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What would the Stoics think and say about trannies? Would they immediately transition themselves?

What's up with this guy and reaping corn?

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Marcus Aurelius

>"I don't really care for modern philosophers..."
>Apes Stoicism
>Plato Plato Plato
>Only ever has anything to say about modern philosophers by relating them to ancient philosophers, e.g. "Kant was an Aristotelian at heart"
>"People could learn a lot from Epicurus"
>Doesn't know anything about the Presocratics
>Treats Socrates and Plato as the same
>Unironically wants Plato's Republic instituted
What kind of person do you imagine?

I've noticed that many recent threads have been focused around the apparent massive personal struggle of many posters.

I remember one thread that was from a person who wished to have schizophrenia, a debilitating and certainly harmful mental illness, as they believed that they could somehow gain some supposed hidden knowledge or perspective that would help them become a better writer or intellectual.

Why this constant striving for such nonexistent gain? Why would one purposefully wish upon themselves the captivity of their faculties and clear consciousness?

Suicide is understandable, moral, and perhaps even honorable. If one doesn't wish to live then what right have we to interfere with their insoluble right to death?

Are these desires the result of postmodernist influence upon modern culture? Or this drive towards the unobtainable derivatives from the teaching of christianity and the catholic church?

Nevertheless, stoicism is perhaps the only "philosophy" that can truly profess to guide our vile race towards the blazing torch of true freedom and progress. I would recommend all those who are hopeless, defeated or otherwise ruined to read the meditations of marcus aurelius, and the letters, dialogues, and essays of seneca.