Theos-Talk Archives (January 2011 Message tt00063)

Man, is that ever well said!

Amazing.

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Drpsionic@... wrote:
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> The only thing we can learn from Socrates is that letting your friends tell 
>  you that the hemlock is really blowfish toxin and twelve hours later you 
> will  wake up and be acclaimed as a god is not a good thing to do as it means 
> they are  playing a very nasty prank on you.  Plato was just a ridiculous 
> windbag and  that anyone could take his nonsense seriously is one of the 
> greater  mysteries.
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> Chuck the Heretic
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> _www.charlescosimano.com  
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> In a message dated 1/4/2011 4:27:51 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
> mkr777@... writes:
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> I think we all can learn from everyone including Plato &  Socrates.
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> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:01 PM, thalprin <
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> _ (http://www.charlescosimano.com/) _thalprin@..._ 
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> >  What do you think about Plato?
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> > He was brilliant, no doubt,  popular too, a/b Socrates would've never 
> wrote
> > a book like The  Republic, with all its social engineering; and those were
> > important  matters at that time, that continues to be my opinion.
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> > On one  hand, I think he was/is really brilliant a/b on the other hand, I
> >  realize that he's speaking, supposedly, for someone else. He said; he  
> said;
> > he said.... And, in addition to that, I have a problem with a  man who
> > besmearches another man's wife, because, well, you know and  supposedly,
> > that's what he would've said. Sometimes things like that  have real 
> motives;
> > certainly, they're sensational.
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> > I'm  a big fan of Socrates. He's dear to my heart, I love that guy who,
> >  basically, was kill for his stance - how am I to believe that's the  very
> > same stance, or point of view, that got Plato massages into his  80s, and 
> a
> > living name in Philosophy.
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> > Dunno, a/b  brilliant or not I continue to have some serious reserv_ations
> > about  the way Plato' work adds up; that's just how I feel.
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> >  Terrie
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