[HN Gopher] How to Live a Happy Life
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       How to Live a Happy Life
        
       Author : ed
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2022-04-03 18:22 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | alecbz wrote:
       | > you could be joyful but think your life is worthless
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       | I find this hard to believe. At a certain point I think a lack of
       | meaning in your life is going to make you day-to-day unhappy,
       | whatever you're spending those days doing.
        
         | ThalesX wrote:
         | I'm both a joyful person, and perhaps the futility of the
         | entire Universe is what makes me so joyful in laughing at the
         | meaningless of it all, while also appreciating the connections,
         | insights and flames that are ultimately worthless.
         | 
         | > I find this hard to believe.
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         | I would suggest you give Emil Cioran [0] some time. It sounds
         | like the kind of person that you find hard to believe exists,
         | so might provide some context.
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         | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran
        
         | timoth3y wrote:
         | >> you could be joyful but think your life is worthless > I
         | find this hard to believe.
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         | Albert Camus developed the philosophy of Absurdism around a
         | very similar idea. A gross oversimplification is that in the
         | grand scheme of things, logically and objectively our lives
         | have no meaning, but our brains are wired to need meaning. The
         | solution is to create that meaning for ourselves even while
         | acknowledging that meaning is a delusion.
        
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