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How are you feeling today?
I am feeling okay lately, although I have noticed more and more that my philosophical outlook on life has become somewhat pessimistic. In fact, it is now very close to being completely nihilistic. The reason for this change in thought patterns is largely due to the fact that our species has reached a point where we possess the technology to destroy all human life on Earth several times over within minutes if not seconds; and yet there is no apparent concern about this at all among many of us. We live as if nothing will ever happen despite having the capability of bringing about our own destruction much faster than any natural disaster could ever accomplish.
The fact that we possess the technology to destroy all life on Earth several times over within minutes, and yet don't seem to care about it, makes me feel very nihilistic. In other words I am starting to think that there is no purpose or meaning in this universe at all. That everything is completely meaningless.
When I consider the situation in this light, it makes me feel like nihilism would be far more accurate than say optimism, or pessimism. Nihilism is saying that there is no inherent meaning to anything; whereas an optimist might be foolishly thinking that life has some sort of purpose and meaning behind it. A pessimist on the other hand would at least acknowledge an inherent lack of purpose and meaning.
I find myself thinking that the universe just doesn't care about us at all, and only cares about itself. So it's a sort of nihilism mixed with misanthropy; kind of a pessimist's answer to how are you feeling today? The reason I say this is because when we see the amount of suffering in our world due to famine, war and disease; it seems pretty obvious that nature or whatever higher power there may be does not really care about us one way or another.
I feel that the universe is completely indifferent to our existence and therefore has no meaning or purpose behind it. It seems like an illusion, a joke of some kind. We seem to have evolved thinking we were destined for greatness, but perhaps we are just part of nature's grand scheme to create itself through its own evolution; in which case everything that exists including us is really just some sort of elaborate simulation all being run by one super powerful computer somewhere.
I have been thinking lately that perhaps we are just a simulation being run by some other species somewhere in the universe. If this is true then they may be trying to simulate what life was like on Earth before its destruction so we can see how it all turned out.