test please delete

[DaveB]

At 55 still looking OKish

At least he's toned down the eyebrows...

[zeitghost]

Wonderful.

The new VC gave a State of the Nation today.

You can tell he's a Proper Academic coz he was quoting from Plato's Republic & stuff.

Which went over ever so well with us rude mechanicals.

Only those whose minds are trained to grasp the Forms—the philosophers—can know anything at all.

Oh dear, we're fecked.

In particular, what the philosophers must know in order to become able rulers is the Form of the Good—the source of all other Forms, and of knowledge, truth, and beauty.

Plato cannot describe this Form directly, but he claims that it is to the intelligible realm what the sun is to the visible realm.

Using the allegory of the cave, Plato paints an evocative portrait of the philosopher’s soul moving through various stages of cognition (represented by the line) through the visible realm into the intelligible, and finally grasping the Form of the Good.

WTF?

The aim of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, but to put the right desires into the soul—to fill the soul with a lust for truth, so that it desires to move past the visible world, into the intelligible, ultimately to the Form of the Good.

Ah. That's where we've been going wrong

[zeitghost]

At least he's toned down the eyebrows...

Still looks about 90 though.

[zeitghost]

Permieco xmas/new year do this evening.

Needless to say I'm otherwise engaged.

Very wise.

[SimonMac]

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All my work done and timesheet already signed saying I was here until 17:30

[Alias]

As you can see...


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I'm a giver not a receiver

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[SimonMac]

Thanks, hoping if I say I will sign for a minimum of 12 months (24 would be great) and the offer of 6 months in advance will swing things for me

[SimonMac]

As you can see...


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I'm a giver not a receiver

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On behalf of the rest of us....

Thanks!

[Alias]

On behalf of the rest of us....

Thanks!

meh! something new on this site and its already pissed off MF

All I've done is taken a couple of long threads and went thru the posts...

[Alias]

Oh something different...

Messages to Bennu

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and The Planetary Society invite you to submit your name for a round-trip ride to asteroid Bennu. Your name will hitch a ride to the asteroid, spend 500 days there, and return in the Sample Return Capsule to Earth in 2023.

Plus your name will be on the spacecraft, which will remain in space long after returning the sample return capsule to Earth

Also you get to download a certificate showing that your name is included on the mission...

Might be good for some of you?