Lmao! I had totally forgotten that I made that comment, got on Lemmy to distract from depression & chronic pain, saw “oh, I have a new notification! Neat! I wonder what it is?” then clicked and saw you (seemingly) telling me to try not to suck any more dicks, and god that caught me off guard and made me laugh! For a short moment, before I recognized the quote, I was thinking, “damn! What the hell did I say to warrant that as a response!?” hahaha!
My website’s domain name https://www.arscyni.cc is inspired by him and his fellow Cynics. Highly recommend their books written by Robin Hard.
“On observing how a young man was priding himself on his expensive cloak, he said, “Stop priding yourself on sharing in the good qualities of a sheep.”” ―Diogenes of Sinope (404–323 BC)
“People pray to the gods for good health, and yet most of them consistently act in such a way as to damage their health.” ―Diogenes of Sinope (404–323 BC)
To those who also feel remarkably amicable towards Diogenes/Epictetus, or any other Cynic, I’ve made an Ars Cynica chat group on Fluxer [a Discord lookalike, but superior and not corporate]. It used to have active members on Telegram but deleted it because the platform became bloated crypto crap.
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![ratsofftoya: fuck all philosophy except for whatever the hell Diogenes was trying to teach
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Dude lived 50000 years ago and this quote still holds up so well; shows us we as humanity haven’t really advanced as much as we’d like to think
More like 2300 years ago, but yeah, he said a lot for amazing things. Several are probably even true.
Guy must have been an absolutely insufferable ass, though.
“behold, a man!” 🙄
I bet Plato was so up his own ass, though. Man didn’t even believe in observing the world to learn things. Someone had to take him down a few pegs.
As an old earth creationist he lived 100,000 years ago. The planet is 12 trillion years old after all. Don’t believe the short time propaganda
I believe the borrowed time propaganda
time cube or nothin brotha
50000?!
Give or take a few years
It was at least over 75 years ago
37 cocks?!
…in a row!?
Try not to suck any dick when you walk through the parking lot!
Lmao! I had totally forgotten that I made that comment, got on Lemmy to distract from depression & chronic pain, saw “oh, I have a new notification! Neat! I wonder what it is?” then clicked and saw you (seemingly) telling me to try not to suck any more dicks, and god that caught me off guard and made me laugh! For a short moment, before I recognized the quote, I was thinking, “damn! What the hell did I say to warrant that as a response!?” hahaha!
Thanks for the laugh and smile, I needed that. :)
At least! Possibly 60000! Maybe more!
It was OVER 9000 years ago!
Yes. Never heard of that episode with his neanderthal friends?
But…but…that’s when dinosaurs ruled the earth!
Nice Otto von Schirach reference ^^
(after being asked by Alexander the Great what he was doing when staring into a pile of bones)
I didn’t know this episode! Wow, he rocked
Diogenes was the archetypal Cynic . He’s also very quotable.
finally we found out what CNC truly stands for
My website’s domain name https://www.arscyni.cc is inspired by him and his fellow Cynics. Highly recommend their books written by Robin Hard.
To those who also feel remarkably amicable towards Diogenes/Epictetus, or any other Cynic, I’ve made an Ars Cynica chat group on Fluxer [a Discord lookalike, but superior and not corporate]. It used to have active members on Telegram but deleted it because the platform became bloated crypto crap.
the OG punk
Ah, the old master wanker. Look it up.
Can someone confirm this quote authenticity? I tried to find it on wikiquote but i can’t and i know no other place to find such quotes
This is the first Lemmy post ever with NO SINGLE DOWNVOTE, AND YES, DARE YOU!!!
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Isn’t that Cynicism?
its also name of hermit crab genus, and partially a group parasitic flatworm species.