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What philosophy do these song lyrics best describe?

[b][quote]What if there’s nothing more to us, we’re just carbon based. We’re just pixie dust.

What if life’s just a magic trick, some quick sleight of hand, meaningless to think…

What if consciousness can’t expand, and we fool ourselves with absurd demands..

What if there is no point at all….we just grow up to fade away…..[/quote][/b]

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Lostpoet · M

Nihilism

XenonRush · M

Say what, now?
@Lostpoet

Lostpoet · M

@XenonRush [media=https://youtu.be/Y5J_kao6mwA][media=https://youtu.be/b_29yvYpf4w]

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Lostpoet thought of nihilism as soon as I finished reading the lyrics.

Don't agree with the philosophy, even if I have an even more weird philosophy based around change.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@XenonRush a philosophy that doesn't believe reality has a purpose.

Especially no deity of any type. You can say a form of atheism would come close.

XenonRush · M

So, this is an actual thing? Are there any people who are famously nihilists?@DeWayfarer

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@XenonRush well I wouldn't call it a major movement. Yet the concept of nihilism has been around for over a hundred years with Ivan Turgen in 1855.

It is sort of required philosophy reading in universities. Read some of it myself in college.

Had a Mormon as a philosophy teacher. 😆