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Some of us are forced by circumstances to avoid dangerous hurtful decisions in money, medicine, feelings and security for lack of adequate recovery. I was one and decided to think scientifically about it. What is scientific – can derive all science and its evolution. This is rational scepticism – listen to no one. But practically you must – only those scientific and with secure channels to me. This I call rational stoicism = statistical rational scepticism, be a rational sceptic except when deviating for cost reasons into statistical trust regime. I wanted answers on how to make money, how to live, leave mother earth better than I was born in, and have a meaningful legacy. Everyone derives to these in their individual distinct manner. These are my notes prior to hardening – now they only mean to me. I hope they will be useful to others too, especially in their think of answers. Do commit them to paper or file for others, and to trace your own development.
In Discourses 2.14.10-13, Epictetus presents two types of knowledge needed for the Stoic path. First, one must have a model of reality—a map of the terrain one intends to travel. That model of reality (physics) is then used to create a model for life (ethics). If we live in a meaningless, chance universe without a divinity who is concerned with the affairs of mankind, the Epicurean model for reality—withdrawal from society to seek tranquility—is likely to ease our existential angst. However, if there is inherent meaning in the cosmos and for our lives, precisely because the cosmos is divine and we are a fragment of that divinity, then an entirely different model is needed to navigate a life of virtue toward well-being. The divergence between the Epicurean ideal of retreat from society to attain tranquility and the Stoic ideal of engagement with one’s duties in society to develop virtue begins with the difference between their worldviews.
Money for Living and inheritance are important
What in my belief, is around the corner, and how do I contribute to it, at my age
and can I derive how to live and universe around me from it?
What is my legacy and for whom?
Overview of stoicism or the quantum-gravity-stoicism modern version?
I am an quantum-gravity-stoic, I conquered pain and desire, I am content mother, I want to understand you, I can because I am above animals
I evolved from you, I enjoyed of you, I added to your understanding, I will return to you. You are my only God, there is no other, rationally skeptically challenge all else.
I or no follower shall convert. Aaqgs requires education to comprehend and confusion to clear. I had both and time/expenses paid courtsey US taxpayers
I or no follower shall convert. Aaqgs requires education to comprehend and confusion to clear. I had both and time/expenses paid courtsey US taxpayers
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| Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, the greatest stoic ever, supreme master of Aaqgs-religion |
- Death
- Do not then consider life a thing of any value. For a look at the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is after thee, another boundless space. In this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three days and him who lives three generations?
- Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.
- Words that everyone once used are now obsolete, and so are the men whose names were once on everyone’s lips: Camillus, Caeso, Volesus, Dentatus, and to a lesser degree Scipio and Cato, and yes, even Augustus, Hadrian, and Antoninus are less spoken of now than they were in their own days. For all things fade away, become the stuff of legend, and are soon buried in oblivion. Mind you, this is true only for those who blazed once like bright stars in the firmament, but for the rest, as soon as a few clods of earth cover their corpses, they are ‘out of sight, out of mind.’
- Soon you’ll be ashes or bones. A mere name at most—and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, trivial.
- “Why do you hunger for a length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go.
Life
- In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for?
- This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.
- When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine.
- Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
Nonchalance is the highest yoga.
- “Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men’s desires, but by the removal of desire.”
- “Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.
- “If, therefore, any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone.”
- “That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”
- “The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.”
- “Permit nothing to cleave to you that is not your own; nothing to grow to you that may give you agony when it is torn away.”
- If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.
- Composure
- “satisfied to live now according to nature”
- “speaking heroic truth in every word that you utter”
- “How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything that happens in life!”
- “Outward things cannot touch the soul, it moves itself alone.”
- When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine.
Karma
- “Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also”
- “Why bother about reputation in past, change location. The emptiness of all those applauding hands, how arbitrary. earth is a point in space — and most of it uninhabited. Who cares re-admire , and who they are.”
- Bhakti/prayer is the worst yoga that is not even one, simply opens you to most vicious abuse by the time waster lazy pretenders in robes. Those who prescribe it are criminal thugs preying on tired.
- “Virtue is nothing else than right reason.”
- “Let Nature deal with matter, which is her own, as she pleases; let us be cheerful and brave in the face of everything, reflecting that it is nothing of our own that perishes.”
- “Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you.
Good and evil
- “I am formed by nature for my own good: I am not formed for my own evil.”
- “Everything is right for me that is right for you, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late that comes in due time for you. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, O Nature. From you are all things, in you are all things, to you all things.
Stoicism is the ancient Greek philosophy of enduring pain or adversity with perseverance and resilience. Stoics focus on the things they can control, let go of everything else, and turn every new obstacle into an opportunity to get better, stronger, tougher. As the greatest stoic Marcus Aurelius put it nearly 2000 years ago: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” If you seek genuine peace, happiness and moral life and have contempt for addict victims of the opium of the masses, namely religion, and retain the quizzing inquisitive mind of the child, then science and quantum-gravity-stoicism is for you.
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