And all religious arguments lead us to the classic no true scotsman
Philosophical/scientific materialism: nihilism in disguise?
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Mine is better though
Says who? I started my own back in 2019.
Lol. No. It's called a religion. Because it's always been there
I'm talking about Christianity. Which was rejected as a cult. Now it's a religion. Everything starts as a cult then it becomes your religion.
No form of materialism is true. All are forms of semi-nihilism.
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We keep posting by each other. Sorry.
So, the question is: does materialism equate to nihilism?
So, the question is: does materialism equate to nihilism?
Oh, you asked that yourself. Clever.
Yes, basically it does. I believe materialism in all its forms rejects the idea that the mind itself is an agent. It would see it only as a collator of data. That might mean, for someone who believes it, that we have no free will at all. That is, we can't originate ideas or impulses to act. I believe that's false for most people but not false for all people.
The antithesis of materialism is that the mind has power: or in other words, that thought itself has a kind of power which extends beyond the immediate biological system that it's thought to control.
The way it works isn't understood very well but one thing is certain and that is that detection of it it is highly resistant to experiments devised by those who believe it's impossible. Of course, this is because thought itself has power: or in this case, the power to thwart its own aims, when those aims are based on a rejection of an idea about thought itself that's actually true. See confirmation-bias.
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The most destructive ideology ever has been Marxism and its spin-offs.
Does this make Marxism a bad ideology? Could it be that its adherents got a bit carried away, and if the one true and pure Marxism would ever be practiced it would usher in the Utopia we all dream about?
You tell me.
The same argument applies to religious beliefs. It’s interesting that someone quotes a bellicose passage out of the Old Testament, yet after the Fall of Jerusalem almost 2000 years ago, practicing Jews have shown no such inclinations.
Since historical illustrations are usually so poorly understood by the ones who cite them, I invite you to avoid them. Optimissed’ a comment are what you you should mirror.
Does this make Marxism a bad ideology? Could it be that its adherents got a bit carried away, and if the one true and pure Marxism would ever be practiced it would usher in the Utopia we all dream about?
You tell me.
The same argument applies to religious beliefs. It’s interesting that someone quotes a bellicose passage out of the Old Testament, yet after the Fall of Jerusalem almost 2000 years ago, practicing Jews have shown no such inclinations.
Since historical illustrations are usually so poorly understood by the ones who cite them, I invite you to avoid them. Optimissed’ a comment are what you you should mirror.
Metaphysical Nihilism is my favorite, the belief that nothing exists...
73. Lol.