/lit/ - Literature

Who actually practices stoicism nowadays?

No, seriously, I want to fucking know what you get out of it.

I've been practicing this bullshit for the past 3 years and it has gotten me literally nowhere. People just think I'm a brute or some kind of an emotionless mute.

Is this one of those schools of thought targeted for the betterment of your ~soul~ or some other type of nonsense like that?

Because no shit you can maintain a blank face and no extreme emotions of any kind when literally nobody talks to you and nothing extraordinary is happening in your life.

>muh lasting transcendence
>muh imperturbable tranquility

Jesus christ, anyone who practices this should stop right fucking now. It's not worth it. Be a normal fucking person instead.

>Such is the stupid pride of these men who fancy that the supreme good can be found in this life, and that they can become happy by their own resources, that their wise man,
or at least the man whom they fancifully depict as such, is always happy, even though he become blind, deaf, dumb, mutilated, racked with pains, or suffer any conceivable calamity such as may compel him to make away with himself; and they are not ashamed to call the life that is beset with these evils happy. O happy
life, which seeks the aid of death to end it?

Is radical traditionalism the new edgy? Seriously, do you guys actually support these ways of thinking, or are you only trying to differentiate yourselves from the masses?