Michael Phillips

Pretty good, you know, besides living in the world that you just described. Past that, everything's going great.

Pretty good, you know, besides living in the world that you just described. Past that, everything's going great.

Pretty good, you know, besides living in the world that you just described. Past that, everything's going great.

Especially if it helps one simply survive these times. So, you know, I encourage a healthy dose of coping or sort of a mental bifurcation if that's what we need to do to get up in the morning and get through it all. Yay.

Especially if it helps one simply survive these times. So, you know, I encourage a healthy dose of coping or sort of a mental bifurcation if that's what we need to do to get up in the morning and get through it all. Yay.

Especially if it helps one simply survive these times. So, you know, I encourage a healthy dose of coping or sort of a mental bifurcation if that's what we need to do to get up in the morning and get through it all. Yay.

So yeah, it's not confusing at all. And yeah, I mean, I think the root of it, at least in like a modern philosophical sense, is Nietzsche, or at least that's a common reference point. And when Nietzsche is talking about nihilism, especially in a book like The Genealogy of Morality and a lot of other places,

So yeah, it's not confusing at all. And yeah, I mean, I think the root of it, at least in like a modern philosophical sense, is Nietzsche, or at least that's a common reference point. And when Nietzsche is talking about nihilism, especially in a book like The Genealogy of Morality and a lot of other places,

So yeah, it's not confusing at all. And yeah, I mean, I think the root of it, at least in like a modern philosophical sense, is Nietzsche, or at least that's a common reference point. And when Nietzsche is talking about nihilism, especially in a book like The Genealogy of Morality and a lot of other places,

He is making the argument that sort of Christian European culture, and particularly Christian European culture influenced by idealist philosophy, creates nihilism. The reason he says it creates nihilism is because people care more about heaven than they do about earth. They care more about... the life they're going to have in eternity than the life they have in the here and now.

He is making the argument that sort of Christian European culture, and particularly Christian European culture influenced by idealist philosophy, creates nihilism. The reason he says it creates nihilism is because people care more about heaven than they do about earth. They care more about... the life they're going to have in eternity than the life they have in the here and now.

He is making the argument that sort of Christian European culture, and particularly Christian European culture influenced by idealist philosophy, creates nihilism. The reason he says it creates nihilism is because people care more about heaven than they do about earth. They care more about... the life they're going to have in eternity than the life they have in the here and now.

So for him, it's like this devaluement of life that happens via Christianity. More broadly speaking, nihilism has a, I guess, more positive usage, which is the, you know, disbelief in the inherent or necessary meaning in an overarching system.

So for him, it's like this devaluement of life that happens via Christianity. More broadly speaking, nihilism has a, I guess, more positive usage, which is the, you know, disbelief in the inherent or necessary meaning in an overarching system.

So for him, it's like this devaluement of life that happens via Christianity. More broadly speaking, nihilism has a, I guess, more positive usage, which is the, you know, disbelief in the inherent or necessary meaning in an overarching system.

Yeah, so you kind of have this distinction and some people use of positive and negative nihilism. And to be really crass and simple here, negative nihilism is nothing means anything. So I don't give a shit. I'm just going to hang out and do whatever. Positive nihilism is there's no inherent meaning in reality. But cool.

Yeah, so you kind of have this distinction and some people use of positive and negative nihilism. And to be really crass and simple here, negative nihilism is nothing means anything. So I don't give a shit. I'm just going to hang out and do whatever. Positive nihilism is there's no inherent meaning in reality. But cool.

Yeah, so you kind of have this distinction and some people use of positive and negative nihilism. And to be really crass and simple here, negative nihilism is nothing means anything. So I don't give a shit. I'm just going to hang out and do whatever. Positive nihilism is there's no inherent meaning in reality. But cool.

Now me and the homies can construct meaning as we see fit, which is more like the existentialist response. We're going to create meaning where maybe there wasn't natural meaning in this like old school platonic or Christian sense.

Now me and the homies can construct meaning as we see fit, which is more like the existentialist response. We're going to create meaning where maybe there wasn't natural meaning in this like old school platonic or Christian sense.