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But all that advice. Never worked out. Be stoic. Be supportive. Be.. to Not to be. Accept that beeing some eldritch gods lunch is your destiny. Stoic is what we

But all that advice. Never worked out. Be stoic. Be supportive. Be.. to Not to be. Accept that beeing some eldritch gods lunch is your destiny. Stoic is what we expect the cattle to be as it goes up the ramp. Do not go quietly into the night, rage against the dying of the light.

9dev 6mo ago
The great meat grinder doesn't care either way. Stoic or screaming and kicking, you're going in.
- keybored 6mo ago
  So sayeth a Head of Engineering.
  - 9dev 6mo ago
    Aye - I'm marching into it like everyone else, just with a different flavour of pain
    - keybored 6mo ago
      Let’s join hands then.
      - keybored 6mo ago
        That’s what I thought.
tsunamifury 6mo ago
Correct. Stoicism was for two audiences. Those doing the killing to be indifferent toward it and for those being killed to be indifferent about it. Marcus Aurelius the historical figure was a monster who killed a measurable portion of humans alive at the time
- laszlojamf 6mo ago
  I mean... so did a lot of other rulers. As far as emperors go, Aurelius wasn't that bad. You have to judge historical people by their peers, not by your own modern standards.
  - king_geedorah 6mo ago
    Strictly speaking nobody has to do anything.
  - MyHonestOpinon 6mo ago
    My take is that you should judge historical people based on the choices they had.
keybored 6mo ago
Stoicness is for the lamb and the wolf alike; mindfulness is for the monk and the samurai killing on behalf of their lord alike. We are not so one-dimensional that good mind habits are the one and only thing we do and act on.
- the_gipsy 6mo ago
  But that was a stoic comment.