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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: 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

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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To: decimon
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: decimon; Alamo-Girl
Plato anticipated the Scientific Revolution 2,000 years before Isaac Newton, discovering its most important idea — the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

Alamo-Girl has suggested that mathematics is "God's copyright notice" on the universe. I think she is right. Evidently, Plato would have thought so, too.

Thanks for posting this fascinating article, decimon!

21 posted on 06/28/2010 9:37:53 AM PDT by betty boop (Those who do not punish bad men are really wishing that good men be injured. — Pythagoras)
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To: decimon

Translation: "Obama is not a natural-born citizen ..."

24 posted on 06/28/2010 10:04:54 AM PDT by Lmo56
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To: decimon

I haven’t read the paper, but if the article is a fair summary, all he discovered is that Plato (or one of his copyists) wrote happy music for the good parts of his corpus and angry music for the bad parts. That’s neat, but I’m not seeing the revolution in the history of western philosophy.


25 posted on 06/28/2010 10:23:07 AM PDT by Caesar Soze
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To: decimon

There is not enough information from the dear professor.He talks about discovering Plato’s true philosophy, but does not go into any detail as to what that is and how it is different than what we already know regarding Plato.


31 posted on 06/28/2010 4:19:29 PM PDT by Peanut Gallery (The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government.)
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To: decimon

“All we are is dust in the wind, dude”

Oh, wait, that was So Crates.


32 posted on 06/28/2010 4:44:50 PM PDT by Rodamala
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