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they killed Socrates for asking too many question you know?

SteelHands · 61-69, M
Wasn't he charged with refusing to recognize the same gods as the state? And wasn't his apology about how by asking questions of thinking people that thinking people began to realize that it is better to question things than to make the error of thinking you know an answer that might be wrong?
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@coppercoil: I have read his Apology several times over the years and each time I gain a little insight. Actually the surface appearance was that he was thought dangerous for failing to ascribe faith in the State named gods. Actually he wasn't so godless a man that he was teaching there are no gods but it gets much deeper when you know much of the old writings have been "lost." His students continued to evolve on his basic quests for understanding. Plus the fact that he wasn't the slightest bit fearful of his fated sentence being carried out. It's clear to me that he was certain that there had to be a creator of some kind. He was the first creationist to point out that the human mind is incompetent to grasp or dimensions or define such, however.

These days the godless among us like to claim that he was an A-theist, and that he was a victim of rabid theological repression. The higher ups were just angry about the fact that they wanted to control the population by controlling the very definition of what God means. He was not infinitely intelligent. He was just AS intelligent as they were and they wouldn't stand for that. So they killed him.
Coppercoil · M
@Noahkahol: good analysis. You've inspired me to read more about it.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
And if you have time left over you might check on Epictetus as well. He says things like this...

Nay young man. For heaven's sake; but once thou hast heard these words, go home and say to thyself:--"It is not Noahkohol [Epictetus] that told me these things: How indeed should he? No, it is some gracious God, through him. Else it would never have entered into his head to tell me them--He that is not used to speak to any one thus. Well then. Let us not lie under the wrath of God, but be obedient unto "Him." Nay indeed; but if a raven by its croaking bears thee any sign, it is not the raven but God that sends the sign [i]through[/i] the raven; And if HE signifies anything to thee through a human voice, will[i]He[/i] not cause that man to say these words to thee, that thou mayest know the power of the Divine--How he sends a sign to one in one way and to others in another, and on the greatest and highest matters of all...signifies his will through the noblest messenger? What else does the poet mean:--
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I spake unto him erst [b][i]Myself[/i][/b], and sent
Hermes the shining One, to check and warn him,
The Husband not to slay, nor woo the wife![/center]
SW-User
For not believing in God and the concepts of God, the God of state at that time.
Coppercoil · M
I'm going to read up about it and get more info. Sounds very interesting.
SW-User
He is a living legend of philosophy and science and was so ahead of thinking critically.
SW-User
Really? How? When? Are you sure? ????? Ok
Coppercoil · M
Hmm.. he might still be alive.. I'll Google it
SW-User
He asked the wrong questions.
Coppercoil · M
Should have stuck to asking about bra sizes and their astrological signs.
SW-User
@coppercoil: and if he was pretty.
karmameter · 46-50, M
Sad there was no similar worlds then... :(
Coppercoil · M
:(
JarJarBoom · 41-45, F
Socrates was in bill and ted
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