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Originally Posted by ScientiaOmnisEst
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?
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Adding onto my own comment here after a new, semi-related thought: I tried talking on Reddit to somepeople about Stoicism and how the hell it's even livable, and one person described the goal as
removing emotions from cognition as much as possible, because emotions are terrible judges and will always lead you astray.
I can't entirely believe that. I have to concede that YES, emotional cognition can be distorted, can lead to some absurdly wrong conclusions, can do some really messed up stuff. But it can also lead to some very fulfilling conclusions and ways of life.