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Over the last two months ive slowly become an emotionally hollow machine that lives according to objectivity and reasoning and not art and emotion. I dont feel anything anymore - not from my favorite books or movies, or from anything new im introduced to. Even my admiration for aesthetic appeal is waning dangerously, because i cant even force myself to appreciate style or execution. All i see are vessels of flesh and blood and bone devoid of any intelligence, depth, and free will, and because of this anything that my fellow men create is utterly worthless emotionally and intellectually.

Please guys, i need help. This didnt come from depression, it came from reading too many fucking scientists and philosophers who made it their life goal to show how any importance and depth is an illusion, or "overblown" as Dan Dennett put it. The only emotion i feel anymore is hatred form myself and what ive become, because i used to be overwhelmed with emotion and admiration for art, but now, through my decisions, ive become a nihilistic shell.

Did anyone else on here go through the same thing? Is there any way out? Im so scared that ill stay like this forever and it makes me want to fucking cry.

Take this back to tumblr, faglord

Honestly read Stirner and let him deconstruct your shit. Start again from scratch.

riddle me this:
If you are so emotionally hollow and robotic then why are you worried about being emotionally hollow and robotic? If you're really a nihilistic shell then it seems like you shouldn't care at all.

Nice pic tho

learn how to paint.

It's probably a temporary thing. Work out, socialise, discover new music genres, listen to Wagner, watch experimental films, watch Castaway on the Moon. There are a lot of options. Or even better: produce something yourself.

It's just your early 20s (I assume you are in that age group), it's a part of growing up and getting to terms with your emotions. Life is not supposed to be wishy washy emotional rollecoster if you are a man, be a rock in the river.

Read more, if you think you know something, you know nothing.

If your so influenced by literature, then just read books that show you that life has meaning. All you have to do is a quick google search to find thousands of books on the importance and acquiring of happiness.

this make me cringe in a way, (and i dont want to insult, really) that i dont remember i can have. i cringe without rage. it´s strange, some kind of pity for you.

>Read more, if you think you know something, you know nothing.

he assumes you don´t know nothing. he tells you reading more you will know more.

>you are full of shit, amigo.

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I'd also add: if everything is empty, why do you care for it? Let me rephrase: If you can (could?) care about fiction, which is fictitious (duh), than why not real things? Fiction is "less real" than reality, it's fake by definition, yet we care about its characters. So why not real people and things? Both are empty if you at it nihilistically.

Read "The Question Concerning Technology" by Heidegger and realize that you've allowed science to trick you into believing that the world is only resource value to be used for the advancement of technological progress. The preachers of scientism and philosophers who accept a hard deterministic universe have put the cart before the horse by conflating the models they use to understand the universe for the universe itself, and just because this methodology has been successful in creating new technology, that does not mean it has any say about how the universe absolutely "is" (since this in itself is a metaphysical premise impossible to confirm or deny with the physical sciences).

In order to restore your faith in art, move on to "The Origin of the Work of Art" next, as well as the other essays in Heidegger's collection Poetry, Language, Thought. And of course, you can never read enough Nietzsche, who may be the greatest champion of art in all of history.

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yes, the majority of people are fake too. and what?.
if i don´t realize this early i sure never idolize the art.

if it werent for the gleam of singularity and transhumanism on the horizon there may not be such a rush

What?

"it came from reading too many fucking scientists and philosophers" is the best I get from the text. He should read more and different material. I mean who the fuck reads "scientists", he probably doesn't know shit and just read Nausea or The Stranger and got "nihilistic" and 2deepwhoaman.jpg.

8/10 made me reply.

Listen man there is no piece of literature or anyone else's advice that will magically solve your problem. All I can tell you is that it will happen naturally. I go through cycles like this. They are a learning experience. Let it happen, it will fade. Keep your fucking chin up!

What does Dennett mean here? Is there some kind of objective standard of meaning and importance against which it's possible to measure feelings as overblown?

I didn't mean some people, I mean, by nihilism's standards, everyone is fake. Doesn't mean all of them are worthless (to you). I think you sabotaged yourself by saying "majority of people are fake too" - so you DO find SOME of them not-fake. Engage THEM.

I don't quite understand your second sentence - you mean you wouldn't idolize art if you never understood some people are fake? You like genuine people in fiction because they're different from the real world? Some would call it escapism, and most of the time, it is. But I like fictional characters for the same reason. No-one would call, for instance, The Witcher unrealistic, but it has a protagonist I greatly admire PRECISELY because he would do something most people wouldn't have the balls to do.

It's either depression after all (have you seen a psychiatrist?) -- you would find at least SOMETHING from time to time that you would like otherwise. Or it's something else entirely, I don't know you. Maybe you're a NEET, that can cause such a state, you need to do something that makes you feel like you achieved something, and passive activities (compared to writing, for example) won't do. Low effort, low reward, my brother.

>I mean, by nihilism's standards, everyone is fake.
Generally, would nihilists prefer to be humans or some other creature (duck, wombat, barnacle, rat, hippo, snail, worm, flamingo, fly)?

I'm not sure a (famous) nihilist ever answered that question. I don't remember anyone on the Internet answering it. The closest I remember is Nietzsche, and I think he would prefer to be an animal, or something akin to it. In his "Will to Power" he kinda criticizes rationality saying it would be better if our actions would be automatic, like an animals. As for the "other" nihilists (if Nietzsche is a nihilist in the first place) they either resolve their meaning problem somehow or wish for death or something or idk live a meaningless life, I suppose. This chart is nice, btw. Might help answer your question.

I don't even* remember anyone on the Internet answering it.
like an animal's*

Hey, OP, just wanted to chime in and say it doesn't get better.

Hang in there buddy.

is a pretty good suggestion though

not that user but this was emotionally devastating to read

>The only emotion i feel anymore is hatred form myself and what ive become
Good, use your anger.
On another note, a simple mix up in your routine is all you need. Change things up on yourself and you'll feel things you've never felt before, which will help reintroduce you back to the land of the living. Try something new.
Welcome home, brother.

>it came from reading too many fucking scientists and philosophers who made it their life goal to show how any importance and depth is an illusion, or "overblown"
one more reason not to take any of those things seriously :-)