
Ep. 15 - Marcus Aurelius and Jesus
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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The Stoics Diagnose, It's Not Mortality That Makes Us Anxious
The romantic comedy teaches us the wrong that's not how it works. The stoics diagnosis, it's not mortality that makes us anxious, it's fatality. When we fuse these together, we become subject to the fatality of all things. Everything is fatal in that the meaning and the thing are not identical. And if we forget that, we will suffer when hey come apart. Death is where those come apart. It reveals to you, in the ultimate loss of agency, that meaning and event are not identical."
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