Grand Master Yoda and Stoicism
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"If you are defeated once and tell yourself you will overcome, but carry on as before, know in the end you'll be so ill and weakened that eventually you won't even notice your mistake and will begin to rationalize your behavior." —Epictetus Discourses, 2.18.31
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I do believe Grand Master Yoda was a stoic. After reading Discourses' quote, how it nearly lines up with Yoda's, "If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are ... a different game you should play." Yoda has a way with words in fewer than Epictetus Discourses used on the very same concept.
Many other concepts and quotes remind us of this very thing — change how you play the game. No matter who said it or when no one insulted the listener/reader of the message being presented. Just the same, if we act like a dog and go back to its vomit, we are insulting ourselves.
When the Republican Party repeats the same lie and lies some more to cover up the original lie, you have insanity. When the masses believe those lies, it can cause devastating consequences for that nation. Do not believe me? Read about SPQR (ancient Rome; SIGH, what do they teach in schools these days?). Other nations fell in different ways, but they followed the same playbook as a good many are doing in the United States of America.
Sometimes we may repeat things and not realize them. There is no excuse for it. I do it myself, and I fuss harsher for it. That is my way to focus on another path by not feeling comfortable in staying on the destructive one. Please, find your way to keep moving forward in the right direction. In science, they are means of believing time is more than linear, but our lives are short. We can live in different possibilities. We must live out life as it is given to us — each day.
The lies of the Republican Party have brainwashed its followers to think they are right and the rest of the world is not. This is beyond insanity. It is why America still has the lowers voting turnout in recorded history of any civilized society with similar laws of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." This is the elite controlling the people to prove our Republic is a lie.
Let me show a brief history of this: the industrial age started around 1760. America's Republic started in 1776 & 1788. These elitists were appalled by how a government could give so much power and freedom to all its citizens. We have been at war with them since day one. Do not think war is a huge moneymaker (WHAT DO THEY teach in schools these days?)?
Think about it — what ended World War I started World War II. The same with what has been — erroneously — called the Cold War. In reality (with a few years between the three) this one giant campaign war lasted 77 years (1914 - 1991). We came to realize how falsehood the Vietnam War was (part of the Cold War; no people dying is not a cold war). My ultimate point, these elitists have been attacking, manipulating, and all the rest because they want our Republic Government, dead!
You think after the Cold War ended, these elitists died with it. Far from it. In January 1994 another devastation occurred that still affects us today. We call this event, NAFTA (https://www.epi.org/publication/briefingpapers_bp147/). We had a surplus of $4.5 billion before. Now we have a $28 trillion debt that is dropping further and further. What are the Republican Party doing about that for all Americans?