MEDITATION Like the quieting of distraction and distortion within the mind brought about by meditative focus, nihilism pushes aside preconception and brings the mind to focus within the time of the present. Influences which could radically skew our perceptions - emotions, nervousness, paranoia, or upset, to name a few - fade into the background and the mind becomes more open to the task at hand without becoming spread across contemplations of potential actions occurring at different levels of scale regarding the current task. Many human errors originate in perceiving an event to be either more important than it is, or to be "symbolically" indicative of relevance on a greater scale than the localized context which it affects, usually because of a conditioned preference for the scale of eventiture existing before the symbolic event.
I would suggest that nihilism is the logical "conclusion" of most modern humanistic philosophies. More importantly, I believe that nihilistic death is accepted, though not recognized, as the universal destination of humankind by all who do not believe in a life after death. I would suggest that if we embrace a modern secular philosophy, or no philosophy/religion at all, we must embrace nihilism. We will assert that if you believe that your existence may end at physical death, you are accepting the idea that "nothing" may follow death, and you are by definition accepting the possibility that "nihilism" is correct. Once we realize that the acceptance of nihilism is a necessary consequence of our humanistic beliefs, or non-beliefs, we will be able to decide for ourselves if what we currently believe to be true, is what we really want to believe is true. Until we understand the nature of "nothing", we may well have difficulty appreciating "anything".
Vega, "Understanding nihilism requires one drop the pretense of nihilistic philosophy being an endpoint, and acceptance of it being a doorway" On assumptions based on the text (as far as I can remember them..), nihilism is in reality skeptisism. Refusing any self-value of any object or thought, and accepting their value only in relation to what one tries to achive. That is, things are not important, hows and whys are. Plato said (some interpretion is being done here) that the the world is divided into three segments; Trivial things, which change constantly and are of no importance; improtant things, which sometimes change and are of some improtance; and eternal things, which never change and where true wisdom lies. So it seems more and more reasonable that all philosophers have been saying the same thing all along, just never realized they're fighting about meaningless facts.
