The Greek Stoics had it down

[Fajita Jim]

Epictetus: "Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."

Seneca: "We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

Chrysippus:"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows."

Diogenes: "We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."

Bonus---
Marcus Aurelius: "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."




I wanna hang out with these guys. They seem like an enlightened bunch who probably just like to chill on the curb and get drunk.


Peak human understanding right there.

[Xautos]

Fajita Jim původně napsal:

Epictetus: "Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."

Seneca: "We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

Chrysippus:"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows."

Diogenes: "We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."

Bonus---
Marcus Aurelius: "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."




I wanna hang out with these guys. They seem like an enlightened bunch who probably just like to chill on the curb and get drunk.


Peak human understanding right there.

And if you translate all that: people presume to know and spend more time causing trouble than making the effort to sit, ask and listen. a completely foreign concept on these forums.

[Fajita Jim]

Xautos původně napsal:

And if you translate all that: people presume to know and spend more time causing trouble than making the effort to sit, ask and listen. a completely foreign concept on these forums.

Thanks for the TL;DR

[sleeps]

wait, is one of them the same guy that died by looking at the donkey eating figs and laughed?

[Fajita Jim]

sleeps původně napsal:

wait, is one of them the same guy that died by looking at the donkey eating figs and laughed?

Yeah, Chrysippus.

But donkeys are some funny ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ animals.

[saranacX]

Fajita Jim původně napsal:

I wanna hang out with these guys. They seem like an enlightened bunch who probably just like to chill on the curb and get drunk.


Peak human understanding right there.

Perhaps a couple to loosen up and become more sociable.

Getting drunk is for those Epicurean slobs. =P

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Fajita Jim původně napsal:

Diogenes: "We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."

That`s not the correct scientific deduction. You have two ears to pinpoint the direction of the sound.

[DoomsDay]

these are great

[Under there]

but did they have 15 second splitscreen subway surfers/soap cutting storytime tiktoks?
no

[DataLine]

Indeed. Greeks were the Giga Chads of the time

[Voroff]

Fajita Jim původně napsal:

Peak human understanding right there.

Ho, they did have a lot of things wrong, but aye, good thing we didnt lost all of the philosophers writtings from that time.

[TwisterCat]

Now this we can agree on.

[Morkonan]

Fajita Jim původně napsal:

...
I wanna hang out with these guys. They seem like an enlightened bunch who probably just like to chill on the curb and get drunk.

"Why are you out here having fun and being irresponsibly inebriated when there is work to do and more important things to think about?" :)

Peak human understanding right there.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680

It's great reading.

[Holografix]

why aren't there more Stoics today? is it possible that Stoicism is nothing but a bunch of pithy retorts with no substance?

the sheer lunacy of Aurelius: "Happiness depends on the "quality" of thoughts." The guy was a ROMAN EMPEROR...talk about a "let them eat cake" moment.

[Apollo702]

Wow do I like a bunch of those quotes!

Sometimes life really is that simple. One just gets in there and surges forwards. Think of it like sports. There is a clock, the play has been called. At a certain point there is nothing more to think about. At a certain point you just gotta surge forwards and do your thing!

[jeremywyx]

the greeks had it going on qut well.