2009.06.14 07:00 - Socrates Don't Listen to the Cambridge Dude

The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

I arrived to find Nymf already sitting at the pavilion. Later we were joined by Neela

Nymf Hathaway: Hello Adams :)
Adams Rubble: Hello Nymf :)
Adams Rubble: How are you today?
Nymf Hathaway: Doing well thank you and how are you?
Adams Rubble: I am well too, thank you :)
Nymf Hathaway: Do you have a subject in mind?
Adams Rubble: No, not yet, Is there something you would like to talk about?
Nymf Hathaway: No I haven't a topic just yet :) hoping you would :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: It will come to us
Nymf Hathaway: agrees :)

A little APAPB

Adams Rubble: I was sitting next to the window with a very cool, damp bvreeze blowing on me this morning
Adams Rubble: and thinking about APAPB
Adams Rubble: and how the cool air and myself related to Being
Adams Rubble: No conclusions, mind you
Nymf Hathaway: Nice :) sounds like a wonderful moment...and what did you discover?
Nymf Hathaway: ah
Adams Rubble: just the thought
Nymf Hathaway: Just being is good
Adams Rubble: It did not seem important to take it to whatever ends I could imagine but just connect to timelessness
Nymf Hathaway: I often have these when I llok at the sky at clear evenings
Nymf Hathaway: look
Adams Rubble: :)
Nymf Hathaway: You feel so small
Adams Rubble nods
Adams Rubble: It is important to bounce out of our petty concerns :)
Nymf Hathaway: agrees
Nymf Hathaway: see the bigger picture
Adams Rubble nods
Nymf Hathaway: if we are even able :)
Adams Rubble: at least remind ourselves that there is a bigger picture
Adams Rubble: maybe that is all that is necessary
Adams Rubble: that is a change in me. hehe
Adams Rubble: I used to worry about trying to think it out...that there would be some kind of answer
Adams Rubble: Maybe for the scientist that IS important :)
Nymf Hathaway: :)
Nymf Hathaway: well it tickles them to find the answers
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: I can appreciate the quest :)

Scaring Ourselves with th Big Picture

Nymf Hathaway: Once I was feeling scary by the thought...we are on earth...and earth is hanging in the universe...what if it goes out of orbit...you do not want to go there I can tell you :)
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble: Easy to scare ourselves
Nymf Hathaway: yes
Adams Rubble: The BBC had a report about the earth crashing into Mars, Venus or Mercury
Adams Rubble: Turned out they were talking about 14 billioon years from now
Nymf Hathaway: woops
Nymf Hathaway: :)
Nymf Hathaway: I love the BBC though
Adams Rubble: yes, but we can handle that :)
Nymf Hathaway: beautiful documentaries
Adams Rubble: I used to try to imagine what is beyond the universe
Adams Rubble: then my head would explode :)
Nymf Hathaway: Nice thoughts...have those as well
Nymf Hathaway: yes
Nymf Hathaway: it seems to big to grasp
Adams Rubble: not anything we could know
Adams Rubble: gets down to the whole thing sitting on the back of a turtle
Adams Rubble: or carried around in someone's pocket
Adams Rubble giggles
Nymf Hathaway: More and more people think it is something like the matrix...in someone elses brain
Nymf Hathaway: yes
Nymf Hathaway: odd thought
Nymf Hathaway: because I would like the host to do us better than
Adams Rubble: many people say that about my thoughts. hehe
Nymf Hathaway: hahhaha
Nymf Hathaway: phone
Adams Rubble: OK
Nymf Hathaway: Back :)
Adams Rubble: wb :)
Nymf Hathaway: Thank you :)

Cambridge Professor approves of hemlock for Socrates

Nymf Hathaway: Seems a professor from Cambridge is saying Socrates was rightfully pushed for the Hamlock, did you read this?
Adams Rubble: no !!?!
Adams Rubble: must be a philospher. giggles
Nymf Hathaway: I was a bit shocked as well...how can someone who makes others think critically be rightfully ordered to die...very odd conclusion
Adams Rubble: someone who likes capital punishment for one
Nymf Hathaway: yes
Adams Rubble: Hello Neela, nice to see you :)
Nymf Hathaway: Hello Neela :)
Neela Blaisdale: Hi Adams, nice to meet you Nymf
Nymf Hathaway: Nice to meet you Neela :)
Adams Rubble: Neela, Nymf just mentioned a Cambridge professor who thinks it was right that Scorates had to drink the hemlock
Neela Blaisdale: and why was it right?
Nymf Hathaway: his final conclusion :(
Nymf Hathaway: I think not...
Neela Blaisdale: Ah...
Adams Rubble: the Cambridge professor is a sour person who passes judgement on people who lived thousands of years ago
Neela Blaisdale: Cambidge UK or MA?
Adams Rubble giggles
Nymf Hathaway: he claimed Athens was right...since he was stiring the students not to accept the local gods
Adams Rubble: I am sure it is UK Neela
Nymf Hathaway: UK
Adams Rubble: Nobody in Massachusetts woyld think like that
Adams Rubble: hehe
Nymf Hathaway: hahhahah
Neela Blaisdale: Probsbly not:)
Adams Rubble: It would be hard to get attention if one thinks it was a harsh judgment
Adams Rubble: Maybe one day, only the very oddest of views will get aired :)
Nymf Hathaway: yes you have a point there
Adams Rubble has a good chance for air time. hehe
Neela Blaisdale: :)
Adams Rubble is thhinking of all the paintings of Socrates
Nymf Hathaway: if she thinks of him she sees Pila...walking around in a group of eager students :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: Pila better stay out of Cambridge
Neela Blaisdale: :)
Nymf Hathaway: hahahhaha

Fortunate to live at a time when we are free to express oursleves

Nymf Hathaway: we (or let me speak for myself) are lucky to have been born at this point in time... Greece probably would have killed me as well :)
Adams Rubble wouldn't have made it through the inquisition
Neela Blaisdale: me too for sure....
Adams Rubble: It is probably a good thing to think about the fragility of our open societies
Nymf Hathaway: agrees
Neela Blaisdale: Hope they're not too fragile....
Adams Rubble nods
Adams Rubble: there are always forces pressing in
Nymf Hathaway: Will take this thought into rl...biking in the woods with my son. Wishing everyone a nice conversation and till soon
Adams Rubble: thanks Nymf. have a good bike ride :)
Neela Blaisdale: Bye Nymf
Nymf Hathaway: Bye bye thanks :)
Adams Rubble: I have to go too. bye Neela :)
Neela Blaisdale: Bye Adams:)