I've been having some thoughts recently.
Why are we born on this earth? Just to suffer?
Incorrect. We are born because our parents had sex and didn't abort us.
Furthermore, we have no purpose. You can make your own "purpose in life" but I don't think it really matters. "Being" a "nihilist" also doesn't "matter". So what if you don't care? And so what if you do?
I've also thought a little about absurdism. I don't get why they are laughing in the face of the vast uncaring empty universe. It's empty. Ain't nothing there to laugh at. Maybe that's why it's "absurd".
Funnily enough, this is exactly the thought process that made me stop being a nihilist and become a communist/materialist. I realised that I am allowed to care for and engage with things that actually exist in the world. If I cut off all my attachments, I will not suffer. But my suffering doesn't matter. I don't need to escape samsara.