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Anonymous Mon Apr 6 07:22:22 2020 No.15031951 [Reply] [Original]

>GEE HOW ENLIGHTENING

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 07:24:21 2020 No.15031960 I will now endeavor to adopt stoicism because your seething amuses me

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 07:25:17 2020 No.15031969 >>15031951 unironically being yourself is enlightenment but 99% cant get there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 07:26:14 2020 No.15031975 >>15031951 He suggests not being yourself and refusing dominion of the passions. You cannot refute Marcus if you aren't continent.

Anonymous Mon Apr 6 07:26:59 2020 No.15031981
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>To us, the size of the sun, moon and stars is as great as it appears to be. The actual size is greater than what we see or slightly smaller or the same.
Thank you Epicurus for this piece of timeless wisdom...

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 07:27:18 2020 No.15031983 You should make daily threads about it

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 07:28:27 2020 No.15031990 >>15031981 >he doesn't understand the epicurus was refering to the deeply limited abilities of human perception

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 10:13:36 2020 No.15032774 >>15031951 Literally the opposite of his message moron

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 11:06:11 2020 No.15033037 >>15031969 What version of myself should I be?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 11:07:13 2020 No.15033044 >>15031990 >he doesn't understand that Epicurus was trolling retards

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 11:23:13 2020 No.15033143 >>15033037 I used to ask this question as well. I'll give you a hint: asking this question is an expression of self.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 11:24:45 2020 No.15033157 >just be cool man let life wash over you t. most powerful man in Rome

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 11:27:40 2020 No.15033176 >>15033157 Yeah, he was reminding himself to do that because room was a pit of snakes would get him killed. You do know that everything he wrote was advice for himself, right?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 12:08:03 2020 No.15033446 >>15033157 Holy shit once again the exact opposite of his message. Brainletpalooza itt

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 12:34:55 2020 No.15033742 >>15033037 By your "true nature", your true wants and what the will truly yearns for

Anonymous Mon Apr 6 12:39:02 2020 No.15033774

>>15033157
>Ruling was not an opportunity to ameliorate the absurdities and cruelties of the world, but rather a bondage to unworthy masters to whom the Stoic emperor was an unhappy shepherd and imperial slave. "a soul dragging about corpse," who feeds on corpses and covers himself with " sheep hair dyed with the blood of shell fish." 40 In the mirror, Marcus saw " scum and gore in a bag of skin," the sum of all life as "dirty bath water,"42 and the world of nature as a fetid flux of clots of caked blood and dirt.48 The world of man was "shallow pomp, masques, sheep and herds, sham battles, bones flung to little curs, crumbs on a fish pond, the fearful labor and burdens of ants, the scramble of scared mice, and puppets on strings."44 Death frees us from sense impressions, puppet strings. confused
thoughts, and the bondage of the flesh.4"Hurry, death," the philosopher begged, "lest I too forget myself.. . 4 . Sham, war, anxiety, narcosis, and slavery erode my holy beliefs"

Yeah, Aurelius was definitely living a life of luxury and decadence anon...

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 13:56:03 2020 No.15034278 File: 122 KB, 750x1000, 161 AD - Androcles....jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What did Shaw make of him?

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>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 15:36:11 2020 No.15034922 >>15033176 then why the fuck should anybody follow his advice

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 15:50:35 2020 No.15035000 >>15034323 Yeah man fuck virtue and wanting to be a good person.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 15:53:24 2020 No.15035019 >>15034922 Nobody ever said you should, it was the man's provate journals after all. But many philosophers would argue that aurelius had ideas of merit that are worth discussing

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 15:54:26 2020 No.15035023 >>15034323 Marcus never said that

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 16:02:04 2020 No.15035062 >>15031951 Who else can you be?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 16:06:55 2020 No.15035088 >>15033446 i think purposely misinterpreting Marcus is a subtle meme

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 16:21:36 2020 No.15035178 >>15031951 He never said that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 16:24:23 2020 No.15035196 >>15033037 Yikes

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 16:25:25 2020 No.15035201 >>15035062 Forgotten

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