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QuantumHost Offer Upgrade 04/14/2005 07:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	SOCRATES Socrates Quotes “All men´s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.” ”An honest man is always a child.” “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” ”Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” ”Employ your time in improving yourself by other men´s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” ”False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” ”He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” ”I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” ”I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.” ”I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.” “I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.” ”If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.” ”If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.” ”Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.” “One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity, Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.” “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” ”The unexamined life is not worth living.” ”We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.” ”Wisdom begins in wonder.”

id shifter (OP) 12/08/2005 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES ”Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” Tell that to the mothers racing their children to soccer practice, etc., etc., etc.,....................................................................
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES Socrates was also a bit gay.
id shifter (OP) 12/08/2005 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES "Socrates was also a bit gay." "Not that there´s anything wrong with that!" -- Seinfeld

Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES >Socrates was also a bit gay.
ac175 (OP) 12/08/2005 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES Forgot to sign in before. Fact is alot of the greek men had young male lovers at the time Socrates was around. We would call that sick now! Guess I agree.
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES “All men´s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.” You know, oddly enough Socrates language, which if I remember correctly was Greek, had no word for eternal where it pertained to man. The only word they had was always in reference to the gods. AION was the word the translators of the King James bible translated the words eternal, ever lasting, and others, but without fail when not pertaining to the gods meant the life span of a man. Plato altered the word to suit the meaning of God or gods and changed it to AIONION, which oddly enough was never used in the Greek bible to mean men have AION life ad never AIONION life. What that means is that there is no "eternity" in the lake of fire. What does fire do? Fire cleanses things. Those who are thrown into the lake of fire are only there until they are cleansed. It is only after we have all been cleansed that every knee will bow and every tongue confess Jesus is Lord unto the glory of God the father. Not everyone will have to go through the fire. Most will, but there are some who are what Jesus called "saved". The only difference between saved and not saved people is whether or not they will go through the cleansing fire. But in the end, Jesus bought us all for the price he paid. The lack of that simple undrstanding is why I refuse all forms of churchanity.
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ICF (OP) 12/08/2005 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES Socrates (d. 399 BCE), in Plato’s account, believed that reflecting on life so as to pursue goodness was a command of God, and at his trial, declared that he could never desist from ‘examining’ his own and others’ lives, since ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’ (Plato 1961 pp. 71-2).[1] His courageous insistence on this dimension of ethical reflection and questioning in a society whose religion was still at a more primitive, amoral stage, was so unwelcome as to cost him his life – not an uncommon fate of ‘ethical prophets’. He took a stand, the reason we read him unto this day.
QuantumHost (OP) 12/08/2005 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES ”I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

Christ/Einstein reincarnated User ID: 73236031 United States 10/08/2019 06:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES Socrates was the teacher of Plato who taught Aristotle. They were all Pythagoreans and believed in reincarnation (metempsychosis). Pythagoras was indirectly reincarnated as Plato, while Socrates was reincarnated as Aristotle.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76658155 Romania 08/19/2020 06:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." "A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true." ”An honest man is always a child.” ”Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76658155 Romania 08/19/2020 06:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." "A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true." ”An honest man is always a child.” ”Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.” Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76658155
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79281580 United States 08/19/2020 06:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES
Anonymous Coward User ID: 41011373 United States 08/19/2020 06:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: SOCRATES "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." "A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true." ”An honest man is always a child.” ”Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.” Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76658155 Some tips: kaka = vice, not evil. Socrates wasn't Christian. Socrates' system of morality simply provided the immortal and immaterial soul as the basis for the existing system, with his new category of philosopher at the side of the aristocrat who already ruled. It led to the 400 tyrants and their reign of terror, for which he was put to death. This is susceptible to many interpretations, especially given the 'noble lie.' Socrates was no feminist. Conclusion: cherry-picking with a general misunderstanding of the work. "False words are not only vicious in themselves, but they infect the soul with vice."
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