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19623677 No.19623677 [Reply] [Original]

Don't go to therapy, read Seneca instead.

>> No.19623695

Based cutting out of the middleman.
Modern psychotherapy is largely due to Seneca and Epictetus anyway.

>> No.19623713

Just kill yourself bro, that's the noble thing to do
t. Seneca

>> No.19623720

>>19623713
Based

>> No.19623893

>>19623677
"Uhhh just like don't care about it bro"

Do stoics even? Just Buddhism for pale skin twinks

>> No.19623909

>>19623677
>implying that anons who need therapy can even read anything longer than a post
>that they are able to relate to anything
>that even if they can relate to it, they can held themselves accountable to do such things
Anon, I... don't think you realize how fucked things actually are.

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>>19623893

>> No.19623987

>>19623713
Did you even read what Seneca wrote about suicide? It's only for the noble and aristocratic at heart who gave in life what he could give and lived for a higher ideality.

>> No.19624210

>>19623677
Seneca was pro suicide. Not the best recommendation for therapy.

>> No.19624228

>>19623909
not able to relate to anything except to therapy.
>>19624210
what is better?, a simple truth or a comfortable lie?.

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>>19624228
Why recommend the comfortable lie of antinatalism? Fuck off, troll.

>> No.19624431

>>19624426
How do you feel about Zapffe, Butterfly?

He's a materialist (like yourself) but life-denying and an anti-natalist

I'm finally reading Epicurus because you, by the way

>> No.19624438

>>19624228
They need people at their sides, the real thing. Not books, not screens, not whatever. This isn't a trivial task.

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>>19624431
Sounds like a hypocritical fool and no one worth reading.
It always stands to figure that the atheist would fear and avoid death the most, as he knows there is nothing after. But it is the believer in an afterlife that is careless or disdainful with this life and wish a speedy end to it.

>> No.19625169

>>19623677
once you're at the point where you need therapy, a book isn't going to cut it

>> No.19626049

>>19623677

You have to be gay and dumb to be receptive to parody. If you malaise is stemming from concrete issues, go resolve them if it can be resolved and stop caring so much about pain and risk. If they are irresolvable or close to it then either kill urslf or focus on what is actually in your reach. Therapists console dumb wahmen and the type of libshit bugman nerd you see in major metropolitan areas. People who are either too safe, conformist, and middle rung, and/or too small minded to perceive more serious problems.

>> No.19626050

>>19626049

>parody

what the fuck weird Freudian slip

therapy*

>> No.19626072

>>19624426
Please stop posting

>> No.19626179

>>19626072
>please stop telling the truth and let us prey upon each other as we push one another to suicide
Trolls can just bugger off

>> No.19626207

>>19626179
You have no idea what truth is, nor what it would even look like if you had it.

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>>19624426

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>Tum your nose up at fortune. I (sc. God) have given it no weapon with which it can strike your mind. Above all beware that nothing hold you back against your will. The door lies open. If you don’t want to fight, you can flee. Thus, of all the things that I wanted to be required of you, I made nothing easier than death. I have placed your soul on a slanted slope: it is being dragged down. Only pay attention and you will see how how short and how quick a road leads to freedom.

>Many short and easy roads to freedom lie open on all sides. Let us thank god, that no one is able to be kept in life.

>He who says this does not realize that he blocks off the road of freedom.
>The eternal law did nothing better than giving us one entrance into life, but many exits. Should I await the cruelty of disease or man, when I am able to exit through the middle of tortures and shake off my adversities?

>But you know this, to how many men it (death) is useful, how many men it frees from tortures, destitution, ailments, torments, and weariness. We are in the power of no one, when death is in our power.

>[The Stoics] say that he [the wise man] alone is free (eleutheron), and that fools are slaves. For they say that freedom is the power of self- determination (iautopragias), and slavery the lack of self-determination.

>What evil is there in torture, or in other things we call adversities? This, I think: that the mind gives way, bends, and collapses. None of these things can happen to the wise man. He stands upright under any load. Nothing diminishes him. None of these things that he must endure bothers him. He does not complain when anything that can befall man has befallen him. He knows his own strength.

>> No.19626416

>>19623677
Everything by Seneca is permanently readable. He is lovable and majestic.

>> No.19626434

>>19623938
I wonder what frogs like you think of state scale parks.

>> No.19626439

>>19626049
This is some of the best shit I have read for a very long time

>> No.19626668

>>19626305
>Thus, of all the things that I wanted to be required of you, I made nothing easier than death
What does he mean by this? How is death easy? It's probably one of the most difficult things of all. The momentum and force in life is to keep living

>> No.19626874

Dont care

>> No.19626923

>>19626305
>Tum your nose up at fortune.<span class="fortune" style="color:#aad001">

Your fortune: You're on the naughty list![/spoiler]

>> No.19626992

>>19626439

You must not read much

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>>19623713
That’s right.

>> No.19627210

>>19626049
Lol this is very true.

>> No.19628006

>>19626049
>go resolve them if it can be resolved
Yeah, this is what theraphy is for.

>> No.19628374

>>19628006
Therapy is for fags.

>> No.19628388

>>19623677
Why does he have such a fat head?

>> No.19628647

>>19623677
Don't read book, understand your own mind.

>> No.19628894

>>19626439
it's basically what seneca says

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19629053

I fucking hate women so much. Can seneca help? What does he say about women?

>> No.19629105

>>19628647
Don't get lost in the depths of self-analysis, read one book.

>> No.19629111

>>19626668
You just aren't ready for it, that's all.