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Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:51:38 2020 No.16464463 [Reply] [Original]

>be me
>Marky Aury
>I am literally the most powerful man on earth
>I tell people from the position of most powerful man: ‘bro be content with your lot in life’ (to keep the proles in line) while doing unholy amounts of opium
>mfw it works
>mfw some peasants still fall for it nearly 2000 years later

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:53:25 2020 No.16464473 >>16464463 >I tell people Did you miss the part in the introduction where it explains that Meditations was his journal?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:54:26 2020 No.16464482 >>16464463 Yes, it is not as if Marcus Aurelius lived in a troubled and difficult time for the Roman Empire.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:54:27 2020 No.16464483 That's why I don't read philosophy written by bourgeois richfags

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:35:33 2020 No.16465135 File: 1.91 MB, 640x640, tenor.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16464463 IT WAS HIS FUCKING PERSONAL JOURNAL NEVER INTENDED FOR MASS PUBLICATION

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:41:04 2020 No.16465177 >>16464483 That's why philosophy starts and ends with Karl Marx (pbuh) and Vladimir Lenin (pbuh).

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:45:51 2020 No.16465212 >>16464463 His diary desu was meant to be private

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:07:34 2020 No.16465367 >>16464463 This is the most boring played out over argued criticism of Aurelius stoicism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:10:29 2020 No.16465390 >>16464463 >I tell people It was his fucking journal, he wasn't selling books or proselytizing Stoicism

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:17:17 2020 No.16465439 >>16464463 >Diary of a Cuck >Muh stoicism and rational thinking, puts his degenerate son on the throne because he was his son >Sets in motion the collapse of the Roman empire with his emotional decision Cringe

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:17:40 2020 No.16465443 >>16465135 based

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:20:07 2020 No.16465467

>>16464463
He was a scholar forced into the position of sole Emperor and worker that that he was forced away from the position of administrator, which he was content with, to the front lines as a military leader.
This is in addition to what others have stated in this thread.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:22:11 2020 No.16465481

>>16465439
>puts his degenerate son on the throne because he was his son
He was more or less forced into this position because the one who was likely to be his heir rose up in rebellion declaring himself Augustus when he got false news of Aurelius's death.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:32:39 2020 No.16465560
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>>16464473
>>16464482
>>16465135
>>16465212
>>16465390
>>16465467
>>16465439

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:34:51 2020 No.16465577 >>16465560 "Everything we see is a perspective" is a statement that relies on truth to be valid.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:35:05 2020 No.16465580 >>16464463 > ‘bro be content with your lot in life’ (to keep the proles in line) > proles > In 180 AD before industrialism even existed You are a low tier midwit

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:46:11 2020 No.16465696 >>16465577 irrelevant technicality lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:49:04 2020 No.16465715 >>16465580 Yeah the average roman had it pretty good and extreme poverty wasn't really a thing at least in Marky Mark's time. Took a few hundred more years and a bunch of white niggers moving in to ruin everything

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 18:31:47 2020 No.16466435 >>16464463 He worked all day risking his life on the border of the empire, writing his book at the evening. He had a tougher life than you did.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 18:35:57 2020 No.16466452 OP being a based retard yet again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 18:45:14 2020 No.16466496 >>16465696 Irrelevant technicality that proves that the statement can't be true.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 19:03:34 2020 No.16466590 >>16464463 >be mopey OP >suck a big cocky wocky

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 19:08:59 2020 No.16466616

>>16464463
He began taking opium (poppy seeds) under advice of his doctor to combat the effects of the freezing winters of winter-warfare on the Rhine, as well as because he had insomnia

He spent his life in makeshift battle tents on the borders of the empire fighting G*rman barbarians on the Rhine, he did so because he felt that every man is specially placed into his role by fate. The same way some were born into domestic slavery, Aurelius believed his function was to be an imperial slave, to the Roman people and the empire.
Great shitpost though

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 19:20:54 2020 No.16466684 >>16465577 No it doesn't because a perspective still brought one to the conclusion

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 20:02:32 2020 No.16466910 >>16464463 Must be the same retard who asks for criticisms against Stoicism

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 20:06:54 2020 No.16466931 >>16465577 Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

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