind of, although I dunno if I'd go as far as to say I wouldn't care about going to jail! But , yes the principle is the same and i see what you're getting at--Poltroon
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It usually stems from a complete lack of self-worth.
Nihilism? How so?
I have to say I don't really give a crap about many things any more but i'm just strange lol.
I get the feeling too, when I exercise occasionally... I think to myself, "this is ultimately pointless, as we're all gonna die". So then I just go listen to some Monty Python to cheer myself up.
naivesincerity
I can't seem to get over this feeling, the 'life is a game' feeling. Nothing seems meaningful like career, relationships anything. Anyone else have any similar experience or ways they got around this feeling?
I'm fairly nihilistic, I suppose. I wouldn't go as far as to worry about it, though - worry really isn't a nihilistic trait!
Just pursue what you find enjoyable, and try not to over-analyse things.
Read The Idiot by Dostoevsky and especially look at Ippolit (a nihilist himself). He only appears towards the latter stages of the book, but is very interesting.
englishstudent
Read The Idiot by Dostoevsky and especially look at Ippolit (a nihilist himself). He only appears towards the latter stages of the book, but is very interesting.
What happens to him? What do we find out?
naivesincerity
What happens to him? What do we find out?
Read it.
englishstudent
Read The Idiot by Dostoevsky and especially look at Ippolit (a nihilist himself). He only appears towards the latter stages of the book, but is very interesting.
I would rather recommend "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
Describes a highly nihilistic person who kills and goes to prison and then gets a sentence for execuation without giving a damn (until the last page of the book, there he realizes that life itself is good enough reason to live for)englishstudent
Read it.
Cool, I'll order it. Not that I'm sophisticated enough to get all the hidden meanings in high brow literature, but I'll try
Paragon
I would rather recommend "The Stranger" by Albert Camus Describes a highly nihilistic person who kills and goes to prison and then gets a sentence for execuation without giving a damn
Describes a highly nihilistic person who kills and goes to prison and then gets a sentence for execuation without giving a damn
That'll cheer me upActually, I've read it already
naivesincerity
Cool, I'll order it. Not that I'm sophisticated enough to get all the hidden meanings in high brow literature, but I'll try
There aren't really hidden meanings - if you feel nihilistic tendencies you will see the book in a different way to, let's say, a Christian. I think it's very good, and it might make you think about the issues - that's why I can't really summarize. It's also a great read!
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