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ontological and cosmic purpose lies entirely within yourself.
that's why nihilistism is nothing more than egotism projecting infinitely into the world.
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These two paragraphs are blatantly clashing with each other.
If "purpose lies entirely within yourself", a manner of thinking which is egocentric insofar it centers the purpose inside the person themselves,
then accusing nihilism (and cosmicism), which completely negates and refuses to belief in any kind of human purpose (nihil = "nothing"), of "egoist projection" is not just a misunderstanding of what nihilism is, not just a distortion of what it states, it's a distortion of the very statement "purpose lies entirely within yourself", which is a statement often said by optimistic people and, thus, the exact opposite from nihilism.
optimism and nihilism aren't oppositional.
nihilism doesn't exist. there is no 'nothing'. hence why it collapses into solipsim, which is a projecting egotism that nothing exists other than the self.