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Try to imagine yourself trapped in a prison cell, convicted to death, no chance of an appeal,

and you know you're going to die soon in some horrific, painful way for something that

you didn't even do.

If you were in that situation, how would you spend your time?

This isn't just me being dramatic.

Really try to put yourself in that situation and ask yourself, what would be important

to you in that moment?

Boethius was a medieval, neo-platinist philosopher who found himself in that moment.

Up until that point, he really had a pretty good standing in the world, while considering

it was living in a society that was growing increasingly corrupt and intolerant by the

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