Exactly ferz. Except when it isn´t...Propaganda is basically about that, repeating a lie a 1000 times until people believe it. We live in a time of massive propaganda, we believe in lies, if it comes in TV and radio, NET and so on it is because it is true, right?...Our friend Goebbels taught us that. We don´t live in a totalitarian state? Are you kidding?...
Is the world as it appears to be, or is there some further reality beyond appearance? Plato's allegory of the cave, from The Republic, is one of the most famous and beautiful expositions of the difference between appearance and reality. Using Socrates as his mouthpiece, Plato argues that empirical knowledge amounts to no more than knowledge of appearances. In fact, he claims, our perceptual knowledge is at least thrice removed: it is merely knowledge of the shadows of illusions of reality.
Not in this lifetime? Darn, an encore in this hellhole? Plato´s cave seems to be too deep to get out, at least for now. Perhaps with a strong flashlight?...
1. Didn't you mention something about most of us being Atlanteans in previous lives at some point?
2. Why on Earth would Plato make something like that up? It's true he wrote a lot of Socrates since Socrates was executed and thus may have blown certain aspects of him up. You don't think he blew EVERYTHING out of proportion do you? What would he have to gain from making up a story like that?
Leonardo I can understand. Religion, ya know? Meier, I get. He likes having a cult and he's fucked up in the head. But Plato didn't have a cult.
And yes, they're all one in the same. But come on!
So you're telling me that the same abusive patterns continue throughout lifetimes?
Meier has always been a compulsive liar and egomaniac despite his big brain.
You and the Count like to go by names that are not your own and enjoy being mysterious because it's fun to play Robinson Crusoe?
And I'm just generally an outcast. Marie Therese of Savoy was hella hated in the court. Therese von Bayern never quite fit in and told everyone where to stick it. And I'm just a misanthropic person who doesn't care much for anyone.
i remember i posted HERE somewhere the truth about atlantida... Mademoisele LUNA, Mere - disciple of Sri Aurobindo, said (it sounds stand-up, but... it might be): " i think about the first ape which was becoming human... it must have felt so lonely..." ♡
But we became humans through a gradual process, really. Like water coming to a boil. You put a lobster in there and the poor sucker never really catches on as to what's happening.
The traditional paradigm of self-deception is modeled after interpersonal deception, where A intentionally gets B to believe some proposition p, all the while knowing or believing truly ¬p (not p).Such deception is intentional and requires the deceiver to know or believe ¬p and the deceived to believe p. On this traditional mode, self-deceivers must hold contradictory beliefs and intentionally get themselves to hold a belief they know or believe truly to be false.
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Not so fast, kiddo.
1. Didn't you mention something about most of us being Atlanteans in previous lives at some point?
2. Why on Earth would Plato make something like that up? It's true he wrote a lot of Socrates since Socrates was executed and thus may have blown certain aspects of him up. You don't think he blew EVERYTHING out of proportion do you? What would he have to gain from making up a story like that?
Leonardo I can understand. Religion, ya know?
Meier, I get. He likes having a cult and he's fucked up in the head. But Plato didn't have a cult.
And yes, they're all one in the same. But come on!
Meier has always been a compulsive liar and egomaniac despite his big brain.
You and the Count like to go by names that are not your own and enjoy being mysterious because it's fun to play Robinson Crusoe?
And I'm just generally an outcast. Marie Therese of Savoy was hella hated in the court. Therese von Bayern never quite fit in and told everyone where to stick it. And I'm just a misanthropic person who doesn't care much for anyone.
Dysfunction. Dysfunction everywhere.
Do we ever grow up?
Mademoisele LUNA, Mere - disciple of Sri Aurobindo, said (it sounds stand-up, but... it might be): " i think about the first ape which was becoming human... it must have felt so lonely..." ♡
Huh.
But we became humans through a gradual process, really. Like water coming to a boil. You put a lobster in there and the poor sucker never really catches on as to what's happening.