[PenultimateManStanding]

At a feast certain people kept throwing all the bones to Diogenes as they would to a dog. He played a dog's trick and urinated on them.

Diogenes was particularly upset by extravagant and lavish interior decorations, and at one rich man's house, on finding himself surrounded by expensive carpets and sumptuous cushions, Diogenes spat in the owner's face, and then wiped it with his rough cloak and apologized, saying it was the only dirty place in the room he could find to spit.

Regardless of his cynicism, Diogenes was loved by the Athenians. At all events, when a youngster broke up his tub, they gave the boy a flogging and presented Diogenes with another.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Here is Plato's man."

Diogenes said, "Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."

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[I_Like_Plants]

Guys like that get thrown into a mental asylum and drugged/shocked into "correctness" now.

[FourOfSwords]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'G')uys like that get thrown into a mental asylum and drugged/shocked into "correctness" now.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FourOfSwords', '
')Penultimate, great website, not seen that one before... becomes one of my fav's.
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[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raphael', '
')Yup the world would be better off if many of us were 'high on weed', doing less ... accomplishing nothing ... just relaxing in Margarita Ville...

[I_Like_Plants]

Yep .... the sack of Tyre..... what a poetic sound, roll it off of the tongue, the Sack of Tyre...... you can imagine the burning houses, the disemboweled children, the gangraped 14-year-olds crying for the relief of death.....

What an accomplishment! My god! And why don't we hand Medals of Honor all around for the folks who did the My Lai massecre? My God that was an accomplishent, seems My Lai was a bigger village than a lot of people think, and yet a comparatively small group of Americans wiped it out. Deeds of bravery.....

[lateralus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'Y')ep .... the sack of Tyre..... what a poetic sound, roll it off of the tongue, the Sack of Tyre...... you can imagine the burning houses, the disemboweled children, the gangraped 14-year-olds crying for the relief of death.....

[I_Like_Plants]

That's why I said 14 year olds, not boys or girls - just 14 year olds.

In the value system of our culture, the Sack of Type was a great accomplishment. So was the genocide of the American Indians, the general 90% dieoff of the Pacific peoples, etc.

[lateralus]

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[NEOPO]

Thus spoke Diogenes many years before Zarathustra yet if both were intertwined in one tomb I doubt we could pick apart the bones.

"We may be brothers, after all. We shall see." Chief Sealth/Seattle

Seasons

"It is said that those who spoke derisively of bhang are doomed to suffer the torments of hell as long as the sun shines in the heavens" Marijuana - The First Twelve Thousand Years

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'Y')ep .... the sack of Tyre..... what a poetic sound, roll it off of the tongue, the Sack of Tyre...... you can imagine the burning houses, the disemboweled children, the gangraped 14-year-olds crying for the relief of death.....

What an accomplishment! My god! And why don't we hand Medals of Honor all around for the folks who did the My Lai massecre? My God that was an accomplishent, seems My Lai was a bigger village than a lot of people think, and yet a comparatively small group of Americans wiped it out. Deeds of bravery.....

[I_Like_Plants]

Yep, he was an evil bastard, basically a Hitler. And being Americans, raised in our culture, we all think he was a terriffic, great guy.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'Y')ep, he was an evil bastard, basically a Hitler. And being Americans, raised in our culture, we all think he was a terriffic, great guy.

[I_Like_Plants]

Yeah, in a farming hierarchal type culture, sure. But in a hunter-gatherer culture, sociopaths are not lionized.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'Y')eah, in a farming hierarchal type culture, sure. But in a hunter-gatherer culture, sociopaths are not lionized.

[I_Like_Plants]

There are tons of cultures that did not give in to evil. From the Hopi to the Amish to the Plains Indians counting coup, humans have always found ways to lessen or eliminate violence.

The only exception to this is cultures like our own, where normal humans have become like cancer cells, grow, grow, grow, no matter what, mow down any other cells that get in the way...... this is a pretty good analogy, since our civilization wipes out other peoples, kills the land, and our freeways even resemble the neovascularization found in a tumor.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'T')here are tons of cultures that did not give in to evil. From the Hopi to the Amish to the Plains Indians counting coup, humans have always found ways to lessen or eliminate violence.

The only exception to this is cultures like our own, where normal humans have become like cancer cells, grow, grow, grow, no matter what, mow down any other cells that get in the way...... this is a pretty good analogy, since our civilization wipes out other peoples, kills the land, and our freeways even resemble the neovascularization found in a tumor.