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I had to be nihilistic for a while before I could realize everything was important. From flies to people to stars to dirt. Our human brains are a filter that cuts away stuff irrelevant to our survival and leaves us with a false perspective, a perspective where value is determined by only our needs. In truth, every person, every animal, every piece of matter, and more are infinitely important participatory pieces of an unimaginably important universe.
Agreed. I feel the same way. It's like Nihilism is the gateway many of us have to pass through before we can understand our value (and the significance of life and all existence in general)
I wonder if you've come to the same conclusions that I have, or if your thinking branched off into something different.
Either way, we are who we were meant to be :)