Hypermuscular Hindu Beast 
How do you get over the fact Marcus Aurelius wife cheated on him with a gladiator? 
https://old.reddit.com/r/Stoic/comments/1823mip/how_do_you_get_over_the_fact_marcus_aurelius_wife?sort=controversial
I have been into stoicism for a while and have been using it to cope with life but learning this info has made me second guess the entire philosophy. Now whenever I try to be stoic I think about Marcus sitting in the corner writing meditations while his wife gets brutalized by a gigachad gladiator. Now whenever I think about stoicism it seems like a cuck philosophy. Was Marcus really the adam22 of his time? How can I get over this?
Beautiful bait
Wait a christcuck destroyer was a cuck?
I feel like OP rn bros.
Only if they happen to my people
OK that is one way to purge the stain of being cucked.
Because women are wonderful chud
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He was a mass murderer but somehow the cuck part is the thing they have difficulty looking past
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Why do people think being a mass murderer or having your wife bend over for someone else is anything even tangentially related to stoicism?
Stoicism doesn't mean being a pacifist or a monogamous couple or not having a cuck fantasy
It's about not letting things you care about but can't control not deviate you from your ultimate goal in life, mainly through emotions
If your ultimate goal in life is to maximize your Empire and the huns are not laying their weapons for you, even if your emotions say you shouldn't kill them, you are not a slave to your emotions, but you shouldn't derive joy at killing them either, that posits a risk of missing why you're doing it in the first place.
If I'm very much not mistaken doesn't the bhagavat Gita say the same thing
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Yeah, carry out your duty no matter what, though it goes into a bit more of a deterministic spiral(What will happen is fixed, you're merely acting it out, actions should be driven solely by what is your duty not your desire or results).
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I'd say you're not even "acting it out" but rather your body is an instrument of an immanent force (i.e. Atman) and the idea that you have a decision-making action-taking self distinct from that force is what's keeping you from enlightenment.
Stoicism is about pursuing and achieving goals without letting emotions rule you. The Gita is about performing your duty regardless of goal, reward or outcome.
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What a shit philosophy.
No wonder she wanted to bang that fun, fetch gladiator.
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https://www.zoosk.com/date-mix/single-life/10-reasons-youre-still-single
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What leader wasn't a mass murderer during that era?
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idk, I personally sympathize with him on that because clearly some of those wars were not started by him and he didn't want to be fighting them.
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