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Socratics Wait Patiently

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

Adding to global turmoil, Kavanaugh’s confirmation is now challenged with rape. Such seems just another example of moral and principled behavior giving thinkers and rationalists cause to pause. To repeat the question and THE ANSWER NECESSITY over and over, even as the pattern was figured out in the time of Socrates, suggests we may be in deep trouble keeping our moral compass pointing in the right direction. Socrates’ followers—or his philosophical method of systematic doubt and questioning of another to elicit a clear expression of a truth—revealed itself to the human species as a “knowable principal,” innate to all rational beings. Oh, how we tend to ignore doing the right thing. (Image by belesca)

Sunday, September 16, 2018


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Socratics Wait Patiently


Rainbows collapse into molten ooze
as lodge sweat purges the stubborn ignorance
and minds struggle to coalesce into white-hot light
urging the searing truth of falsehood to vanish.

Melting cools,
resistance to truth defenseless,
resonant dreams continue to vibrate for all,
save those who live void of questioning.

 

Socratic thinking sleeps little
and patiently waits.

 



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Reviewed on September 29, 2018
I swear it's a witch hunt anymore! This country is in utter turmoil and is torn apart. Yes, we, with Socrates, sit back and observe where this is all going to end up. 'Enjoyed tremendously!


Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on September 17, 2018
Boys will be boys, and old boys will cover for other old boys. From what I heard this morning, his accuser managed to break free from him after he "groped" (our president's favorite activity: "I didn't do.") her. So he didn't "rape" her… But perhaps, attempted rape. Depends on your definition of rape, from the Latin, rapio--to carry off.

If the far right insist on "zero-tolerance," then they will have to apply it to their own kind.

Ron

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on September 16, 2018
Since that little grade school and high school I attended, I was never taught "Socratics" or any of that era, so I am a loss here. Sounds as though there was hot, very hot in the "resistance to truth defenseless, /
resonant dreams continue to vibrate for all," Sounds a lot lick the political arena of today.


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