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[–] ilk@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stoics discovered it a while ago, there’s no point to life.

I am not much familiar with it, but wasn't Stoicism's life meaning about following Stoic's virtues which requires healthy interaction with other humans (ideally virtuous ones for better influences) and nature for a meaningful/flourishing life (one becoming the best possible version of oneself) achieving one's purposes/goals beyond just surviving?

As far as I know, the existentialism and cosmological nihilism philosophies that said life has no meaning from a cosmological interpretation.

https://www.philosophyoflife.org/jpl202003.pdf

Hindus ... improve balance by dharma

I will have to look at that. Thanks!

[–] Sagar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, I'm mistaken wrt quoting Stoics, but I do believe in the "no point". There's a nice quote in Steven Weinberg's book "To Explain the world" that no pattern has been found in basic laws of physics which explain that there's an objective to life. I'm a physics major, btw.

Hinduism is very broad. I suggest you take a look at a small philosophy of Yoga by reading "Yoga Sutra by Patanjali".