On Apr 22, 6:35 pm, "Xarx" neoncity.com> wrote:

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I
know nothing.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates

Why did his pupils reverence him so? Perhaps because he was a man as
well as a philosopher: he had at great risk saved the life of
Alcibiades in battle; and he could drink like a gentleman-without fear
and without excess. But no doubt they liked best in him the modesty of
his wisdom: he did not claim to have wisdom, but only to seek it
lovingly; he was wisdom's amateur, not its professional. It was said
that the oracle at Delphi, with unusual good sense, had pronounced him
the wisest of the Greeks; and he had interpreted this as an approval
of the agnosticism which was the starting-point of his philosophy-"One
thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing." Philosophy begins
when one learns to doubt-particularly to doubt one's cherished
beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms. Who knows how these cherished
beliefs became certainties with us, and whether some secret wish did
not furtively beget them, clothing desire in the dress of thought?
There is no real philosophy until the mind turns round and examines
itself. Gnothi seauton, said Socrates: Know thyself.

There had been philosophers before him, of course: strong men like
Thales and Heraclitus, subtle men like Parmenides and Zeno of Elea,
seers like Pythagoras and Empedocles; but for the most part they had
been physical philosophers; they had sought for the physis or nature
of external things, the laws and constituents of the material and
measurable world. That is very good, said Socrates; but there is an
infinitely worthier subject for philosophers than all these trees and
stones, and even all those stars; there is the mind of man. What is
man, and what can he become?

The Story of Philosophy
The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers of the Western World
by WILL DURANT
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671739166/

...a sack of bones and blood stitched together

please go to mile marker 2:33 (Two minutes and thirty three seconds
into the video) and see if you can tell me what he says, I cannot
figure it all out.

...fragilistic syndrome device

...digitized convulsing nueralastic plasma screen demographic ????? is
not alive

Katscan - Zombie Machine
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L_CqOd1zSxc