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14606560 No.14606560 [Reply] [Original]

How to renounce the flesh?

>> No.14606571

>>14606560
The same way you do anything, You attempt to do it repeatedly

>> No.14606670
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14606670

>>14606560
If you have renounced self you have renounced everything if not then you have renounced nothing at all.
I personally pity the ones that cannot enjoy the fine pleasures of material reality without attaching to them.

>> No.14606679 [DELETED] 

>>14606560
>virtue is an eternal good
I thought Stoics didn’t believe in an afterlife

>> No.14606687

>>14606560
Why the hell would you want to do that? Are you an aspiring robot? Just kill yourself.

>> No.14606884

Think before your dick does.

>> No.14606902

>>14606560
It is impossible unless you change everything.

>> No.14606935

>>14606560
by having a dream, and focusing solely on that dream with the autism of a thousand suns. this is the only way

>> No.14606961

>>14606670
Fpbp

>> No.14606973

>>14606560
have sex

>> No.14606975

>>14606560
Poorly executed attempts at Early Modern English are especially offensive. Blimey.

>> No.14606985

>>14606670
transcended level of basedness

>> No.14607030

>>14606560
Why are women given the rights of men while men are held to the standard of men and women are held to the standard of innocent dumb animals?

>> No.14607058

>thou hath
>thine body is

Cringe

>> No.14607064

>>14606560
Thou hath?

>> No.14607520

>>14607058
>>14607064
Thou hast, right? and Thy body is

>> No.14608195

>Mfw A real grill came over to my place
>Mfw she was actually very young and pretty
>Mfw she got naked when we went to go sleep
>Mfw she wanted to enjoy a ride on my phallus the very first night
>Mfw I didn't do what she practically begged of me because something felt off
>Mfw I found out she had a bf of 3 years
>Mfw I tell her she disgusts me, cut all contact
>Mfw this isn't the first time this has happened

Just want to find a girl I could marry after a few years, and together make a family with.
Guess I am doomed to loneliness, oh well, more time to read I guess.

>> No.14608202

>>14606560
Meditation and asceticism.

>> No.14608229
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>>14608195

>> No.14608237

>>14606560
>le epic austere classical statue!!
cringe. just another sign of stoic degeneracy. real virtue and excellence involves wine, revelry, and boys.

>> No.14609538

>>14606560
you do not renounce the flesh, you master it
the spirit is not separate or against the material

>> No.14609548

Getting addicted to opium.

>> No.14609551

Cut off your dick