mom: you got a postcard from tx state about a spring installment payment being due
me: wtf is that?
mom: dunno they prolly send it to everyone. due feb 27 www.sbs.txstate.edu/pay
mom: btw your text reminded me of an irreverend bumper sticker i saw - "wtfwjd?" I hope youre not txting and driving
me: hahah. how do you know jesus didn't say wtf?
(about 30 minutes later)
mom: did u remember it's mikeys bday today??
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
probably the smartest guy ever...
Telling the story of The Allegory of the Cave
".....our argument shows the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already. Just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the mind can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of Change into the Unchanging reality, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of reality, and of the brightest and best reality, in other words, of the Good.
-Socrates
The Good? Is that what we strive for as human beings? Is this Good the absolute Truth that the Sophists deny exist because they believe that morals are conventional, and relative to each culture? Socrates believed that there is some excellence that we all strive for. What is this excellence? Is it our destiny as humanity, our ultimate reason for existence? What are we going to accomplish through this excellence, this "Good?" Or as the people in the cave who know only shadows are reality...are we wandering lost in the dark, with this Unchanging reality just beyond our grasp in a superior dimension, a superior "world?"
The problem with human beings is that our pride gets in the way of our potential to think philosophically. People would rather talk about the things they know rather than ask questions about the things they don't know about. This merely proves how ignorant people are because you can never know everything about whatever it is you "know" and if you are always boasting your ignorance about what you "know" you will never ask questions about what you don't know. True wisdom and knowledge is gained by asking questions, by being opened minded to different oppinions instead of pushing your own into other people's faces...
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".....our argument shows the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already. Just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the mind can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of Change into the Unchanging reality, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of reality, and of the brightest and best reality, in other words, of the Good.
-Socrates
The Good? Is that what we strive for as human beings? Is this Good the absolute Truth that the Sophists deny exist because they believe that morals are conventional, and relative to each culture? Socrates believed that there is some excellence that we all strive for. What is this excellence? Is it our destiny as humanity, our ultimate reason for existence? What are we going to accomplish through this excellence, this "Good?" Or as the people in the cave who know only shadows are reality...are we wandering lost in the dark, with this Unchanging reality just beyond our grasp in a superior dimension, a superior "world?"
The problem with human beings is that our pride gets in the way of our potential to think philosophically. People would rather talk about the things they know rather than ask questions about the things they don't know about. This merely proves how ignorant people are because you can never know everything about whatever it is you "know" and if you are always boasting your ignorance about what you "know" you will never ask questions about what you don't know. True wisdom and knowledge is gained by asking questions, by being opened minded to different oppinions instead of pushing your own into other people's faces...
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