Topic: A self help audio book written by a Roman fucking emperor
Anonymous A started this discussion 5 years ago #99,985
Picture related. Honestly I don't get much help from this book, the first part was him going on and on how grateful he is for this or that, about how lucky he is and so on and so on. Then there's stuff like how you shouldn't waste time lookin at your slave boys. Though there's also cool stuff, like Rome is going through a plague and he's saying people should remember this is nothing new, that it has happened before and will pass.One great useful thing i got though is that you can't blame the cruel for being cruel. Or something like that. Like right now everyone is raging against this guy called kimstar on youtube because apparently he's done a lot of shady and possibly illegal shit but I'm like fuck that shit i don't need to invest energy in that because of course the cruel will be cruel, nothing new. The narrator also has a divine voice. I give it 5g's out of 5g's.
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Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 2 hours later[^] [v] #1,127,919
that's a lot of "g"s!
Stoic Sam !.r54BcGG7Q joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 19 hours later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,128,125
I'm glad you enjoyed Meditations. I can also recommend Epictetus and Seneca. What you should keep in mind when reading Meditations is that it isn't a self-help book, or was even intended for publishing. What you're reading is the private diary of Marcus Aurelius from which lessons can be learned but they're not going to tell you what they are. Are you referring to Book II when you talk about not blaming the cruel for being cruel?
When you wake up this morning, repeat to yourself: Today I shall meet rude, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious and uncharitable men. The reason they are this way is because they are ignorant of good and evil. As for myself, because I know that what is good is right, and that what is evil is wrong, and that the man who does wrong is no different to myself (Not biologically but philosophically; we are both equipped with a rational mind), I cannot be harmed by any of them, because nobody can force me to do wrong. Neither can I be angry with my brother-of-fate or hate him; we have come into the world to work together, like feet, hands, eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. To oppose each other therefore is to oppose Nature, and to be angry with another or feel hatred for him is an evil of its own.
When you wake up this morning, repeat to yourself: Today I shall meet rude, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious and uncharitable men. The reason they are this way is because they are ignorant of good and evil. As for myself, because I know that what is good is right, and that what is evil is wrong, and that the man who does wrong is no different to myself (Not biologically but philosophically; we are both equipped with a rational mind), I cannot be harmed by any of them, because nobody can force me to do wrong. Neither can I be angry with my brother-of-fate or hate him; we have come into the world to work together, like feet, hands, eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. To oppose each other therefore is to oppose Nature, and to be angry with another or feel hatred for him is an evil of its own.
Sheila LaBoof replied with this 5 years ago, 1 hour later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,128,133
slit his fuckin throught
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,128,225
@1,128,125 (Stoic Sam !.r54BcGG7Q)
I think i shall check out that recommendation, thanks. I don't recall where or what exactly was said when it concerns the cruel and i don't think it was about the cruel directly, rather it was about the ignorant or something like that. There does seem to be a lot of parts where he is reminding himself (supposedly?) over and over to not find fault with that which is natural and these days it seems to be natural for people taking satisfaction and vengeance from videos of people getting hurt, usually I'd get pretty disgusted and angry from that but I guess it is without merit like i explained.
I think i shall check out that recommendation, thanks. I don't recall where or what exactly was said when it concerns the cruel and i don't think it was about the cruel directly, rather it was about the ignorant or something like that. There does seem to be a lot of parts where he is reminding himself (supposedly?) over and over to not find fault with that which is natural and these days it seems to be natural for people taking satisfaction and vengeance from videos of people getting hurt, usually I'd get pretty disgusted and angry from that but I guess it is without merit like i explained.