06-30-2020, 11:28 AM
(06-30-2020, 09:37 AM)drussell41 Wrote: I just cannot get over how disconnected they are from reality. I can't comprehend how they couldn't realize the truth of what you were saying. And your point about "folks out there who will kill you dead for screwing around with them"? There really are. How can they not know this? They've never met any? What must it be like to have lived such a sheltered life?
I have no idea. Hell, I can't even figure out who ties their shoes for them in the morning.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’