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Originally posted by bluff
thought (or lack of thought) will do for me. Let go, and beforehand rationalise why letting go is a sensible thing to do. As the stoicists said, never let emotions obscure ratio
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to be more correct and precise, the stoicists defined a thing as being 'bad' when it was against the ratio. The ratio is also in the way things naturally go. They argued it is not natural for someone to have his mind and actions controlled by emotions and thus bad.