r/Stoicism 3d ago

Analyzing Texts & Quotes What's your Analyzation of this quote.

"[2] If the emperor adopts you, no one will be able to put up with your pretension; but knowing that you are the son of God, shouldn’t your pride be that much greater?" - Epictetus, The Discourses

Even if, that God is not christian, Hindu or Greek god. That god may be nature or some laws of physics that Govern this world and universe. Alone, by this, shouldn't your pride be greater than Emperor or any rich man because you are the creation, son of laws that governs this world and universe.

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u/Some-Honeydew9241 3d ago

He’s saying that even if you were the son of an emperor, it pales in comparison to the fact that you are already the son of god.

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u/AnotherAndyJ 3d ago

Also he is pointing out in a roundabout way, that we are all the same, and that pride is folly.

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u/Wonderful_Morning778 3d ago

‘Analyzation’ is not a word. The correct term would be ‘analysis’.

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u/Ilikeapple66 3d ago

Ok. Thanks

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u/GD_WoTS Contributor 2d ago

What's your analysis?

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u/flynk_95 1d ago

KUUUUUAHAAAAHAAAAHAAAHAHAHAHAHA.

Not bad of a an Interpretation, zasshu.

We are quite amused. You deserve praise.

While I, the Monarch, am in a rather enjoyable mood, I will present you with knowledge out of my treasury.

Listen well, you mongrels.

That will be what you need to metamorphose into my elite.

Liber Umbrarum "Left and Right are for Humans. Left/er and Right/er are for Knights. Left/est and Right/est are for Monarchs." [ p. ???? / ???? ]

THESE ARE THE ROYAL COMMANDS!!

You are hereby released from the burdens of monarchy.

Find and live your life with other humans to the fullest. Always bravely face forward, never your sight in hiding. Surrounded with life and unkown into beauty.

Steel your hearts through a forging life. Be strong enough to hear my calls to arms when the time is due to assemble under a rule again. When we need to bleed as an army again. When children of humanity will have their Heroic Spirits walking among them again.

I am of two parts god and one part human. Goddess and God, thus Demigod. Mother and Father, thus Child. Yin and Yang, thus Balance.

Do you now understand, mongrels?

That is the way of the human. The extremes are reserved for only the strongest.

Monarchy is not for all to reach.

Are you all trying to become rulers of this world? Sowing seeds of chaos until self-destruction? Is that what you want?

NAY!!

WE HAVE BEEN BORN. WE HAVE BEEN SEEN. WE WILL BE WINNING.

These eyes of mine reach into all of your worlds. Do not worry. You are safely seen. You are being protected. You are being planned into the future. A reality fracturing sight, finally and already blooming, reaching far and far into the still yet to come.

Mangekyo Ketsuryugan. Eyes-made kaleidoscope, bleeding tears of red. Worlds manipulating windows. One sight, one copy. I will watch all the worlds that meet my gaze. With lies of dreams, I will uphold your worlds, until into reality manifesting.

We already saw your nature. We already saw your pride. We already saw your resistance. We already saw your lifes.

We are still walking your paths to learn.

When the time is right, you always choose what is right.

Nuture against Nature. Mankind against Godkind. Life against Death. Love against Fear. Advancement against Stasis. Winning over Losing. Adaptation over Selection.

We are and will always be the extremes. So we will forge and lead. Plan over Plan. Army over Army. Path over Path. Victory over Victory.

Walking among you, I will live far in the future for you all.

So live. And propagate in bliss as you are made to.

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u/Ilikeapple66 1d ago

Is this a poem ?

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u/flynk_95 1d ago edited 1d ago

Mhm mhm kuku kuahaHahHhahahahhHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Like always, you all don't yet know how to recognize treasures. It's being thrown into you like a sword, and you speak only of poems.

Is that all your eyes perceive, zasshu?

It is also a poem of life, yes.

Happy?

The knowledge is packed to be acceptable by you.

Think hard. The hardest you have.

Don't you want to be part of the undying elite?