A Full Embrace Of Nihilism

As I have previously emphasized, nihilism is not what many people believe it is: it is not anything other than the idea that nothing at all is meaningful, no matter how philosophically deep, personally enjoyable, or seemingly meaningful it is.  All it entails as a philosophy is the nonexistence of moral obligations, beauty, and meaning, with only the illusionary perceptions of or desires for these things existing within some conscious minds if nihilism is true.  Nothing besides this is nihilistic instead of just discomforting, frustrating, depressing, and so on.  To fully embrace nihilism is to understand what nihilism is without confusing it for something else, believe it in spite of there being no way to prove it, and then actually live both as if one believes it and as if it is true.

That a bleak or unpleasant worldview is not necessarily nihilistic is partially key here, as is how nihilism is not true or false or proven true or false by anyone's subjective perceptions, preferences, or general satisfaction or disillusionment with life.  It is a concept that cannot be proven or disproven by beings with human limitations, which means that even if it is true, there could not be any evidence for it since there would at best only be a lack of evidence for moral realism and objective values, since it does not logically follow from any human experience that nihilism is or is not true.  However, the evidence for Christianity means there is evidence, but not logical proof, that nihilism is false.  It is just that no one has ever talked to a living nihilist who took their own supposed worldview seriously on the level of perfect consistency between beliefs and behaviors.

I do not even mean that nihilists typically still talk and act as if they believe in specific moral obligations or that they act like they want others to treat them well despite believing there is no ultimate moral reason to do so.  This kind of idiocy and hypocrisy is common among many people of different worldviews.  I mean that a nihilist who does not commit suicide is not willing to live out their worldview by escaping an existence that they themselves allegedly think is without a basis for wanting to continue to exist.  Someone can believe something, whether it is rational or irrational to do so (which completely reduces down to whether it can be logically proven), without fully accepting it on a personal level and actually living as if the idea in question is true and as if they genuinely believe it.  The latter is where most nihilists are hypocrites despite already being irrational while likely thinking their ideas and selves are rational (which is already a more foundational form of hypocrisy).

Anything short of killing oneself is not a full embrace of nihilism, though any embrace of nihilism, even on a casual, halfhearted intellectual level, is already irrational because the ideology cannot possibly be proven or even evidentially supported by humans.  Nihilism is epistemologically speaking nothing but an assumption that some people would ironically prefer to be true because they are too stupid or weak to stomach the notion that they could have moral obligations they dislike.  It might or might not be true, but there is not only no evidence in its favor and significant evidence it is false due to the evidence for Christianity, there is also the fact that anyone who professes or even truly believes nihilism is a hypocrite with little to no substance or sincerity as long as they choose to remain alive.