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>"Dude, just be, you know, uhhh good and nice and beeee yourself... and shit! Uh, like, yeah, and so but..."

DFW / Marcus Aurelius / Seneca hate thread?

>> No.8076691
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8076691

>>8076679
biz marcus and the fat tyrant teacher are opposed to being yourself, they're all about forcing yourself to conform to some spook of what is natural, which ironically requires decidedly forced behaviour.

>> No.8077115 [DELETED] 

>>8076679
DFW never said that.

>> No.8077131

>>8076691
What dat pic from? Slacker? A good film?

>> No.8077909

>>8076679
DFW wasn't a stoic.

>> No.8077924

If we can have 1 day without posting a thread about DFW i will personally donate $1000 to the charity of anyone's choice.

>> No.8078165

>>8076679
>just be yourself
>literally the 21st century "virtue is sufficient for happiness"
>literally deflection that categorically dismisses all critiques of society out of hand so that morally just beneficiaries of a broken world need not confront its faults

Also
>buddhist internal revolution

>> No.8078231

>>8077131
yeah, its pretty good.

>> No.8078239
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>>8077924
Only $1,000?

>> No.8078280

>>8077924
>supporting the charity system
>trying to solve issues by alleviating symptoms, not the causes
>"solving" issues by throwing money at them in hope that they will go away
>implicitly supporting capitalism by doing so

you can shove your money up your ass. charities are shit.

>> No.8078289

>>8078280
charitynavigator.org

Inb4 we shouldn't donate mosquito nets

Also: http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1972----.htm

>> No.8078381

>>8078289
>charitynavigator.org
nice, I site where I can shop for consciousness!

>> No.8078676

>>8078381
>consciousness
You're probably retarded

>> No.8078687
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8078687

>Following the ways of virtuous man
>2016 and not living by the real cod of man
>2016 and not Machiavellian

>> No.8079063

>>8078687
well spooked

>> No.8079073

>>8078381
>shop for consciousness

kek

>> No.8079078

>>8079063
realpolitik is the opposite of spooked

>> No.8079261

>>8077131
Yes and yes.

>> No.8079288

>>8079261
>>8078231
Is it better than Clerks?

>> No.8079302

anybody else wish Dave was your dad?

>> No.8079316

>>8079302
Yes. Then I'd have been a legacy at Amherst.

>> No.8079325

>>8077924
how about the DFW charity of daveposting

>> No.8079328

>>8079288
by a good mile, not a fan of Fatfuck McJerseyvest

>> No.8079332

>>8079302
I sometimes think having kids would have made him a lot less depressed.

>> No.8079339

>>8079302

I wish he was my cool older brother who taught me to be cool as fuck.

>> No.8079397

>>8079288
Much better.

>> No.8079403

>>8078289
Donate to charity = perpetuate corrupt capitalist death machine

>> No.8079467

>>8079403
this, derty pressure valve of capitalism and so on

>> No.8079856

>>8079328
>Fatfuck McJerseyvest
dull your edges, nobody is impressed

>> No.8080527

>>8076679
Where do I start with Stoicism?

>> No.8080532

>>8080527
epictetus

>> No.8081182

>>8078280
your a dorable

>> No.8081382

>>8081182
thank you <3

>> No.8082054

>>8081182
lol

>> No.8082073

>>8080527
epictittys

>> No.8082087

>>8080527
Epicaterus

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>>8078289
nice Singer reference senpai

>> No.8082136

>>8080527
Empiricus, Sextus

>> No.8083952

>>8080527
epicureans