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[zorb]

we choose idols, be them presocratic or postmodern..
learned and gay, or bleach-blond and stupid..
all are flawed
but they are ours....

 

[(Wordy)]

I like the truth in this.

Heraclitus was the pre-socratic postmodernist / postmodern pre-socratic.

 

[zorb]

Cheers...


I like this quote from a Philip K Dick speech:

The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real. There is a fascinating next step to this line of thinking: Parmenides could never have existed because he grew old and died and disappeared, so, according to his own philosophy, he did not exist. And Heraclitus may have been right -- let's not forget that; so if Heraclitus was right, then Parmenides did exist, and therefore, according to Heraclitus' philosophy, perhaps Parmenides was right, since Parmenides fulfilled the conditions, the criteria, by which Heraclitus judged things real.

from: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/2005/01/how_to_build_a_.html

 

[(Wordy)]

Haha, that's very cool!

Thanks for the link, I'm printing out the speech to read later. Dick is a fascinating character...

 

[doofqueen]

short but interesting topic!