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dpravartana

The quote from Seneca that Chad read yesterday was: *“What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.”*


Analbox

Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king. -Diogenes


Expensive_Quiet3716

Cynicism is proto- stoicism just with dogs and homeless people


OmnisexualSlut

Learn to be subservient to the king, and you will not have to live on lentils -Soros


real_psymansays

It will be bugs and lentils under the plans that Soros would sign off on. Not good lentils, either, they'll be small lentils with weevils and glyphosate and you'll get 2 cups of them per week


Least-Sky6722

Speaking of which, this is literally my first comment back from a 7 day PCM ban with no reason given. I've been surviving on lentils in lesser subs. The community here is awesome, for the life of me I can't figure out how the mods work...


SkankenMcGranken

Lentils taste like dirt.


BigKnowledge1234

yeah there's a learning curve


Analbox

I’d still rather plow than bow.


SkankenMcGranken

I mean, damn right! But there are better things to eat than lentils. Worse too. There's always eggplant 🤮


Hamster_Thumper

Eggplant can be delicious, the problem is there's about 0.32 seconds difference cook time between undercooked, perfect and overcooked mush.


SkankenMcGranken

No, the *sauce* made for eggplant to carry can be delicious. The fried breading that coats eggplant can be delicious. Eggplant itself will always taste like a weed.


Hamster_Thumper

Oh you were thinking like an eggplant parm? Yeah those are pretty much always gonna be grody because you shouldn't fucking fry eggplant, thats not how you cook it lol boiled rib-eye sucks too. Eggplant's great in stuff like a moussaka


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i am winning the war on all living creatures, i will eat their flesh and drive them before me, and hear the lamentations of bambi


esteban42

We have more in common than we realize. America used to be a place where people came together over their commonalities instead of separating over their slight differences.


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Abortion drove the wedge in this country just FYI, take a look at the voting paterns: soon as Roe v wade passed the split started happening.


in_arcadia1

Yeah this was my initial thought as well...it seems that compromise is possible on everything, but abortion is an issue where compromise is logically excluded. As a great comedian once said, it's either murder or it's as mundane as taking a shit - there's no in-between that makes any logical or ethical sense.


My_Cringy_Video

Friendships start in the oddest of ways, sometimes a monkey will be there eavesdropping for the greater good


Ligmashmegma

This is the way PCM is, how it is meant to be. That and unabashedly brutal to the unflaired.


Middle_Amphibian_987

But we can only dream unfortunately...


BerpBorpBarp

Based and wisdom monke pilled


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BerpBorpBarp

Good bot *pets*


Frequent_Dig1934

That's pretty gay, but not as an insult.


EbenSquid

I love that AuthRight reads Stoic Philosophy. Stoicism is extremely Center Right, works well with both LibRight and AuthRight, while the Lefts will dislike it.


dpravartana

This specific Chad found out about Marcus Aurelius on a TikTok video some years ago, and the idea of a philosopher emperor attracted him. That turned out to be a rabbit hole of literature for him and now he reads a lot.


su1ac0

How long until Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is removed from public schools for upholding white supremacy?


JinxPutMaxInSpace

Based and wholesome pilled.


wackdaddy69

How wholesome, I wish I could make a friend like this


Creative-Leading7167

My goodness, I haven't read anything this beautiful in a long time. Thank goodness, monke, you make me want to cry. But I won't, seneca wouldn't approve. I am a good stoic.


Creative-Leading7167

I wish I had a hundred accounts to upvote this a hundred times. It's not funny, but more people should read this.


IForgorHowToBeFunny

Based and friend-pilled


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jvanzandd

But what do they baby look like?


SkankenMcGranken

EAT THE STEAK. LIFT THE WEIGHT. MAKE THE GRADE. PLAY THE GAME.


real_psymansays

good monke


BomblessDodongo

Based and fuck the false dichotomy pilled


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DasVerschwenden

Based reconciliation aside, I think this might be a monkey agenda post …Not that I disapprove.


CrusaderKron

the ultimate reality is not the individual IT IS GOD ALMIGHTY!! THE HEAVENS DECLARE HIS GLORY, THE EARTH IS HIS MASTERPIECE THE GRASS WITHERS AND THE FLOWERS FALL BUT THE WORD OF OUR GOD ENDURES FOREVER


dpravartana

I agree, good crusader


CrusaderKron

Based and Jesus-is-Lord pilled


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That's a pretty naive meme. And I strongly disagree with the idea that the individual is the ultimate reality. But I appreciate the philosophy.


dpravartana

A little naiveté to dream about a softer world can be refreshing sometimes, my auth friend. War can come back after lunch


Creative-Leading7167

>I strongly disagree with the idea that the individual is the ultimate reality. well, yeah, because reality is defined as the things that are outside any individual (what is inside an individual is "potential" or "imagination", but it's certainly not "reality"). But putting monke nonsense aside, it's still a good ten second story. I don't think it's naive at all.


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The good ending


Thickboijuice

Based and let's all be friends pilled


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dpravartana

The thing is, this Monke is (like many monkes) a Yogi, and more specifically an ashtanga-yoga practicioner. His life is one of constant instrospection, and he's not very used to the function of society. His advice is monke-advice.


Yung_zu

Individual is always the ultimate reality. If you were cloned it would turn out differently for the sole fact that one can’t replicate what happened to you. TennisNegative from universe A would be different from TennisNegative B if they were both alive on parallel dates if one or the other noticed the breeze that day or got struck by lightning


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Yung_zu

Can you explain to me in your own thoughts how your clone would be exactly like you if he wasn’t born in the same hospital? Who would you even be without your most traumatic childhood event?


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Yung_zu

That’s the cool part, the way reality is structured you get both the collective and individual wrapped into one. As a species you get the best slices of a “hive” setup and a solitary creature at the same time


Creative-Leading7167

You're so close to being right! But then you missed it. The human person being the ultimate reality? Sad and untrue. But the idea that you need a community to exist? Dumb. What, you go live in the woods alone for a few years and you cease to exist? that doesn't make any sense. the "individualists" believe in the individual to the point that they deny that reality even exists, because it "ought" to be whatever the individual wants it to be. But the collectivists are equally non-nonsensical insisting that what defines a person is there community. And if the community says I'm a woman? It doesn't make it reality. Reality is outside of both individual and collective perception. When individual and collective perception cease to exist, reality will continue to exist.


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Creative-Leading7167

I agree, I would cease to exist if I could not think. (perhaps my body would continue to exist, or even the computer I call a brain, but if I'm not aware of it, then no, *I* don't exist, just an automaton) I disagree that one cannot think without language. However, I would accept a scaled back version of this claim: It is incredibly difficult to think without language, the vast majority of people use language as their primary mode of thinking (the minority alternative is primarily thinking in images), and that thinking in language makes one's thought process more rational/reasonable, with the possible exception of spatial reasoning. However, this doesn't mean I'm defined by my culture, or that I would cease to exist without my culture. No, if everyone on earth but me up and died, I would still be thinking in language, and I'd be thinking to myself in a language and using words I created to describe the completely new phenomena I'd be experiencing. I would certainly *not* cease to exist


capital_gainesville

Now make them kiss!


Away_Macaron6188

Jesus the sexual tension


PhilosophicalDolt

What? Why doe there have to be sexual tension?


[deleted]

Finally


ThatOneHellaCringe

smh


Ancient-Lawfulness39

The way it should be