This Ain’t No Sin
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🗓️ 31 July 2024
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It doesn’t matter that times are dark or violent or uncertain. We must be grateful, we must seize this gift we’ve been given while we have it.
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| 0:47.0 | This ain't no sin. It was a dark time, to be sure, a violent time and uncertain time. Rome, be it in Cato or Marcus Aurelius's time to say nothing of Seneca or Epictetus's living under Nero or slavery respectively, this was no picnic. |
| 0:55.3 | And yes, the Stoics tried to be indifferent, unfazed by at all. |
| 0:59.3 | They tried to focus on what was in their control. |
| 1:01.3 | They tried not to be too attached to the things |
| 1:03.2 | that could be taken from them, which as it happens was basically everything down to |
| 1:08.5 | their very life. As I talk about in lives of the Stokes, a very sizable percentage of the Stoics departed this earth by order of an executioner. |
| 1:17.0 | Yet, that didn't mean that the Stoics could not be happy people. |
| 1:21.0 | It didn't mean that they weren't able to enjoy bright fresh mornings or long meandering |
| 1:24.9 | dinners dinners with friends. As Springsteen sings on bad lands, it ain't no sin to be glad you're |
| 1:31.1 | alive. Even the strictest of Stoics would have agreed that it was woefully insufficient to simply describe life as a preferred indifferent. Life was a wonderful gift, one that they were grateful to have, one that they sought to make the most of while they had it. |
| 1:46.0 | And so must we. |
| 1:48.0 | It doesn't matter that times are dark or violent or uncertain. |
| 1:51.0 | It doesn't matter that our knowledge of human nature and biology makes it impossible for us to be naive about the world. |
| 1:56.8 | Still, we must be grateful. We must seize this gift that we have been given while we have it. |
| 2:02.2 | We should be glad that we're alive, glad that at least |
| 2:05.3 | for the moment being alive is far superior to any and all of the alternatives. |
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