GTFO, bitch; talk to me after i take care of business you can't take care of

so you can have no purpose whatsoever until you get hit with adversity MA

Resistance to adversity is scalable like an immune responce.
The softer you make your environment, the softer and more frail it makes you in turn

used to be any female that put their own self-rightousness above the safety of the group got the torch

Life is struggle

survival is a purpose

AMIRITE LADS

But too much adversity can break a man, that's also true

however primal

Primal state best state

Okay, remoaner

not what i was saying, rooms; your purpose is EXTERNAL until you are faced with adversity and really figure out what YOU value

Monarchoprimitivism when

@ManAnimal and now every fucking protagonist in the hollywood movies runs back into the burning building to save their faucking custom vape

yup

And that is supposed to be somehow tragic

yes uksio, especially if all you have known is a life of plenty

Not sure what hollywood is trying to convey there

that they care for their vape most of all

again, externally driven

their 'fire' is from the outside, what others tell them they should be

rather than deciding and FEELING what they themselves beleif is important

and pursuing that to their fullest

TBH, if my workplace was on fire, the first thing i'd do is move my car

I agree with stoics on one thing: your mind and your body are the ONLY true posessions in your life

Everything else is external,

i agree with stoics in their actions; don't let emotion get in the way

but not in their motivations or outlook that DRIVES one's actions

I have an issue with stoicism denying death of the people as tragedy, that ain't right

But if you lost things. That's nothing indeed

You can acquire new things, just as good or better

They are not worth the emotional suffering

"If you want to truly understand a man, make him ANGRY. Fight him. It's only then your'll see the real person. You'll see WHAT they care enough to fight for and HOW they fight when what they care about is on the line"

but everything is perceived via "external" senses and interpreted via consciousness so couldnt everything be internal?

well, there is a fine line between being materialistic and fighting to protect what your family worked and slaved generations for

indeed

plus, one's abilities to acquire new things factors into the cost/benefit analysis

(as an aside: these are now officially wholesome philosophy hours. Lovely discussion)

perception is the mechanism of sensing reality, yes. BUT we create representaions in our mind of how the world IS an how the world SHOULD BE

it's that 'internalized representation of how the world SHOULD BE' that should drive your actions; not how those actions will be perceived by others

The ordinary Hero risks his life to save the world in a great battle for his way of life. The EXTRAORDINARY Hero will give his life alone, in the dark where no one will ever know to PROTECT that which he values most....