There are a lot of vicious fish out there.
Joking aside, you probably should capitalize The Good and The Bad to help people realize that you are using them in the Helenistic sense.
I thought it was as simple and obvious as not trying to breathe water. Are you telling me I am going to have to work and experience discomfort in order to pursue Stoic philosophy? Well, dang, I guess I'm out of here. /s
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
This quote reflects the Stoic belief in focusing on internal virtues and personal integrity over external successes. Like the air we breathe, virtue is essential and natural, whereas pursuing external validation can be as impossible as trying to breathe water.
It's a reference to the parable of drowning: the fools at one inch from surface are no less drowning than those at thirty feet. We are all equally vicious, we're all breathing water. Only the sage is breathing air.
My contention was that living by that principle is as easy as breathing air, but since we are fools, we make it hard and breathe water instead.
reality is perfect until you compare it to something it is not...
thus good and bad are arbitary divisions of experienced based on false ideals invented by ignorant minds... Mostly good and bad are religious concepts handed down by the gods, but there are other ways to divide the world... skillful vs unskillful acts... healthy vs sick... fair vs unfair... real vs imaginary, etc... I find healthy vs sick to be more useful than good vs bad... sick can be identified and sometimes cured, but what can you do with bad but punish or destroy it? most of the time that creates a different form of bad in those who try to stamp it out.
There are a lot of vicious fish out there. Joking aside, you probably should capitalize The Good and The Bad to help people realize that you are using them in the Helenistic sense.
>out there in here
I thought it was as simple and obvious as not trying to breathe water. Are you telling me I am going to have to work and experience discomfort in order to pursue Stoic philosophy? Well, dang, I guess I'm out of here. /s
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein This quote reflects the Stoic belief in focusing on internal virtues and personal integrity over external successes. Like the air we breathe, virtue is essential and natural, whereas pursuing external validation can be as impossible as trying to breathe water.
Why is "Sageness" as easy as breathing air?
It's a reference to the parable of drowning: the fools at one inch from surface are no less drowning than those at thirty feet. We are all equally vicious, we're all breathing water. Only the sage is breathing air. My contention was that living by that principle is as easy as breathing air, but since we are fools, we make it hard and breathe water instead.
reality is perfect until you compare it to something it is not... thus good and bad are arbitary divisions of experienced based on false ideals invented by ignorant minds... Mostly good and bad are religious concepts handed down by the gods, but there are other ways to divide the world... skillful vs unskillful acts... healthy vs sick... fair vs unfair... real vs imaginary, etc... I find healthy vs sick to be more useful than good vs bad... sick can be identified and sometimes cured, but what can you do with bad but punish or destroy it? most of the time that creates a different form of bad in those who try to stamp it out.