Is Stocism just a mask ?

okay how do i become a stoic?
what is a stoic?
will it make me a better person?

Stoicism is Christianity, or the school of Christianity that won the head of the church. Greek philosophy after Plato was composed of stoicism on the one side, Epicureanism on the other. The former rejects pleasure, the latter welcomes it. Platonism was in the middle, the middle way, using the good aspects of both of the philosophies of the extremes. It was conservatives vs. liberals back then too. Conservatives were the stoicism. Plato write (I think in Laws) about how there would always be this divide in the population, it is human nature, or psychology. Anyway, the conservative sects of the early church (the motherfuckers who ran around burning and murdering platonists and Christians that tried to be more liberal or less authoritarian (the best sects were actually communists, succeful communist groups back then) were on the stoic end of the spectrum (as was the major philosophical institution during this time period, of the middle platonists) because it was easier, under the rule of stoic thought, to control people. Sure, stoicism has its advantages, but it also gives you a repression factory as a soul (Plato wrote about repressed feelings storming the citadel of the mind long before Freud). Stoicism won't bring you to the 'place' that Platonism will in the same way that Confucianism won't bring you to the same 'place' that Taoism will. This opposition repression and pleasure-seeking doesn't have geographic borders. It has always been the operating mechanism of society it just takes on different names.

Holy shit cunt just synthesise what is useful and agreeable, and move on. You don't need to be a stoic to derive benefit from the stoics.

lmao

stoicism is a tiny genre of philosophy that is overrated by teenage boys who mistakenly conflate the common understanding of stoicism (ie the John Wayne archetype) with the philosophical discipline of stoicism

>pick-and-choose consumerist philosophy
what could go wrong?

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>Greek philosophy after Plato was composed of stoicism on the one side, Epicureanism on the other
It really wasn't. Epicureanism was a fringe philosophy. If you are going to mention such a fringe group you might as well add the Cynics. You are also ignoring Skepticism and Aristotelianism.

>but it also gives you a repression factory as a soul
Only if you misunderstand the philosophy.
>Stoicism won't bring you to the 'place' that Platonism will
What "place"? The philosophies are trying to do two different things. Of course Stoicism isn't going to get where Platonism will, that's the point.
>This opposition repression and pleasure-seeking doesn't have geographic borders
Stoicism isn't against pleasure.

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