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[Friedrich Hayek's Ghost]

The problem is assuming they actually know what Stoicism or incels are. In their minds, big fancy philosophy book with greek philosopher on the cover = right wing and right wing = incel.

"Meditations" got called out by name. I tend to assume if someone mentions philosophical texts from ancient Roman emperors, they've at least read the summary, but that's my optimism giving me away.

The hate for Stoicism is extra funny, given how into therapy they all claim to be. Stoicism is the foundation of CBT, the therapy one, not the degenerate one.

 

[Joe Shmoe]

"Meditations" got called out by name. I tend to assume if someone mentions philosophical texts from ancient Roman emperors, they've at least read the summary, but that's my optimism giving me away.

The hate for Stoicism is extra funny, given how into therapy they all claim to be. Stoicism is the foundation of CBT, the therapy one, not the degenerate one.

Well redditor-ism isn't a coherent ideology or belief, it's just supporting whatever the tv funny man told them to support, so of course it's gonna contradict itself. And if you asked them about CBT they would think you're talking about cock and ball torture

 

[JJLiautaud]

How the fuck is Stoicism "incel philosophy"? The whole problem with incels is that they aren't stoic. They see something they can't control and start violently seething, spiralling into depression, or both, rather than doing what they can and accepting their limited ability to impact their situation.

I think its because the Historia Augusta, a very complicated and difficult source to use, alleges that Marcus Aurelius was being cuckholded by his wife, the only problem with that is that Historia Augusta is so full of verifiable lies and half truths and maybe jokes that its impossible to verify.
Here's the quote:

Some say, and it seems plausible, that Commodus Antoninus, his son and successor, was not begotten by him, but in adultery; 2 they embroider this assertion, moreover, with a story current among the people. On a certain occasion, it was said, Faustina, the daughter of Pius and wife of Marcus, saw some gladiators pass by, and was inflamed for love of one of them; and afterwards, when suffering from a long illness, she confessed the passion to her husband. 3 And when Marcus reported this to the Chaldeans, it was their advice that Faustina should bathe in his blood and thus couch with her husband. 4 When this was done, the passion was indeed allayed, but their son Commodus was born a gladiator, not really a prince; 5 for afterwards as emperor he fought almost a thousand gladiatorial bouts before the eyes of the people, as shall be related in his life.120 6 This story is considered plausible, as a matter of fact, for the reason that the son of so virtuous a prince had habits worse than any trainer of gladiators, any play-actor, any fighter in the arena, anything brought into existence from the offscourings of all dishonour and crime. 7 Many writers, however, state that Commodus was really begotten in adultery, since it is generally known that Faustina, while at Caieta, used to choose out lovers from among the sailors and gladiators.121 8 When Marcus Antoninus was told about p181 this, that he might divorce, if not kill her, he is reported to have said "If we send our wife away, we must also return her dowry". 9 And what was her dowry? the Empire, which, after he had been adopted at the wish of Hadrian, he had inherited from his father-in‑law Pius.

Here is a discussion on what if any value we can extract from the Historia Augusta:

https://www.livius.org/sources/content/historia-augusta/

 

[internet friend]

I think its because the Historia Augusta, a very complicated and difficult source to use, alleges that Marcus Aurelius was being cuckholded by his wife, the only problem with that is that Historia Augusta is so full of verifiable lies and half truths and maybe jokes that its impossible to verify.

You think an average redditor know the first thing about any of that? No. To them, anything that can't be boiled down to a marvel movie = bad.

 

[One Quick Post]

The hate for Stoicism is extra funny, given how into therapy they all claim to be. Stoicism is the foundation of CBT, the therapy one, not the degenerate one.

It's funny but not surprising, stoicism is antithetical to the hedonistic Redditor lifestyle. The "therapy" Redditors are into is basically just talk therapy that focuses on affirmation of their own world views. They basically consider Jordan Peterson to be a fascist for writing self-help books for troubled young men, doing anything other than magical thinking that the world should change for you pretty much makes you an incel alt-right extremist to the Redditor.

The conspiracy theorist in me wants to believe it's an intentional subversion, it's really easy to control a population if they're weak and stupid.

 

[JJLiautaud]

"Meditations" got called out by name. I tend to assume if someone mentions philosophical texts from ancient Roman emperors, they've at least read the summary, but that's my optimism giving me away.

The hate for Stoicism is extra funny, given how into therapy they all claim to be. Stoicism is the foundation of CBT, the therapy one, not the degenerate one.

Err what happened?

 

[F-14 Tomcat]

Gaming sub still seething about Momma TERF all this time later
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Unironically sharing an alex tweet like it's an own lol
The mod message is the most pathetic sneeding I've seen in a while
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I can't tell if this mod is actually trans if they are they are a rare one that doesn't post about it constantly but they are definitely peak consoomer

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Wait, is the tranny janny really implying that if you mess with them they'll cry to reddit admins until your account is deleted?

 

[Apustajan apustaja]

"Meditations" got called out by name. I tend to assume if someone mentions philosophical texts from ancient Roman emperors, they've at least read the summary, but that's my optimism giving me away.

The hate for Stoicism is extra funny, given how into therapy they all claim to be. Stoicism is the foundation of CBT, the therapy one, not the degenerate one.

Stoicism focuses too much on bettering yourself and not the system. Stoics make bad revolutionairies. (As do redditors probably, but they like to think of themselves as Che or Lenin).

 

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The problem is assuming they actually know what Stoicism or incels are. In their minds, big fancy philosophy book with greek philosopher on the cover = right wing and right wing = incel.

Yeah, pretty much. The MGTOW and sigma grindset crowd were fucking obsessed with Aurelius for a long time.

I'm gonna put on my thinking emoji cap and guess that Redditors have killed any notion of nuance because you need to make snap judgments about who's part of the ingroup and who's part of the outgroup if you comment on Reddit twelve hours a day. MGTOW, incels, TERFS, literals neo-Nazis, they're all basically the same thing I guess.

 

[WhiteNight]

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1be8wsf/a_gay_man_said_honey_i_am_more_of_a_woman_than/
Woman shares a boring story about an interaction with a gay man.

The trannies, intoxicated by her mention of period cramps, proceed to make this story about themselves. Here are some samples from the comments.

I find it more characteristically amusing that nearly every comment on the post calls the gay guy a misogynist. A stranger dropped some random dumb comment about how being a gay man is like being a woman, and this clearly shows that he hates women.

Also funny is that years later this woman still sulking over what this rando said. Just shrug it off and forget about it like a normal adult.

 

[Waifu Denier]

I think its because the Historia Augusta, a very complicated and difficult source to use, alleges that Marcus Aurelius was being cuckholded by his wife, the only problem with that is that Historia Augusta is so full of verifiable lies and half truths and maybe jokes that its impossible to verify.

I have no idea why anyone would use the Historia Augusta for anything other than some third century emperors where no other source exists, given Marcus Aurelius would be covered by Herodian and Cassius Dio.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

The comment section on that reddit thread is pretty funny and gives some insight into what people who've never used this site and only rely on propaganda sources think of it. We apparently are infamous for targeting minorities? Can you even name 5 popular threads on non white people on this forum? It's basically 100% whites we talk about here. Keffals, Kevin Gibbs, Chris Chan, Byuu, Ethan Ralph, ADF I could go on and on.
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Mike Enoch (spiritual jew), Fuentes, Warski (Moor), Cog (Gypsy), and Randbot (spiritual Abo)

 

[JJLiautaud]

I have no idea why anyone would use the Historia Augusta for anything other than some third century emperors where no other source exists, given Marcus Aurelius would be covered by Herodian and Cassius Dio.

Because people are retarded, thats why honestly the same way Rufus's History of Alexander doesnt have a readily available translation for some god foresaken reason the Historia Augusta shouldnt have one as well.

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

Mike Enoch (spiritual jew), Fuentes, Warski (Moor), Cog (Gypsy), and Randbot (spiritual Abo)

Brianna Wu grew up as a little black girl in racist Mississippi. The thread is nearly dead now but he was a prolific cow a while back.

 

[Jacknife]

Imagine having such a warped view of a political Ideology that you turn it into a fetish (NSFW)

 

[JJLiautaud]

Imagine having such a warped view of a political Ideology that you turn it into a fetish (NSFW)

Is this for jewish women or something?

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

The most poignant thing was probably that hand that appeared and then disappeared. That's realistic; things would be there and then they'd just disappear, and it wasn't based on your realization of their non-reality, it just seemed to happen at random. The best way I can describe them is they're like when you can see something with one eye but not the other -- it's there in your vision, you close your one eye, and it's gone.

Can confirm, I was also a really troubled teen who used DPH a lot.
This shit is terrible, like the worst ever. The only reason I used Benadryl to get high was it can induce a strange mania and hallucinatory state when mixed with other "legal highs" a teen would abuse. However, one thing a lot of people don't talk about is what it actually does. It's not a hallucinogen like shrooms it's actually a deliriant, and those are a lot worse.
With things like shrooms, you may be tripping balls but you are at least there. Deliriants, you can very quickly be not there. Just blank out and teleport somewhere else, and then you're back. Or the overwhelming fear that can come with DPH, just absolute total fear.
And what you see is terrifying, spiders and strange dark fuzzy things that you know is something evil floating through you, real things from your normal life showing up like your parents or the police or your pet but they aren't actually there, and strange noises like distant voices constantly babbling. Everything is moving and breathing and distance is never right, you are basically paralyzed, and you are so, so dehydrated.
If you are a teen looking for legal highs, just don't do Benadryl it's extremely dangerous and not fun at all.

 

[Margo Martindale]

It's funny but not surprising, stoicism is antithetical to the hedonistic Redditor lifestyle. The "therapy" Redditors are into is basically just talk therapy that focuses on affirmation of their own world views. They basically consider Jordan Peterson to be a fascist for writing self-help books for troubled young men, doing anything other than magical thinking that the world should change for you pretty much makes you an incel alt-right extremist to the Redditor.

The conspiracy theorist in me wants to believe it's an intentional subversion, it's really easy to control a population if they're weak and stupid.

It basically is, all started by the soviets infiltrating acedemia all the way back in the 60's

 

[Lemon-Lime Turpentine]

The one sentence story:
>I steal my coworkers' food behind their backs because they do not like the same cartoons that I do and one of them is mildly rude

If you prefer it told in that distinct reddit style that makes you cringe so hard your spine contorts into knots:

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Let me start by saying I L-O-V-E my job. The location, the benefits, what I do, and MOST of my coworkers. We’re a medium-sized tech company, and our office is within walking distance from my home, and we’re in my home city. I know my home city has plenty of problems, but I still love it to death as it is full of such wonderful memories for me, and I vastly prefer it over the other places I have lived around the country. During lunches, we all eat together in our office. I’m a person who has always struggled socially due to difficulties communicating, but I try to make an effort with small talk since people tend to like me more if they’ve gotten accustomed to my antics (yeah, I know, not ideal).

Two of my coworkers, though, seem to be in it to rain on my parade for everything I say. They constantly poo-poo on the city, saying it’s overrun with crime (it’s not), the food is bad, the attractions suck, esp. if I ever mention something I like about it. No other thing I enjoy is safe from such conversation: the books I like, the food I enjoy, the movies I watch, the cartoons/anime I binge, they always find a reason to shit all over it, even if they brought up the topic and asked me what I liked. In their eyes, the books are bad, the food makes me snobby, the moves are garbage, the cartoons/anime are immature, even when some of them are insanely popular things.

One of them also will walk up whenever I’m telling a story and just loudly interrupt to ask a question to whomever I’m talking to. I’m definitely not good when it comes to interruption, and am working on improving my control, but this is just to an extent that I find RUDE. If I did that to someone, I’d hope they call me out on it, but I’m too cowardly to do so since I’m all too aware of how many social faux pas I commit on a daily basis.

The other one has expressed some political-ish views that I find gross: they thought that if someone was stealing food from a convenience store they should be sent to jail for years, and if someone breaks into a car it should be ok for the police to shoot at them. I know crime, incarceration, and police brutality are controversial issues, but JEEZ!!! In case anyone is wondering about cultural context, this is in America and we are all nonwhite men under 35, two of us with immigrant parents and the third (the one with the political views) has a work visa.

So none of this is anything I can really do much about to make it stop, at least not without causing myself to lose a lot more in the process. So I’ve started resorting to subtle sabotage & mind-fuckery to get some payback at these coworkers to make myself feel better. Our office is across the street from a grocery store where we buy snacks 2x a week. Whenever we do so, 3-5 of us go and get snacks for the whole office. I’ve noticed that these two coworkers enjoyed some snacks that no one else seemed to care about: a specific kind of jerky & a fancy cheese spread. About a year ago, whenever I was on one of these grocery runs I’d wait until they grabbed their preferred snacks and put them in the cart, then when no one was looking I’d throw them back onto the shelves. I know that these two coworkers often mentally go to another dimension when I start talking, so I’ll start droning about some BS topic that I don’t care about so they’ll tune me out, then poof the jerky & cheese are gone.

If I’m not doing the grocery run, I’ll wait until they get back and the rest of us are helping put the snacks in the office fridge/cabinets, then I’ll find ways to make the snacks disappear. Sometimes I’ll just tuck them away and eat them before anyone else gets a chance. Sometimes I’ll give them to the office on the floor below as a gift. Sometimes if I’m working late until the office cleaning people arrive, I’ll give it to them while striking up a conversation. Literally anything to ensure that those two coworkers don’t get their snacks. They’ve definitely noticed the absence, but I’m subtle enough that they haven’t figured out its me. To leave some false breadcrumbs away from myself, I’ve made it so that sometimes when I’m one of the people shopping for groceries but they are not, their snacks arrive safely. Neither one thinks a person is doing it. At first they just keep rationalizing it different ways each time, but over time they started losing their minds a little over it and keep getting bummed that they can't enjoy their snacks.

This has been going on for just over a year, with their specific snacks disappearing about 75% of the time. I know I’m a shit person for this, but its my perfect little revenge for these coworkers who also inconvenience me in such a harmless yet hurtful way.

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It wouldn't be reddit without epic dunks:

The wrinkliest brain on reddit. If your coworkers are rude to you, don't confront them or laugh it off. Medically impair yourself to mildly inconvenience them as obtusely as possible.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

Gaming sub still seething about Momma TERF all this time later
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I can't tell if this mod is actually trans if they are they are a rare one that doesn't post about it constantly but they are definitely peak consoomer

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The mod is practically demanding to be worshipped lol, and as you can expect any comment even mildly critical of his retarded decision is now [Removed]. Even Reveddit tagged the mod as ban-happy: