Fascinating article! Seems a bit harsh on the Goth subculture though. He seems to equate it with the various metal subcultures, but apart from some of the...
Right. This has been added to my Yule wish list, along with Curtz's elusive Musonius Rufus. Has anyone read The Stoics Reader? Thoughts? ... -- Cheers, Michel...
Well, I think the usual stoic principle is that if you indulge an emotion, you strengthen it; if you resist an emotion, you weaken it. If so, we should perhaps...
They are largely acting. Indulging in the pathos with out a preceding propathos, to be technical. They do this mostly to manipulate people, like most...
my 3 memento mori pop picks: Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult Do You Realize by Flaming Lips Worms, by the Pogues, the lyrics to which are: The worms...
Awesome! If we could get about 12 -15 of these, we could put together a Stoic Exercises Mix: Vol. 1 - Memento Mori. So far we have Dust in the Wind by Kansas...
Pepper, by the Butthole Surfers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4WUlNSx_Wk Got to object to the Blue Oyster Cult song as it is a glorification of death as a...
Great song though. It is about suicide, but suicide is the open door, after all. Many of their songs are great. Astronomy, Veterans of Psychic Wars, Joan...
The was rumored to be about suicide, but it actually deals with the inevitability of death and the belief that we should not fear it. When Buck Dharma (Donald...
I stand corrected. Here are the lyrics to 'Astronomy', just because: The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst Out at you from their hiding place Like acid...
Great Gig In the Sky, by Pink Floyd starts with the quote: "I'm not afraid of dying, anytime will do. I don't mind. Why should I be afraid of dying? There's no...
Hi Michel, ... I hate to be a party pooper, but your Stoic Exercises Mix sounds less like Stoic _askesis_, and more like a nostalgic attempt to re-experience...
Interesting point. But I see the memento mori as having at least a two-fold purpose. The first is, as you say, to create a sense of importance to every moment....
Dave, In my opinion, you're confusing two different exercises - one is concentrating on the present, and one is the memento mori, which is the conscious focus...
Michel, I doubt that music and poetry are appropriate material, or songs and poems appropriate objects, for Stoic _askesis_. Aren't they designed to ...
Hmmm. I think that way lies madness, or at very least sterility. There is beauty and awe in the world, there is rational joy. Even in death there is beauty....
Jules Wrote:    In my opinion, you're confusing two different exercises - one is      concentrating on the present, and one is the memento mori..... ...
Hi Jules ... The consciousness of death is, I think, the thing that is subject to the greatest psychological repression. Isn't the purpose of _memento_mori_ to...
... I don't know. Perhaps Marcus could deal with those pieces of poetry and tragedy dispassionately. I presume that he judged them to be reasonable and...
Hi Dave, ... dispassionately. I presume that he judged them to be reasonable and edifying thoughts. Right, so one could, today, use pop songs as exhortations...
Hi Jules, ... Okay, but before I leave off I want to make it clear that for Marcus Aurelius and me there's more to this than two useful spiritual exercises. We...
Greetings to everyone. I am in a way, very new to stoicism, yet now that I've found out what stoicism is, it feels like it's something close to how I've always...
... Okay, I meditated upon this thing and came to the realization that the Epictetus' quote that I borrowed, is not implying that the things that which are...
Well, I think there are two different issues here. First, in the examples you give, the anxiety is not necessarily outside ones control. Modern Cognitive...
