Nihilism

What are your thoughts on nihilism?

Collectively, is human life of any worth?

Is a sense of human worth tied towards theological belief or can it be held independently of ideology?

to be a nihilist you must believe in nothing; not even nihilism.

actually, that is a weird but extremely good point

Nihilists = angry anarchists.

ha, not all true though.
If you've seen the anarchist cookbook, a film, it shows that anarchism wins over nihilism, whereas anarchists work usually without violence through things are protests, nihilists will stop authority at all costs.

Nihilism is extremely deep, there is more to the eye than the dictionary defination...perhaps the wikipedia one. ha

every nihilist i've ever met has been an idiot iwth no convictions.

Nihilism, as wiki states it. Basically, the general meaning of the term says that nihilists 'generally assert some or all of the following: there is no reasonable proof of the existence of a higher ruler or creator, a "true morality" is unknown, and secular ethics are impossible; therefore, life has no truth, and no action is known to be preferable to any other'. Nihilism also argues that 'The world, especially past and current human existence, is without objective meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value.' Quite an interesting thought and subject to dwell upon, but does pose some pondering over.

The orginal questions on is human life of any worth and is the sense of human worth tied towards theological belief, or can it be held independently of ideology? I think it depends on people's individual opinions and beliefs, theologically or ideologically. For me, I believe that human life is of worth, just like that of any other organism on the planet, and that if we really were that worthless, then why are we even here? Others might say the same, or say differently, it's all down to what the individual mind considers and thinks. Life is what we make of it.

I'd say, if it's true that no God or deity exists, and human existence was really a kind of cosmic accident; then perhaps Nihilism is a "logical"(<--use that lightly b/c nihilists would probably reject the word) conclusion.

humans as a race give ourselves and our existence a meaning, so by definition our lives have meaning. nihilism is silly IMO.

a nihilist would assert the meaning we give to life ourselves is completely artificial.

I don't get Nihilists, if nothing matters, why even make a word to describe yourself, why even talk about the fact that your a nihilist? Why not just sit down and not do anything?

because they get pleasure out of philosophising and the purpose of nihilism is that nothing matters so you might as well make the most of it and indulge as much as possible, and philosophy stimulates a special part of their irrelevent self. Like the penis.