how do nihilists find happiness?
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Nihilism tells you that happiness does not come from without, it points to happiness coming from within, because anything beyond your skin is devoid of meaning anyway, so you won't find happiness out there.
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We are happier than our forefathers! Happiness comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. Happiness is about perception. Today my freedom, my rights, my comfortable environment makes me happy, satisfied and content.
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Yes, I agree with George Carlin. "Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist." Something happens in a person's life when people or institutions hurt or disappoint them as a rule, and a person can only be disappointed and hurt when they have expectations.
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Pleasure has to do with the positive experiences of our senses, and with good things happening. Pleasurable experiences can give us momentary feelings of happiness, but this happiness does not last long because it is dependent upon external events and experiences.
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Yet it is possible to live out this natural freedom without pursuing any particular moral goals. Moral freedom is the ability to choose and pursue one's own goals and projects, and existentialism's task is to help people turn natural freedom into moral freedom.
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We don't even understand the actual meaning of true happiness. ... True happiness is enjoying your own company and living in peace and harmony with your body, mind and soul. True happiness is state of mind constantly being in love with yourself. For being truly happy you neither need other people nor materialistic things.
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Joy, as a spiritual quality, lasts forever. We always have it. Having joy includes feeling good cheer and a vibrant happiness. But joy, in its fuller, spiritual meaning of expressing God's goodness, involves more. It is a deep-rooted, inspired happiness.
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That is because happiness is an emotion in which we "experience feelings ranging from contentment and satisfaction to bliss and intense pleasure," whereas joy "is a stronger, less common feeling than happiness." We experience joy when we achieve selflessness to the point of personal sacrifice.
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Yes! Many happy people realize happiness is a choice and it's up to them to intentionally choose it every single day. Happy people are not held hostage by their circumstances and they do not seek happiness in people or possessions. ... Fully experiencing it still requires a conscious decision to choose happiness each day.
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Diener identifies five factors that contribute to happiness: social relationships, temperament/adaptation, money, society and culture, and positive thinking styles. Happy people have strong social relationships.
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You can certainly "believe in god", I would question if you actively worshiped him and was a Nihilist. ... I believe in a higher power of sorts and consider myself a nihilist. Mainly because I acknowledge that the higher power may not exist and this is probably just to make myself feel better.
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['#1) Someone to love. This is an important ingredient for happiness for many reasons, but one of the biggest is that it gets you thinking of someone else other than you. ... ', '#2) Something to do. Boredom is a killer. ... ', '#3) Something to look forward to.']
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This particular approach focuses on the potentials. It is not targeted at fixing problems, but is focused on researching things that make life worth living instead. In short, positive psychology is concerned not with how to transform, for example, -8 to -2 but with how to bring +2 to +8.
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Moral Nihilism, which holds that ethical claims are generally false. It holds that there are no objective values (that nothing is morally good, bad, wrong, right, etc.) ... It is particularly opposed to Moral Realism (see above) and perhaps its most famous proponent is Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Among philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche is most often associated with nihilism. For Nietzsche, there is no objective order or structure in the world except what we give it. Penetrating the façades buttressing convictions, the nihilist discovers that all values are baseless and that reason is impotent.
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Life after death. Buddhists believe in a cycle of death and rebirth called samsara. Through karma and eventual enlightenment, they hope to escape samsara and achieve nirvana, an end to suffering.
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Nihilism does not make any statements about the existence or nonexistence of an afterlife. However, since Nihilism holds that life has life has no objective meaning or intrinsic value* the chances for it are slim.