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Why Am I So Cruel?
Why am I so un-feeling towards the suffering of others and myself? Perhaps the consequence of my hard knock life:
Cruel
Cruel — crudus, similar to being ‘crude’ [crudus— raw, bloody, bleeding]. Proto-Indo-European is “*krewh₂-“, which literally means blood (wound outside of the body).
Thus if I think of my personal self– I am raw. I am unfeeling. I am quite stoic. Why? If I didn’t build a stoic skin of armor as a child, I wouldn’t have been able to survive.
Indifference towards myself and my own life
This is a big thing:
It goes both ways. I am cruel and indifferent to the pain and suffering of others, but I am also cruel and indifferent towards my own pain and suffering.
Ain’t no practical use in complaining or bemoaning the cruelty of reality
Mens agitat molem [Latin for ‘Mind moves matter’]
Have I ever benefitted by complaining? No. Action and reaction means:
If you wanna change your reality, you gotta ACT, do, and EFFECT things. You must MOVE!
Do you want reality to happen to you, or do you want to happen to reality?
Do you ACT upon reality, or do you simply react?
I say, ATTACK REALITY!
ERIC
How to Become a Stoic
Become invincible:
- Living *THROUGH* History
- How to Fear Less
- Fear is the Ultimate Contagious Disease
- STOICISM FOR DUMMIES
- Don’t Be Scared!
- WHAT CAN YOU CONTROL, WHAT CAN YOU NOT CONTROL?
- HOW YOU CAN CONQUER FEAR
- YOU’RE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE.
- EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
- WHY AREN’T THINGS WORSE?
- My Philosophy on Masculinity
- A Riskier Life is a Better Life #philosophy #stoicism
- How to Creatively Flourish in Life
- Introduction to Stoicism
- How to Become Stronger
- How to Conquer Depression With Photography
- What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
- How to Respect Yourself
- How to Believe in Yourself
- How to Steer Fear
- How to Conquer Pessimism
- How to Conquer Anxiety
- How to Overcome Your Fear of People
- How to Be Optimistic
- Why I Don’t Take My Anger Seriously
- HOW TO BECOME MORE POWERFUL
- POSITIVITY.
- HOW TO BECOME SUPERHUMAN
- How to Give a Fuck Less
- ALL IN.
- Why I Cut My Dad Out of My Life.
- Your iPhone Only Has 5% Battery Left.
- How not to give a FUCK about your REPUTATION
- WHAT IS A HUMAN?
- HAPPINESS.
- The Regret Minimization Framework in Photography and Life
- How to Be a HERO
- Conquer Your Fears by Making Fear Your Slave
- Rule Circumstances; Don’t Let Your Circumstances Rule You
- How to Love Yourself
- How to Turn Shit into Gold
- Your Parents Fuck You Up
- Immortality
- What Kills You Makes You Stronger
- How to Be Patient
- How to Conquer Anger
- How to Bounce Back in Life
- How to Overcome Resistance
- Nothing Unlimited is Good; Nothing Good is Unlimited
- You Have No Limits
- Can 1’s and 0’s Hurt You?
- The Envious Moment is Flying Now
- Tomorrow We’ll Sail the Wide Seas Again
- How to Forgive Others
- Focus on Your Actions, Not the Results
- Everything Will Be Alright
- How to Be a Stoic Street Photographer
- How to Be a Spartan Photographer
- How to Overcome Your Fears in Life
- How to Stop Worrying in Life
- How to Use Photography as Self-Therapy
- How to Free Your Soul From Disturbance
- 3 Stoic Techniques that Can Help You Gain Tranquility
- Can People Weaker than You Hurt You?
- Does a Doctor Get Angry at a Crazy Patient?
- Own Nothing
The Stoic Masters
Learn from the master stoics: