me_irl

4739 readers

978 users here now

All posts need to have the same title: me_irl it is allowed to use an emoji instead of the underscore _

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

herrwoland

719

me_irl (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by zedgeist to c/me_irl

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I see we’ve found someone who follows Diogenes of Sinope.

[–] dohpaz42 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Not intentionally? But the more I read about this guy, the more I like his style. He sounds a little like the character House in his brutal honesty and disdain for etiquette, and potentially autistic.

This has to be my favorite ideal though:

Everyone, he claimed, was trapped in this make-believe world which they insisted was reality and, because of this, people were living in a kind of dream state. Source

I swear I’ve heard this idea elsewhere and more recently. Hmm. 🤔 I can’t quite put my finger on it though. But I am a little hungry for a cookie now.

Edit: I love this man.

When asked what talent he had he replied, “That of governing men” and then demanded to be sold to Xeniades saying, “Sell me to that man; for he wants a master.” Even though he was a slave at this point, and in no position to demand anything, he believed so completely in himself that others felt compelled to listen to him and do what he said.

And they did. And Xeniades loved him. In fact, the whole damn city loved him. That man was the very epitome of rizz.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Read up on what he said to Alexander the Great when they met up. Diogenes was just a fucking badass.

[–] dohpaz42 4 points 5 months ago

I did. It was in the article I linked above.

Get out of my sunlight.

And my fav…

If I were not Diogenes, I would also wish to be Diogenes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago