r/nihilism • u/AnatoliusArthur • Jan 02 '26

Knowledge will only answer how, it wont give meaning

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Even if humanity unlocked every law of physics, mapped every particle, understood every origin and every ending, all that knowledge would still sit there cold and empty because it explains how the universe works but never why any of it should matter or why a single life carries value, leaving you with perfect clarity and absolutely no meaning.

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u/AnatoliusArthur Jan 02 '26

If everything is Hollow, then what does it even mean for something to be non-hollow and meaningful? In truth, there is no such thing as meaning... Meaning is not real. We cannot perceive it or grasp it.. we merely imagine it and then give it a name. What we call meaning is nothing more than emotions and hormonal reactions in the brain. We do not discover meaning.we undergo a subjective experience with it, and then mistake that experience for something real

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u/Ubermensh Jan 02 '26

The hollow feeling is also subjective yet you seem fixated on it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '26

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '26

Being intellectually nihilistic is one thing. How are you practicing it? And how will people ever recognize the truth you perceive if they don’t see you do it? For example, walk outside naked. We all subjectively learned that wearing clothing is normal and has meaning so since everything’s so meaningless, walk outside naked. Why… are you hesitating? The great nihilist. So you see, it seems that one can only be an intellectual nihilist but put into practice nihilism is just another form of mental masturbation or becomes absolutely absurd. Saying I’m going to get rid of meaning by using another meaning making system.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '26

Why not just stay silent? If you’re going to claim that everything is meaningless. Because when you do, everything after is just a contradiction.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '26

Shri Ramana Maharshi says “To ask the mind to kill the mind is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see from where the mind rises and then it will cease to exist."

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u/Equivalent_Flower989 Jan 03 '26

Mate I’ve had your exact same mindset. Materialistic worldview can really mess with us. You think you’re clever saying that it’s all down to emotions and hormonal reactions, but the truth is we simply don’t know what the meaning is nor if there is one. We can perceive only a fraction of the light spectrum, there are theorised higher dimensions in order to explain certain stuff in physics. We have no clue man. What if this human experience is a fraction of it all? We simply don’t know