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Diogenes of Sinope — the dog.
The nickname was an insult he kept: a dog eats in public, sleeps anywhere, has no shame and bites its friends. Asked what philosophy had given him, he said he was prepared for any fortune.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
Custom is counterfeit currency.
Nomisma means both the money and the convention — property, rank, marriage, citizenship, the shame that keeps people indoors. All of it was struck by someone, and none of it is worth its face value.
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Virtue is enough, and everything else is weight.
Diogenes threw away his cup after watching a child drink from cupped hands — not a gesture but an audit, one item off a list he was trying to empty.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
One world, no borders, and nothing in it owed to convention
After death
Not addressed — this life, lived without padding