“Have I done something for the common good? Then I share in the benefits. Stay centered on that. Don't give up.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations (11.4)
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
Marcus Aurelius
"If anyone can refute me—show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I'll gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance." —Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Book VI
Here's the next Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. This one looks at his warnings about damaging ourselves where it really matters
Born, raised, lived in California over 50 years. I am leftist politically, Vegan because I feel it is wrong for me to exist by the harming of other sentient beings (positive side effect, a smaller carbon & water footprint). I am demisexual & dislike sexual references I filter NSFW, Kink & Lewd + (if I understand them). I read a lot & play board & table top roleplaying games. I am ASD, physical & mental health issues. Apatheist/Taoist, cPTSD
Added: I do not identify as transgender because in my life my gender has never changed, only my sex has changed. I was a girl when I was little and became a woman upon turning 18. I was forced to pretend to be male by society but I never have been.
“There are two type's of people in this world. People who don't lie and men's rights activists.” - George Carlin
"There never was a good war, or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
"And my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." - Nicholas Klein
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." -- Jean-Paul Sartre
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.” ― Albert Camus
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury." — Marcus Aurelius
"A civilization that exploits, but does not restore, cannot have any other result than the approach of its own end" - Nikolai Fyodorov
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” ― George Carlin