This just came in the mail. Time to turn my life around

Is trite bullshit wrapped up in a Roman package so pseuds feel comfortable touting it. Oprah level nonsense

If this book doesn't turn my life around what book will?

How to Win Friends and Influence People

My fuck is this board filled with absolute morons.
THIS BOOK OF GARBAGE PLATITUDES BASED IN OUTDATED METAPHYSICS WILL DO NOTHING
HE WAS THE DR. PHIL OF HIS DAY, ONLY MORE PRIVILEGED
AND EPIC TITTIES, HE HELD A SICKENING SLAVE MORALITY BECAUSE HE WAS A FUCKING SLAVE

>t.

No, that's the average stoishitter

>Ordering a book online when every store has it
You're a basic bitch OP

>t. weakwilled hedonistic numale soyboy
Take your capslock to Faceberg and Plebbit.

>buying a public domain text

Stoishitters are the literal epitome of soyboy hedonists.

Haha careful with that edge, boss

>he hasn't even read it

>BECAUSE HE WAS A FUCKING SLAVE

I always thought that he was Roman emperor.

epic titties, the other big stoic besides privileged emperor #1546946 and privileged aristocrat poet #9874621
II've read all of it, you havent.

Marcus literally advocates away from hedonism. You've just revealed you haven't read it, or are so stupid that you couldn't comprehend it. gg

Jim Mattis would like a word with you

Peterson is cool

He's helped me to sort myself out, I've:

>Regularly started clenaing my apartment
>Doing dishes
>Completing assignments when assigned instead of before the due date
>Reading before bed
>Going to bed early

Wasnt Stoicism basically invented by a phoenician?

Is this satire or not? Hard to tell.

Stoicism is a roman upperclass fad
It's not a release from your first-world aimlessness and depression, it was created by the people who invented that sort of decadent ennui and sadness

>be Epictetus
>be crippled
>be literally the slave of a slave
>two millennia later brainlets on the internet think you're a high class snob

Nope not satire.

>he sez this
>that means his nonsense is not reducible to hedonism
You clearly have never read philosophy before in your life. Please leave, you're like a DeviantArt furry trying to interrupt the work of a serious artist.
Statecucks which him and all other 'muh GREAT MAN' burgerfucks are, are the epitomy of soy. The contents of their coffin are bottled and sold as a salty cooking sauce.
No, he just had a slave morality.
Nothing to admire.

Are you male or female? Did you have a prominent father figure in your childhood and teenage years?

>nonsense
Ironic

leave the basement, youre starting to stink

if you go into something thinking it will turn your life around for you, you've got another thing comin, friendo

Accompanying Kultur Kampf episode:

spreaker.com/user/kulturkampf/episode-17-marcus-aurelius-meditations

Spoken like the true capitalistic mindset slave that you are.

Seneca is more applicable to real life.

Meditation just tells you to chill. Live in accordance with nature. You'll die. People in the past have had your problems including great men.

It's good if you're anxious.

This journal has been very influential in my life.

T. Stoic but still not a sage

The Stoic Sage knows that he can only lead a faggot to the righteous path. It is up to fate whether that faggot decides to listen.

so this is the power of stoicism...
There is no nature you stupid retard
>great men
*moans dreamily*
AH YES!!!!
AHHHHHH
YESSSSSSSSSS
CICERO....!!!!....!!!!
Back to plebbit, Letzter Mensch

I wanted to try love this book, oh how I tried, how I hoped, but it really is built on a stupid premise: the universe loves you and has a plan for you.

Still, MA was amazing.

Even if his philosophy doesn't strike you, it's such an amazing and unique window into the deepest thoughts of one of the most unique people ever to live, I'm sure you will enjoy it.

No it isn't. It's profoundly shallow.
Bourgeoisie twats aren't unique.

"Only problem with the saying "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" is Marcus Aurelius"

haha somebody le said le thing

Too much stuff to remember let alone execute in your life

>Bourgeoisie twat

He was a goddamn Roman Emperor.
One of the few true Philosopher Kings.

Show some fucking respect.

What should I read to prep for this book? I read the greeks

Nothing. Just dive in

If you are distressed by anthing external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

>mastering the most basic requirements of civilized life
>sorting yourself out

umm congratulations i guess?!

I don't think Phoenix was a place back then

>tfw when I'm lazy I imagine Marcus being disappointed in me and then I feel really bad

user probably used to be a total mess, so yes, that is sorting himself out. Stop trying to be snarky.

godspeed user

umm sweety?! it sounds like he is, like, sorting some problems out? ok? mhhm?

I'm a bit worried you weren't doing most of those things already. The fact it took a book to persuade you kind of makes me think that in a month, after the "I am a virtuous, stoic Ubermensch" buzz wears off, you're just going to fall back to your baseline level of laziness until the next glorified self-help book inspires you to perform basic tasks again.

This post is the epitome of privileged soyboys patting themselves on the back for doing the absolute minimum.

If he keeps up to it, a month is enough time to form some habits.

Great choice user. This is a helpful book.

>Bourgeoisie

I suggest you learn the meaning of a word before using it. This word has no place in the topic discussed in the thread.

>Bourgeoisie twats aren't unique.

Neither are communists.

Why did you buy the shitty translation though?

Not OP, but which translation is the best in your opinion, and why isn't the penguin translation considered good?

>read first chapter
>dr phil-tier drivel
dropped

It should be remembered that he isn't trying to expound the system to anyone in his writings. A base understanding of stoic ethics is required to appreciate meditations precisely because he's only musing on it and indirectly showing us his particular conception of it. He doesn't have to explain the underlying structure or develop it because he's not writing to anyone other than himself.

Where would one acquire a base understanding of stoic ethics?

it seems fairly obvious that he has overcome issues with which he used to struggle, thereby qualifying for the title of having "sorted oneself out"

The Enchiridion of Epictetus (Discourses if you want a deeper understanding)

Meditations is less a manual of Stoic philosophy and more an example of how a student of philosophy uses it to guide his life.

>stoic ethics
Slave morality
Go back to watching Dr. Phil.

...

Embarrassing

>ITT: Veeky Forums plebs think it's good cause it's old
it's Dr. Phil level of SHIT

>taking anything Nietzsche said seriously

Your loss

Good on you brother.
Read Seneca and you will start improving your virtue ethnics as well.

>its another leftist """"intellectuals"""" episode