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Lucky7
2006-04-18, 18:10
Quick poll/discussion.

I'm neither but I was wondering how many of you 'atheists' are actually 'nihilists'?

SurahAhriman
2006-04-18, 18:26
I'm an atheist. I'm not a nihilist.

Lucky7
2006-04-18, 18:31
how does your belief differ?

smallpox champion
2006-04-18, 18:44
The universe is indifferent, but people are not.

Lou Reed
2006-04-18, 19:19
ni·hil·ism



1. Philosophy.

1. An extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence.

2. A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

2. Rejection of all distinctions in moral or religious value and a willingness to repudiate all previous theories of morality or religious belief.

3. The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement.

4. also Nihilism A diffuse, revolutionary movement of mid 19th-century Russia that scorned authority and tradition and believed in reason, materialism, and radical change in society and government through terrorism and assassination.

5. Psychiatry. A delusion, experienced in some mental disorders, that the world or one's mind, body, or self does not exist.

elfstone
2006-04-18, 21:39
I would think that very very few atheists are nihilists. The two points of view are very different. Atheists do not believe that a deity exists, nihilists do not believe that anything exists. The connection is trivial.

bonkers
2006-04-18, 23:54
Atheist, not a nihilist.