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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.
oh, so apparently now it's just fine to get your facts out of a 2,000-year-old book?
Next thing, you godless eggheads will want to be teaching this Plato in our nation's schools. You people won't stop until every first grader in America has sacrificed a goat to the Pythagorean principle.
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
Jews own and run 96% of all USA media companies. That's quite an accomplishment considering that they are a 2-3% minority. So, all of you diversity-minded folks, I have one question for you: should any single group control all of the mainstream information we see, hear, and read about? Might that be a tad over-representative of that one small minority's interests at the expense of the interests of the other 97%+ of the population? Might it be a tad dangerous for any one group to control something so vastly powerful and important as the media, something that all by itself can start wars, end wars, sway elections, and tell people what they should fear?
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Much of the USA believes that everything in the Bible is literally true. It doesn't matter if they're not intimately familiar with everything in it; they believe it all.