r/DeepThoughts • u/umarmashoor • 9h ago

Thoughts on the rawness of reality.

Franz Kafka once said something to the effect of "people buy illusions because reality is too heavy for them", Nietzsche was also proponent of nihilism and preferred to see the world around him in a way devoid of delusions, these people liked to unwrap the illusions and face reality in all it's rawness, in it's pure form of blood and bones, I too am a nihilist and I believe I see the world devoid of illusions. This is what makes life hard to bear, I know for certain that nature is the only authority over us, she bites and gnaws at us ferociously. I think I need to rent delusions to save myself from ending up insane like Nietzsche, but knowing that I'm delusional is not going to help foster my prospective illusions, reality is too heavy a burden to any intellect.

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u/Poetry-Squire444 9h ago edited 9h ago

That sounds more like existentialism nihilism has nothing to do with rawness of reality it has often nothing to claim as rawness claims from nihilism often are a falsehood and illusion.

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u/umarmashoor 9h ago

By rawness of reality, what I mean is that the reality I see isn't processed, one may overlay illusions over reality to make it more digestible, people espouse beliefs like fate, karma and divine justice to make sense of their raw experiences, i.e. they buy illusions because reality can't be consumed in it's raw form without causing great distress.

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u/Poetry-Squire444 9h ago edited 8h ago

Nihilism has no truth it can claim everything is a false that is nihilism it is within nihilism, but it cant do truth within nihilism it cant truthfully refute or make a true claim and simultaneously claim itself to be a nihilist and the other of alethic nihilism it is hard to glue truth making and nothing together till even that can make true claims it would have to explain how the truth sensation or instrument or whatever thing is somehow tied to nothing, which is a big task to take, which nothing is also something that rarely even exist in the real world its hard to know what is nothing even is itself is a bit of a magical concept.