First Post

Welcome.....

Post One: PreSocratic rantings of an ex-Philosophy major, IT professional, working for an educational institution.

I guess I've always wanted an anonymous place to rant and rave, voice my opinion, or do "whatever", even if nobody reads it...... (If I compose and post a message, and nobody is there to read it, does it have linguistic merit?)

My favourite Philosophical Fragments
All can be pondered deeply, or taken at face value.....

Heraclitus

On Inquiry

• Seekers after gold dig up much earth and find little
• One should not act or speak as if he were asleep
• Nature loves to hide

On Universal Flux

• Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed
• You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go ever flowing on

On Man Among Men

• Thinking is common to all
• It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them
• Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know