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applegrove

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Thu Jan 15, 2026, 04:58 PM Thursday

(Very Good Read) on nihilism and how to suss it out in others and

Last edited Thu Jan 15, 2026, 06:32 PM - Edit history (2)

how to keep healthy meaning in your life:

“By making everything worthless, nihilism gives us the strange comfort of knowing that nothing we do can possibly matter. Freedom from meaning is also freedom from responsibility, and in this there can be a kind of morbid excitement.”

Read more:
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Suli Qyre (@suliqyre.com) 2026-01-14T20:19:47.794Z
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