Lol dude just let people insult and spit on you haha it's totally healthy and natural

In this moment, I am stoic.

Umm how didn't the technique work sweetie? He maintained face, diffused the critique, and looked like a big man in front of the boys. What would you have done: got all defense and started neurotically listing out a litany of your social calender, got angry?

Epictetus was right about everything except providence.

Holy fucking cringe.

AND THEN EVERYBODY CLAPPED.

and then everyone stood up and clapped. and that coworker? his name was Albert Einstein.

I know it's pathetic, but people like this really discourage me from reading the stoics.

This is literally anything but stoicism. This is just being a self-deprecating attentionfag.

A stoic would've literally just said, "Well, I can't change/ That's his opinion/ Whatever the fuck".

>r/Stoicism exists
Doesn't that seem a bit counter-intuitive?

Co-worker: X said you seemed rude because you don't talk much.
Actual Stoic: I see.

Co-worker: X said you seemed rude because you don't talk much.
Reddit Stoic: LOL IDGAF HE SHOULD SUCK MY FUCKING GIANT BALLS AND LICK THEM AFTER LOOOOL. IDGAF BRO. I;M STOIK AND HAVE NO FEELINGS. I DON'T CARE AT ALL. LOOOL.

>stoicism
>i feel empowered
He’s not going to make it

That’s actually a pretty good retort. Making a post about your coworker “bullying” is lame as hell, and makes me doubt the OP managed to pull it off.

>y-you dont know me
>a good retort

what's wrong with OP? clearly he's learning to handle himself better in these kinds of situations, and he's proud of the way he deflected unwarranted criticism. his retort isn't original but I can see it being funny while holding his frame without being too belligerent. many people here mistake cynicism for wisdom but would have crashed and burned in this situation because they're not as tough or witty as they make themselves out to be.

>If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance
> How cruel it is not to allow people to strive for what seems to them their interest and advantage! And yet in a way you are forbidding them to do this, when you fuss that they are wrong: they are surely drawn to their own interest and advantage. 'But it is not actually so': well then, teach them! show them! do not fuss
>Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker

This guy isn't a stoic, he is just a massive faggot

>what's wrong with OP?
The fact that he felt compelled to create a post about it on reddit and word it in the most faggot way possible.

Imagine going that route instead of just being more open. His coworker probably wanted to know how his day was or some other day to day shit.

Another area he could fix is even thinking about that stuff to the degree that it made him open a thread about it.

But no, let's be a stoic.

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so this is just another "mock Reddit for the sake of mocking Reddit" post? most of you guys are newfags who came after the 2016 election, repeating the same stale memes and going over the same ground over and over again. you aren't much better. I'm happy that the Redditor, as a sensitive introvert, found a way to cope with his job. maybe he even matured emotionally and isn't even "coping" as much as he used to. stoicism is meant to be a practical philosophy for living life... so what is wrong with that?