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PiPoe posted an update 5 years ago
Two Breakaway Civilizations? Choices? Gods or Guides?… you/we decide?
This got my noggin revving in a really good way 🙂
The Giza Forum (Legacy)
Closed Archive of The Old Forum
more than simply finding an acceptable means of socially constructing reality.
Good afternoon hope you are well, unfazed and smiling, as I know you to be.
ΕΡΩΤΗΘΕΙΣ ΤΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΟΝ ΕΝ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΙΣ ΕΦΗ, ΠΑΡΡΑΣΙΑ
Being asked what was the most beautiful thing in the world, he replied ‘Freedom of speech’
[Translated by R.D. Hicks (1925)]
~Diogenes Laertius,
Lives of Eminent Philosophers
… We customarily hypothesize a single form in connection with each of the many things to which we apply the same name. … For example, there are many beds and tables. … But there are only two forms of such furniture, one of the bed and one of the table. (Republic 596a-b, trans. Grube)
What about someone who believes in beautiful things, but doesn’t believe in the beautiful itself …? Don’t you think he is living in a dream rather than a wakened state? (Republic 476c)
Time to choose mankind’s future?
At 1:10:29 she sez the Breakaway Civilization will be presenting themselves as the higher spiritual civilization.
ΠΡΟΣΕΧΕΙΝ ΤΟΙΣ ΕΧΘΡΟΙΣ ΠΡΩΤΟΙ ΓΑΡ ΤΩΝ ΑΜΑΡΤΗΜΑΤΩΝ ΑΙΘΑΝΟΝΤΑΙ
Pay attention to your enemies; they are the first to discover your faults.
~ Antisthenes
mid 5th – mid 4th century BC
Athenian philosopher, associate of Socrates
Fragment 76 (Caizzi)
I wish that God bless and protect you always and that you smile with the knowledge that every moment of everyday is a priceless learning experience.