Nihilism - Existentialism - Fatalism

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As far as human perception is concerned anyway.

Anyhow, on the subject of the thread, I've always wondered why Nietzsche's philosophy makes /his/ so bloody assblasted. It largely boils down to "be honest with yourself about what you want out of life, and then be willing to suffer to get it." I suspect it's because this kind of thinking attacks the common tendency of geeks to work themselves into a safe little bubble of the familiar and then pine over the things they actually want.

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Much of philosophy is dedicated to determining the human existence and its intrinsic meaning. "Why are we here?" and "Why do we do what we do?" are two major questions that many schools of philosophy attempt to answer. It's no surprise that a philosopher who instead insists there isn't an intrinsic meaning to life, there is no reason we're here, and there is no reason we act as we do would cause some discord. While the thought process of Existential Nihilism is philosophy, it is almost "anti-philosophy", as rather than attempt to answer the question of existence, it asserts that there ISN'T an answer to be found, and it isn't meaningful to search for one. While I personally have an affinity towards it, I can fully understand why some in the realm of philosophy would be opposed to it. It's in a similar vein to Deism and its controversial rise, the fact that it is a theistic belief system yet asserts the notion that a God/Gods do not intervene in human affairs whether out of apathy or inability, which contradicts other established religions of the time whose purposes were to find out why God acts the way he does and how we could get him to help us, only to give rise to a group that stated he simply would not.