LOS ANGELES STOICS

Month: April 2021

  • The Big One-Nine-Oh-Oh

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    Marcus Annius Verus was born on ante diem V kalendas Maias (‘the fifth day before the start of May’) in the year DCCCLXXV ab urbe condita (‘875 years after the founding of Rome’) in Hispania Baetica near Corduba. The boy came to be called Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (or just ‘Marcus Aurelius’ to…

  • Stoicism and Passion Week

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    About a third of adults in the Greater Los Angeles Area consider themselves Catholic Christians—the largest of any single religious denomination in Los Angeles (according to Pew). I suspect that this is correlated to the high number of Angelinos of Mexican, Central, or South American heritage. Because there are so many Christians in Los Angeles…