I'm in a similar boat, even though I only have a very surface understanding of stoicism it can help me immensely.

For example I've always worried about how others perceive me, like when somebody says anything about me in a slightly negative manner I can't stop thinking about that for days. Or how unfair the cards I got dealt in my life are compared to others etc.

What I get from that philosophy most of all is becoming better at being mindful of my emotions by not getting overwhelmed by sadness/anger I usually keep dwelling in. I have to constantly recall the advice and recognize the situation for it to help though, because I am lazy and basically picked a few pieces of advice that suited me best and rolled with it.

What I can't quite get into is that many of those teachings were apparantly popular and taught by the upper crust elite, who talked about their struggles while probably owning a few slaves, which compared to the general populace of that time seems a bit pretentious. But as I said, I don't know nearly enough about stoicism, or even about history in general to be honest, I just think if some words help me work on myself then that's a good thing.

Most of all, I try to stay away from philosphy because a lot of writings usally come off as too pessimistic for my taste, which doesn't seem to be the case for stoicism, or at least the parts I read about.

>>435
Depends. Diogenes the Cynic, a forerunner to Stoicism, lived in a barrel and eventually got captured and sold as a slave. (admittedly, the barrel was by choice. Diogenes was a weirdo) Other founders also had terrible things happen to them.

"To live is to suffer" is the basis of a lot of philosophy because it's true. The rest is just how you deal with it.

The reason why I don't care about most philosophy is that it's generally only a bitter attitude to life trying to be sold as truth.
I also don't think that kind of discussion belongs here, but that's just my opinion

>>453
You're not the only one who feels that way here.

I like Epicurus, probably because I am very nervous and his teachings are about overcoming it. Plus his theories about atoms are very entertaining.

Good morning everybody!

>>412
Good evening

>>172
at 11 or midnight i hop into bed and watch videos on my tablet or read my kindle till 1am. Then I typically fall asleep within 10 mins of putting it down. I tend to fall asleep quite well nowadays

>>172
Terrible, I sleep whenever but it's usually dictated by something else and I don't set alarms so sometimes I'll wake up 8 hours later, other times 12 or 16.

I really need to sort my sleep schedule out.

I go to sleep a little past midnight, often listening to long YT videos on esoteric topics.

>>260


The only thing i have to say to the /kind/ people is dont forget this is a whole website, not just a single board.
Dont be afraid to post on topic content in the other boards.

>>262
The main issue is that I don't really care much for old technology or anime or videogames anymore.
I used to, but now I find myself more focused on the development of tools that we have today. The only thing that might be /retro/ that I sometimes care about, is demos for old computers like the commodore, zxspectrum and amiga. But it's a veeeeery small kind of interest.
Sometimes I also had a slight interest for the PC-98, but besides Touhou it doesn't seem interesting either, it just seems like a bunch of VNs in a language I can't read, and that due to cultural differences, don't really care about

>>237
I'm just a user who lobbied for us to be friends. Thinking ahead is a good thing.

>>311
Thanks for doing that. I suppose I would have found this site anyway when /kind/ went down, but I'm glad I found it when I did.

>>277

Whatever floats your boat, it aint "all" bad in modernity.

>>121
You winking at me?

Satoko?

>>133
Rika-chan...

Nothing to be sorry friend , it's un/kind/ manage a board if one is tired of that
>sleepy channel
i never heard about that chan

>>86
Never heard of sleepychan either, sounds comfy. I'm doing good though, OP. How about you?

>>87
>>90
I'm not here to shill, but I mean zzzchan.xyz! It's not as kind as this place though, this place is more comfy by far. I'm doing okay, just working on programming and stuff.

chill

>>1543
Nice snowshoe hare you got!

Mine's the Salt Lake 2002 mascots. What's yours?

I'll just say Izzy, since I think I remember having a toy of him as a kid.