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Originally Posted by Harmacy
I got quite heavily into Stoicism after doing CBT and still enjoy reading about it. I do think it's quite misunderstood. It's a lot like Taoism or Buddhism in that it doesn't tell you not to have emotions or not to have an ego, just not to cling to those things, not to define yourself by them but instead to take a perspective of non attachment.
Moving towards less attachment and reduced ego inevitably eases suffering.
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Here's why I reject this so hard: how can you exist without attachments? Without an identity? I mean, sure, you exist as a piece of matter, but you don't even need to be alive to do that. If you are nothing/no one, care about nothing and no one, why bother even being alive?