would it even be marginally possible to be rejecting nihilism? it's a sunday afternoon and i am bored outta my mind. and so i wiki-ed, while consciously reminding myself not to take in too much of whatever i'm reading. everything in moderation aye.

excerpts from the wiki:

Absurdism.
the notion of the Absurd contains the idea that there is no meaning to be found in the world beyond what meaning we give to it. this meaninglessness also encompasses the amorality or "unfairness" of the world. this contrasts with "karmic" ways of thinking in which "bad things don't happend to good people"; to the world, metaphorically speaking, there is no such thing as a good person or a bad thing; what happens happens, and it may just as well happen to a "good" person as to a "bad" person.

in philosophy, "the Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent meaning in life and the human inability to find any. in this context absurd does not mean "logically impossible", but rather "humanly impossible". the universe and the human mind do not each separately cause the Absurd, but rather, the Absurd arises by the contradictory nature of the two existing simultaneaously.

Absurdism therefore, is a philosophical school of thought stating that the efforts of humanity to find inherent meaning will ultimately fail (and hence are absurd), because no such meaning exists, at least in relation to the individual.

because of the world's absurdity, at any point in time, anything can happen to anyone, and a tragic event could plummet someone into direct confrontation with the Absurd.

in absurdist philosophy, the Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual's search for meaning and the apparent meaninglessness of the universe. as beings looking for meaning in a meaningless world, humans have three ways of resolving the dilemma.

- suicide (or, "escaping existence"): a solution in which a person simply ends one's own life. both kierkegaard and camus dismiss the viability of this option. camus states that it does not counter the Absurd, but only become more absurd, to end one's own existence.

- religious, spiritual or abstract belief in a transcendent realm, being or idea: a solution in which one believes in the existence of a reality that is beyond the Absurd, and as such, has meaning. kierkegaard stated that a belief in anything beyond the Absurd requires a non-rational but perhaps necessary religious acceptance in such an intagible and empirically unprovable thing (now commonly referred to as a "leap of faith"). however, camus regarded this solution, and others, as "philosophical suicide".

- acceptance of the Absurd: a solution in which one accepts the Absurd and continues to live in spite of it. camus endorsed this solution, believing that by accepting the Absurd, one can achieve absolute freedom, and that by recognizing no religious or other moral constraints and by revolting agains the Absurd while simultaneously accepting it as unstoppable, one could possibly be content from the personal meaning constructed in the process. kierkegaard, on the other hand, regarded thsi solution as "demoniac madness". "he rages most of all at the thought that eternity might get it into its head to take his misery from him!"



well. i pick the third option.

and it was night again -5:25 PM-