I think this already is my philosophy. Good looks OP gonna research some more.

Partial control means it's not wholely within your control. So therefore you don't truly have control. You have influence.

I would not.

Never able to wade in a stream or summit a mountain. No playing tag. No running just to run. I'll keep the legs tyvm

I posted this excerpt from The Book of Joy in my thread 4 days ago. I think it's relevant here.

"Our ability to cultivate joy has not been scientifically studied as thoroughly as our ability to cultivate happiness. In 1978, psychologists Philip Brickman, Dan Coates, and Ronnie Janoff-Bulman published a landmark study that found that lottery winners were not significantly happier than those who had been paralyzed in an accident. From this and subsequent work came the idea that people have a "set point" that determines their happiness over the course of their life. In other words, we get accustomed to any new situation and inevitably return to our general state of happiness.

However, more recent research by psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky suggests that perhaps only 50 percent of our happiness is determined by immutable factors like our genes or temperament, our "set point." The other half is determined by a combination of our circumstances, over which we may have limited control, and our attitudes and actions, over which we have a great deal of Control. According to Lyubomirsky, the three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous. These were exactly the attitudes and actions that the Dalai Lama and the Archbishop had already mentioned and to which they would return as central pillars of joy."

You’d never be able to sit, get out of bed whenever you wanted out of your own free will, take a s*** in peace, piss in peace, yeah you have a private jet but what’s the point in that when you’re just sitting in a plane and after getting off not being able to fully explore the place you just travelled to because you have no legs

read the stoic subreddit and it f***ed me up some guy was dying of cancer and he only had this week left to live and they say he handled it like a stoic person.

which book do y’all recommend for a beginner that has never read anything on Stoic philosophy?

Hard to go wrong with a classic like Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Pretty quick read too, but packed full of good stuff. Prolly read it 3 times now myself

Good to get into, especially during this time.

i prefer Nietzsche at this point in my life

Celibate one day at a time

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Absurdism > stoicism

they're not really comparable. absurdism is like a frankenstein's monster of wild assumptions and speculation, while stoicism is pretty agnostic about your outside beliefs and has clearer practical applications

Everything that happens is either endurable or not.
If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.
If it’s unendurable . . . then stop complaining. Your
destruction will mean its end as well.
Just remember: you can endure anything your mind can
make endurable, by treating it as in your interest to do so.
In your interest, or in your nature.

STOICISM IS OVERRATED

USE EMOTIONS AS FUEL TO ACHIEVE GOALS

SHOW THIS WORLD THE LIVELINESS THAT BOILS DEEP INSIDE OF YOU