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Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code
Reader eldavojohn tips the news of a researcher in the UK, Jay Kennedy, who has uncovered a hidden code in the writings of Plato. From the University of Manchester press release: "[Dr. Kennedy said] 'I have shown rigorously that the books do contain codes and symbols and that unraveling them reveals the hidden philosophy of Plato. This is a true discovery, not simply reinterpretation.' ... The hidden codes show that Plato anticipated the Scientific Revolution 2,000 years before Isaac Newton, discovering its most important idea — the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. ... Plato did not design his secret patterns purely for pleasure — it was for his own safety. Plato's ideas were a dangerous threat to Greek religion. He said that mathematical laws and not the gods controlled the universe. Plato's own teacher [Socrates] had been executed for heresy. Secrecy was normal in ancient times, especially for esoteric and religious knowledge, but for Plato it was a matter of life and death." Here is the paper (PDF), which was published in the journal Apeiron: A Journal of Ancient Philosophy and Science.
Dan Brown just came.
It's all Greek to me.
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Morons.
Not "morons", it's "cretins", you cynic.
You misunderstand. The errors are not really errors. They are part of the secret kdawson code.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
"Think of the children" obviously already worked back then.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Aristotle was a student of Plato
Wait a minute, those people were real?
Even more, they were rational!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Socrates was the teacher of Plato who drank Hemlock after being sentenced to death the by the Athenians.
"I drank what?"
Even more, they were rational!
yes yes, but they were also somewhat negative, at times, too.
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It reminds me of the whole "Bible Code" fiasco. I'm of the opinion that if you want really to see a message in your soup, you will. But to everyone else, it's just another bowl of spaghetti-O's.
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Well, Socrates was executed for being a radical.
"Well, Socrates was executed for being a radical."
Socrates was not executed, you cretin: he suicided.
Of course, the difference is transcendental.
No, Aristotle was exiled to Mexico and was assassinated by Spanish Communist with an ice axe. Shit, doesn't anyone check facts any more? What is this shit? Uncyclopedia?
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
Didn't you ever watch Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Everyone knows the Greeks were jacked when they saw Socrates go into a phone booth, disappear and then reappear. Worse, when he came back, he kept trying to tell the Greeks to "be excellent to each other". Unconventional beliefs, indeed.
The final straw came when the Greeks repeatedly insisted there is only one time traveling phone booth, and it belongs to The Doctor. Socrates said, "Nu-huh!" Heresy, indeed.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
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