Zeno of Citium - Existential Comics

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

The Very True Story of the Death of Zeno of Citium.

This is supposedly true?? It's on wikipedia at least which means it must be.

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The Philosophy of Genie Wishes

Dang actually we should have wished to live forever, then we would have infinite time to figure out if chairs exist or not.

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The Philosophy Gym

What's actually funny though is that body builders take their training more seriously than academics and it's not particularly close.

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Stoic School Athletics

Although I bet even the Stoics would be pretty pissed off if they blew a 28-3 lead in the Superbowl.

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The Next Great Stoic Competition

The reality TV phase of Marcus Aurelius's life was mostly edited out of Meditations.

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Zeno and Zeno: the case of the milk

The fridge is empty because they live the ascetic life of virtue, not because it takes longer to draw stuff in there.

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Ancient Greek Office

They all laughed, but Thales's bottled water company went on to become a billion dollar empire.

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CSI: Athens

But there is nothing in the Stoic doctrine that says you can't celebrate when that over-popular jackass got what was coming to him, so Zeno of Citium partied hard that night.

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Stoicism Man

"So...can you help me get my purse back? I really loved that purse." "Woman's love involves injustice and blindness against everything that she does not love... Woman is not yet capable of friendship: women are still cats and birds. Or at best cows..."

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Greek Hold'em

I gave them name tags because all Greek philosophers look alike. I don't mean that in a racist way...I mean it in a prejudice-against-philosophers way.

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Zeno and Zeno

Later on Zeno of Citium, in accordance with Universal Reason, ate all of Zeno of Elea's leftovers, because Zeno of Elea doesn't deserve them after the mess he left. I mean come on.

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