Children, when they are young, don't know how to control their emotions. Stoicism, in my opinion, is the best way to control your emotions, because of how it can help you in the long-term.

Stoicism isn't about bottling emotions.

It's about facing them.

there are multiple ways to face them

then just locking them up

Again stop repeating that

You're strawmaning stoicism

it's about dealing with them in a healthy and/or productive way

like when you're angry you can either punch the guy that pissed you off in the face

Stop repeating its "locking up emotions" when we've already said 3 times that that's not what it is

or fix problem

No no, Stoicism does not involve locking up emotions.

think of walking the dog when he's whining instead of locking him up in a cage

The lack of display of pain is a product of facing pain, which comes naturally. Thus it's not forced.

@Ronin Bad example, ngl

it is literally keeping your emotions to yourself

this

you are locking them to yourself

a stoic person is still angry but doesn't directly act on it

also your wrong you can face pain while displaying it

No, that comes through facing the pain, it comes naturally. It's not forced, it comes naturally.

Stop saying that Stoicism is about bottling emotions, That's clearly not what Stoicism is about.

that is not what I said that time

> you are locking them to yourself
@moira

hold brb

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ok am back

anyway

by the definition of stoicism, "The endurance of pain or hardship without the display of emotions and without complain"

that sounds exactly like bottling them up

that doesn't even sound like facing emotions

Okay first of all, that definition isn't entirely true, because a Stoic starts off by facing his pain instead of avoiding it. So every time he is in pain, he faces it. Now the more you do that, the more insignificant the pain is to you. And the more insignificant the pain becomes to you, your need to display your emotions becomes insignificant as well. And that's the point where Stoicism says that, when pain is insignificant to you, and you don't need to display it, then you just don't display it.

That isn't bottling up emotions, because it's like bottling up air - bottling up something you don't care for

@moira

part of being human is feeling pain

It basically becomes kind of like your "comfort zone"

its not about being numb to pain dude lol

pain is an important learning tool

Its not about becoming numb to it

it is irresponsible to just throw it out the window and disregard it

When it becomes your comfort zone, you're numb to it.