"What would you tell yourself, in your nihilistic moments?" In my nihilistic moments, the process of telling myself something, or just general thinking, is not very coherent. But I remember something I read many years ago, an arabic saying : "If you have no problems, buy a goat". I could not understand why I liked this seemingly useless piece of advice; it took a long time to creep up on me . . . . .your wrote "I generally don't care about the truth or falsehood of factual claims either. What does it matter?" This intere...