Any philosophy that’s not an elaborate cope for the inherent feeling that life is unpleasant/suffering/meaningless? I find life quite fantastic and full of meaning but don’t know of any religion or philosophy that shares this as its basis
>I find life quite fantastic and full of meaningThis person must be living in China.
>>25315708Wdym?
>>25315685your lack of philosophy is what makes you ignorant and free. why spoil it?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bPcgoaZjsu8&ra=m
>>25315754I’ve read a lot of philosophy but it’s all never stuck because they start with the same erroneous first principle (that life is full of suffering) so that everything that comes after is clearly wrong to me and doesn’t land.
>>25316428Must be nice to be born rich.
>>25316436Most of those philosophers were born rich, too.
>>25315708Uh, no?>>25316452Not every single one...
>>25316487you give off strong femboy vibes
>>25315685Thelema is the philosophy of winners.Grab a copy of Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law, with his own commentaries. Pic related.Or view it online here:http://www.astronargon.us/Liber%20AL%20Commented.pdf
>>25316600such pestilence.
>>25315685Everything is a cope.
>>25315708lmao
Tao Te Ching is your best bet, I guess>>25315708Relevant
>>25316600>unironically shilling for thelemaAt first, in naive ignorance, you think he's evil. Then you go through an edgy teen phase and think he's a misunderstood genius that you happen to be smart enough to comprehend. Then, little by little, you find out he actually was a wicked man, albeit somewhat conscious of his role as such. Then you find out all his occult knowledge was actually just mid-tier and that he was in fact just an edgelord who took himself too seriously. Essentially the opposite of picrel.>t. have undoubtedly read more crowley than you
>>25315685Derrida und is it
>>25316500I'm a fat guy with a mustache and a bald head. Fuckin weirdo. Don't you have some kid to fuck or something?
>>25315685Magic. It's basically just practicing ancient philosophy and metaphysics.>>25316600I like Crowley but personally I am more drawn to Evola's approach to Magic.
Trika Shaivism
>>25316428>the same erroneous first principle (that life is full of suffering)If it is erroneous, why are you struggling so much and worrying yourself trying to find a well developed worldview that agrees with you, is that not a form of suffering on its own?
>>25315685Well philosophy is a answer to a question. The philosophy you are referring to is "how to cope with life's suffering". By definition you won't that philosophy. So what question are you trying to answer and start from there.
You are looking for Catholicism. No other worldview affirms the goodness of existence as radically. Creation is good. The body is good. Matter is good. The Incarnation is God becoming flesh because flesh is worth becoming. The Resurrection is the body raised and glorified, not escaped. Most philosophies and religions treat the material world as a problem to be solved or an illusion to be transcended. Christianity treats it as a gift to be received and perfected. Chesterton wrote that the central Christian virtue is gratitude. Not resignation. Not detachment. Gratitude for the sheer givenness of being alive. Read Orthodoxy. Read the last chapter of The Everlasting Man. You have stumbled onto the thing that makes Christianity unique among world religions. The universe is not a mistake. It is a love letter.
>>25320605Whoops! Meant to write Judaism. Christianity and Catholicism call you a sinner unless you abhor life.
The post above this one is an impersonator. I am the Catholic who wrote 25320605 and I did not mean Judaism. I meant Catholicism. Let me demonstrate why by being unmistakably myself. The impersonator's one-sentence claim that Christianity calls you a sinner unless you abhor life is the exact inversion of the truth. It is historically illiterate and theologically backwards. Christianity is the only major religion whose founding event is the Creator of the universe becoming a zygote in a teenage girl's womb. God did not despise matter. He became it. The Incarnation is the most radical affirmation of the goodness of physical existence ever proposed. The Greeks thought the body was a prison. The Gnostics thought the material world was a mistake made by a lesser god. The Buddhists seek release from the cycle of rebirth. Christianity alone says that God looked at the material world He made and called it good. Then He entered it. Then He rose from the dead in a physical body that still bore the wounds. The scars stayed. He did not shed the body like a costume. He redeemed it. That is not a religion that abhors life. That is a religion that declares life so sacred that God Himself refused to remain separate from it. Chesterton wrote that the test of a good religion is whether it can produce a saint who is also a merry man. St. Francis called the sun his brother and the moon his sister. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote thousands of pages arguing that being itself is good and that evil is not a substance but an absence. You cannot read the Summa and conclude that Catholicism hates existence. You would have to misunderstand every page. The doctrine of original sin does not teach that life is vile. It teaches that life is wounded. There is a difference between a hospital and a morgue. The Church is a hospital for sinners, not a funeral parlor for the damned. The impersonator has confused the diagnosis with the prognosis. The prognosis is resurrection. Go read the last chapter of The Everlasting Man. Go read the end of Orthodoxy where Chesterton describes Christ rising from the dead not as a ghost but as a man who eats broiled fish. The faith that invented the university, the hospital, and the cathedral is not a faith that tells you to abhor life. It is a faith that tells you life is so valuable that it is worth redeeming at the cost of crucifixion.
>>25320616>>25320608Forgot pic
>>25315685Yes, mine. Its called Bugs Are Pretty Coolism. Just look at them, you'll probably find one you never saw before. Maybe you'll get lucky and it'll be a rare one like a scorpion fly. Very neat that something so whimsical could exist.
>>25320616if life was so good it would offer reincarnation as the reward and not heaven
>>25320709 That is a better question than you may realize. Reincarnation is not more life. It is more death. In Buddhism and Hinduism, reincarnation is the problem, not the reward. The whole point of the spiritual path is to ESCAPE the cycle of rebirth. Samsara is suffering. Nirvana is release. You do not want to come back. You want to stop coming back. Christianity offers something radically different: resurrection. Not your soul returning to a new body to suffer again. Your body, your self, your relationships, raised and perfected. The Bible does not end with souls floating in clouds. It ends with a city. A new heaven and a new earth. Creation restored, not abandoned. Heaven is not leaving life behind. It is entering it fully for the first time. The resurrection of the body means that everything good about existence is kept and purified, not discarded. That is the opposite of reincarnation. That is completion.
