Learn to Defend Yourself! (Mentally)

[@Anonymousdeletedaccount...]

me winning this argument silently with my stoicism(too dumb to respond)

[@FayaadSalarbux]

Literally me 😅

[@salottin]

You're absolutely correct about stoicism being ONE of the philosophies people should know. A tool box can't be made only of screwdrivers

[@austinhowley3907]

Counterpoint to stoicism and talking about self empowerment could be a banger video about Philosophy

[@heical4433]

What do you do for a living? How'd you choose it and how have you balanced responsibilities and lifting?

[@PrivateCetchup]

Great video as always! Totally agree with what you have to say about epistemology and logic, though I would add that there are ways of engaging with these subjects that are much more engaging and intellectually enriching than just picking up an old textbook. Reading basically any philosophy that interests you will educate you about these topics. In addition, I think that any study of Stoicism is improved by reading more modern voices which were influenced by that school of thought. Spinoza, Hegel, Nietzsche, and--dare I say it--Deleuze are all popular choices, and have very salient critiques of Stoicism. Epicurus and Lucretius are also good sources to check out for a parallel school of thought which, in my opinion, gives similar life advice without engendering passivity.

[@MohamedNaas2005]

This sounds interesting, much needed

[@areteaesthetics8501]

I think it’s important to understand the context that stoicism came from. And the type of man it was made for. Completely alien to today. Literally biologically so, and also in their ambitions - wanting to conquer entire nations, fierce competition for ideas, arts, excellence etc. Was to applied to these individuals of overwhelming life ‘fire’. Not to the common man - and certainly not today’s common man with his ambitions. You need a “fire” first to tame/direct. Embers only exist today - and stoicism will only serve to snuff out any flame remaining. You need to cultivate and build the flame first.

[@mjoe7561]

Can you expand on why the fire has reduced to embers? What do you suggest people to focus on instead to cultivate this 'flame'?

[@marcuswagner1396]

Daily reminder that Marcus Aurelius' stoicism literally cuckholded him

[@parakram7689]

Lol what?

[@prostagma6055]

Stoicisam also says you should ignore men who don't live in accordance with "nature" and none of thsese aforemntioned people do

[@georgeallen7487]

My brother never went to college and basically never cared that much about school despite not being dumb. In his mid 20's, he started binging College lectures on, most notably, Epistemology and also Philosophy more generally. Over the last couple years he has radically changed his beliefs and conversational style. He is a very disagreeable person, but his beliefs are malleable to reason. I don't value raw intelligence as much as I used to. Without Wisdom an intelligent person just sounds like a stoner.

[@LatimusChadimus]

BJJ is a great way to go from basic wrestling towards Advanced wrestling, but they don't train striking and they don't take hits so it's only a supplement in a sense versus being an end all be all form of martial arts

[@koalakyle19]

Well yes you should eventually train striking, the best way to begin martial arts is to start with grappling (bjj, wrestling, judo) because you want to avoid CTE as much as possible I'd suggest a Maui Thai class at the age of 18-20 to learn striking if that is your goal, but grappling first

[@Limbaugh_]

@@koalakyle19you shouldn’t get cte if you train at a sensible gym

[@koalakyle19]

@@Limbaugh_ I disagree. Even light jabs can cause CTE. Its just kinda unavoidable unless you shadow spar, which in pointless anyway

[@salottin]

Also, stoicism is not against changing things. It's against worrying about things I cannot change. To me, it's worth is greater when looking backwards in time

[@salottin]

And yeah, people corrupt it way too much

[@stind1299]

Good point and I feel Marcus Aurelius put it succinctly as below. The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[@salottin]

@@stind1299 exactly. Sometimes a straight line is not only the quickest but also the best path

[@marcuswagner1396]

seneca mentored Nero, marcus aurelius mentored commodus.

[@shark3380]

random grifter 30 min philosophy rant?nah Atlaspowershrugged's voluptous meaty rotund philosophy rant?hell yeah!

[@atlaspowershrugged]

Glad you liked it!

[@ethanmiller5223]

Great video

[@leinekenugelvondoofenfocke1002]

I absolutely wanted to hear a 30 minute ramble on philosophy!!! I don't think your argument on stoicism holds up though. Resisting a tyrant is still something you have control over. Confronting a charlatan is something you are doing in your own power. Even starting a conversation about something is you using a level of control over the situation. I don't think stoicism forbids you from opposing others. You are supposed to focus on yourself of course, but then you focus on yourself in that situation with others, and handle it. I don't think stoicism requires you to be a doormat, maybe it just doesn't do enough to prevent it. By the way, you didn't mention Hakuna Matada, and we all know that's the best philosophy.... You are therefore terminally invalidated, and should cry in the corner of a cold shower while writhing in self hatred. (Jk)

[@areteaesthetics8501]

I need atlas’s take on BAM by BAP

[@atlaspowershrugged]

It has been a very long time since I read bap. What is bam again?

[@ISHIDDEDANDFARDED]

@@atlaspowershrugged Bronze Age Mindset

[@yanarutneary7279]

WOOHOO new video!

[@BenjaminL04]

Could you recommend us a good book about logic?

[@maxmaximum-sh4bx]

Interesting 🤔

[@maxmaximum-sh4bx]

For the algorithm

[@patrickl5290]

I think an issue you implicitly reference here and in your Cult of Personal Responsibility video is that many belief systems like stoicism are purely functional for a lot of people. There are specific behaviors and idea that people who practice religions/philosophies have a moral basis to say “no, you are not doing that if I can stop you.” Stoicism inherently has none of that. Why shouldn’t you tolerate a massive company destroying the forest in your backyard? it’s useful for people who feel they lack control, but it doesn’t have the “teeth” of a stronger philosophy/religion. Which is perhaps why it has proliferated for so long. I say this as someone who also is not sure what to stand for yet, but I empathize with people wanting a framework to deal with all the bad shit you see everyday

[@Tjwheat903]

Key takeaway: In order to logically win every single argument you just need to reject the premise 🙃

[@atlaspowershrugged]

Boom.

[@prostagma6055]

Getting flash backs to 2016 skeptic youtube

[@BuJammy]

Stoicism is the "12 Steps", but with an even lower success rate.

[@nooblifter390]

What is 12 steps?

[@chipvos611]

​​@@nooblifter390Jordan Peterson book or AA

[@handsomebear.]

maybe if you just learn stoicism via memes 😅

[@atlaspowershrugged]

Harsh, but totally fair.

[@BuJammy]

@@nooblifter390 Alcoholics Anonymous.

[@Scorptice]

Allegedly Marcus Aurelius had his wife's lover killed and made his wife bathe in his blood. So there's that for the chill stoic

[@leonardo9259]

Yeah but he did it without showing emotion

[@nooblifter390]

​@@leonardo9259😂

[@ranfan1820]

"Just stay 'chill' when your wife cucks you bro."-🤓☕️

[@Master_J2375]

Allegedly

[@adfkzaha24]

how convenient!

[@kylegolden5640]

Shout out to Jay Dyer introducing philosophy to me!

[@digitaldqqm]

Thought this was DrDisrespect for second

[@robirobi5950]

Please help am realy neurotic about this shit :))) i will be doing my first fast in a couple of days after i finish my 3month gigga cut to make the last bit of room for my next bulk (i have limited time to do this since i am joining the military in 2 weeks). a 3day fast. And i just cant decide if i should be taking creatine on it. Are you taking creatine while doing a prolonged fast? ive seen conflicting opinions about this, but what is your experience? is there anything that i should be vary about doing a 3d fast? besides having to slowly re-intreduce food

[@atlaspowershrugged]

I don't take it. Just take it when you get done

[@-b-sharp]

I feel the same way whenever I hear one of these mid wits say something like, "Well, it is what it is." Btw, when you apply this type of question to any of the major world denying religious systems something interesting happens...

[@BuJammy]

"It is what it is" is the mating call of the loser. Admittedly, it's not as bad as saying "mid wit", but here we are.

[@patrickl5290]

You haven’t interacted with enough people who claim to be very smart or educated if you think midwit isn’t a useful term

[@braysive4380]

I think you fundamentally misunderstand stoicism. You're claiming it makes people passive to things outside of their control but the point is to not let things outside of your control make you react irrationally.

[@ezradanger]

One thing I've got to point out is that the idea of the tragedy of the commons is completely disproved by thousands of years of human history that predated private ownership of land and resources.

[@patrickl5290]

Yeah, if you go back in time when there was almost no need to compete human to human for resources, I guess that’s true. But no one lives that way now, so it’s also somewhat not useful to reject it

[@ezradanger]

@@patrickl5290 there's no NEED to compete for resources now - there are more than enough resources to meet everyone's needs. What we have now is an INCENTIVE to compete for resources because they can be privately held. The private holding of resources then in turn leads to a need to compete for the remaining resources. If they were left as commons that would not be the case.

[@ezradanger]

​@@patrickl5290there still isn't a NEED to compete for resources. What there is is an INCENTIVE to compete for resources because they can be privately held and accumulated. This private holding of resources in turn creates a need for people to compete over the remaining resources because they have been made artificially scarce, but this wouldn't be the case if those resources were in fact "common". "The tragedy of the commons" is a hypothetical concept, it is not a description of an observed phenomenon.

[@atlaspowershrugged]

I think what changed was scale. At the level of a village or small town, its easy to see who is wrecking the commons and hold them accountable. When you scale that up to a big city, a country or the internet, it becomes more or less impossible.

[@ezradanger]

@@atlaspowershrugged you're not wrong, I just wanted to point out that the idea of the tragedy of the commons is just a hypothetical idea, it isn't a description of an observed phenomenon. The truth is that no society on the scale that we see today has had anything that can be truly considered commons, so it's not possible to make an observation on a non existent thing. And it's definitely possible that if we were to try to have commons on the scale of modern society that it wouldn't work. That being said, I think it's important to point out that the only examples we actually have of commons existing didn't suffer from the supposed tragedy of the commons.

[@watsonkushmaster3067]

Great video with amazing alzheimersshrugged outro... As a fellow philosophy bachelor (this is probably first time in 10 years i am using my degree in real life ayeee) i find it interesting that its stoicism that got so much hype...its kind of lazy and boring, there are many schools or philosophers with better ethic systems than this

[@dr1dikea]

Because it paved the way for cognitive behavioural therapy

[@BuJammy]

@@dr1dikea Not really.

[@watsonkushmaster3067]

​@@dr1dikeahow so? Also wouldnt that be result and not a cause?

[@dr1dikea]

@@BuJammy Albert Elis quoted Epictetus a lot

[@prostagma6055]

I find the idea stocisam is someones first phisophy odd, how do you stumble onto that first that being said i was raised under a solid and well defined structure before the era of the internet and a lot of thease zoomers where raised by an ipad and now tiktok

[@atlaspowershrugged]

Tons of people are promoting it, whether implicitly or explicitly on the internet. Way easier to run into than more serious philosophy.

[@Seraphim_Metal_Works]

Thank you for going against the stoicism meme. Marcus Aurelius was literally cucked because of his stoicism.

[@flusterclick]

Here's a game: use the info Atlas talks about above to find all of the faults with the formulation of this argument.

[@Limbaugh_]

What??? 😭

[@handsomebear.]

what 😅

[@Seraphim_Metal_Works]

@@Limbaugh_ yes, his wife ran around on him and he stoically said "I dont care, I'm built different".

[@user-us4mc7ej3c]

this argument is dumb imo. Even if he indeed he got cucked which isn't even proved, the best reaction in this case is indeed to act like you don't care and just throw the bish. Most people on Earth know Marcus Aurelius's name and his teachings have transcended time to the point of still being extremely relevant in our modern days. No one remembers his wife's name or the name of the one who supposedly cucked him and no one cares. Morality : Marcus Aurelius wasn't cucked because of stoicism, he is remembered to this day thanks to it

[@certified_boogeyman]

Soft science aka pseudo science

[@atlaspowershrugged]

It isn't quite that simple, but you definitely have to take it with a Himalayan mine of salt.