Stoic Week 2015
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I had quite a nice career in banking for 17 years until many laws changed to such an extent that what used to be normal business has become illegal. I saw this coming several years ago and started obtaining alternative qualifications in coaching, went to business school, etc. and now I am officially a business coach. Also obtained quite a number of certifications in hypnosis and can handle things like stop-smoking, weight-loss, anxieties, blocks, in fact anything.
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Can you do the, "These are not the droids you seek" one?DRSB wrote:I had quite a nice career in banking for 17 years until many laws changed to such an extent that what used to be normal business has become illegal. I saw this coming several years ago and started obtaining alternative qualifications in coaching, went to business school, etc. and now I am officially a business coach. Also obtained quite a number of certifications in hypnosis and can handle things like stop-smoking, weight-loss, anxieties, blocks, in fact anything.
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Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
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What used to be normal business has become illegal? How dare they interfere with banking practices like that!
Well done on your change of course, though. As for hypnosis, I tried that to help me quit smoking tobacco. Didn't work at all.
Well done on your change of course, though. As for hypnosis, I tried that to help me quit smoking tobacco. Didn't work at all.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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You probably did not want to quit but somebody else told you to, in which case I'm not surprised it did not work, it cannot work.
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Um, I assure you that I wanted to quit all on my own. Nobody drove me towards it but me.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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That's only what you think you think, only what you wants you to think. PM me your PIN and I'll tell you how suggestible you are.
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Just a moment, I'm looking for my trusty scalpel, not used since the old zoology days. I suppose I could clean it first...Xamonas Chegwé wrote:I demand to be a lesbian! NAOW!!1!Hermit wrote:What about guarding the Poop? The current turd is a bit of a progressive. He might not object to women dressing up in 18th century clown suits. No problem, as long as they don't start demanding to become priests. Or lesbians.
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Why do you hate luxury?DRSB wrote:I took part twice, the fourth run is coming up next week, the "Live like a Stoic for a Week"-event of the University of Exeter:
http://philosophy-of-cbt.com/2015/10/18 ... k-matters/
We should be MOST skeptical of ideas we like because we are sufficiently skeptical of ideas that we don't like. Penn Jillette.
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To me, stoicism is simply the ability to calmly appreciate life, whether luxurious or not. Its antithesis is not luxury per se, but the obsessive pursuit of material values and mindless pleasure at the expense of all else...DaveDodo007 wrote:Why do you hate luxury?DRSB wrote:I took part twice, the fourth run is coming up next week, the "Live like a Stoic for a Week"-event of the University of Exeter:
http://philosophy-of-cbt.com/2015/10/18 ... k-matters/
I am quite stoical when I open a damn good bottle of fine shiraz, I assure you...
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This!To me, stoicism is simply the ability to calmly appreciate life, whether luxurious or not. Its antithesis is not luxury per se, but the obsessive pursuit of material values and mindless pleasure at the expense of all else...
It is also about daily meditations contemplating things like nature, death and the bigger scheme of things, great for putting things into perspective.
The event is wonderfully organized: daily reading lessons, a nice collections of guided meditations and a lively forum with participants from all over the world.
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Dave Dodo oversimplifies to the point of losing all touch with the facts. Never seen that before.
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Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
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Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
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Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
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Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
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Very accomplished.DRSB wrote:I had quite a nice career in banking for 17 years until many laws changed to such an extent that what used to be normal business has become illegal. I saw this coming several years ago and started obtaining alternative qualifications in coaching, went to business school, etc. and now I am officially a business coach. Also obtained quite a number of certifications in hypnosis and can handle things like stop-smoking, weight-loss, anxieties, blocks, in fact anything.
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Stoic equanimity and the Vagus nerve:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/th ... r-pressureEquanimity is defined as “Mental calmness, composure and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation.” Equanimity has its biological roots in the vagus nerve and is synonymous with grace under pressure.
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The vagus nerve is the one that fires when you need a poo. Holding on to a loose stool when all around are losing theirs is among the highest achievements for an adept of Stoicism.
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"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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That would explain what I've heard about advanced Yogi's being able to prolapse their anuses to cleanse them in streams.. strange as that sounds.Brian Peacock wrote:The vagus nerve is the one that fires when you need a poo. Holding on to a loose stool when all around are losing theirs is among the highest achievements for an adept of Stoicism.
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