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>> No.23759423 [View]
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I'm thinking about writing a small fantasy book (<100k words). Should I just self-publish? I don't feel like dealing with publishers. Would I condemn it to irrelevancy?

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>>22120262
If you don't sit around on a market place and insult people philosophically in exchange for money and food, then you're not a true scholar.

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Post your best books about asetism

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For me reading about the Cynics helped me feel like a huge pussy being substance dependent and helped to motivate me to quit for freedoms sake. The less you need the more joyful life becomes.

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>>21794117
>Once you're no longer outsourcing your feeling of value onto others, a fundamental change in your life happens inevitably.
This might come with the warning that if you really succeed at no longer needing to impress anyone you might lose any drive and motivation towards conventional "success". So much of what we consider out personal ambitions really are for a large part determined by status seeking.

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If he was born today he would have been thrown in jail

>> No.13578595 [View]
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I like this depiction of him more. It shows him in the context of greek society. Somehow it feels as if this scne could've been drawn yesterday. As if all that has changed is the technology surrounding us. Look at the way those girls are so elegantly perched on the white mediterranian staircase, going about their daily routine. Their silky garments draped around their soft, warm bodies as a slight breeze creeps underneath to carress their smooth youthful skin.
This is contrasted by the dark, claustrophobic habitat diogenes has confined himself to. Their behaviour towards him looks to be that of somewhat playful sympathy, gently inviting him back into the relaxing, careless current of aristocratic society.
It humanizes him, puts into perspective the intense battle going on in his mind. How much more happy would he be, if only he'd simply give in to the earthly life. And yet he remains there, sat in his pot, holding a final stand against human delusion and pretense.

I dunno, this really does it for me, I can look at it forever.

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What is the modern equivalent of this lad?

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