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thats just comedy nihilism. i dont see any threat to nihilism if you are prepared to take it seriously and think about it and educate yourself. a lot of people confuse a kind selfish utilitarianism coupled with instrumental reason and a kind of macho greed for nihilism, but thats not it at all.
my friend will be ok in the end. in a sense buddhism is a scam to get you to unsettle your natural breathing rhythms through meditation and string you along on the path to an enlightenment that everyone and everything already has, all the time. there's not that much more too it. but because of the centuries of division between eastern and western cultures as it reaches us it has a tendency to fucking wipe the slate clean with a lifetime of deeply embedded cultural preconceptions and can lead many to madness or distress. ultimately i welcome this process but it has its dangers. the interesting thing is when these new cultural forms intermix.
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