You may tire of comparisons between the USA!USA!USA! and Nazi Germany. Too bad! President Oreo is very much like Hitler, whether you want to admit it, or not. (Hopefully, Oreo’s fate will mirror Hitler’s.)
“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.” – Adolf Hitler
“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.” – Adolf Hitler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OitnMp8MWb0
Sensetti says:
T4C says: What is your assessment of Aristotle?
He was the teacher of Alexander the Great. Those boys would fall on their knees and suck a dick quicker than Richard Siimons.
Sensettius, My old boss Ernie said you can’t argue with success, those boys conquered the known world. Now you know what you have to do. Heh.
Nah, I never take life serious enough to care about a person toking, snorting or dropping acid , unless it is about a seeming contradiction. I appreciate you guys are talking about the classics. I can’t understand the Germans, Hegel, Kant, Schopenhauer. Although Hitler is starting to make sense, which is scary.
Ki o Tee
I’m not sure the butt fuckers accomplished shit, other than a dirty dick, are you? If so prove it. It’s all lore and legend
EC
Any improvement in the drought? Just wondering how LA is coping.
T4C
I have noticed of late that you are using military time quite a bit , are you retired military?
“Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.”
Will Cuppy
I think ole Will Cuppy might have been a cranky bastard. He certainly liked to rake Aristotle over the coals. But it seems though Aristotle may have been incredibly brilliant his great mind did not inhibit him from being a fucking moron.
Sensetti says:
T4C says: What is your assessment of Aristotle?
He was the teacher of Alexander the Great. Those boys would fall on their knees and suck a dick quicker than Richard Siimons.
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His troops had very long spears. They proved to be more effective than Persian archery. That’s it.
I have some really great news. Billah died three days ago from septic shock due to a 18″ plumbers wrench lodged up his bunghole. I feel responsible cuz I seen it stickin outta there but I didn’t never grab uh holt and try ter yank it out. He will be greatly missed.
Steph, are yew back er what? I hope so. What with yer expertise in humanistic philosophy yew bring a much needed air of sophistication ter this shithole, what with Indented Sphincter goin on and on about grits. That really burns me ip.
Recall the Night of the Long Knives 30Jun1934 when the Brown Shirt SA Stormtroopers lost their leaders (ref Ernst Röhm). Der Fuhrer then had that big ceremony wherein he inducted the SA into the SS Schutzstaffel. ll Duce Hussein POTUS is an anti-Christ madman and the Useful Idiots et all will pay dearly for his election. If you Google: “AntiChrist Obama? Islamic World Lauds Obama as the Mahdi” you will find this gem: Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (the prophet’s cousin and son-in-law) prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of the Mahdi, the Ultimate Saviour, a “tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West.” Commanding “the strongest army on earth,” the new ruler in the West will carry “a clear sign” from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: “Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us. The tradition comes from Bahar al-Anvar (meaning Oceans of Light) by Mullah Majlisi, a magnum opus in 132 volumes and the basis of modern Shiite Islam. In a curious coincidence Obama’s first and second names—Barack Hussein—mean “the blessing of Hussein” in Arabic and Persian. His family name, Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, reads O Ba Ma, which means “he is with us,” the magic formula in Majlisi’s tradition. Mystical reasons aside, the Khomeinist establishment sees Obama’s rise as another sign of the West’s decline and the triumph of Islam. Obama’s promise to seek unconditional talks with the Islamic Republic is cited as a sign that the US is ready to admit defeat
You should also like “Tsunami Prophecy” by Dr Patricia Green. There are many others too like “The Obama Doll Prophecy” of Rebecca Stirling.. Also, Joe Brandt saw a Vision in 1937 of The Big One and a newspaper photo of the POTUS; he had Big Ears. Americans were warned about this historic madman.
T4C, Hehe. Your answers cited aren’t bad. though the worst of the lot is the paragraph discerning the difference between Plato and his pupil Aristotle. It’s a bit clunky. Both are impressive in their own way. Plato’s writing is better and much more pleasurable to read. His “Republic” is an astonishing work if only for the array of topics covered and the unifying nature of his theories–they all hang together with logical consistency. But his ideas are arrived at mathematically, bearing no resemblance to nature herself.
His metaphysical theory, encapsulated by the phrase “The Forms” or “Ideas” is truly bizarre. Loosely, the theory posits two distinct realms of reality, an everyday material one, the one before our senses, and the world of the immaterial, the so-called world of the Forms. The former are pale reproductions of the latter. Knowledge for Plato is knowledge of the Forms, a task reserved for philosophers, who spends their days trying to “recollect” what they have forgotten at birth by virtue of inhabiting a body, which is a kind of prison cell for the soul that will remain so for the bulk of humanity, since most are slaves to their bodily appetites. The philosopher is guided by reason, ruling over his appetite and his emotions, both of which ruin men. And by use of the Socratic method he can asymptotically approach understanding and knowing the Forms, chief among them being the virtues like courage and justice, and ultimately the good, in itself.
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Aristotle on the other hand is a rather boring writer, plodding along with his empirical researches. And yet the range of topics he covered is remarkable. That summary of his view of the soul is pretty good. My memory of the material is a little fuzzy as it has been nearly 10 years since I stepped foot in the classroom. But yes, he thought all living things had souls, that which “animates” them. The soul is a power or capacity to do x,y,z. As with everything he covers, there is a hierarchy that obtains. We, unlike plants or animals, have the power to reason and it’s our duty to act in accordance with it, the result of which is happiness, or flourishing.
Most of us fail to do so, living the life of beasts, and thus you have in Aristotle a kind of haughty attitude, distinctly inegalitarian, that casts him in an unfavorable light today.If you find yourself merely stuffing your face and having sex, you are living the life of an animal, no different than a chipmunk. And you are not realizing the proper end in human life, a topic he discusses at length in his book on ethics. And you will never be happy either.
It took me the better part of an hour to find my damn Seneca book. In it contained my lecture notes on one index card which was a habit of mine while teaching. In a nutshell, it’s this for the stoic:
Life is difficult, painful. Life is deprivation of things we love. Therefore, one way of dealing with this is to live a life guided by reason, live a life of contemplation to cool our competing desires, the result of which is knowledge and pleasure. We are tethered to many things: work, family, wealth, health, etc. all of which can be taken away from us in an instant. So, we must slacken those threads and not embrace them so tightly, the result of which is better preparation for their inevitable departure. Here’s a great quote:
“For the only safe harbor in this life’s tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future might bring and to stand ready and confident, squaring the breast to take without skulking or flinching whatever fortune hurls at us.”
Billah’s wife says: What with yer expertise in humanistic philosophy yew bring a much needed air of sophistication ter this shithole,
It’s not so bad. Have you read any of Stucky’s gems? I guess there is something to be said for the Pre-Smokey days. Man, I missed a lot!
Yeah T4C, you passed! More than I can say for Stephanie, non show, and apparently caught in a kosher vortex of confusion.
Yes, I realized you were quoting external sources.
EC, the Germans are very difficult. When I was in graduate school, taking a course on Hegel, reading his impenetrable “philosophy of mind”, we spent a considerable amount of time reading just the introduction. Our professor, a very short Indian man with a head the size of a watermelon, went on and on. He was quite smart in my view. At one point, an agitated student pleaded with him, “well, what is he saying here!”
After a little pause, as he was gathering his thoughts, the good professor said, “I don’t really know”.
Plato was down in uh big ass cave, chained to the freakin wall, and somebody built a damn fire and started making shadows and he kept saying to hisself ‘shitballs, is the real really real?’. He perceived the shadows as reality. He got loose and started climbin out the cage and upon swing the fire he says ‘oh mah gawd’ and upon climbin further out to the sunlight his shit got totally freaked out, like wacked out negro high on meth. Aristotle was more about form and substance and whatnot. They were both truly gay, I mean gayer than Billah jr, as evidenced by platos symposium. I’m bunghole bustin gay philosophers humping one another non stop.
It’s pretty cool. Later dudes.
BW, are you trying to describe Logan’s Run or THX1137. Maybe your cribbing from The Time Machine. Pretty neat how you describe primitive movie theaters; fire and shadows is so kid theater or boy scouts.
BTW, BW, I know your a dude because wimmen don’t say, ‘later, dudes’. And I know they don’t teach Plato’s allegory of the cave in home ec. When you coming out the closet? Inquiring beaners want to know, they say, “Cuando va a salir este gay del closet?”
EC- Inquiring non-beaner axed you a question above….not for casual conversation, because I am working on a theory.
I apologize, Bea. We expect to get hit on the water bill. We went to The Grove last weekend, everybody appeared to have bathed. I saw a couple of healthy looking women who I could swear were strippers by night.
Quite a few were wearing shiny black yoga pants, unfortunately, those things show off saggy or flabby butts all too well.
I dropped by the Farmers Market next door to buy sausage and hamburger meat for lasagna. The black butcher said ‘catorce’ and I smiled and asked, ‘did you just tell me that in Spanish?’ He said, I know, veintiuno, 21. I wonder if he was referring to a legal drinking age or a game of horse.
It was cold last weekend (77) and it will be cold this weekend, cool air brings clouds and maybe rain; we got a light shower last time.
So EC, you can confirm that there has been no additional precip in the last month. People seem to be in good spirits or edgy?