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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 21 2005, 11:21 AM (227 Views) | |
| jon-nyc | Jun 21 2005, 11:21 AM Post #1 |
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Cheers
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In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC) Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?" "Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test." "Triple filter?" "That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?" "No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..." "All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?" "No, on the contrary..." "So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, even though you're not certain it's true?" The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued. "You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?" "No, not really" Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?" The man was defeated and ashamed. This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem. It also explains why he never found out that Plato was banging his wife. |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 21 2005, 11:24 AM Post #2 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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[size=7]now THAT is funny!!![/size] |
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| KlavierBauer | Jun 21 2005, 11:30 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Tommy Likey
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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| kentcouncil | Jun 21 2005, 11:31 AM Post #4 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I don't know... I think that info would have passed the "usefulness" filter...
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It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. - P.G. Wodehouse | |
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| jon-nyc | Jun 21 2005, 11:34 AM Post #5 |
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Cheers
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that occurred to me too, after i got up off the floor and put my ass back on. |
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| NAK-1.0 | Jun 21 2005, 11:57 AM Post #6 |
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Senior Carp
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| Dewey | Jun 21 2005, 12:49 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That's a great line, I have to remember it! I suppose this story also explains why no one ever bumped into Socrates on an internet forum... |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| dolmansaxlil | Jun 21 2005, 07:46 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Between the joke and the "pick my ass up off the floor" line, I'm laughing so hard I can barely see to type! |
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