In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

A quote by St John of the Cross.

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All right, now let's get to the main topic of understanding and coping with nihilism.

So here we're going to tackle really two strands of this problem.

First of all, just what is nihilism, understanding it culturally,

historically where it came from, its meaning. And then we're going to be taking a

look at what nihilism gets correct about reality what it gets incorrect

it's a mixed bag there's a lot of confusion and misunderstanding that we're going to address here today.

And then at the very end, I'm going to, you want to make sure you stay for the end.

Because at the end, after we cover what nihilism is and some of its mistakes and, and, um... and

and uh... proper understandings, I'm gonna talk about how to actually cope with it.

Specifically, I'm gonna talk about how to deal with that spiral dynamic stage green relativism, which leads to a sense of meaningless in life and how I coped with it in my youth and I'll share some pointers

very practical pointers for how you can cope with it yourself and then get beyond it

all right so this is not just empty philosophy here There's going to be practical implications for all this stuff as always with everything I talk about

So what is nihilism? Well nihilism is a very much misunderstood word in our culture.

It's often used pejoratively in a negative way to demonize or dismiss some set of ideas or beliefs.

And that's a problem because there's something

deeply true about nihilism which we're gonna explain but also there's

problems with nihilism so it's not so simple it's not so black and white

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