A conceptual perspective on belief

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12. I didn't see it as nihilistic until just now when I looked up the word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism
[div class="excerpt" style="border:solid 1px #000000"]The philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Moral nihilists assert that morality does not inherently exist, and that any established moral values are abstractly contrived. Nihilism can also take epistemological, metaphysical, or ontological forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or that contrary to popular belief, some aspect of reality does not exist as such.
I've always used the word to mean existential nihilism, but in the sense that it negates the value of belief, which most people feel is a meaningful aspect of life, yes, it is indeed nihilistic.

I suppose it's actually metaphysical nihilism which is even out past solipsism. To a solipsist only the sense of personal existence is sure, while all else requires belief in order to seem certain. When I'm in just the right frame of mind, even the sense of self appears to be an illusion, and nothing at all is "real" in the way we normally use the word. This is a standard interpretation in non-dualist philosophies like Advaita, but isn't part of the normal Western perspective.

Thanks for prompting me to expand my understanding of nihilism.