Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

I think in the case you need to flee and you can, sitting with the emotion is going to lead to apathy and depression. In the case where you can't flee, acknowledging and sitting with the emotion will give you the opportunity to deal with future problems in a more equanimous way.

Most people got to choose with whom/where to ride this thing out, if they were paying any attention at all Stoicism is great, but it's great because it's aligned on not taking any of this too seriously, expecting linear trajectories. But at the end of the day, it's a pit stop

The stoics absolutely sucked at rationality. Read any of their works. They were barely concerned with it at all

which isn't really an indictment of them, btw. They were literally just trying to get themselves and other people to put the cart before the horse under conditions of extreme uncertainty. But jesus, they took pride in watching their children die without flinching

It feels like this thread has started to devolve.