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Daily Stoic, 4/24/18
| nubile mind-boggling lodge nowag | 04/24/18 |
| Electric Flesh Gas Station Sneaky Criminal | 04/24/18 |
| nubile mind-boggling lodge nowag | 04/24/18 |
| Floppy native | 04/24/18 |
| Brilliant hall | 04/24/18 |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 5:15 AM Author: nubile mind-boggling lodge nowag "Just as when meat or other foods are set before us we think, this is a dead fish, a dead bird or pig; and also, this fine wine is only the juice of a bunch of grapes, this purple-edged robe just sheep's wool dyed in a bit of blood from a shellfish; or of sex, that it is only rubbing private parts together followed by a spastic discharge--in the same way our impressions grab actual events and permeate them, so we see them as they really are." Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.13. |
Date: April 24th, 2018 5:27 AM Author: Electric Flesh Gas Station Sneaky Criminal "rubbing private parts together followed by a spastic discharge"
i'm going to incorporate this into an IRL conversation.
dat antonine wisdom. |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 6:09 AM Author: nubile mind-boggling lodge nowag It does sound incredibly aspie, but the Stoics apparently made an exercise out of making almost cynical statements about reality to break it down to its actual elements, devoid of our emotional attachments. The goal was to work against our tendency to lose our minds in pursuit of desires like money, ambition, sex, praise, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3958195&forum_id=2#35906922) |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 7:15 AM Author: Floppy native "actual elements" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3958195&forum_id=2#35906980) |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 7:12 AM Author: Brilliant hall (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3958195&forum_id=2#35906977) |