Is nihilism a philosophy?

(From the Easter egg page associated with: ᓚᘏᗢ“)…

me, on nihilism: Nihilism isn’t a philosophy. It’s what philosophy always seeks to defeat.
astral visitor (on receiving band): But didn’t Nietzsche love nihilism?
me: No. He just talked about it. Saying he loved nihilism would be like talking about Star Trek characters trying to avoid a massive astronomical phenomenon that kills people out in space. And then saying, Gene Roddenberry loved deep space vacuum anomalies, or whatever. He didn’t. But those were a threat in the (hypothetical) text.
(note: That the word nihilism is sometimes seen routinely capitalized in English is perhaps easiest to explain as a mistake arising from the fact that it is a German noun, and in German nouns are capitalized.)

…

No, nihilism is not its own philosophy. It is more like a bleak or harmful attitude and pathological phenomenon. Compare with neurosis.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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