Works of absurdist fiction often explore agnostic or nihilistic topics. Existential anxiety can occur when a person faces angst, an existential crisis, or nihilistic feelings. Known for his reckless, nihilistic behavior and pessimistic personality, the character has been well received. That is why Heidegger calls metaphysics nihilistic. Sick Boy loses Renton and launches into an internal self-glorifying, nihilistic diatribe. It was expressionistic and it was also nihilistic. The song was an expression of how I felt&colon; hopeless and nihilistic. It's not as gleefully nihilistic as Future, but comes across just as revelatory. Disciples of The Leader, they live empty lives in the thrall of his nihilistic teachings. The attitude of songs like "Paint It, Black" in particular influenced punk's nihilistic outlook. The album contained 11 tracks of nihilistic but trashy horror punk tracks. However he also saw Buddhism as a kind of life denying nihilistic religion. This contrasts with the tragic, even nihilistic, ending of No. 6. Madhva criticized Advaita as being a version of Mahayana Buddhism, which he regarded as nihilistic. His answer is to insist on the nihilistic consequences of hermeneutics.