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Sign in to use this feature. About us. Editorial team. Mackie Antirealism Moral Motivation. Applied ethics. Luckily, though, this was rare, and I was good at shoving those thoughts to the periphery of my mind until they melted into the otherwise happy, curious fabric of my interior life.
During November of my senior year of high school, thoughts of my own demise resurfaced. One panic attack followed another, and instead of fading, the thoughts became amplified. Walking, driving, showering, attending class, the impending doom drummed on. Nothing would last. Nothing mattered. Nothing was even real , objectively speaking. All this work and love and suffering and happiness for nothing. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
Give yourself limits on when you will work so that you can close the laptop and not feel pressured or guilty. Then set limits on your activism and socializing. Put all your various alerts on silent. Ask your children to leave you alone for a little while. And claim 30 to 60 minutes each day to settle down and check in with yourself. One way we burn out is by constantly staying busy while pushing ourselves to figure things out now.
This is doubly hard to do when the world is filled with suffering. But getting quiet helps us discern how to help more skillfully. Start by noticing where you are asking why bother? What I discovered when writing Why Bother? But we must stop asking the question as if we already know the answer! Where am I choosing comfort over aliveness? Who or what is blocking me from having more choice? Many people are giving their services and products away right now. Very subjective. Does my life matter to people outside of my sphere of influence?
How could it, they don't know or care about me, or my dogs. Does humanity matter? Only at the individual level, evidenced by the horrific atrocities perpetrated throughout human history.
So things only matter if it is important to someone. The universe does not care about humanity and our consistent plight for survival. The universe is incapable of caring it simply exists to perform its timeless order and system. Our lives and everything we experience is only worth as much, matter, as the value we place on them.
It just doesn't matter. Objective Nihilism 1 Purpose 0. You and Kahane consider the consequences of nihilism with such impractical and naive theories that I have to wonder if philosophers like you ever leave the house. Are you simply writing these inconclusive essays everyday and thinking you learned something? Your burning question is this: How will nihilism complete meaninglessness impact people if they accept it?
Answer is: most likely it won't. I'll testify with my experience of having lived 17 years that no, people don't have mental crises about whether their job matters or not because of some suspicion that nihilism is true. They will either think their job should matter for them or not. People don't suddenly think "Wait, nothing matters in life.
Let me quit this job and kill myself. What matters is subjective, never objective.
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