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As far as I can tell, Nihilism only has it half right.
Let's say I'm a Nihilist. I believe that nothing has value. That depresses me and I'm basically negative.
Problem is, that negativity and depression comes from me valuing value itself. The lack of value leaves me negative. But that's not nihilism any more, that's ordinary value-based thinking reacting to nihilism.
If I'm properly nihilistic, then it's inherantly meaningless to me that life is meaningless. At which point I'm totally free.
And, as long as I remember that it's just me assigning meanings to things (as I'm wired to do, as a human being), I can invent specific meanings for things that empower me. I can create and fulfill goals for myself--not because fulfilling those goals is "better" than not fulfilling them, but because I chose to make a goal and fulfill it! I'm now able to do stuff and produce results without a shred of burden or obligation about it.
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