You speak for yourself that is your right,but it's not for to project this condemnation on others that hold a different view. I for one am perfectly content to hold the view you despise with rabid zeal. I look at all the other human species that have lived now extinct and realize that I'm not special and with that realization have come to know Homo Sapien Sapien is not special either. If we don't leave this planet, we one day will all become extinct.It would seem like a pretty sick universe and reality to give us this sense of wonder and awe we feel when we look up at the night sky - even this sense of love we feel for ourselves and others - and even reality itself, just the amazing scope of reality and magnificence of it - for it all to be some kind of perverted delusion, some kind of fake trick manifested by undirected pieces and bits of random, purposeless matter.
That love itself is just a delusion in a purposeless universe. Frederic WH Myers used to say that one of the most important questions one could as is: "Is the Universe friendly?"
A deceptive, mechanical universe that only pays attention to universal laws, where we as individuals are simply mere victims in a huge mechanical machine - where the near infinity of stars we see when we look up at night, is just a mechanical nothingness of being, and love a mockery of our own hopes for a soul - for ourselves and our loved ones ... I find not one whit to be friendly.
The philosophy of nihilism isn't friendly. It is a black pit of nothingness that is hypothesized to turn the wheels of our universe. There is no solace of the human condition with nihilism. And there certainly is no ultimate meaning one can derive from materialistic nihilism.
My Best,
Bertha
I like to state what I said above differently, concisely. You can say anything you want, just not your path to truth is the correct path.
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