Want to be stoic

>want to be stoic
>can't stop furrowing my brow

Never gonna make it brah

>walking home at night
>pass a group of youths
>one of them tells me I dropped my gay card
>I look down for it and realise I've been the victim of a practical joke
>I am unmoved, I tell the youth that his provocations are futile because I am a stoic
>he bursts out laughing and says it's pronounced stow-ic, not stoike
>break down and cry in the street

It's not east senpai

Is it west?

If all you gotta do is have a resting neutral face regardless of what you're actually feeling, I'm already there.

>want to be a quality Veeky Forums user
>can't stop making shit posts

Accept your death as the inevitability of life.

...

Kanye?

Kayne?

>youth tells me i dropped my gay card
>i continue with a wooden face, determined to be unaffected by such a juvenile gesture
>i get into my home and place my wallet and keys on the counter
>hold on
>wallet feels approximately 5.5 grams lighter
>look in it
>gay card isn't there
>i actually did drop it and he was trying to help me

made me giggle

Stoicism is for teenagers that >read philosophy once and now think they're the most coolest enlightenest shit for following a dumb school.

>quality
>Veeky Forums
>user

>Haven't replied to any passerby on the street in years
>Hundreds of missed hellos and remarks on the weather
>Must remain stoic
I'm going to die alone

>Sitting in the back of the bar, reading a rebuke of Epicurus
>8/10 qt walks up and tries to talk to me
>display my pallid, uninterested face and continue reading
>she gets persistent and presses me to say what's on my mind
>stare over her shoulder
>"I'm... looking for an honest man"
>she frowns and hands me what looks like a gay card she picked off some faggot earlier
>mfw visible beads of sweat totally throwing off my image
Why can't people just leave me alone

>teenagers
>stoic

haha

Being antisocial isn't stoic

i'm only 16 is that too young to be stoic?

>be me
>at work party
>sitting across from girl I have a crush on
>she asks me how I'm so good at dealing with the customers, you're always so stoic
>mfw
>proceed to spill moscato on myself

reading Aurelius and Seneca at age 14 ruined my life

the Stoics are dangerous stuff

also this

>reading Aurelius and Seneca at age 14 ruined my life
how is this possible?

That's the worst thing to have.

People think you're just indifferent all the time, or not listening to them, or just plain autistic. Certainly not personable. I actually have to (hideosly over-)act most of my emotions, because otherwise I look like a gormless retard.

Cool in bluffing games though
Nonsense! It is for STEMlord twenty-somethings in or just out of college who want to compensate for their mediocrity with Stoicism, which they pseudishly associate with masculinity and intellectualism.
Within teenagers it's either the above or a spinoff of the heh...nice try, kid lone wolf edginess.
see above

kek

You have to be smart and apply the useful stuff to your life. Dont be a plainlooking woodface 24/7 and never move outside your way but instead live your life regularly and think of the stoics teachings whenever you feel hurt or sad. Most of the times is ypur fault that ypu are sad

It's young enough to get b&. Try to be stoic about that

>compensate for their mediocrity with Stoicism
Nice meme but stoicism implies you praise knowledge thus applying for non-mediocrity long-term

How can you be on a board for reading if you can't even read comments.

take the smugpill, lad

> People think you're just indifferent all the time, or not listening to them, or just plain autistic. Certainly not personable. I actually have to (hideosly over-)act most of my emotions, because otherwise I look like a gormless retard.

It sounds like you don't understand stoicism. It's about seeing the reasoning behind all of our bad emotions that lead us towards being unhappy. Once you see the reasoning behind them all you naturally see there is no point in freaking out over everything. This is why the stoics were deterministic. They believedthat everyhting in the long run was okay because the universe is rational, and what is rational is good.

No I just completely misread his comment.

>i place my irony with an exclamation point
Anyhow mybe it could've worked if your above points weren't so bland

Fuck's sake lit I thought I told you to start reading. Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's bad. Stoicism is a legitimate course of action when you're going through tough times and it is a noble moral philosophy, t. Kant t. Russel t. the father you wish you had. The fuck out with your chosen one complex.

>want to by a cynic
>throw away all of my possessions in the trash
>try to make a greek toga out of my bedsheets
>mom gets mad and kicks me out
>walking around town barefoot wearing a bedsheet
>try to engage local townspeople in a dialogue
>everyone is ignoring me
>go to local community college
>get kicked out for interrupting the philosophy 101 course
>Find a steel barrel and try to sleep in it
>Get arrested by police for trespassing on private property

>want to be a Nietzschean overman
>can't stop being indifferent about everything
ree

Reminder that taking stoicism too far without knowing about it thoroughly leads to nihilism. Be careful out there.

It's okay friend. I wish I were as cool as Diogenes sometimes as well.

>try to be THE modern Diogenes
>realize Sammy Boy already has me beat

Know any good books on him?

PLEASE GIVE ME MY SHOW BACK MISTER HEIDECKER I CAN'T AFFORD MY INSURANCE

looks like you haven't read stoic's texts but wikipedia page on the topic

What's your excuse for not being batshit correct?

>tfw realize health insurance is sam endgame

just be yourself