10 Themes of Stoicism (Things the parents thought were important)
They were both informed (more so my mother) and uninformed (but, repeating the same beliefs). Marcus Aurelius was one of the books in the 'library'.
Would have been more authoritative with an 'Oxfordian' reading the 'script', but...
Dad always said things like "You can't rely on other people for YOUR FEELINGS". I thought this was a 'nonsense saying', when I was young. The meaning WAS: If you don't value yourself, then other people will not value you/ your thoughts. It also meant that strength to live, abolition of 'loneliness', the ability to ignore the 'mass opinion' is within mind/soul/personality. What other people view in you, is as unimportant as what you view in them. They are not in your body/soul/mind and they are not in yours!
10 Themes of Stoicism
10 Themes of Stoicism (Part 2)
However, many of these are not 'written in stone', while discipline is important...the 'reality' of 'the world' is questionable. Each person has a different perception, which is neither correct or incorrect, it is self and experience. There is no absolute 'virtue' in nature, 'mature' people are 'gray/grey', understanding there are no absolutes in morality. People manipulate 'reality' everyday, especially those with undo wealth and connections (E.g. starting a war to profit financially). The 'world' can be manipulated psychologically, financially, physically (through 'purges', cleanses, etc...related to politics, so called 'governance' and 'policing'). The world can also be manipulated through science, sorcery, and knowledge unavailable to the general populace. Certain external forces can change the world, 'spirits', 'natural disasters', accidents, failure of machines/computers, etc. (although, these can be mediated by 'faith', sorcery, magia, chemistry, medicine, and science to some extent). The last parts are an disagreement with 'Stoicism'.
You can change the weather...seed the clouds. The USSR did it for years. You can 'cut' winds, bring rain, bring drought, etc...
Would have been more authoritative with an 'Oxfordian' reading the 'script', but...
Dad always said things like "You can't rely on other people for YOUR FEELINGS". I thought this was a 'nonsense saying', when I was young. The meaning WAS: If you don't value yourself, then other people will not value you/ your thoughts. It also meant that strength to live, abolition of 'loneliness', the ability to ignore the 'mass opinion' is within mind/soul/personality. What other people view in you, is as unimportant as what you view in them. They are not in your body/soul/mind and they are not in yours!
10 Themes of Stoicism
10 Themes of Stoicism (Part 2)
However, many of these are not 'written in stone', while discipline is important...the 'reality' of 'the world' is questionable. Each person has a different perception, which is neither correct or incorrect, it is self and experience. There is no absolute 'virtue' in nature, 'mature' people are 'gray/grey', understanding there are no absolutes in morality. People manipulate 'reality' everyday, especially those with undo wealth and connections (E.g. starting a war to profit financially). The 'world' can be manipulated psychologically, financially, physically (through 'purges', cleanses, etc...related to politics, so called 'governance' and 'policing'). The world can also be manipulated through science, sorcery, and knowledge unavailable to the general populace. Certain external forces can change the world, 'spirits', 'natural disasters', accidents, failure of machines/computers, etc. (although, these can be mediated by 'faith', sorcery, magia, chemistry, medicine, and science to some extent). The last parts are an disagreement with 'Stoicism'.
You can change the weather...seed the clouds. The USSR did it for years. You can 'cut' winds, bring rain, bring drought, etc...
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