2025-11-01
       
 (TXT) Encheiridion 32
       
          So, when it is necessary to share a danger with a friend or
          with your country, do not use fortune-telling about whether
          you should share the danger.
       
       The lesson is simple, we do not need fortune-telling, or any
       other method of prognostics, to tell us that we ought to do
       rightly, to be couragous in the face of what is wrong, to behave
       justly, and to act with kindness.  Knowing the future cannot
       tell us how to react to it, for this can only come from within,
       through reason and virtue.
       
       As an aside, it is rather difficult to avoid the divine in the
       writings of the Stoics, and I haven't yet figured out how to best
       navigate that, as it often throws me into a fit of introspection
       about the impossibility of knowledge in this area, and it seems
       to me that this is often fruitless mental worrying at an old bone
       that has long ceased to offer any sort of mental or moral
       nourishment.  It doesn't help that I am probably prone to
       this feelings of religous longing, but seeing as I do not know
       to satisfy them, it seems best to avoid aggravating the wound.
       So, yeah, not sure what do to about that if I am going to be
       reading the Stoics.
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