Seneca on Anger 2 of 3

[1awareness]

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[0loveI0music]

O_o poor dog ...

[THEdomBONES]

doesn't the fact that the dog ran prove that dogs "have reason"?

[1awareness]

tactics

[ricomajestic]

That dog is going to get a heart attack!

[thatkamikid]

How the fuck did he talked to a camera on a moving bike?

[sirasy]

u IDIOT:let the dog free!!!

[1awareness]

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[subtleSteppes]

This is simply untrue. The most violent areas of the United States are in the areas most poverty-stricken. I lived in a rough neighborhood as a child, and the people there were far less hospitable and genial than the area I live now (upper class suburb).

The idea that prosperity fosters ill-tempers could just as easily be turned around on the poor. Philosophers are prone to exult the virtues or the poor while condemning that of the rich.

[longfootbuddy]

"what we cant change"? we could change it.. if you assume something cant be changed , it will never be changed...this is why we live in a world of tyranny and injustice..people assume it cant be changed, yet it could be

[beggarz]

This is an awesome series.

[hymnofashes]

That woman has pretty hair...

[longfootbuddy]

@hymnofashes dont let her fool you, she chose her carreer because she likes the fast paced, hectic life...sure, they pretend its driving them crazy, but theyre really bragging about it with their complaints...they feel successful and mighty with their high pay, fast lifestyle, and competetive life... but its only like a man building up his muscles to compensate for his small ...erm...view of himself...he thinks muscles makes the man, and they think their education and job make the person

[NearVSMello]

Why the heck is he doing that to the poor dog?  Supposed it tripped!

[86kinky86]

awesome show

[XXGDUBSXX]

Sorry for the spelling i did not check it until it was posted.

[XXGDUBSXX]

One thing i have learned is that peoplesjouldnt be pessimistic or optomistic all the time but shouls follow the path that suits the situation for example i have somthing that is broken and hard to start, but i get frustrated when agaoin and again it refuses to work the way I imagine it should ( which of course is immediately) but also beliving that somethin wont work doesnt make you happier when it does start to work it just stops you from becoming upset about it.

[alkaline71]

How does he know dogs don't have reason?

[MHayes85]

What was the name of this creature that the slave was eaten alive by???

[loggeronline]

@MHayes85 Lamprey.

[hymnofashes]

@MHayes85 A lamprey... a jawless parasitic fish that attaches with its sucker to a larger animal, rasps away its skin with its small teeth, and sucks out blood and tissue.

[greenghost2008]

She should say "I'ma be late cause im dead."(simulates shoting self with toy gun)

[daletheelf3]

Well, Seneca's On the Shortness of Life may help a lot with anger. For if you lack to manage time well: you will be preoccupied and not have any time to experience leisure, peace of mind, tranquility and many other great things. I find that when I am pushed by time to stress: it is less easy to be happy than the time I am able to get things done then have a little leisure time to study more philosophy and improve my character.

[mintoo2cool]

so ... being pessimistic is actually good ... lol

[ilikeyouallot]

expect the unexpected, it is a thing that i learned, and I'm still learning, to be aware that the worst always can happen, in my own experience sometimes there is not even a second chance. It is very difficult not to get contagious, anger is every where and there is more and more every day, because people and me are frustrated most, because we ignore that the creation of money is primitive and twisted, people are obligated to need the money and think of it as the only resource of happiness.

[TheHappychickadee]

poor doggy

[longliveu]

Wasnt seneca a indian chief as well?

[begily]

a very Sartreian idea, the idea that our freedom is contained in our ability to change our attitude towards circumstances that we cannot control or change.

[subtleSteppes]

@begily That wasn't the idea conveyed, but nice try.

[LibertyWaxlips]

@begily yet it would also be in existential tradition to get angry and say: Fuck this shit I'm attempting to change it.

[mickalene]

why not invoke a god-why are goddesses so much trouble?

[theinternetscholar]

never head or Seneca till now . . . it makes sense, however i don't know if i WILL lower my expectations. i might increase my patience however

[SUpersaiyajinjerkbag]

Pessimism and deppression are a cure worse than the disease

Stoics are full of it!

[tanit]

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.

- Marcus Aurelius

[jodyrea]

People pay money to learn this stuff? Were philosphers not supposed to be be free thinkers and yet you people pay to learn how a free thinker thought. I will stick to my 1970's LSD Thank you. Animals - mans biggest mistake to undermine. Too many morons confuse knowledge with intellect and think the beast not capable of any higher thinking. The key to our existence if we would only humble ourselves - man the most ignorant of all beasts. Depending on your defintions of being ignorant I expect.

[ultrak0w]

yeah... thanks for your incoherent rambling. Go drop some more blotter..

[anthonycotillo]

i would like to know what nietzche would have to say about going the direction u dont want to go to avoid been strangled, hardship???? arent we suppose to take it as normal, seneca says that too but he says go in the direction that life puts u if cant change it, nietzche...?

[VonDraussVomWalde]

I`d say Nietzsche`s answer to that would be: "amor fati", the love to your faith, highest form of agreement..I think he`s not too far from Seneca`s point. His philosophy is in a way based upon life experience and acceptance, or so it occurs to me...

[anthonycotillo]

yea that could b, but even though i do agree with seneca and nietzche in some points i dont hink nietzche was about accepting life just because, i mean if u accept everuything about life withpout trying to change what u dislike u will never what u were capable of, but anyways i dont hink seneca meant that when saying aceept everything in life, obviously there were exceptions, i mean its just reason right?? what to take and what not to stand.

[VonDraussVomWalde]

Just let me reply with this:

Nietzsche said (poorly translated): "One is necessary, you are a piece of the fate, you belong to "the whole",- there`s nothing to judge, measure, compare or sentence our being because that would mean to judge, measure etc. "the whole"...But there is nothing besides the whole!-"

[VonDraussVomWalde]

Nietzsche said (poorly translated, sorry): "One is necessary, you are a piece of the fate, you belong to the whole,- there`s nothing that can judge, measure, compare or sentence our being because that would mean to judge, measure etc. the whole...But there is nothing besides the whole!-" ...well maybe that`s something to think abourt for some minutes (hours, aeons...?).