Stoicism

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Paris said:
Or as I prefer to call it "not giving a fudge".



Since adopting this mindset my own mental health has improved no end.

At times like this, I recommend it to GOT. Why worry about things that you have no control over?
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That's my philosophy!! sh$t happens. Worry about it if it does. Not if it might! My missus worries about everything. And I mean everything. It makes her ill. I'm probably a bit too far the other way but she needs to relax a bit.
 
Once got taken to a Buddhist monastery as part of a philosophy course, the big man there told me that worry is the most useless emotion in the world: if you can solve the problem there's no point worrying and if you can't then worrying won't help. I had almost the same discussion with a friend of a friend in the pub last night he was tying himself in knots that World War 3 will start next week. Simple question: What can you do to alter if it does or it doesn't?

Although I see myself more in the Daoist mold than the Stoic.
 
The binman chronicles said:
There's a time for stoicism and there's a time for running around with your pants on your head and pencils up your nose, shouting wibble. I think we have reached the latter.
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If I see anyone with their pants on their head I'll start to worry but until then I'm as chilled as a Bird's Eye fish finger.
 

Disgruntledgoat said:
Once got taken to a Buddhist monastery as part of a philosophy course, the big man there told me that worry is the most useless emotion in the world: if you can solve the problem there's no point worrying and if you can't then worrying won't help. I had almost the same discussion with a friend of a friend in the pub last night he was tying himself in knots that World War 3 will start next week. Simple question: What can you do to alter if it does or it doesn't?

Although I see myself more in the Daoist mold than the Stoic.
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Is absolutely right.

Its advice I've been handing out to kids and adult worriers for years. The only downside is there are many people who misinterpret a lack of worry as simply not caring.

Stoicism has served me well.
 
I fired my buddhist gardner since he claimed to really know his carnations but they all died and he wasn't into reincarnations. So I called a Daoist gardner and said what do you know about carnations. He said nothing. I said you're hired!
 
Disgruntledgoat said:
Once got taken to a Buddhist monastery as part of a philosophy course, the big man there told me that worry is the most useless emotion in the world: if you can solve the problem there's no point worrying and if you can't then worrying won't help. I had almost the same discussion with a friend of a friend in the pub last night he was tying himself in knots that World War 3 will start next week. Simple question: What can you do to alter if it does or it doesn't?

Although I see myself more in the Daoist mold than the Stoic.
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My time in a buddhist monestary was very memorable.

I was stood there watching something of not much interest when i felt something...so i turned and a monk was frowning and staring at me...

Felt like he was staring deep into my soul. Went on for several minutes and i couldnt look away.

Proper freaked me out and was unforgettable.
 

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