But that might be too close to Buddhism for a true Humanist.Existence must have NO meaning.
True. However, modern Humanism comes from the same root-—mereological nihilism—as Buddhism, Hinduism, and other mystical pantheist systems. Mereological nihilism posits that since matter is actually energy then everything consisting of physical matter is a mirage, or hologram, or the dream of Brahman (energy field/void) or some such thing. So physical existence is meaningless, Nirvana is a nowhere place for nobodies and absorption the only exit strategy for deluded Humanists who vainly hope to avoid the supernatural Judge of all men.
Please excuse me for hitting ‘post’ too quickly. The sentence, absorption is “the only exit strategy for deluded Humanists who vainly hope to avoid the supernatural Judge of all men,” should include ‘annihilation,’ even though annihilation really means the same thing as absorption in the final analysis. As well, Humanists of my acquaintance rarely if ever possess more than a very shallow understanding of what they profess to believe. Most of them wear a Humanist label like they would a watch. Furthermore, no Humanist, even the ones of greater understanding, are able to function within the narrow constraints of a worldview that reduces them to dehumanized aspects of energy in motion.