https://notthegrubstreetjournal.com/2016/09/08/democracy-unfolded-emergent-reality-of-brexit-a-poem-by-roger-g-lewis/
Things as they seem to me.
In the matter of Things as they seem to me versus Things as I have been told they are.
A thought experiment in the court of personal opinion, thinking out loud productions.2022.
As pandemics go I think I had a pretty good one, in the same way as the great recession of 2008-2012 I would say I had a bad one. The standard is a personal one, on having a good one or having a bad one. I always think back to references to personal histories in the world I grew up in, Did he have a good war? “He had a Good War”. Further back references to “He died a good death” , Mark Anthony in the recent series Rome on HBO, “Tell them I died well”.
On Dieing Well, and the unexamined life? I ask myself how would these charges be answered by me, and against which measure?
“failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges” and “introducing new deities”.
“Socrates was convicted and sentenced to death (Xenophon tells us that he wished for such an outcome and Plato’s account of the trial in his Apology would seem to confirm this). The last days of Socrates are chronicled in Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo, the last dialogue depicting the day of his death (by drinking hemlock) surrounded by his friends in his jail cell in Athens and, as Plato puts it, “Such was the end of our friend, a man, I think, who was the wisest and justest, and the best man I have ever known” (Phaedo, 118).
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/philosophy/thinkers/the-death-socrates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_(Plato)
“Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honour, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding, and the perfection of your soul?”(29e)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates
In the introduction to his play Socrates on Trial (2007), Andrew Irvine claimed that because of his loyalty to Athenian democracy, Socrates willingly accepted the guilty verdict voted by the jurors at his trial:
During a time of war, and great social and intellectual upheaval, Socrates felt compelled to express his views, openly, regardless of the consequences. As a result, he is remembered today, not only for his sharp wit and high ethical standards, but also for his loyalty to the view that, in a democracy, the best way for a man to serve himself, his friends, and his city – even during times of war – is by being loyal to, and by speaking publicly about the truth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meno
“Some things I have said of which I am not altogether confident. But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.”
Socrates examines Hippocrates[edit]
Socrates warns the excitable Hippocrates that Sophists are dangerous. He tells him that the words of the Sophists go straight into the soul (psychē) and can corrupt a person straightaway. Socrates says that buying wisdom from a Sophist is different from buying food and drink at the market. With food and drink, you never know what you are getting, but you can consult experts for advice before consuming anything that might be dangerous (313a–314c).
For death 340 for the Fine 160 and 1 Abstention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagonist
https://www.etymonline.com/word/antagonist?ref=etymonline_crossreference
“We must now take precautions to prevent you from being embarrassed by something in which the ignorant majority is at fault for lack of proper consideration, and so from supposing with them, that man has not been created truly good simply because he is able to do evil. … If you reconsider this matter carefully and force your mind to apply a more acute understanding to it, it will be revealed to you that man’s status is better and higher for the very reason for which it is thought to be inferior: it is on this choice between two ways, on this freedom to choose either alternative, that the glory of the rational mind is based, it is in this that the whole honor of our nature consists, it is from this that its dignity is derived.”
Pelagius
“Let me repeat: supposedly ‘sovereign’ Governments – representative of their people, at least in theory – do not control the single most important mechanism when it comes to their economies: namely the production and distribution of money. That role has been diverted in large measure to the banks which manufacture money out of nothing and charge interest on that conjured-up money. In fact, beyond a pathetic interest rate cut here and a token cut in VAT rates there our politicians have zero real power when it comes to directing their country’s economy.
Only in a world of lies and illusions, a world in which actors become our leaders and our heroes, could such sorcery be possible.
The picture has of course become a great deal more complicated. Soon pieces of paper are no longer required and instead entries on a bank’s ledger will suffice. Eventually, a further layer of virtuality is added when computers emerge and with them credits in cyberspace. Likewise all sorts of financial instruments and ‘products’ are devised by the experts – Collateralised Mortgage Obligations, Put and Call Options, Floating Rate Notes, Preference Shares, Convertible Bonds, Semi-Convertible Bonds and endless other ‘derivatives’ – but in essence these additions constitute mere variations of the same basic Three Card Trick.”
Darius Guppy.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/7273332/Darius-Guppy-our-world-balances-on-a-sea-of-debt.html
Darius Guppy, could this article extract Boris from the “bouillabaisse”
Deuteronomy also: I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you may live (Dt.30.19).
3, 1. That is why we must now take precautions to prevent you from being embarrassed by something in which the ignorant majority is at fault for lack of proper consideration, and so from supposing, with them, that man has not been created truly good simply because he is able to do evil and is not obliged by the overpowering inclination of his own nature to do good on compulsion and without any possibility of variation. If you reconsider this matter carefully and force your mind to apply a more acute understanding to it, it will be revealed to you that man’s status is better and higher for the very reason for which it is thought to be inferior: it is on this choice between two ways, on this freedom to choose either alternative, that the glory of the rational mind is based, it is in this that the whole honour of our nature consists, it is from this that its dignity is derived and all good men win others’ praise and their own reward. Nor would there be any virtue at all in the good done by the man who perseveres, if he could not at any time cross over to the path of evil.
https://epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/letter/1296.html
4, 1. Come now, let us approach the secret places of our soul, let everyone examine himself more attentively, let us ask what opinion our own personal thoughts have of this matter, let our conscience itself deliver its judgement on the good of nature, let us be instructed by the inner teaching of the mind, and let us learn about each of the good qualities of the mind from no other source but the mind itself. Why is it, I ask you, that we either blush or fear at every sin we commit, displaying our guilt for what we have done at one moment by the blush on our countenance, at another by its pallor, anxiously trying to avoid any witness even of our smallest offences and suffering pangs of conscience all the while? And why, on the other hand, are we happy, resolute, bold after every good deed we have done and, if this fact is hidden from sight, desire and wish it to be seen in broad daylight? Why else unless it is because nature itself is its own witness and discloses its own good by the very fact of its disapproval of evil and, by putting its trust only in a good deed, shows what alone benefits it? Hence it comes about that frequently, though a murderer’s identity remains concealed, torments of conscience make furious attacks on the author of the crime, and the secret punishment of the mind takes vengeance on the guilty man in hiding; nor is there any room for escape from punishment after the crime has been committed, since guilt is itself the penalty. That is why the innocent man, contrariwise, enjoys the peace of mind that comes from a good conscience even while undergoing torture and, though he fears punishment, still glories in his innocence.
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Sentience, Don’t be evil.
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Ancient Greece
The earliest known examples of a protagonist are found in Ancient Greece. At first, dramatic performances involved merely dancing and recitation by the chorus. Then in Poetics, Aristotle describes how a poet named Thespis introduced the idea of one actor stepping out and engaging in a dialogue with the chorus. This was the invention of tragedy, and occurred about 536 B.C.[6] Then the poet Aeschylus, in his plays, introduced a second actor, inventing the idea of dialogue between two characters. Sophocles then wrote plays that included a third actor.[7][8][9][10]
A description of the protagonist’s origin cited that during the early period of Greek drama, the protagonist served as the author, the director, and the actor and that these roles were only separated and allocated to different individuals later.[11] There is also a claim that the poet did not assign or create the protagonist as well as other terms for actors such as deuteragonist and tritagonist primarily because he only gave actors their appropriate part.[12] However, these actors were assigned their specific areas at the stage with the protagonist always entering from the middle door or that the dwelling of the deuteragonist (second most important character) should be on the right hand, and the tritagonist (third most important character), the left.[12]
In Ancient Greece, the protagonist is distinguished from the term “hero”, which was used to refer to a human who became a semi-divine being in the narrative.[10]
Globalisation Un-Entangled. (A FOUND POEM, CIPHER OF GLOBALISM )
Our only debt is to Nature and ‘What Is’. Environmental Pragmatism, Live and let live.
Why are we here, An essay provoked by Golem XIv´s David Malones latest Documentary Series.
The most profound thing I think I have ever read is a short question posed in Neal Donald Walsh’s, Conversations with God. ´´What would love do now?´´.
p.130 http://www.poeticmind.co.uk/creative-thoughts/lessons-from-conversations-with-god-book-1-neale-donald-walsch-part-3/
At all breaking points in life there is one question to ask: what would love do now?
Love is not to retain the best of the other – but the best of your self.
Globalism Decoded, Usury Hells Fuel, Bourgoise Resolution #ConquestofDough
Links for future reference back to this point in time.
Pelagianism, Free Will Determinism #ActualFantasy #156 #GrubStreetJournal
https://epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/letter/1296.html
Darius Guppy, could this article extract Boris from the “bouillabaisse”
https://fairershare.org.uk/proportional-property-tax/
https://web.archive.org/web/20150623071540/http://www.meltfund.com/
Work to live or Live to Work. Whats the point of the “System” . The Obsolete Librarian
https://www.wikihow.com/Solve-Equations-with-Variables-on-Both-Sides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghettopoly
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1540937825918631936.html
Ancient Greece
The earliest known examples of a protagonist are found in Ancient Greece. At first, dramatic performances involved merely dancing and recitation by the chorus. Then in Poetics, Aristotle describes how a poet named Thespis introduced the idea of one actor stepping out and engaging in a dialogue with the chorus. This was the invention of tragedy, and occurred about 536 B.C.[6] Then the poet Aeschylus, in his plays, introduced a second actor, inventing the idea of dialogue between two characters. Sophocles then wrote plays that included a third actor.[7][8][9][10]
A description of the protagonist’s origin cited that during the early period of Greek drama, the protagonist served as the author, the director, and the actor and that these roles were only separated and allocated to different individuals later.[11] There is also a claim that the poet did not assign or create the protagonist as well as other terms for actors such as deuteragonist and tritagonist primarily because he only gave actors their appropriate part.[12] However, these actors were assigned their specific areas at the stage with the protagonist always entering from the middle door or that the dwelling of the deuteragonist (second most important character) should be on the right hand, and the tritagonist (third most important character), the left.[12]
In Ancient Greece, the protagonist is distinguished from the term “hero”, which was used to refer to a human who became a semi-divine being in the narrative.[10]
Globalisation Un-Entangled. (A FOUND POEM, CIPHER OF GLOBALISM )
Our only debt is to Nature and ‘What Is’. Environmental Pragmatism, Live and let live.
Why are we here, An essay provoked by Golem XIv´s David Malones latest Documentary Series.
The most profound thing I think I have ever read is a short question posed in Neal Donald Walsh’s, Conversations with God. ´´What would love do now?´´.
p.130 http://www.poeticmind.co.uk/creative-thoughts/lessons-from-conversations-with-god-book-1-neale-donald-walsch-part-3/
At all breaking points in life there is one question to ask: what would love do now?
Love is not to retain the best of the other – but the best of your self.
Globalism Decoded, Usury Hells Fuel, Bourgoise Resolution #ConquestofDough
https://www.kinolorber.com/film/examinedlife
COINTELCOVIDPRO #COVIDPURPOSE CHRIS GEO, PAYDAY MONSANTO, PARANOID, SHEREE & BLISS
https://notthegrubstreetjournal.com/2021/12/05/work-to-live-or-work-to-live-whats-the-point-of-the-system/