PART 2

Megalis drives and spews about junk

defentig our aegian sea and air

this is the truth about macedonia

the new 300 greek army

25 of march 1821 starts the greek revolusion against the turks.this is the uniforms

Socrates is widely considered to be the father of western thought, for more than anyone else Socrates made the people aware and thus ashamed of their own ignorance. Socrates stands for the divine, his   more...death became an immortal symbol for the evil of ignorance, the greatest evil of them all.


"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance".



Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/

Socrates - His Death
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/socrates-his-trial/

Plato - The Cave (video)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/plato-the-cave/

What is enlightenment? (Video)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/what-is-enlightenment-video/

Slavery - You think that you are free?
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/

Book List - Feed your Mind
http://metadave.wordpress.com/reading-list-feed-your-mind/

Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/  less

Epictetus was a Roman slave of Greek descent, he was a follower of Ceno and the stoic way of thought. Rather than seeking for “nothingness”, like in Buddhism and related schools of thought, Stoic philosophy   more...is about gaining control over oneself and the understanding that some things are simply not in our control.

The Enchiridion is a good introduction to the stoic way of thought.


"What then is the fruit of these opinions? It is that which ought to he the most noble and the most becoming to those who are really educated, release from perturbation, release from fear, freedom. For in these matters we must not believe the many, who say that free persons only ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers, who say that the educated only are free."
-- Epictetus, The Discourses (55-135a.d.)



Epictetus Enchiridion
http://www.geocities.com/khs10uk/enchiridion.htm

Epictetus - The Discourses
http://philosophy.eserver.org/epictetus-discourses.txt

Plato - The Cave (Second Edition)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/plato-the-cave/

Slavery - You think that you are free?
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/

Domesticated to be a good Sheep -Part I.
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/domesticated-to-be-a-good-sheep-part-i/
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Epictetus was a Roman slave of Greek descent, he was a follower of Ceno and the stoic way of thought. Rather than seeking for “nothingness”, like in Buddhism and related schools of thought, Stoic philosophy   more...is about gaining control over oneself and the understanding that some things are simply not in our control.

The Enchiridion is a good introduction to the stoic way of thought.


"What then is the fruit of these opinions? It is that which ought to he the most noble and the most becoming to those who are really educated, release from perturbation, release from fear, freedom. For in these matters we must not believe the many, who say that free persons only ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers, who say that the educated only are free."
-- Epictetus, The Discourses (55-135a.d.)



Epictetus Enchiridion
http://www.geocities.com/khs10uk/enchiridion.htm

Epictetus - The Discourses
http://philosophy.eserver.org/epictetus-discourses.txt

Plato - The Cave (Second Edition)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/plato-the-cave/

Slavery - You think that you are free?
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/

Domesticated to be a good Sheep -Part I.
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/domesticated-to-be-a-good-sheep-part-i/
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tom megalis talks about receiving a holiday enema and a family holiday letter. Guess which one repulsed him more?

Greeks Were Proven wrong when they did a DNA test in France and proved Greeks had no Connection with Alexander The Great Macedonian Or the Ancient Macedonians.

Truth Hurts Doesn't it Greeks (Ethiopians)   more...Your nothing but Ethiopians who are full of lies and Propaganda.

Long Live Macedonia.. Fuck the Greeks!  less

Macedonians won against Oakliegh (confused turks) and are giving it to the Turk (Greeks)... Fuck off Turks!

A small part of "Nicomachean Ethics" on the subject of justice. It's sad that many people today are so ignorant that they believe themselves to be so smart and educated that they don't need   more...to listen to a guy who already died more than 2000 years ago!

Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truth” of the ideologist has constantly to be re-adjusted whenever it comes in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of ignorant fools and the ideologist.

Even thought I do not agree in all areas with Aristotle, he was definitely one of the greatest metaphysical minds the world has seen.




"This is why we do not allow a man to rule, but rational principle, because a man behaves thus in his own interests and becomes a tyrant. The magistrate on the other hand is the guardian of justice, and, if of justice, then of equality also." -- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (more)





Plato Republic as free eBook:
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/

The trial and death of Socrates (text)
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html

Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/

Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant (Video)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/

Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/

Plato on Political Systems (Videos)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/plato-on-politic-systems-videos/

Veritax Vox Liberabit
http://metadave.wordpress.com/  less

-- Political Systems 3/3


Plato among the Greeks was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth. He   more...was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato.

Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truth” of the ideologist has constantly to be re-adjusted whenever it comes in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of ignorant fools and the ideologist.



Plato Republic as free eBook:
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/

The trial and death of Socrates (text)
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html

Slavery - You think that you are free?
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/

Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/

Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/

Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/

Veritax Vox Liberabit
http://metadave.wordpress.com/  less

-- Political Systems 2/3


Plato among the Greeks was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth. He   more...was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato.

Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truth” of the ideologist has constantly to be re-adjusted whenever it comes in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of ignorant fools and the ideologist.



Plato Republic as free eBook:
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/

The trial and death of Socrates (text)
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html

Slavery - You think that you are free?
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/

Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/

Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/

Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/

Veritax Vox Liberabit
http://metadave.wordpress.com/  less

Intro to the trial of Socrates, one of the most tragic events in history. Ignorance is truly the greatest evil.

“A friend, in consulting the Oracle at Delphi, asked was any man wiser than Socrates. The   more...Oracle replied that there were not!!! Upon being told of this answer Socrates maintained that this implied that he, alone, had this claim to wisdom - that he fully recognised his own ignorance.

From that time he sought out people who had a reputation for wisdom and, in every case, was able to reveal that their reputations were not justified. Socrates regarded this behaviour as a service to God and decided that he should continue to make efforts to improve people by persuading and reminding them of their own ignorance.

What we now call the “Socratic method” of philosophical inquiry involved questioning people on the positions they asserted and working them through further questions into seemingly inevitable contradictions, thus proving to them that their original assertion had fatal inconsistencies. Socrates refers to this “Socratic method” as elenchus. The Socratic method gave rise to dialectic, the idea that truth needs to be approached by modifying one’s position through questionings and exposures to contrary ideas.

Socrates did not seek to involve himself in the political life of Athens as he felt that there would inevitably be compromises of principle that he was not prepared to make. As a prominent citizen he was called upon to fulfil minor political roles where his sense of principle had caused him to place himself in some personal danger by holding out alone against the unconstitutional condemnation of certain generals. He later refused to participate in the arrest of an innocent man that had been ordered by a corrupt body of “Thirty Tyrants” who ruled Athens in the wake of her defeat by Sparta. This refusal might have cost Socrates his life but for the overthrow of the Thirty Tyrants and a restoration of democracy.

This restored democracy was however markedly traditionalist and reactionary in its religious views - this led it to see Socrates, as a teacher of novel ideas of morality and justice, with some disfavour. Socrates had also alienated many powerful men by acting as a relentlessly questioning Gadfly causing them to face their personal ignorance or own to shortfalls in office.

In 399 B.C. Socrates was accused of “impiety” and of “neglect of the Gods whom the city worships and the practise of religious novelties” and of the “corruption of the young”.”




The trial and death of Socrates (text)
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html

Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/

Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant (Video)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/

Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/

Plato - The Cave (video)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/plato-the-cave/

Plato on Political Systems (Videos)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/plato-on-politic-systems-videos/

Veritax Vox Liberabit
http://metadave.wordpress.com/  less

Megalis gets pulled over by a cop and thinks there may be a little racial profiling going on.

Megalis tells us his worst New Years Eve drinking story.

Plato’s description of the change from champion of the people to tyrant, from accepted rule to tyranny, is no less accurate today than it was over 2000 years ago when Plato first wrote it. Plato was the   more...greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained.

Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the "truths" of the ideologist have constantly to be re-adjusted whenever they come in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of opinion and the ideologist, mere shadows of reality changing with the light.


The Republic by Plato
Book VIII

Persons of the Dialogue:

Plato
Socrates
Glaucon

Veritax Vox Liberabit
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The Republic, Book XII, Chapter I

Plato's example of the cave was probably the first inquiry ever into the possible effects of television, the illusion of reality, on the minds of man.

Plato among the Greeks   more...was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth. He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato.

Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truths” of the ideologist have constantly to be re-adjusted whenever they come in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of opinion and the ideologist, mere shadows of reality changing with the light.



Plato Republic as free eBook:
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/

The trial and death of Socrates (text)
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html

Slavery - You think that you are free?
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/

Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/

Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/

Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/

Plato on Political Systems (Videos)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/plato-on-politic-systems-videos/

Veritax Vox Liberabit
http://metadave.wordpress.com/  less

-- Political Systems 1/3


Plato among the Greeks was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth. He   more...was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato.

Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truth” of the ideologist has constantly to be re-adjusted whenever it comes in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of ignorant fools and the ideologist.



Plato Republic as free eBook:
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/

The trial and death of Socrates (text)
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html

Slavery - You think that you are free?
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/

Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/

Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/

Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video)
http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/

Veritax Vox Liberabit
http://metadave.wordpress.com/  less