Describe the moment when you gave up on your scientific career

>>8818228
When I realized the aether was real and it all becomes philosophy anyway

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When I realised I liked animation more than anything and that I was studying math just because it seems like the right thing to do. I told myself I study math because I'm fascinated but in reality if math wasn't an elite field I wouldn't be studying it.

I had that idea that there was groups of people that were inferior or superior based on their interests. Kinda like how /sci/ thinks.

>>8818228
When I adopted nihlism, accepted humanity as doomed, and sold out to engineering so I can be a rich hermit and not a cuckslave to humanity

>>8818245
I KNEW I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE!!!!!

>>8818286
Nihilism isn't intellectual, for fucks sake:
>https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/4494/

>>8818228
When I signed up for a degree in engineering

>>8818228
>my tenth year of grad school when one of my thesis committee members suggest I make something up

>>8818308
I never said it was intellectual
Nietschze said it would be the downfall of society ffs

But it's fucking correct

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>>8818490
>>8818286
>intentionally stopping your thoughts to nihilism level

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>>8818317

So true, same here.

However, engineering is the perfect application of science that no other career gets

How easier is engineering?

>>8818497
>believing in moral absolutes

KEK
this is a /lit/ discussion I won't pursue any further

PS nice shill article I'll be sure to vote Labour!

>>8818509
It's not that's a BS stereotype

The science you learn may be simplified theories but the shit you have to design would make a theoretician crap their pants

That said there's variability in what you're designing (a light switch or a particle accelerator) and there's also meme science fields

The stereotype that either science or engineering is "harder" than the other is faggotry perpetuated by autists, especially on /sci/

>>8818286
But don't you believe that you believe in nothing?

When I found out that upper level mathematics means redefining every fucking notation set on the planet because everybody wants to be a special goddamn snowflake.
Discrete is the worst at this but people just decide WELL I DON'T CARE IF THAT GREEK LETTER IS USED EVERYWHERE, I'M REDEFINING IT HERE! NEENER NEENER!

>>8818228
When I started med school and realised I enjoyed it a lot more than I would have enjoyed my original plan of doing a Phd in biophysics

>>8818228
When I realized academia is a dogshit institution that's about inflating your status and ego first and knowledge second.

>>8818552
It's the institution that has less of that shit than any other one.

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>>8818308
>projecting
>sole argument is a link to a blog
>blog says "nihilism is escaping from all that matters" when nihilists think nothing matters

>>8818517
If you dont mind, ill screencap this

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>>8818431
>tenth year of grad school

well, at least you took the hint

>>8818286
>nihilism
literally pleb-tier. When will you embrace the absurd?

>>8818658
It's all yours, friend

>>8818521
o wow dood u got me lmao

drink bleach

>>8818737
Whats so hard to understand about this cucks

You can appreciate the goings-on while recognizing that they hold no inherent value, just the value relative to the person

As in, I recognize there's no point in existance but that's not a reason to not enjoy it.

>>8818758
>unironically calls people he disagrees with cucks
wew, I know I'm dealing with an intellectual heavyweight here

>>8818751
I don't believe in bleach, and neither should you.

>>8818758
The only reason you claim to be a nihilist is because you think it impresses people around you. Sadly, it only makes you sound like a 15 year old who just started reading pleb philosophers like Kierkegaard.

''Hello Professor X, can you tell me about the job options if I went into quantum chemistry?''
>One every 4 years, rest end up doing programming

>>8819430
>I'm telling you what you believe because I know more about you than you!

it doesn't matter.

>tfw switching from engineering to physics because I dislike engineering but loved modern physics
I can't shake the feeling that I'm doing something wrong

>>8820175
You'll probably end up intellectually richer than if you had gone into engineering, but likely poorer materially. It's up to anon to decide which one is worth more.

I want to want to want. Then I did, but didn't. Almost died, Then came back to want to die again. Learned what didn't make sense. Lost all direction. Found that money

>>8820155
Are you an existential, moral, or epistemological nihilist?

>>8818255
did he died?

>>8818503
>not integrating the bell curve by hand
brainlet

>Thought I would come to my PhD and give up because so many do
>wasn't a dumbfuck that chose any old project, actually researched the job market for fields that would lead me to a career rather than joblessness, found a project that I think is fucking awesome + fits that criteria

Get good.

>>8818758
>not embracing the dionysiac

you want me to tell you how I know you dont know shit?

>>8820216
>Are you an existential, moral, or epistemological nihilist?
pretty much all the same thing

>>8820989
Not really. Epistemological nihilism for one is self-defeating, as you cannot hold true a position that you believe no truths. Moral and existential nihilism are not as paradoxical.

>>8820989
>I'm a nihilist!
>you're not
>YES I AM
>what kind
>it's all the same lmao :^)
kill yourself faggot edgelord

>>8821039
lol, I fucked that up. I meant to say that being epistemologically so contains the other two. Not sure why I typed it that way.

>>8818228
after my first gf. I realized chasing pussy, creampies, and the girl-drama is more satisfying to me. My IQ is below 140 so no big deal.

>>8821050
not me, but thanks for playing

>>8820216

All three I guess, except instead of the kind of existential nihilism where one believes nothing has meaning within the context of the universe, I just believe nothing has any intrinsic meaning whatsoever, doesn't matter how large or influential of fundamental it is.

Doesn't really matter anyway.

>>8818737
/lit/ would say absurdism is also pleb tier. But I wouldn't know. I'm retarded.

>>8821656
>Doesn't really matter anyway.
Is that your catchphrase?

>>8821805
It`s the catchphrase of any edgy high school kid ever

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>>8818245

pls elaborate

>>8818228
when i didn't get into the program i wanted even though i knew i wasn't going to get in