SeamusBrady

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   by SeamusBrady 17y ago

   - "I would call earthquakes and smallpox evil." Ah, that you see is the challenge of Stoicism. A Stoic does not believe that there is anything evil in nature, impersonal perhaps, but not bad. There is nothing evil about death, earthquakes,
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   by SeamusBrady 17y ago

   I respectfully disagree with you. One must be wary of the modern cult of technology as just another way to bypass the human condition. Even if you live to be 2000, you cannot bypass suffering and you cannot stop change. Our attention span i
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   by SeamusBrady 17y ago

   Seneca was a Stoic. But being a Stoic has little to do with the standard cliche of suppressing your emotions. It is a philosophy that emphasises a rational response to nature, your own and that of the universe. "Follow nature" is a common S