/fringe/ - Fringe

05/06/14 (Tue) 07:25:45 No. 8880

>while Diogenes was relaxing in the sunlight in the morning, Alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him. Diogenes replied, "Yes, stand out of my sunlight". Alexander then declared, "If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes", to which Diogenes replied, "If I were not Diogenes, I should also wish to be Diogenes."[31] In another account of the conversation, Alexander found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave."

>It was contrary to Athenian customs to eat within the marketplace, and still he would eat, for, as he explained when rebuked, it was during the time he was in the marketplace that he felt hungry. He used to stroll about in full daylight with a lamp; when asked what he was doing, he would answer, "I am just looking for an honest man."

>When Plato gave Socrates' definition of man as "featherless bipeds" and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, "Behold! I've brought you a man." After this incident, "with broad flat nails" was added to Plato's definition

I don't know why this guy isn't remembered today (at least in popular culture) but Socrates and Plato are. It seems like he was based as fugg.

05/06/14 (Tue) 10:10:43 No.8884>>8886

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would you rather live like Diogenes or Alexander?

there you go…

>tfw greys want humans to live like diogenes so they can sap earths resources faster [chink sweatshops, bear bile farms, turning everything into a factory]

>tfw warrior spirit is dead. everyone is just good goyim /golem for aliens now

>tfw i have a hunch that the aliens really are demiurgic archons who want HUMAN THOUGHTS and INVENTIONS so they can steal the schematics and fill up their external hard drives

your thoughts?… (are farmed by the demiurge maybe)

05/06/14 (Tue) 10:22:21 No.8886

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>>8884
on second thought, greys are greedy conquerors just like alexander

so alexander wants people to live like diogenes (this is now the realm of psychological warfare. fitting, since they are farming our thoughts after all)

it is also physical warfare too because of anal probes and cattle mutilations

05/06/14 (Tue) 10:26:03 No.8888>>8928

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sorry for hijacking your thread with the last 2 posts. just 'high thoughts'

also sorry for getting this get in the name of the best greek philosopher ever (HERACLITUS)

>Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe. -HERACLITUS

05/06/14 (Tue) 10:30:40 No.8889>>8894

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try not to be too obsessed with gets though, since this board is dead as dillinger

or diogenes

:d

05/06/14 (Tue) 11:54:13 No.8894

05/06/14 (Tue) 16:15:18 No.8928