alt Hacker NewsBut 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.
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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
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 great meat grinder doesn't care either way. Stoic or screaming and kicking, you're going in.