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Science historian cracks "the Plato code"
University of Manchester ^ | June 28, 2010 | Unknown

Posted on 06/28/2010 8:47:04 AM PDT by decimon

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1 posted on 06/28/2010 8:47:07 AM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

Shadows ping.


2 posted on 06/28/2010 8:47:45 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

“The price good men pay for indifference to publiuc affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

Hear, hear!


3 posted on 06/28/2010 8:54:08 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think." Adolph Hitler)
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To: decimon

The most surprising discovery was that Plato placed the blame for Socrates being condemned to death squarely on George W. Bush.


4 posted on 06/28/2010 8:56:00 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: decimon

“Plato was the Einstein of Greece’s Golden Age and his work founded Western culture and science.”

barf!


5 posted on 06/28/2010 8:56:00 AM PDT by devere
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To: decimon
Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth.
On board were the Twelve:
The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist,
The magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends.
Though Gods they were-
And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind
Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new
Hail Atlantis!
6 posted on 06/28/2010 8:58:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: decimon
Excellent. Wish the artical went into more detail.

Plato: “The price good men pay for indifference to publiuc affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

How True!

7 posted on 06/28/2010 9:00:07 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: decimon
THE REPUBLIC, by Plato via Project Gutenberg
8 posted on 06/28/2010 9:00:14 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: decimon

for later


9 posted on 06/28/2010 9:04:17 AM PDT by Former MSM Viewer
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To: decimon
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

(Somebody had to say it!)

10 posted on 06/28/2010 9:06:10 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: decimon

The author needs to do a WHOLE lot more explaining because what the professor is saying sounds like complete blarney.


11 posted on 06/28/2010 9:11:37 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: GreenHornet; decimon
One of the decoded passages has to read:

"No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney."

12 posted on 06/28/2010 9:12:38 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: decimon

Wasn't too hard.

13 posted on 06/28/2010 9:13:01 AM PDT by dangus
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To: decimon
“It is a long and exciting story, but basically I cracked the code. I have shown rigorously that the books do contain codes and symbols ....

An excerpt of Dr. Kennedy's detailed notes is shown below:


14 posted on 06/28/2010 9:16:10 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: decimon

Shadows on a cave wall?


15 posted on 06/28/2010 9:19:36 AM PDT by GOPJ (More people are killed every year by falling vending machines than by holders of a concealed-weapon)
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To: decimon

This sounds like something written by or about Richard Hoagland.


16 posted on 06/28/2010 9:21:09 AM PDT by Paradox (Socialism - trickle up poverty.)
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To: decimon
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Nice...

17 posted on 06/28/2010 9:25:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (More people are killed every year by falling vending machines than by holders of a concealed-weapon)
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"But for my own part,'twas Greek to me."
18 posted on 06/28/2010 9:27:53 AM PDT by Huebolt (Government bureaucracies: DE-UNIONIZE, DOWNSIZE, DECENTRALIZE)
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Plato’s books played a major role in founding Western culture

Plato is the father of collectivism in the West.He is the first thinker to formulate a systematic view of reality ,with a collectivist politics as its culmination. So Plato, thanks a lump.

19 posted on 06/28/2010 9:32:34 AM PDT by mjp (pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, independence, limited government, capitalism})
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To: GOPJ
Shadows on a cave wall?

The cave of history.

20 posted on 06/28/2010 9:34:27 AM PDT by decimon
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