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What the poster meant was that most people need, if not ideology, then an identity, so that they can relate socially. It must be exposed, that identity is a syndrome, like neurosis, it is a voluntary reflex which stimulates certaìn brain chemistries. Atheists or Pantheists have taken the first step to seperate themselves from the association. The atheists as a result become voracious disassociated materialists, the pantheists may be more connected like indigenous peoples.. Nihilists take the seperation a step further, and spend much of their time debating their place in the world, their loneliness, their angst, their freedoms. Throughout time, people have always had the choice to be nihilists, or are born that way, and have an overpowering desire to escape society, and wander alone in the wilderness, the historical hermit, fanatic, like Jesus, who was a nihilist in a sense, not an Abrahamic adherent as history portrays him.
I also have spent 40 days and nights in the wilderness, it is refreshing experience.