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04 Mar 2019, 6:51 pm

Seneca: On the Shortness of Life, written 1st century CE:


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06 Mar 2019, 6:07 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
Seneca: On the Shortness of Life, written 1st century CE:



except there's now a layer of plutonium239, soot and plastics covering the globe, which is posing a challenge we haven't faced before. .... the human condition has changed quite a bit, really. we're just pretending our biggest problems are still the same, but they're really not.


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06 Mar 2019, 6:40 pm

The philosophy of Stoicism has so much to offer the modern world, which is why I was angered by the idiotic study on a recent thread suggesting that stoicism (albeit with a small C) is misogynistic.



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06 Mar 2019, 6:42 pm

I've known some pretty stoic women in my time....



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06 Mar 2019, 9:00 pm

shlaifu wrote:
except there's now a layer of plutonium239, soot and plastics covering the globe, which is posing a challenge we haven't faced before. .... the human condition has changed quite a bit, really. we're just pretending our biggest problems are still the same, but they're really not.

I'm not quite sure what that means. Should we outsource emotional and psychological stability to the whims of other people? Is more politics what we need to be more sane and balanced?

You can say externals have changed a fair amount, we haven't though, and that's something John Gray often comes back to as well.


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