Do atheism and nihilism go hand in hand? I think they do. Truly

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>>34127010
>taking everything literally means you're extra intellient and pragmatic

not really, you can give meaning to your life and be atheist

>>34127075
Of course you can but it's entirely subjective and doesn't invalidate nihilism

>>34127085
so whats the difference between nihilism and existentialism? I thought the pursuit of meaning in the nihilistic sense was meaningless.

I am an atheist, and without the ever looming goal of the afterlife, I have decided to try and be as happy as I can be before I die. I don't delude myself into trying to find "meaning" in my life, I just stay healthy and happy, until I die.

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Here I found an image, I don't know if it's correct though.

how about atheism and hedonism?
they go hand in hand for me.

>>34127157
Hopefully you die soon fag

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>>34127010
>Do atheism and nihilism go hand in hand?
No. Nihilism has been memed down to bascaily "nuttn matters" when the reality is a a lot. darker then most would follow. It is the rejection of all religious and moral principles as well as maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence. Nihilism is finding no joy and being just a bad day away from bullet. Atheism has also been butchered to death but in the opposite way ironically, people take it as this weird stance that nothing has a point when really all it means is a disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of gods. You can have faith and be an atheist, you can believe in cosmic powers, you just don't hold a the idea to an all being(s) controlling everything.
Some how kids get those two logics butchered to where you think they are interchangeable when they have about as much in common as fire and ice.

>>34127197
It's watered down but it's closer to the heart of it.

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>>34127157
>I don't delude myself into trying to find "meaning" in my life,
>I just stay healthy and happy, until I die
that is meaning ya dummy. It's called hedonism.

Atheism going hand in hand with faux-nihilism or hedonism depends on whether the non-believer embraces "atheist culture." That is, actively trying to destroy traditional cultural norms because they tend to have some historical basis in religion.

No. Atheism used to be considered hand in hand with humanism. It's perfectly compatible with the idea that human life, well being, and thought have subjective value.