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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • Instead of your favorite flowers creating an arch that you walk under to get into the building? What if we instead had flame throwers that CONSTANTLY spewed flames which prevented you from getting in. And to stop the flames, you need to answer 3 riddles about the couple getting married. And if you get it wrong, a bunch of royal knights in platemail armor stab you with haberts until you get it right…or bleed out. And once you get inside the hall, all the hall vendors are cosplaying as classic pro wrestlers. Imagine coming in, and seeing Macho Man Randy Savage holding a plate of cheeses, and saying “OOOOH YEAH! TRY THE SWISS, IT’S AS GOOD AS MISS!!! ELIZABETH THAT IS! OR TRY THE CHEDDER! IT’LL KNOCK YOU OUT OF YOUR SWEATER!!! DIG IT!!!” Then he snaps into a slim jim

    Well fuck now I want another wedding, this time we’re doing it right!




  • Man, you need a full on historian for this, but I’ll try.

    Iirc, the whole stoicism thing started in Ancient Greece, but there’s probably earlier instances of it. It waned and waxed throughout the centuries, growing stronger sometimes and growing weaker others. The current way of it is basically from the protestant way of thinking combined with various wars, like WW1. I seriously hope you go reading stuff outside of Lemmy, I haven’t studied this stuff in over a decade.

    Now, for a non-western perspective, the east has a similar concept in Bhuddism, and it’s just as old as western stoicism.

    Iirc, there was also some Indian tribe (Cherokee?) that also made a big deal of it. I can’t speak much on it.

    For the record, stoicism is not about being a robot, it’s about being emotional stable. There’s a massive difference.