ldt048: Socrates in Action
#048 - [ Socrates in Action ] [ n0soul ]
EUTHYPHRO
We all know who Socrates is, an arrogant, ugly, old, know it all, cunt. (although some of his ideas are quite cool)
Before we start i would like to tell you a theory of my own, When i first discovered Socrates and found out some things about him, the first thing i thought was that he was a major stoner. There is a type of cactus that grows in the sort of environment that Socrates lived, you may know the type, its called peyote (and i bet there were alot of other natural drugs for Socrates to get high on) the peyote cactus is a hallucinogenic drug that gives similar to LSD (invented by another genius, and pushed to greatness by Timothy Leary) this is just the drug Socrates needed to see his oracle and communicate with the gods. Also Socrates use to stand on one spot for hours and hours in a total daze talking mumbo jumbo, another effect of the drugs. Drugs eventually got to Socrates and caused his demise. When Socrates was taken to court by Meletus (for corrupting the minds of the young and worshipping false idols) he eventuly lost the battle ( and didnt put up much of a fight, i guess he thought it was good though, and at least he said what he thought was right (so we'll give him that) ) The way the courts worked back then was each party got to decide a punishment e.g. Meletus & Socrates both got to choose a punishment for the guilty, Meletus wanted to give Socrates the death penalty, where Socrates chose that the state should pay him for what he was doing (he never worked, had lots of kids, and stood around, argued, and pondered all day) the jury obviously found this punishment crazy and had to go with the death penalty (they didnt want Socrates dead, they thought he would chose banishment) so off Socrates went to prison, only to drink hemlock a few days later (he had the chance to escape but did not because the drugs made Socrates very lazy)
any way this was going to be comments on Euthyphro and Socrates conversation out side the court house(Socrates was waiting to be charged, Euthyphro was going to charge/challenge his farther (who happened to starve a slave to death) for manslaughter). But now i feel that ive trailed on for to long, and its time for a smoke, and im to lazy to type the rest, perhaps another time.
n0soul
17/10/01
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