hmmm... interesting.

why do you have to restrict what you believe in to what is justified? philosophically, yes, but religiously? nihilism could be a religion.

the problem like you say is proof, not of everything else but of the individual. of the self. i guess at that point it's all up to taste, whether you assume that you exist and thus truth is possible or whether you don't and it's impossible. existentialism sounds like the hopeful road, and nihilism the hopeless road. existentialism really only justifies itself, so its justification isn't real.. it's circular reasoning almost...

i'm not so sure nothingness is impossible, though i am fairly confident that something does exist. it may be that nothingness is beyond human understanding... i don't really know. still, that makes nihilism a religion.

do you think nihilism could be a religion?