Plato's Cave

[haji]

My dog, when he sees dogs on the telly, he goes and looks round the back of the telly. That's platos cave innit.

the seven sleepers' dog was certainly a thing - him name Qitmir

 

[version]

My dog, when he sees dogs on the telly, he goes and looks round the back of the telly. That's platos cave innit.

 

[snav]

Two things about Plato's cave that ppl forget:
- the reason ppl stay in the cave is because the sun outside the cave is blinding and painful
- you're supposed to go back into the cave after absorbing the sun's rays and becoming the philosopher king or whatever and lead the ppl still down there

 

[haji]

insightful comment on https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-myths-legends-europe/ancient-grotto-seven-sleepers-002259

This story was a direct reply by God to Plato's cave. Plato being the reviver Nimrod's city system, and on the side gog Magog and the anti-christ and the new world order system. God gives a new word, they attempt to revive a "new" world.

 

[catalog]

From memory, the bit in Republic where he talks about the cave is not a memorable bit of it at all. Flies by. The main thing I remember is all the details of who does what. Not that I can recall the details.

 

[catalog]

I should find my essay, it was really good.

 

[WashYourHands]

insightful comment on https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-myths-legends-europe/ancient-grotto-seven-sleepers-002259

Not Cambridgeshire then

 

[sus]

As I’ve mentioned before in this blog, cavefish are fish that live solely in caves, as their name suggests. They are weird. They are obese, eyeless, and exceptionally long-lived. This is in contrast to their cousins, surfacefish, who live in rivers and streams near the caves and have normal sizes, normal eyes, and normal lifespans. (src)

 

[version]

 

[sus]

this is what happens to you if you stay too long in the simulacrum, in the cities, in the dark

 

[version]

Is an annoying fan of Plato known as a 'Cave Troll'?

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

We've all heard that his place of burial (in a private garden near the Plato Institute) has been identified in a recently scanned and translated Herculaneum scroll, which also revealed he was sold into slavery after capture by the Spartans?

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Hopefully there's some DNA in those old bones and we can see his rebirth, as PlaTwo.

 

[0bleak]

We've all heard that his place of burial (in a private garden near the Plato Institute) has been identified in a recently scanned and translated Herculaneum scroll, which also revealed he was sold into slavery after capture by the Spartans?

That must have been awkward and humbling... "hey, uh, you know... I don't know how put this... but... I'm kind of a big deal"

 

[Corpsey]

I like how even though he was dying he apparently stirred himself to critique a slave musician for her lack of rhythm

That's my king