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A little known fact about Plato, Said Plato, "The things that we feel (ontological - being or existence)
There once was a thinker called Plato, A young scholar now takes the position "Be yourself" is advice given gratis. When god's worshipped as personal spirit, Those aware what the Sartrian scheme is, Now denying we are what we are Be you friends, then, of bodies or souls, Undeniably, a body's one facet, The psychical side of our coin When I say that it's I who've intended, While "I am" in the form of my past, In the Church-of-What's-Happening-Now, So while those in Bad Faith may all fuss, Though the title implies derogation, Bad faith tries in ways more than one (But the source of Bad Faith and its sham Thus Bad Faith, despite all its gainsaying, Still, don't think, once you finally are grayed, From cool planning to maiden aunt's manias, And so why, as you ask with propriety, Thus the age of commitment's paralysis But such theories, however exotic, An act's purpose is never laid bare, So for minds that have Sartiran bents, An artist who lived near Montmartre, A man in a cafe called Sartre We all place a great deal of reliance Among Science authors, there's a propensity Mammals are shown sequentially; (Science Vol 310 28 OCT 2005)
This "How to Hug" title sounds great! The story you told us above, "To Archie and Murph," said Mahalia, But did you hear about Beth? Solving problems can be such a fright. Man's habits must alter, methinks; Some men are renowned for their wonders A goddess capricious is Fame. Complex-problems solving is tough, In History's Mysteries vast, Though Sir James (God-Is-A-Formula) Jeans, Us scientists all work together, The World, some are saying, began There once was a scathing review, "This religion," I'm told by friend Zorro, Consider, when seeking gestalts, A physicist named Tim O'Leary (shades of Intelligent Design)
The latest religion is SCIENCE, There once was a classical theory To publish first is prime; The scientist, Hermann von Twist, Practice without theory is blind; This study's for science, you see. To avoid being trapped by a spoof, The great scholar, who'd learned all he knew Socrates asked, "Why, pray, should I die, "Don't drink!" they told Socrates, The method we know as Socratic Old Socrates made an impression And then they heard Socrates cry, They say Socrates knew quite a bit Said Socrates, keeping his poise, Despite all that Socrates noise It seems Socrates made people weary Since negation apparently thrilled him,
He invented the concept of NATO;
The Swiss Army Knife;
The inflatable wife;
And the trouserless jacket potato.
--- Bill Wall
Are not ontologically real,
But just the excrescence
Of numinous essence,
Our senses can never reveal."
--- Basil Ransome-Davies
Who said "this our world's second rate-oh.
It is just a poor copy
Of something less sloppy,
Where all is precise and first rate-oh.
--- L S Sprigge
That Plato-despite what tradition
And philosophers claim--
Received his nickname
Because of his wooden dentition.
--- A N Wilkins P9302
Those who scorn it, you'd think mad as hatters.
But the goal that's been preached
Couldn't even be reached
By the maker that some think, begat us.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9402
Then religion's in fact incoherent.
For while concepts of deity
Imply their ipseity, (individual identity)
Nothing personal ever gets near it.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9402
Thus may find that it's somewhat extremist.
While Faith is abjured
On the ground God's absurd,
Still to be Him's what everyone's dream is.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9402
Might seem more than a little bizarre.
Yet, the proud and conceited
Will always get cheated:
Their self-love's always love from afar.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9402
Where you fit's in the same pigeon-holes.
Say we're body or mind:
Your mistake's one in kind.
For no person's a-being; they're goals.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9402
But not all we can count as our asset.
Still, it's not in the right key
To think of one's psyche
As a Cartesian Ego that "has" it.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9402
Is just choices of where we'd be going.
But the logic's a loser
That says choice needs a chooser,
So that my going's really Ego-ing.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9402
I'm acknowledging history transcended.
(In a sense that's just "me",
But it's something I flee
By conceding that time hasn't ended.)
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9403
Yet I'm not, since that's something surpassed.
Thus the fatal deterrent
To just being current
Is that Now disappears so damned fast.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9403
All you'll worship's a dead sacred cow.
For it's harder to sever
Yet-to-come/gone-forever
Than to pull Ying from Yang in the Tao.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9403
There's nothing that makes all of us.
If your faith's got true purity,
Look for me in futurity!
For it's never I am but: just was.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9403
Bad Faith isn't mere fabrication.
If a lie, it's so common
Even bishop and brahman
Escape on at most rare occasion.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9403
To find Being where there's really none.
Thus while granting it's true
That we are what we do,
Some pretend that they are what they've done.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9403
Isn't always what's over the dam.
For not resting on laurels,
I'd be still out for quarrels
If I claimed there's some "I" that I am.)
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9403
Takes for Being what's really just Playing.
In the words of one sage:
Life's just roles on a stage--
From your youth to when temples are graying.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9403
You can rest, since your dues are then paid.
For remember this fact,
From the first to last act,
You're no player; you're just a role played.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9404
All our lives are thus really spontaneous.
Since no Self stands behind them,
There's no substance to bind them.
We're more mutable that even Lon Chaney is!
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9404
Is there so much Bad Faith in society?
Sartre's reply, if we heed him,
Is fear of our freedom:
When Bad Faith says Goodby--Hi, Anxiety!
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9404
Sees Jung's archetypes and Freudian Phalluses.
To self-choice the response is
"Let's blame the unconscious!"
If you're anxious, try psychoanalysis.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9404
Can't explain either saint or psychotic.
For to say what we did
Is the work of our id,
Is to say something quite id-iotic.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9404
Through a goal of which it's unaware.
To say these action's goals
Aren't in these but in those,
Is like dying your roots, not the hair.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9404
Such advice is worth less than ten cents.
The main flaw in such "shrinks,"
As the Sartrian thinks
Is you'll never get Whither from Whence!
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9404
Made imporper suggestions to Sartre.
But Sartre, with a blow,
At his hanging huis clos,
Cut his two existentials apart.
--- Sir John Waller
Gave the other chaps there quite a start,
By looking around
For someone not to be found,
But whose absence still haunted Montmartre.
--- L S Sprigge
On the THEORY AND PRACTICE of science,
But the hopeful intentions
Of so many inventions
Can be quite buggered up in appliance.
--- E O Parrot
To dissect patterns of relative density
For many things small,
For large things enthrall
And are pursued with great intensity.
--- Stacy Daniels
Comets are discussed tangentially;
Impacts on a snowball,
Viewing the cosmic fireball,
Our Rorschach universe is immensely.
--- Stacy Daniels
I'll buy it," said Katie. "No wait!"
Said bookseller Bart.
"I can't sell you a part
Of an encyclopedia, Kate."
--- Peter Wilkins
Occurred, too, to Lydia Dove.
She picked up a tome
She wished to take home,
The title it read: Learn to Love
--- Tiddy Ogg
This is file uql
"I've found a book that I'll soon mail ya'.
I'm sure, in a flash,
You'll be rolling in cash.
The title is: Aid to Australia!"
--- Observer
She learned to love her old Seth.
Although he was old,
She really was bold
For she taught him Dancing to Death.
--- Bridget
The answer can be wrong or right.
Defying tradition,
I changed my position
And I find that the end is in sight.
--- Tom Patton P0108
He's treading on dangerous brinks.
He must exercise care
Not to foul up the air,
Or to piss in the water he drinks.
--- Albin Chaplin 3024-2705
And others well know for their plunders.
And some stand apart
For their fine works of art,
While some have gained fame for their blunders.
--- Albin Chaplin 3024-2841
You may strive to make noted your name.
But she either neglects you
Or cooly selects you
For laurels distinct from your aim!
--- L Reed
Good will, effort is not enough,
But formality
Tracks stupidity,
And forbids designers to bluff.
--- Thierry Cattel
The present's as strange as the past.
But before you condemn
Remember - pro tem,
You are also one of the cast.
--- E O Parrot
Holds the view that the stars are machines.
He admits that behind
The machine is a Mind,
Or a Minder apparelled in Jeans?
--- R J P Hewison
Comprehending all things, high and nether.
Our ability grows
To crack the cosmos,
As is proved by our mastery of weather.
--- John Miller 0364b
Without any purpose or plan.
Nature never was led,
But just blundered ahead,
And reasoned things out as she ran.
--- Thomas Thorneley
Which blasted the work through and through.
It said that what's true
Is clearly not new,
And what's new is most surely not true.
--- David Morin et al
"I just can't believe, to my sorrow,
My faith will improve
When Scientists prove
They can dope out the weather tomorrow."
--- John Miller
The theories that science exalts.
It's not that they're known
To be written is stone,
It's just that we can't say that they're false.
--- David Morin
Had ideas that made us all weary.
When we said, "It's all twaddle,"
He said, "Just a model!
I never once called it a theory!"
--- Philip Taylor
On which we place utmost reliance.
All thoughts of our seers
Are reviewed by our peers.
No one dares bring up facts in defiance!
--- John Miller 0364a
Of which quantum disciples were leery.
They said why spend so long
On a theory that wrong?
Well it works for your everyday query!
--- David Morin
This thought is often a crime.
When egos come first,
Watch out for the worst,
For the truth is often sublime.
--- Anon
In his lab at his work would persist.
He boldly declared
He had answers prepared
To solve problems which did not exist.
--- Albin Chaplin 3024-2824
Theory without practice isn't mind.
Take the best of each,
You will become rich,
And solve difficulties of any kind.
--- Thierry Cattel
It's not just to benefit me!
Results I will post
With some website host,
For all to make use of, for free.
--- Anon
A man must seek adequate proof
To be certain the broth
Is composed of whole cloth;
He must needs know the warp from the woof.
--- Albin Chaplin 3024-2802
When he read the Britannica through,
Had occasional lapses
With quasars and quapses,
For he'd dozed on the first page of Q.
--- David A Brooks Q
I'm no great beam nor mote in your eye?"
Replied his tormentors,
Resenters, dissenters,
"It's those damned endless questions, that's why."
--- Loren Fitzhugh P0301
"Escape with your wife overseas!"
"Hemlock or wedlock,"
He said, "is a deadlock --
I'll have one for the road, if you please."
--- History Pun Chimera P0108
Was invented in Socrates' Attic.
It combines a pretense
Of naive innocence
With questions sly and dramatic.
--- Laurence Perrine P9211
With debate and sagacious expression.
He did not corrupt youth,
While he searched for the truth.
It was the world's oldest bull session.
--- Al Willis TP9802
"This hemlock tastes too much like lye.
Why can't it be
The maple tree,
And then how sweet 'twould be to die."
--- Irving Superior P8205
And was finally jailed for his wit.
But that myth's for the birds.
Check his actual last words:
"You mean hemlock is poison? Oh Shit!"
--- Don Moore P9401a
"Tell Xanthippe, I've done with her noise.
If she asks what you mean,
Just say, when last seen,
I was drinking with some of the boys."
--- John Ciardi
And the trial tale that Plato employs,
He corrupted the youth,
Not by telling the truth,
But chiefly by buggering boys.
--- A N Wilkins P8909
With his fondness for quibbling and query.
After asking "What's virtue?"
Step by step, he'd discourage you,
By refuting your favorite theory.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9309
As a nihilist many had billed him.
"By so questioning truth,
You've corrupted our youth!"
They then passed the hemlock that killed him.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9309
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