Embracing Uncertainty,The Stoic Way

We as Humans,are wired to be fearful. And the New Batman is....Ben Affleck Courtesy of the Caveman Era,we had to protect our monkey-asses from bigger and dangerous animals,loud thundering in the sky,forest fires and stuff.For that we always had to be on our toes (or the furry slippers that were fashioned from bear-skin),and hence our threat center called...

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The Walking Stoic: how AMC's most popular show serves as a Stoic lesson

Cosmopolitans of the post-apocalyptic world Watch out! Walkers!!! Like it or not, AMC's flagship series, The Walking Dead, has successfully completed 5 seasons, keeping the viewers glued to their seats with the same ol' zombie spectacle. Well, not totally, because contrary to many other zombie fictions, such as the Resident Evil films, oldies like Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead,...

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My PEP (Personal Emancipation Proclamation) Talk : Part 1, The Dents

“The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.” – Neil Gaiman Damn...Lincoln got Swag!!   Disclaimer: If you're reading this, just know that i'm done with bullshitting.......

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Stoic principles analogous to Newton's laws of motion - Part II

  "Once you have fixed on your governing principles, you must hold them as laws that you cannot transgress. Pay no heed to what is said of you for it is beyond your control"    - Epictetus So, after discussing  abit about the application of (a qualitative analogy of) Newton's first law of motion, let us throw our gaze at what the second law, one of the fundamental laws...

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How to Be Stoically Social:My Eccentric Ruminations

" When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to                      be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."     - Marcus Aurelius Introduction: By anyone's book,i could be termed as anti-social and always looking down at people from my high horse.I don't necessarily blame or abhor...

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