-- Political Systems 2/3 Plato among the Greeks was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth. He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato. Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truth” of the ideologist has constantly to be re-adjusted whenever it comes in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of ignorant fools and the ideologist. Plato Republic as free eBook: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/ The trial and death of Socrates (text) http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/ Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/ Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/ Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/ Veritax Vox Liberabit http://metadave.wordpress.com/

-- Political Systems 3/3 Plato among the Greeks was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth. He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato. Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truth” of the ideologist has constantly to be re-adjusted whenever it comes in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of ignorant fools and the ideologist. Plato Republic as free eBook: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/ The trial and death of Socrates (text) http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/ Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/ Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/ Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/ Veritax Vox Liberabit http://metadave.wordpress.com/

-- Political Systems 1/3 Plato among the Greeks was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth. He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato. Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truth” of the ideologist has constantly to be re-adjusted whenever it comes in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of ignorant fools and the ideologist. Plato Republic as free eBook: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/ The trial and death of Socrates (text) http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/ Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/ Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/ Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/ Veritax Vox Liberabit http://metadave.wordpress.com/

This is a video response to LVbianSynic's request for quotes for her Collective Wisdom project.

Education doesn't stop when we leave school and university. Real life is the best education.

Intro to the trial of Socrates, one of the most tragic events in history. Ignorance is truly the greatest evil. “A friend, in consulting the Oracle at Delphi, asked was any man wiser than Socrates. The Oracle replied that there were not!!! Upon being told of this answer Socrates maintained that this implied that he, alone, had this claim to wisdom - that he fully recognised his own ignorance. From that time he sought out people who had a reputation for wisdom and, in every case, was able to reveal that their reputations were not justified. Socrates regarded this behaviour as a service to God and decided that he should continue to make efforts to improve people by persuading and reminding them of their own ignorance. What we now call the “Socratic method” of philosophical inquiry involved questioning people on the positions they asserted and working them through further questions into seemingly inevitable contradictions, thus proving to them that their original assertion had fatal inconsistencies. Socrates refers to this “Socratic method” as elenchus. The Socratic method gave rise to dialectic, the idea that truth needs to be approached by modifying one’s position through questionings and exposures to contrary ideas. Socrates did not seek to involve himself in the political life of Athens as he felt that there would inevitably be compromises of principle that he was not prepared to make. As a prominent citizen he was called upon to fulfil minor political roles where his sense of principle had caused him to place himself in some personal danger by holding out alone against the unconstitutional condemnation of certain generals. He later refused to participate in the arrest of an innocent man that had been ordered by a corrupt body of “Thirty Tyrants” who ruled Athens in the wake of her defeat by Sparta. This refusal might have cost Socrates his life but for the overthrow of the Thirty Tyrants and a restoration of democracy. This restored democracy was however markedly traditionalist and reactionary in its religious views - this led it to see Socrates, as a teacher of novel ideas of morality and justice, with some disfavour. Socrates had also alienated many powerful men by acting as a relentlessly questioning Gadfly causing them to face their personal ignorance or own to shortfalls in office. In 399 B.C. Socrates was accused of “impiety” and of “neglect of the Gods whom the city worships and the practise of religious novelties” and of the “corruption of the young”.” The trial and death of Socrates (text) http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/ Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/ Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/ Plato - The Cave (video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/plato-the-cave/ Plato on Political Systems (Videos) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/plato-on-politic-systems-videos/ Veritax Vox Liberabit http://metadave.wordpress.com/

Socrates explains what the Soul is to his young student

Socrates is widely considered to be the father of western thought, for more than anyone else Socrates made the people aware and thus ashamed of their own ignorance. Socrates stands for the divine, his death became an immortal symbol for the evil of ignorance, the greatest evil of them all. "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance". Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/ Socrates - His Death http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/socrates-his-trial/ Plato - The Cave (video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/plato-the-cave/ What is enlightenment? (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/what-is-enlightenment-video/ Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/ Book List - Feed your Mind http://metadave.wordpress.com/reading-list-feed-your-mind/ Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/

http://suprememastertv.com/ - VEGGIE ELITE Socrates - A Beautiful Mind Part 2 (In GREEK) , Episode: 632, Air Date: 7 - June - 2008

http://suprememastertv.com/ - Socrates: A Beautiful Mind Part 1(In Greek), Episode: 625, Air Date: 31 - May - 2008

A Beautiful Song that Represents an Overwhelmingly Powerful and Emotional Film. Song: Quite by Norah Jones A moving tale about the power of the human spirit, Peaceful Warrior is based on Dan Millman's perennially best-selling autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. In the film, Scott Mechlowicz plays Dan, a talented-yet-arrogant college gymnast with Olympic dreams and a golden future. The athlete thinks he has it all: bookcases of trophies, endless friends, fast rides and disposable relationships. But all that is about to change. Read the book before you see the movie, the Book is Fascinating! One day, Dan's world is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a mysterious stranger he comes to know as Socrates (Nick Nolte)-a man who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. After he suffers a debilitating injury, with the mystical help of Socrates and an elusive young woman named Joy (Amy Smart), Dan will grow to realize that ((Strength of Spirit is what Leads a Man to his True Greatness)). When Nick Nolte was offered the role of the mysterious stranger almost 19 years ago for the film Peaceful Warrior culled from the popular novel Way of The Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman, he wasn't tapped into the spiritual message as he is today. "I've known this book since the late seventies. I had gone through the sixties with the peace movement, resistance of the war, civil rights. Millman had written this book about spiritual discovery in a novel. It was very open and readable and it appealed to a lot of people. At that time that it was offered to me, way, way back like 19 years ago I didn't feel as close or the importance of the message in this piece as I do now." Scott Mechlowicz known... Dan Millman (Scott Mechlowicz) is a gifted young athlete bound for Olympic gold who will do anything to be the best. Driven by success, all Dan has got it all: trophies, fast motorcycles, fast girls, and wild parties. But Dan's world is turned upside down when he meets a mysterious stranger in a gas station (Nick Nolte) who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. The young man discovers that he has much to learn and even more to leave behind in order to master this new vision of greatness in this moving tale about the power of human will. Based on the semi-autobiographical book loved by millions, “WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR” by Dan Millman.

How to Operate Your Brain - An Owner's Manual - By Dr. Timothy Leary Ph.D. http://deoxy.org/leary.htm http://soundgasms.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-operate-your-brain.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQq_XmhBTgg You might catch yourself sliding in and out . . . relax and enjoy it. This is an experiment in mind formation, in-formation, forming, controlling, operating your mind and your brain, using digital techniques to overload, scramble, confuse, unfocus your mind. The natural state of the brain is chaos. We’re dealing with a complexity of in-formation. The first thing to do is to overwhelm your focused mind, your linear mind, by overloading signals, digital patterns, clusters of photons and electrons which produce a pleasant state of confused chaos. This is the state of the brain when it is ready to be informed, that is, to be reprogrammed. The human brain contains one hundred billion neurons, each neuron is as powerful as a large computer, and each neuron has around ten thousand connections with other neurons. Within our foreheads there is a chaos, inside our brains there is a galaxy of information, which is incomprehensible to our linear minds. This contrasts and compares perfectly with the chaos without. We’re living in a universe, which has one hundred billion galaxies, each galaxy with star systems, planets, a complexity, again, which to our minds right now is chaotic, incomprehensible. Chaos is beautiful. Now many times we are afraid because we want order. We can’t deal with the confusion and disorder. We want form. We want rules. Yes, throughout human history there have been people—religious leaders, political leaders—who will give you order. They will give you rules and commandments. But chaos is basically good. Relax. Surf the waves of chaos and learn how to redesign your own realities. Sit back. Flow. Open your eyes. Turn off your minds. Unfocus, and let the waves of chaos roll over your brain. Float. Drift, Zoom. Design. Create new order, your order, your style from chaos. Yes. Yes. Chaos. Yes, yes, chaos . . . The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos. The religious leaders, the political leaders want to give you orders to run your life, to determine how you think. The basic goal is to operate your own mind. Think for yourself. Around three thousand years ago, a group of human beings in Athens, Greece, developed a new philosophy, a basic religion of humanity that is called humanism. Socrates said that the aim of human life is to know thyself. Create and design your own order from chaos. Socrates did not give commandments. Socrates did not impose order. Socrates asked questions. He encouraged his friends to speculate, design, to create, to interact their own versions of reality. Socrates said the way to perform philosophy is in small groups, raising questions, learning from each other, changing, changing your mind, growing together, thinking together. The religious leaders said “You can’t say that, Socrates. The gods are in control. Who are you to say you have a self? How dare you think you can know? The Gods determine. Sacrifice to the gods; obey the gods.” Socrates said, “No. Look within.” For that, they gave Socrates the hemlock, because he dared to tell people, “Think for yourself. Question authority.” To think for yourself, you must learn how to reprogram, reform, inform your own brain. To do this, to take responsibility for your brain, it is necessary to question everything that you have been taught, to question authority, to learn to take the brave step of taking responsibility for operating your brain. (cont'd in comments)

The Republic, Book XII, Chapter I Plato's example of the cave was probably the first inquiry ever into the possible effects of television, the illusion of reality, on the minds of man. Plato among the Greeks was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth. He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato. Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truths” of the ideologist have constantly to be re-adjusted whenever they come in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of opinion and the ideologist, mere shadows of reality changing with the light. Plato Republic as free eBook: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/ The trial and death of Socrates (text) http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/ Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/ Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/ Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/ Plato on Political Systems (Videos) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/plato-on-politic-systems-videos/ Veritax Vox Liberabit http://metadave.wordpress.com/

Short video on mind control and the virtual reality surrounding us. Veritas vos Liberabit Plato - The Cave (video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/plato-the-cave/ Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/ Compulsory Schooling - The Great Dumbing Down http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/compulsory-schooling-the-great-dumbing-down-video/ Sheep mentality your herd needs you! (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/sheep-mentality-your-herd-needs-you-video/ Book List - Feed your Mind http://metadave.wordpress.com/reading-list-feed-your-mind/

What will you be remembered for? How many people will you be remembered by? Does it matter?

Plato’s description of the change from champion of the people to tyrant, from accepted rule to tyranny, is no less accurate today than it was over 2000 years ago when Plato first wrote it. Plato was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the "truths" of the ideologist have constantly to be re-adjusted whenever they come in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of opinion and the ideologist, mere shadows of reality changing with the light. The Republic by Plato Book VIII Persons of the Dialogue: Plato Socrates Glaucon Veritax Vox Liberabit http://metadave.wordpress.com/

Obviously candidates for the Presidency of America do not take Inelligence Quotient tests or maybe that's just the way the American Administration likes their Presidents DUMB! As we all know, Mr Bush President of the world likes to take matters into his own hands and here's the proof! I do hope that the finale isn't a glimpse of the shape of things to come but then it is Mr. Bush we are talking about. www.arcanum-publishing.com