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Saturday, 19. August 2006, 15:50:57
Aimee Mann, Privates, Thoughts, Philosophen
I hope you know Socrates. If you don't, you may leave immediately. Because I think he is the greatest, coolest – simply the best – philosopher ever. I fell in love with him a few years ago, when we tried to translate Plato in our Ancient Greek lessons. It was very difficult, but I fell deeply in love with Socrates style. His manner of asking questions and showing people with pure logic that what they thought was wrong was just incredible. And he believed in justice... When he was sentenced to death and waited for the cup of hemlock, his friends made a plan to free him, but he wouldn't go with them. He believed that the court must have been right to decide that he should die, so he did. He wouldn't do something against justice. He had nerve...
"I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall; I've lived through it all"
(Josh Groban – "Canto alla vita")
Whenever I hear the first lines of that, an image appears before my inner eye. It's a picture of Socrates. He raises his cup to life and drinks the poison, smiling.
I love the song, and the picture it produces.
So, that was a song "about" my idol, now comes "my" song, in case you'd like to know what I'm like and don't want to read this.
"We have crossed the Rubicon
Our ship awash, our rudder gone
The rats have fled but I'm hanging on
Let me try, baby, try
Baby, please, let me begin
Let me be your heroine
Hate the sinner but love the sin
Let me be your heroine"
(Aimee Mann – "High on Sunday 51")
Saturday, 6. December 2008, 14:04:41
Privates
It's been so long since I last visited this page... And I am really sorry to say that I didn't miss it in any way. That's why I came back now, to say good bye.
My interests have changed, I have changed. The concept of this blog doesn't fit me anymore. Maybe some of the things I write could find their place here, too, but not all. I moved to another side a long time ago and it became my new home somewhen later. I didn't even realise, but now I know I probably won't come back here, because I have my life there.
Fare well and have good lives, all of you.
Thursday, 17. April 2008, 19:37:49
Thoughts
I think there are some (or a lot of) things we only know unconsciously. And they want to stay that way. Whenever we come to know them by accident, we forget them again as long as we don't put them down in words. Or maybe even while we are trying to write them down. Is this knowledge what we call wisdom? How can we make it stay?Read more...
Tuesday, 1. April 2008, 17:29:08
Privates
I just need to rearrange my head a bit, remember some important things so I can hopefully come to some important decision this night.
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Saturday, 1. March 2008, 11:26:52
Thoughts
I wanted to write this post some time ago, but didn't find the time. Then I forgot what it was I wanted to tell you and decided to read again the book which inspired me. Unfortunately, it didn’t help. That's why this isn’t what it was supposed to be, but at least it is something. And there's a connection to "Normality".
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