Teenagers: I’m sad because nothing matters
Nihilists: why are you sad? Why do you care? Nothing matters! Come have some pizza.
That’s depression, not nihilism. Nihilism is related to existentialism, and is about believing in nothing but what you experience or can prove. Unfortunately it’s very close to some forms of scientism, whereby someone makes “Science” their religious faith. The idea of nihilism is to be faithless and to view the world through the lens of the material.
Nihilism is related to existentialism, and is about believing in nothing but what you experience or can prove.
Oh, so I am a nihilist? 🤔
As another commenter pointed out, this is a bad description of nihilism. That sentence describes empiricism.
You are probably an empiricist.
As that other commenter pointed out:
Nihilism is the rejection of meaning, ethics, or knowledge as things that actually exist objectively.
