Any philosophy students here?

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There is nothing in the world to matter to me. But that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t do my chores, wash myself, go to work/school etc.
I need to be grounded in reality and do stuff what benefits me, like eating, running, washing, getting an education and a good job.
This is the course of my human existence. Very hard to explain the feeling you have when you realise that nothing matters.

It’s very different from depression, it’s a satisfying feeling. Any phylosofs here?

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I could use some thoughts here, is anybody out there, does anybody hear me?

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I think i get what you’re saying and can relate. Im not taking college courses or anything but over a year I’ve read a dozen books on various subjects in philosophy.

I would say our (people with sz) way of philosophizing is mostly rooted in confused or odd thinking. Id recommend reading existentialism to be less pessimistic.

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Nothing moves me unfortunately, I read a lot but nothing makes me change.

I’m not sz, nor delusional, maybe confused. Do I have nihilism traits?
I am careless about the world around me, I am not happy, nor sad. I am in a constant state of indifference.

I’m not moved by my own death thoughts, it goes right throw me. I don’t wanna die nor care if I live.

It’s a feeling I’m used to and that doesn’t mean I don’t want a good life, I go to college, read, study, wanna work, wanna make money, wanna have a good life but it still doesn’t matter to me.

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Sorry i didnt reply promptly, idk if i can help, im a noob at this life thing. But i think something that is sort of a cliche but is a very good option to atleast try out is to ‘live in the moment’. I suck at this. But im trying to leave the nest of family and nurses. They make me feel like i have no life of my own. In july i drove literally across the country in a little over 3 days. I drank like 20 red bulls and slept maybe 3 hours a day. Its not a smart thing to do, but i did feel like an adult for the first time and was legit making friends for the first time in years. I got sick and had to fly back to my family as i had a hard time getting my meds in the new province. I plan to do this again but to prepare more.

Idk thats an extreme example, but i think developing independence (if that applies to you, idk) and being sort of a ‘yes man’ can really change your life.

Parting words, life is exciting if you make it so. The old adage of “you get out of it what you put into it” and “youth is wasted on the young” is so so very true.

Idk thats all i got, apologies if it didnt help any. I hope you find fulfillment.

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I took a few classes in philosphy which were going towards my degree. I pretty go between Gnosis and pure nihilism with stoicism.

I think what youre talking about is like nihilism. Existence is very strange, how vast the universe is and just the amount of people in the world. 7.5 billion from a google search. Though much of what i studied was the older philosphers.

I know Alan Watts has some interesting videos on youtube about how existence is weird or being “human”. Combined with knowing that language is pretty arbitrary, i kinda see the point of just giving up or going with the flow of life. So naturally i went towards stoicism, you can’t control much.

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I am not sz either, but 32 years ago, when I was briefly psychotic it seemed to me that the world and I were a product of narration - a story.

I have since found quite a lot of philosophy that supports this assertion.

  1. Eastern thought, the mentioning of which may be banned here, so only in passing.
  2. Ernst Mach, who says that the physical world is our explanation of our sensations.
  3. Einstein who based his theory of relativity (and the “Speed of light speed limit”) on the theory of Mach (and Hume). It has always seem fortuitous (or quite preposterously arrogant!) to me to assume or argue that a creature of our insignificance should be able to sense the fastest thing in the universe. Once you know where Einstein got this theory from (Mach and Hume) a much more humble explanation as to why why no thing goes faster than light - because “things” are our explanations of our experience, and the fastest sensation we have is light.
  4. Arthur Eddington, a scientist who understood Einstein joked that the claim that nothing goes faster than the speed of light is like the claim that there are no fish smaller than the holes in the net you are using to catch them.
  5. Relatedly Bohm agues that there are no “fundamental particles” any more than there are “fundamental millimetres,” since particles are akin to our units of spatial measurement.
  6. " It from Bit" by Wheeler is similar.
  7. Daniel Dennet, a materialist claims that the self is a theoretical entity (like a “centre of gravity”) like those of the other theorists above, but he believes in the reality of physical material. It seems to me that the self is the first, most certain of things. If there is no self, then there are no things either, and everything, every thing, is like a “centre of gravity,” a theoretical and therefore, to an extent, fictional entity.
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