Comments by "coreycox2345" (@coreycox2345) on "Pessimism of Strength" video.

  1. Right? I had not even thought of the Stoics as badass until I watched the Academy of Ideas. In college, my professor made them sound like people who were ridiculous because they tolerated reality. I imagined them as people who wouldn't have fun at a birthday party. So wrong.
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  2. Stoics are the most badass, maxfield painter. A true nihilist would not even care to be optimistic. A stoic actually feels happy even when things are going badly and can care deeply at the same time. If that is not badass, I don't know what is.
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  3. I see them more as embracing reality.
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  4. The Coffee Nut, This is what I thought at first. Stoics visualize and train for good fortune and have a mindset to be content even in the difficult times that every person encounters in some form or another.
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  5. It doesn't help if you cry, IndustrialBonecraft.
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  6. I don't see them that way, John Miller.
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  7. All his talking about suicide seems like a waste of time, Philip Shapkin.
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  8.  @Rambi401  This is what we both do over and over. Let's do the opposite.
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