Random Thoughts XI: Listen to the Whispers

[Kyriakos]

From a pdf from the local university. Reminds me why I stay away from greek pdfs.
The author tried to mention Plato's famous inscription at the gate of his academy ("(let) No one enter if they don't know geometry"), but due to a typo he ended up writing something like* "No one they don't knows geometry").

("εισί" is third person plural, "αγεωμέτρητος" is first person singular; typo was the "εισί" instead of the original "εισίτω")

 

[The_J]

I guess it should have been "no one they don't know Greek" ^^

 

[Kyriakos]

I guess it should have been "no one they don't know Greek" ^^

At least ancient greek (the verb endings tend to be different from current).
That said, it is a bad practice here to require one to be pretty much into linguistics to study philosophy in university - which is beyond terrible an idea, and I suppose it is based on ancient greek philosophy being read in the original. Not sure what good it will do if you can personally read koine greek from the original, if you are examining any actual philosophical issue in Plato; he wasn't addressing linguists either.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

At least ancient greek (the verb endings tend to be different from current).
That said, it is a bad practice here to require one to be pretty much into linguistics to study philosophy in university - which is beyond terrible an idea, and I suppose it is based on ancient greek philosophy being read in the original. Not sure what good it will do if you can personally read koine greek from the original, if you are examining any actual philosophical issue in Plato; he wasn't addressing linguists either.

There's a 100+-chapter Harry Potter fanfic I read in which Severus Snape and Sirius Black are given the option of participating in a "Pilot Purgatory Program" to shave a few centuries off their Purgatory sentences (obviously this fanfic is set after both of them are dead). They become "roommates" in Purgatory, and Sirius is bored.

Really bored.

So bored, he offers to teach St. Peter to ride a motorcycle.

St. Peter says no, and gives him a stack of books on Greek philosophy to read.

By the end of the story, they've served the terms of the program and Sirius has gained a somewhat passable understanding of Greek philosophy. Snape has been allowed to appear to Hermione as a ghost and teaches her to cook.

(it's a really weird story and I can't believe I read the whole thing)

 

[Birdjaguar]

There are apparently two topics recently that no one (other than the thread starters) has any interest in talking about: 90s horror movies and Memorial Day.

 

[Takhisis]

I've already discussed Jurassic Park and Scream in the film thread recently.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

There are apparently two topics recently that no one (other than the thread starters) has any interest in talking about: 90s horror movies and Memorial Day.

1. Not interested.
2. Not relevant to my country.

 

[Kyriakos]

There are apparently two topics recently that no one (other than the thread starters) has any interest in talking about: 90s horror movies and Memorial Day.

It's actually 90s horror games aesthetic.

 

[amadeus]

I never had that good of a memory to begin with but I really only remember the 4th of July, Armistice Day, and Christmas as public holidays. All the other ones got lost in the mix after being out of the states for so long.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Introvert? Extrovert? Do you Ruminate? The pursuit of happiness:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/...isode.cnn/video/playlists/acfc-full-episodes/

 

[Kyriakos]

I am thinking of rewriting the very first short story I ever wrote (I was 17 at the time). I remember the plot (unlike with most of the stories that followed).
Here is the general idea:

Sometimes greek is more easy to understand ^_^

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Is that a story, or your math homework?

 

[Kyriakos]

It is (part of) the story, just expressed with symbols
For example, A (x,y) means 'x kills y'. A point in the story is that a specific x (here written as x1) wants to kill y, but if he does then there will be repercussions.

 

[Sofista]

I am thinking of rewriting the very first short story I ever wrote (I was 17 at the time). I remember the plot (unlike with most of the stories that followed).
Here is the general idea:

Sometimes greek is more easy to understand ^_^

"The flower mystic"?

 

[amadeus]

Is that a story, or your math homework?

Train one leaves Boston
Train two leaves Cincinnati
Will they ever meet?

 

[Kyriakos]

"The flower mystic"?

Close. The secret of the flowers.

 

[Arakhor]

Well, it's all Greek to me...

 

[Kyriakos]

Well, it's all Greek to me...

Maybe formal logic is also greek - at least the parts inherited from the stoics

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Introvert? Extrovert? Do you Ruminate? The pursuit of happiness:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/...isode.cnn/video/playlists/acfc-full-episodes/

There was an article I recently read that I can't find now that broke down a (new to me) category: I think it was called an 'extroverted introvert'. This type of person, according to the article, is basically an introvert in that is their 'normal' state. At the same time, this person basically isn't shy and is actually pretty outgoing when in social settings, and they often choose to go to social settings to have fun before retreating back to their own world. I don't know how much this has a basis in reality versus pop-psychology garbage but it seemed to describe me pretty well.

 

[Birdjaguar]

There was an article I recently read that I can't find now that broke down a (new to me) category: I think it was called an 'extroverted introvert'. This type of person, according to the article, is basically an introvert in that is their 'normal' state. At the same time, this person basically isn't shy and is actually pretty outgoing when in social settings, and they often choose to go to social settings to have fun before retreating back to their own world. I don't know how much this has a basis in reality versus pop-psychology garbage but it seemed to describe me pretty well.

I would suspect that the choices are more than either/or. We each dwell somewhere along a continuum of intro/extro vertness and move as is appropriate to our situation.