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Originally Posted by TteFAboB
Abraham and Skybird for example. But the first is almost an idealist and the second is almost a "fatalist".
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Fatalism:
Noun
- S: (n) fatalism (a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable)
- S: (n) fatalism (a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them)
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http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fatalism
Me - a fatalist? I fight against it whereever I witness it! I strongly dislike the apathy deriving from it. Don't mix up fatalism with pointing at consequences you cannot avoid if only you make according moves that rule out other outcomes. My view on Iraq's failure, for one example, is not fatalistic. It is consequent, or realistic: I see the decision to attack Iraq as the move that made any other outcome impossible. it was the loosing move in this match of chess.
And while we are at it and I (and my buddy, good ol' Nietzsche) was often called a nihilist as well:
Nihilism:
Noun
- S: (n) nihilism (a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake)
- S: (n) nihilistic delusion, nihilism (the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal)
- S: (n) nihilism (complete denial of all established authority and institutions)
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
I am no nihilist as well. Don't mix up the second definition with Buddhism's claim that things
are existant, but are
not real. A Fata Morgana is existant, but what it shows you is not real.