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Nihilists don’t get no respect
October 6th, 2006 by nullifidianA cartoon from xkcd reminds me of how I feel. On the one hand, there is nothing to be said beyond the voidness of existence. On the other hand, I hate people for moving on when I talk about it.
The artist is Randall Munroe, and his licensing terms are here.
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May 9th, 2008 at 11:19 am
[...] The central tenet of nihilism is really a question: “who cares?” How many times have you heard someone say that? How many times have you said it, just this week? The truth is that question is a very nihilist question. It is often used rhetorically to indicate something about which no one has a rational reason to care. But if an reasonable, infinite, personal-Creator God truly is there, and truly is sovereign, and has truly made us in His image, then everyone should care about everything, because everything has purpose. Only in a random, absurd world would something be completely devoid of purpose. To view something as without purpose is to disregard its unique creation, and thus its Creator. [...]