Saw a beautifully inspiring message by an user yesterday explaining why work sets you free (not in a nazi way, but a very logical way that talked about how it is good for you to work).
It really motivated me but I have unfortunately forgotten what he said. Can anyone else attempt to justify the phrase? Why does work set you free over sitting at home?
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I specified it wasn't explained using nazi ideology. I'm not a dumbass, I dont think 'hurr kill da joos'. This is specifically about working.
Back to nazi scum
Sigh.
>hey boys :3 somebody inspired me today >.except I forgot haha what did they say???
>not in a nazi way tho O.O
bant is dumb lmao
Voltaire once said
>"Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need."
Really makes you unironically thinkke
I see JIDF is in full force. There are real nazis you could be arguing with. Or maybe you're just some butthurt unemployed person. Either way projecting bullshit doesn't make it true.
>Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need
Thank you for some real discussion.
>Thank you for some real discussion.
No worries dude!
You're welcome. Now go back to anime shitposting you tard
Lmao did you even try when you made this thread? Ur bait sucks too bee quite honeest
your bait would be lucky to catch a blind and starving fish, shoo now
did someone really make a post about that?
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It is quite deeper than it seems at first glance.
>boredom
Work not only occupies our time, but also tires us in a good way: instead of focusing our creative energy on mindless things, like cheap entertainment, drinking or destroying things, it fights boredom by putting this energy into something constructive and beneficial.
>vice
This one is perhaps the less intuitive of the three at first, but also turns out to be the most important: because it is ingrained in the culture of the time that only good people participate in the fabric of society, and therefore fight vice, it is an exceptional reversal of the philosophy of work that prevailed from the Greeks. The Greeks considered work as being a negative, a lowly form of occupation that only the commoners and slaves would partake in, while the citizens of the City would only do politics, and create laws. Saying work prevents vice is a complete reversal of this: it implies that work is necessary to distinguish good and evil, to make wise judgment, and therefore, to participate in politics. It is form this idea, partly derived from protestant philosophy, that this phrase so greatly demystifies. It is also at the origin of the idea of putting a tax on political participation: to ensure that only the people who work have a say in politics.
>need
This one seems very obvious at first, but it is also more complex. Need can not only be understood from a personal point of view, as in, getting money and being off of poverty, but also in a general and global sense: the idea that, without work, society collapses. Without work, men don't innovate, don't create, and in essence, are not human. Without work, they revert back to a primitive form living off what the land gives them, without creating the staples of human society. And considering how Europeans saw primitive people at that time, it is easy to understand how it would be seen as a negative.
Honestly, what is wrong with the phrase? Aside from the nazi links, but the poster didn't mention anything about nazis or use their ideology in any way.
This poster is clearly a butthurt jew. Even though he has no reason to be butthurt. Don't like working much do you?
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no, that's not why i was asking
i mean if there was an actual post like that, you can just look it up on the archive and post it for the rest of us to see.
Too bad stay dumb burgerito lole
I can't remember much about the thread or even really which board it was actually on, otherwise I would have done so. It was just a single post by a guy in a thread at least100 posts long, he had some interesting insight into working.
>ur dumb for skipping my 800 word response to a quote that doesn’t require an explanation
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The Greeks considered work to be lowly? What about their soldiers? Isn't that a form of work?
Thank you for teh detailed response though, it's helped to me to gain a new perspective on the quote.
The job a soldier wasn't considered a job, just like with merchants or legislative occupations. What the Greeks thought of when they said work was anything physical done in exchange of money. They considered work filthy and degrading, thinking that you could either work, or spend time in the Agora with your fellow citizens to debate and philosophize.
The statement is inherently subjective