#discourses

[terrorignitis]

“Day by day you must keep before your eyes death and exile and everything else that seems frightening, but most especially death; and then you’ll never harbour any mean thought, nor will you desire anything beyond due measure.”

Epictetus - Enchiridion

[sak-supernatural]

Let me say one thing; the kinktober discourse. I know there's always been opposing oppinions, love it hate it whatever, but this year shit has gotten way out of hand. Kinktober is an 18+ event (if you are under 18 and want to read or participate then please don't put that target on your head by saying so everywhere you go) therefore if you are not 18+ then you don't get to discuss it. Kink is for adults, to be discussed by adults, kinktober is a space to freely explore in fiction that which you might not otherwise. So long as a kink, any kink, literally anything at all, is properly discussed and negotiated between two (or more) CONSENTING ADULTS then it is fine and even healthy. Role-playing between CONSENTING ADULTS is fine, any type of roleplay, no matter how distasteful or disgusting or immoral it seems to YOU.

That being said when it comes to fiction things are MUCH looser, your moral objections can take a hike here. Don't like don't read, don't look, don't seek it out, block and move on with your life. And if you're one of those "but this just shouldn't exist at all" people, then grow up. This is the internet, all things exist whether you want them to or not. It's YOUR job to keep YOU and any of your dependants safe online. If you are not mature enough to take responsibility for the things you will come across online (because you will see some stuff you didn't want to see, you will learn thing you could have gone your whole life without knowing) then you should not be there in the first place. You cannot control that other people post online, but you CAN controle how you curate your own experience.

Take ao3 for example; it has shit that I fucking can't stand in swathes. But I just BLOCK THE TAGS instead of getting all high and mighty about it.

I'm so sick of you virtue signaling, fandom police, purists. Here, look I'll even make a skin for you and attach it to this post. Clean AO3. Does that solve your problem?

[lucia-in-the-arena]

The chief thing to remember is that the door is open. Don't be a greater coward than children, who are ready to announce, 'I won't play any more.’ Say, I won't play any more,' when you grow weary of the game, and be done with it. But if you stay, don't carp.

— Epictetus (Discourses, 1.24.20)

[philosophybits]

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

Epictetus, Discourses

[stoicbreviary]

Discourses 1.2.2

Reflections on Epictetus

What a man is willing to do follows from what he judges to be most important in his life. . . .

[philosophybitmaps]

[stoicheadaurelius]