/lit/ - Literature

>>12436632
>Reflects on one passage in the Meditations every couple of days or weeks.
Don't "read" the meditations you fucking consumer.

>>12433358
Purposely sold as damaged; doesn't include actual story. All books have been hand ripped by author.

>>12404787
People in need of duty don't read Aurelius. You read him as a mantra towards achieving some social good. This combined effort one forms through duty to your job, your economic prosperity benifiting your social being as part of a community of individuals, all being attentive and passionate, solemn, laboring in combined action. After repeated reading and reflection on Aurelius' words, you cant help but acknowledge the legitimacy of a kind cooperation at the centre of a debate above you, a debate in which you have no power, such is the planet among the planets of exploding sun, or suddenly hit by a quasar. Seriously, look. The balance of power always lies much higher if you are to make all judgement open to disaster, (and no, his wife getting dicked by the butler doesn't count). You do have to engage in a community for egotistical reasons, or to survive. You do have to cooperate and be nice to have the potential for a life of interacting with real power. Otherwise you are best to stick with Epicurianism and refine your pleasures to fit with a life of reclining in the woods, joyous with thought, pleased to have a little cheese and a little wine and swerve among friends and back to reading. Stoics are for doers, not those inclined to want.

>>12032799
but natural laws are subject to change. this is the awesome part. within the infinity of chaos there was a period of cause and effect and that is now, but it will not always be so. natural laws to me suggest a type of homeostatis in which our planatary universe can exist. It seems to suggest a moving towards if you don't mind the anthropomorphism. that this is conscious in a manner that it felt concern for specks of dust is laughable. my suspicion is that we're sort of a mole. when's the last time you ever worried about a mole?

>>11679497
>bright azure.
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