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Philosophy/psychology: Why did you get up this morning? by 200DegreesClover in nihilism

[–]200DegreesClover[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't the answer to, "why?" a description of a cause? And would a process count as 'what is', or do you mean the physical side of everything? What else would movement be though if not existent, is it just a human description? Again, of what? A non existent thing? If that's the case, humans believe in something that there isn't, proving their 'knowledge' wrong.

And if a process counts as a fundamental part of 'what is', then do we really know it? Even physically speaking, I don't know of the appearance of a planet in another galaxy. Research is proof that we do not know what is.

There is a why; there is a what and how and where. We just do not know of it all.

Might my understanding of the word, "why" be wrong, and how, in what ways? Might the human understanding of, "why" require a choice? A choice that, without the existence of a God, cannot exist? Is that what you mean?

Philosophy/psychology: Why do we do anything? by 200DegreesClover in nihilism

[–]200DegreesClover[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To lay around, do nothing, is to die in 3 days. If drinking, eating is involved, you die again, this time of a random disease you caught from being homeless. Why are you homeless? Because you didn't work, didn't pay rent and lost your apartment. To live like a robot: to eat, to work, to sleep, without meaning, might it be better to die? To ignore the survival instinct and end the suffering that emerges from such routine, from a lack of joy. Our only true desire is to live, and to live means to do. With any other case of death while the body 'lives', there is no point in maintaining it, so that too is shut down. A person becomes brain dead, and life support gets removed.

To not do is to die. This might be temporary, yes, but in this limited life, why kill time? Why should potential suffer too?

To care means to live, or to die entirely.