The basic principles of Stoicism.

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[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well, a lot of the mind control that the elites use depend on manipulating people's emotions, so I thought you guys would find stoicism useful.

Stoicism is all about getting rid of the harmful passions with constant training. What the stoics called passions isn't related to what we call emotions by itself but specifically the destructive impulses of our nature. It also teaches us to constanly think about solutions to everyday problems by training attention.

It is my favorite philosophy and trust me I've tried a lot. The "Apathy" that the stoics seek with their training is very similar to the Nirvana of Buddhism. In fact, both philosophies share a lot of themes.

[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

we are being bombarded with media programming us to embrace base emotional respsonses, and reject considered thought and calm.

Finding nemo, finding dory, captain marvel, to pull three off the top of my head. "embrace your animal side". demonise the evolved.

I agree with the Apathy/Nirvana analogy, although They are not the same, once You've quested for Nirvana and decided to return to the human world, Apathy becomes a great tool.