What does Amor Fati means?

Absolutely! It’s true that ancient Stoicism and early Christianity had a number of commitments on human nature, cosmology, and theology that made them quite different from each other. … But Stoicism and Christianity can absolutely be effectively syncreticized!

The ancient Stoics rejected a permanent afterlife, and were agnostic about even any kind of temporary afterlife. The afterlife did not play any role at all in their value system or the argument they made for their ethics.

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• Measurement Materialism. – Focuses on measurement. – Hopes to eliminate bias and accurately describe the world. …
• Monistic Materialism. – Mechanistic view of the world. …
• Reductive Materialism. – Larger always explained by the smaller. …
• Physicalism. – A mindless, meaningless universe.

The point is: Loved ones can leave us. The strength of our feelings won’t prevent that—they will only serve to torture us in that person’s absence if we cannot control them. Focus on what is under your control, the Stoic would say, even in love. Accept the human condition and the bounds set for you by nature.

a love of one’s fate

The historian Diogenes Laertius, a “doxographer” who recorded the views of Greek philosophers, says that the Stoics typically drank wine in moderation, but would not allow themselves to get drunk. … The Stoic wise man (or woman) views alcohol itself with studied indifference and focuses instead on the use he makes of it.