'PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY'...liquor ads...on US tv..

I’ve often wondered why neither Christ nor Socrates bothered to write anything down for posterity...

Isn't that an interesting question? Or not?.........I think it might be..

I do not know for sure, though...

what i know for sure is; both were executed by their  societies,  

where they “corrupted the youth” against the prevailing, let us say, paradigms , of the day.  Different paradigms,

but the same in the sense of Sophistry ruling the day....

ruling OUR day...the smug assurance that Rationality

is to be cultivated like an asset for the destruction

of our opinionated detractors..those who

have peronal issues with us & our memes.

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Socrates said he knew nothing. This was his paradoxical key to  claiming to be the wisest man.

Socratic method… confessings his own ignorance, asking his interlocutor to teach him.

Slowly, through questioning, Socrates brings out the truth--that his interlocutor is in fact

 totally ignorant regarding this field.

The irony lies in Socrates' manner

 of wholeheartedly accepting

his interlocutor's word

that he is indeed an expert.

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Christ said he knew nothing of his own, except what the Father gave him.

But he wasn’t afraid of ‘’evangalizing”. He spoke the truth as he saw it,

to people who needed some hope, some reason to continue...

God bless him….parables instead of interlocultion….good stories…

metaphors….like:

“The harvest truly

is plenteous, but the labourers are few;

 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest”

also......

 ‘’, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side,

 and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places,

 where they had not much earth:

and forthwith they sprung up,

 because they had no deepness of earth:

And when the sun was up, they were scorched;

 and because they had no root, they withered away”

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The stony places are no place for seeds, but prophets or saviors must go there, and try to perpetuate their what is now called  ''memes''...genes of ideas....

you cannot draw blood or water from stone, but sometimes

there comes a man who tries.........

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Socrates said he had a little voice in his head which he trusted…”  a little voice in his head

 that often warns him not to do things that could be of great danger to him.

That, for instance, is why he has always stayed away from politics,

having been warned by his divine sign

 that he would meet with trouble.”

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IMAGINED DIAGLOGUE:

Jesus: “ a greek.”

Socrates: “a jew”

J: ‘welcome, sir, sit, have wine, I know of your enjoyment of it’’

(S and J sit down for a drink)

S: “ You drink, do you?”

J: “I have been called an imbiber and a glutton, yep.” Sip.

S: sip: “where I am from, these are not bad things.”

J: “”Greece…the glory..before the Romans elbowed in…”

S: “Ah, well, your land, the Romans , hm?”

J: “mmm. Occupation of our  politics. Boring to me. “

S: “me as well. I get bored more & more and I get older. Their de jour ideas don’t interest me. I like to sting them with questions. We are a fine race of good strong men. We are overextended, now. War. Rumors of war. All that.”

Jesus: “Get in your cups, old traveler. If need be, I shall get in  mine. This wine is well made. Not in the least, ha, watery..”

Socrates: “I heard about that. Nice trick of mass hypnosis, at that wedding.”

J: “thanks. Placebo effect. Drunkards are sources of raw immedicacy. What a prophet can profit from. “

They drank.  

 Whose wine it was...who brought it...they forgot.........

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Later, much later, Socrates has a flash of an idea. “A book, a collaboration, you and i? what say you?”

Jesus: “ I would defer it to my ghost writer…”

Raucous laughter. Patting of knees. Two men in understanding.

Socrates : “ my son Plato, my spiritual son, will make what I say public. He will extrapolate, from his poor old teacher’s words, but he will do well by me.”

Christ: “this will be my fate too.”

They drank in silence.

“why can’t we write ? what is our block? “

Socrates said this as he stretched out on the sofa.

Jesus was serious  as ever, pondering his friend’s question until the drink made him get up & go out there and rile the troops again, for the 666^th time.  There was controversy regarding his improv.  He had to elucidate...

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He left this ugly old Greek asleep on the sofa.

They were connected briefly, and each learned from the other.

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Socrates woke and stumbled home, and requested some kind of secretary. To write down his impromptu nonsense when he went out to the youth of Athens and tried to make them see what they were missing. 

They were missing everything, and so was he, which was why he spoke 

to them...  but he went far too far, they said, his nation, yet..he

later died defending his nation, like a good soldier.

He never knew what happened to his friend……..