[dnissley]

Meh, seems like it attacks the usual stoic strawman of it boiling down to simply being unemotional.

That's not my own takeaway of stoicism. At the core of stoicism is the dichotomy of control: something is either in my control or it is not, or it is some combination of the two which must be unraveled. Applied to emotion: I can't control when I weep. I can't control when I feel sorrow. I can control how I react to those experiences. Attempting to simply suppress such emotions is not being a stoic, at least as I have learned it, since doing so violates the dichotomy of control -- attempting to control that which is beyond our control.

[kaycebasques]

I've got mixed thoughts/feelings (theelings? foughts??) about stoicism but my brother gave me a pretty damn cool coin that he got from the creator of a stoicism podcast or something like that. The heads side (there's a profile of a guy with the classic bearded ancient guy look) says Carpe Diem and the tails side says "Some things are in our power / other are not" along the rim with "Persist and Resist" in the center between two columns. It's a bit bigger than a US half dollar and I always keep it in my wallet.