u/PiedCrow

It's been 10 years since I stumbled upon Meditations, and thanks to the fact that I was already casually studying psychology and a bit of philosophy for a few years, I was able to follow the book and got hooked on Stoic practice.

I have since read the letters of Seneca and then decided to make a quick stop in modern time with "The Practicing Stoic" as a way to check my own understanding and see if my own Stoic practice is close to what is intended, and I mostly found I was on the right path.

But now I only have Epictetus to read, and I have avoided him for a reason, while Senca says stuff like "a man who didn't grieve is a lucky man not a more stoic man" from my basic understanding of Epictetus he would say death is out of our control so we shouldn't grieve.

Now, from my basic understanding of Epictetus life his views make sense to me; he is a free slave who was probably born into it or at least became one at a young age. When nothing is ever in your control, it is much easier to "let go" of it since you've been practicing since childhood with no real choice in the matter.

In the modern western world I feel we do have so much control over our life, even the option to walk away from anything is not an option people in rome had. I am not sure how much Epictetus teachings will help me, or create logical conflicts I might have to struggle with for a while. If it's the latter I wonder how you guys have made Epictetus' teachings work in the modern world.

So its been like 4 or 5 years since i have worked in game dev, but YouTube have pushed into my algorithm another indie dev who posted a video about how updating their engine broke stuff.... Your engine is not a game that needs to be kept up to date...

When a new engine is installed on your model of a car starting 2027 your car that is already running on the road does not need or require the updated engine and sometimes will not even fit your car.

So first of all if you can give a definition of dark matter dark energy and the unobservable universe and how we factor and measure them in our equations of the expanding universe, I think it would be most helpful.

My main question, though, is if we have no way to measure anything beyond our observable universe, how do we factor mass outside of it into our equations, and how is it different from dark matter, and more importantly, how can we tell the difference?