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by taffronaut 87 days ago
I'd respectfully challenge that your opinion reflects reality. Nihilism [1] is just one philosophy amongst many. It's no more 'the one truth' than any of the others. Many of the other philosophies have evolved in the light of folks living for centuries through harsher reality than most of us are experiencing today. You might consider other philosophies to be delusional (as others consider nihilism to be delusional), but even in that different delusion they provide a framework to relate your love of your own personality and humanity with the same feelings that a lot of other people also feel about themselves and also each other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism

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Philosophy is the theory and we are discussing the practice here. Be a non-nihilist; belong to any school of thought you like.

Ultimately, out there, people value you by just 5-6 things and almost never they are your beliefs or personal values.

So your respectful challenge seems to be missing the point. Your beliefs are not challenged here. But you cannot change how other people value you.

>Ultimately, out there, people value you by just 5-6 things and almost never they are your beliefs or personal values.

This is such a rigid world view that is demonstrably wrong. I won't even argue with you because others have already pointed out why this cannot be true elsewhere.

What I will say is that I hope you're doing alright.

I have no idea what's your goal with that message. I would love to live in your world but I am fairly sure that wherever I was geographically (5 countries), it does not exist there.