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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>Thanks everyone for your responses. Some of these touched on what is happening to our planet, which is also what triggered my question. </div><div>It is clear that we have pushed our biosphere over the tipping point into a trajectory that will bring mass extinctions, perhaps even that of our species, in its wake. Whatever we do cannot change this, at least till after several decades. So whatever good we do, we won’t be around to see its result.</div><div>So the question for me is what does it mean to say Yes to life in this situation and to live out of that stance. To use a metaphor, if we are led to the gallows, can we approach it saying Yes to what our life has been and what is going happen? By “can we”, I mean how do we generate the courage and spirit for this. </div><div>A related question, how do we tell others what is in store truthfully and yet not leave them without hope or drive? </div><div>If we live like this, could it be described (in a positive way) as Stoicism? I remember we seemed to have reservations about this during our RS1 courses. But I’m not sure whether they were about the popular understanding of Stoicism, as Karen illustrates in her email, or something deeper in that philosophy. </div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dharma</div><div><br></div></div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, 21 January 2022, 11:17:28 am MYT, James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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On Thursday, January 20, 2022, 07:54:09 PM MST, Karenbueno via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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<div><font size="2">Me: Are you telling the truth?</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Stoic: Well, even if I hurt, what can I do. I will just bear it.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Me: Have you tried what the doctor advised?</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Stoic: Oh, I probably will soon. Stop worrying about me. I'm fine.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Stoic: I don't see how we need to worry about climate change. It will destroy us and the rest of life on the planet soon.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Me: But shouldn't we do a few actions that might help.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Stoic: Oh, we are too far gone. The oceans are rising, the ice is about gone. We might as well just enjoy the life we have.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Me: but what about our kids and grandkids and their kids?</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Stoic: Look. We are human. The planet it too far gone. We may as well just accept it.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Another day--</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Stoic: Well, I think we have gone as far as we can to abolish racism in the United States.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Me: I think there is still a lot of suffering from racism. I think we should find some way to pay reparations.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Stoic: You pay for it. I have some other things I want to do with our money.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Me: Did you hear about how the Wisconsin government is giving back some of their land to the Indians?</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Stoic: Oh for Pete Sake. That war is long over, and we are getting along fine.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Stoic: Listen to those shovels! They are finishing my work!</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Me: No, honey, they are digging your grave.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Me: They say that faith is belief in things not seen.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Stoic: Ha. Sounds pretty magic to me!</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Me: But if you trust that the creative power of God is in charge, you can have hope that the future is open, and we can act!</font></div>
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<div>Saying Yes to life and Stoicism. Stoicism seems to be understood as a relationship to life where you keep going on despite the odds. There is also an inuendo that this may not be humanly possible and that internal pressures will eventually cause the person to crash. What I want to know is, was that the Stoicism that Zeno founded or merely a degraded understanding? Why did we as an Order cast it in a negative light? What was our beef with it? Was it a reaction to the degraded form or were we looking at it in its original sense?</div>
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