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Post by sissoko on Feb 11, 2009 1:03:49 GMT -6
You've been irritable lately, just curious as to why..if you want to talk you can PM me . And about me changing my name to Jimaeus.... Timmy, it was a joke. Apparently you already got dibs on the -aeus suffix. Sorry, i didn't see it in the rules. I thought it was funny anyway, what was the big deal? Oh and by the way, Timaeus was one of Plato's weakest works, ask Aristotle. First off, Plato only employed two actual causes, that of the material cause and that of essence (forms). And he mixes up material cause and place. Lastly, in describing chora as a form/cause, Plato neglects to recognize that entities are seperate from their setting/place.
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Post by Scott Crawford on Feb 11, 2009 1:07:21 GMT -6
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Post by The Irish Fro on Feb 11, 2009 1:07:49 GMT -6
We should have an enlightened discussion on Plato's works!
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Post by Scott Crawford on Feb 11, 2009 1:07:56 GMT -6
You will be tested on this reading tomorrow.
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Post by sissoko on Feb 11, 2009 1:09:38 GMT -6
Nah, I'm in the middle of Atlas Shrugged, can't pass that up. And why do you keep deleting my posts? No problem with it boss, just want to know why? You know...the causes?
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Post by The Irish Fro on Feb 11, 2009 1:10:24 GMT -6
But its so loooonnnggggg!
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Post by sissoko on Feb 11, 2009 1:10:26 GMT -6
I appreciate the dropping of the ID tag though, thanks
and sorry, you're probably one of those "Timaeus was meant in a metaphorical sense" religious ones, that's alright, different views, no biggie. I'd think you'd take most of Plato's works as you would his others, with a foundation of literality and an understanding of possible metaphoric meaning.
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Post by The Irish Fro on Feb 11, 2009 1:13:29 GMT -6
I can not stand Ayn Rand books. She can't stop hammering her beliefs into the reader. We get it Ayn, do you really have to make 300 more pages about it!??!
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Post by sissoko on Feb 11, 2009 1:15:10 GMT -6
haha. Check out Diogenes. Dude was a partier
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Post by sissoko on Feb 11, 2009 1:16:37 GMT -6
and zeno too
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Post by Scott Crawford on Feb 11, 2009 1:18:27 GMT -6
Even mediocre thinkers have to wade through the waters of the ancient neophytes.
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Post by sissoko on Feb 11, 2009 1:27:43 GMT -6
True mediocrity can be discovered beneath one's unnecessary use of rhetorical devices for the purpose of appearing intellectual. If not true mediocrity, it's boredom or stonedom
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Post by sissoko on Feb 11, 2009 1:29:57 GMT -6
And since you're so down on the "ancient neophytes" I got a new one for you.
Rick Strassman. Go for it Timmy.
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Post by Bish on Feb 12, 2009 19:13:44 GMT -6
Timaeus used to always delete my posts too. I found a quick solution - Stop posting.
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Post by Scott Crawford on Feb 12, 2009 21:20:11 GMT -6
Words of wisdom.
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Post by Punkaro on Feb 15, 2009 17:21:02 GMT -6
Baaahhhh
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Post by The Irish Fro on Feb 15, 2009 17:39:22 GMT -6
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Post by sissoko on Feb 15, 2009 17:53:01 GMT -6
i think it was a biblical metaphor. he's the sheep and timmy's the tyranny and oppression. i'm the shepherd.
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Post by Punkaro on Feb 18, 2009 23:58:43 GMT -6
Yes this is what I was going for. Or Baahhh is my own "Loud Noises" (Brick Tamlin)
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