Which would you pick Buddhism or stoicism?

Which would you pick Buddhism or stoicism?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Stoicism because im White and anyone who picks buddhism is a weeaboo homosexual

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I’m white
      FYI this is the founder of stoicism

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's called a tan

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        He was also a Phoenician (aka Semite) and was a slave at some point. Basically, Stoicism was a Graeco-Phoenician slave philosophy that spread throughout the Roman Empire and somehow managed to become an aristocratic elite philosophy. Does it remind you of Christianity? No coincidence. Stoic philosophy was both an object of criticism and a source of inspiration for Christians

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I would pick beating the shit out of wojakposters. OP reminded me once again that the way in which wojaks get used is cancer, thanks.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gay.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I would pick Taoism.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Which is basically just a Chinese Approved™ version of Zen Buddhism

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Its a separate religion.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Both are hella gay

    Christ is the truth, yes many christians are ignorant

    Mens life cannot be complete without God

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Buddhism is just nihilism disguised as religion, which is why so many Westerners are drawn to it. Genuinely disgusting ideology.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Do you really enjoy being callous about things you interpret in a wrong way just to justify your position? Ironic, that your position is nihilistic. Of course, it's easier to deny things than examine them, but I wonder, why are you even on IQfy? To BTFO people with your hot opinions?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Literal life-denying religion
        >"Actshually, you're the nihilist"

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >life-denying religion is a religion where noble birth as a human is the most precious thing cause it's the only way to stop the suffering
          Do you understand that the only way to overcome a Sansara is to be born as a human? It's in sutras, you know. But you read that 'DESIRE BAD' and made infantile and uneducated judgment. Read more, my man.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Buddhism is Cynicism,
      Taoism is Nihilism,
      there is no Asian Stoicism.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >there is no Asian Stoicism.
        Confucianism at least shares the same motif of civil responsibility, no?

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Buddhism has caused at least one civilisation to collapse.

    Buddhism tempered with protestant work ethnic would work

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Neither because I'm not immersed in the ennui of decline.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I see Stoicism more coherent in its ethical teaching. Also, Stoicism can be followed even without any metaphysical belief. Buddhism requires belief in samsara and karma. Therefore I choose Stoicism.

    If we are talking about the metaphysics, even in that field, Buddhism is beaten by Hinduism, thanks to great teachers like Shankara and Ramanuja. I pick Hinduism over Buddhism.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >stoicism
      >any metaphysical belief
      What is providence
      >but you don't need to believe in providence to be Stoic
      Neither you do not need to believe in Sansara or karma to follow the Eightfold path.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I considered myself a Stoic for many years until I started learning about Buddhism. I'd pick the latter because it's more applicable to daily life and has thousands of years of continuous practice to draw from.

    Reading Stoic aphorisms is nice, but eventually you reach a point where you ask, "Ok, but how specifically do I practice this? How do I get better at doing what Epictetus tells me to do? I want to live this ideal, but how do I get there?"

    Stoicism is pretty light on answers to these sorts of questions, partially because we've lost so many important Stoic works (literally everything written by Zeno, half of Arrian's transcriptions of Epictetus' lectures, etc.). Buddhism, on the other hand, can provide extremely detailed and specific instructions on how to attain the way of living and thinking that it recommends.

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