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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I agree with you in principle that there are many paths to the cultivation of virtue and personel enlightenment.

    The Existentialism of Nietzsche is one path. I am not saying it is a superior path or even the right path.

    Christianity, Buddhism, Daoism are obviously alternative modes of belief all of which have their merits along with Existentialism.

    The bottom line, I think you and I would agree, is that humans seem hard wired to want to believe in an ideal model of personal conduct and to believe in a context (religious, spritual, social, or intellectual) larger than one's self.
    Agreed on many paths. The problem is that the destination is beyond the physical Universe and, therefore, unprovable with current levels of knowledge. Another reason why I think it's silly when religions deny God's Universe.

    Agreed that an essential part of spiritual awakening is to realize there is something greater than oneself. A greater power, not just a bigger rock.

    The vast majority of mankind, past and present, believed in a spiritual existence beyond the mortal.
    God bless America and those who defend our Constitution.

    "Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Geeko Sportivo View Post
    DOnald Trump even SHIT-STAINED CHRISTIANITY!

    No one will ever look at Christians in the same light ever again!

    DONALD TRUMP DESTROYS EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES!

    Sez faggots that stole rainbows from children...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ]2epo]v[an View Post
    Sez faggots that stole rainbows from children...
    Stole rainbows from children?

    WTF does that even mean you drugged up idiot?

    Put the crack-pipe down!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    What were his complaints about Plato?
    Nietzsche may have been in the camp that sees Socrates as the alter ego of Plato. I'm in that camp too. When Plato was afraid to say something, he had Socrates say it for him. What evidence is there for Socrates walking the earth?

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    Nietzsche may have been in the camp that sees Socrates as the alter ego of Plato. I'm in that camp too. When Plato was afraid to say something, he had Socrates say it for him. What evidence is there for Socrates walking the earth?
    All scholars consider Socrates to be a real person. As usual, you lie and are ignorant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    All scholars consider Socrates to be a real person. As usual, you lie and are ignorant.
    Name a scholar who can tell the difference between Socrates and Plato.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    Name a scholar who can tell the difference between Socrates and Plato.
    Everyone. Sorry, you know nothing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Everyone. Sorry, you know nothing.
    So you can't name one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    So you can't name one.
    Socrates was a real person. Plato's dialogues are not supposed to be transcriptions of Socrates' talks. You are very confused.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Socrates was a real person. Plato's dialogues are not supposed to be transcriptions of Socrates' talks. You are very confused.
    What did Socrates write about?

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    What did Socrates write about?
    Socrates did not write.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    Nietzsche may have been in the camp that sees Socrates as the alter ego of Plato. I'm in that camp too. When Plato was afraid to say something, he had Socrates say it for him.

    What evidence is there for Socrates walking the earth?
    There is enough evidence from second hand sources and anecdotal accounts to leave no doubt with scholars of antiquity that Socrates existed. Plato, Aristotle, the playwright Aristophanes all make reference to their first or second hand knowlege of the historical Socrates.

    Scholars claim that Socrates deliberately did not write because he felt written words corrupted the purity of ideas, were inconsistent with the dialectic method, and written narrative can always be misconstrued and misrepresented.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Socrates did not write.
    Socrates did not write a lot but scholars say his writing is indistinguishable from Plato. Is there a possibility they are the same person?

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    Socrates did not write a lot but scholars say his writing is indistinguishable from Plato. Is there a possibility they are the same person?
    Hard to tell if you are deliberately trolling or just very stupid.

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    I am neither religious or sacrilegious.

    I follow the forefathers approach to religion- AND THAT IS FREEDOM OF RELIGION- AND FREEDOM FROM RELIGION!

    Religion is a personal choice- Choose the Religion of your choice- or choose to not follow a religious path at all!

    WHY ARGUE ABOUT IT?

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