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Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human. ↗
Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. "Watson" he says, "look up in the sky and tell me what you see." "I see millions of stars, Holmes," says Watson. "And what do you conclude from that, Watson?" Watson thinks for a moment. "Well," he says, "astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meterologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I see that God is all-powerful, and we are small and insignficant. Uh, what does it tell you, Holmes?" "Watson, you idiot! Someone has stolen our tent! ↗
To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates ↗
Segundo Platão, um filosofo grego: No início da criação, os homens e as mulheres não eram como hoje; havia apenas um ser, baixo, com um corpo e um pescoço, mas a cabeça tinha duas faces, cada uma olhando para uma direcção. Era como se as duas criaturas estivessem presas pelas costas, com dois sexos opostos, quatro pernas e quatro braços. Os deuses gregos, porém, eram ciumentos, e viram que uma criatura que tinha quatro braços trabalhava mais, as duas faces opostas estavam sempre vigilantes e não exigiram tanto esforço para ficar de pé ou andar por longos períodos. E, o que era mais perigoso, a tal criatura tinha dois sexos diferentes, não precisavam de ninguém para continuar a reproduzir-se. Então, disse Zeus, o supremo senhor do Paraíso: "Tenho um plano para fazer com que estes mortais percam a sua força." E, com um raio, cortou a criatura em dois, criando o homem e a mulher. Isso aumentou muito a população do mundo, e ao mesmo tempo desorientou e enfraqueceu os que nele habitavam- porque agora tinham de procurar de novo a sua parte perdida, abraçá-la novamente, e nesse abraço recuperar a força antiga, a capacidade de evitar a traição, a resistência para andar durante longos períodos e aguentar o trabalho cansativo. A esse abraço em que os dois corpos se fundem de novo em um chamamos sexo. (...) Depois de os deuses separarem a dita criatura com sexos opostos, por que razão algumas delas resolvem que o dito abraço pode ser apenas uma coisa, um negocio como outro qualquer- que em vez de aumentar, retira a energia às pessoas ? ↗
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