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My beliefs are turning to nihilism and I don't know how I feel about it
| I both agree and disagree. I'm a nihilist myself, but I'm a positive nihilist. Basically "everything is flawed and in the grand scheme of things nothing matters, but that means I can pick and choose what I want to care about and what has personal meaning to me and not give a shit about everything else".
I mean, that mindset obviously has some flaws as well, just like everything else, but it can be extremely helpful at times. Both for yourself and the people around you.
| With everything that's going on it's hard not to feel that way, i know me and my friends have been really demoralized. But if you think it's making you a worse person, i bet it probably hasn't changed the values under your political beliefs. Do you think that's true? Because you might find ways to live up to them in other ways, even if (for now?) you give up on politics/big history
| Not really political opinions but i had very strong aspirations in friendships and meaning in relationships. Now everything is just bland and others just dont matter to me anymore. I think that so strongly i dont even want tk make friends anymore because i dont know for what
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That just sounds like depression. I've felt like that multiple times, and each time it's turned out to be a symptom of depression and me just not having realised how depressed I actually was.
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| I used to have p strong political convictions but over this last year they've shifted to "it doesn't really matter" being the answer to most questions. I think it's making me a worse person