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Parable of the Cave

The Allegory of the Cave—also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato’s Cave, or the Parable of the Cave—is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate “our nature in its education and want of education” (514a). It is written as a dialogue narrated by Plato’s friend Socrates and Plato’s brother Glaucon at the beginning of Book VII(514a–520a). The Allegory of the Cave is presented after the metaphor of the sun (507b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–513e). All three are characterized in relation to dialectic at the end of Book VII and VIII (531d–534e).

Plato lets Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato’s Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.

The Allegory may be related to Plato’s Theory of Forms, according to which the “Forms” (or “Ideas”), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. Only knowledge of the Forms constitutes real knowledge. In addition, the Allegory of the Cave is an attempt to explain the philosopher’s place in society: to attempt to enlighten the “prisoners”.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave

So the idea behind this allegory is that the highest form of reality shows to be in the form of the idea itself? That aint such a bad idea at all and is in actuality, an excellent form of a different perspective to consider.

Stay Tuned.

Ring Of Fire Annular Eclipse As Viewed From China - January 2010

On Sunday the sun is going to turn into a ring of fire. It’s an annular solar eclipse, the first one in the United States in almost 18 years.

An annular eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly in front of the sun, but the lunar disk is not quite wide enough to cover the entire star. At maximum, the moon forms a “black hole” in the center of the sun.

For places such Medford, Oregon; Chico, California; Reno, Nevada; St. George, Utah; Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Lubbock, Texas; the afternoon sun will become a luminous ring.

Source: www.weather.com/news/annular-solar-eclipse-20120514

To view the event online, visit the following website for more information. Viewing begins at approximately 5:30 PM Eastern Time.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/343144/20120520/when-where-watch-ring-fire-solar-eclipse.htm

A different perspective to consider. 

Its In Writing

cri·sis

[krahy-sis]

noun
1. a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; turning point.

2. a condition of instability or danger, as in social, economic, political, or international affairs, leading to a decisive change.

3. a dramatic emotional or circumstantial upheaval in a person’s life.

4. Medicine/Medical .
a. the point in the course of a serious disease at which a decisive change occurs, leading either to recovery or to death.
b. the change itself.

5. the point in a play or story at which hostile elements are most tensely opposed to each other.

Between us as friends, as much of a self assured person that I may show to be, I do at times find similar viewpoint reassurances to be a valuable form of relief, and in this particular case, they are being offered by none other than Deepak Chopra as a notable and well respected author as featured on the CNN Erin Burnett show interview below.

The reassurance stems from the fact that no less than 85 percent of the content that can be found here at PimpHop.com revolves around this basic shared core belief as stated in the title and interview clip in regards to where the actual causes of the overwhelming majority of various problems as well as the solutions for those problems can be attained, which is in the realm of the perspectives that we each consider.

The Writing Is On The Pen?

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

“The pen is mightier than the sword” is a metonymic adage coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 for his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy. The play was about Cardinal Richelieu, though in the author’s words “license with dates and details… has been, though not unsparingly, indulged.” The Cardinal’s line in Act II, scene II, was more fully:

True, This! —
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! —
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —

States can be saved without it!
The play opened at London’s Covent Garden Theatre on 7 March 1839 with William Charles Macready in the lead role. Macready believed its opening night success was “unequivocal”; Queen Victoria attended a performance on 14 March.

In 1870, literary critic Edward Sherman Gould wrote that Bulwer “had the good fortune to do, what few men can hope to do: he wrote a line that is likely to live for ages.” By 1888 another author, Charles Sharp, feared that repeating the phrase “might sound trite and commonplace”. The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, which opened in 1897, has the adage decorating an interior wall.Though Bulwer’s phrasing was novel, the idea of communication surpassing violence in efficacy had numerous predecessors.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pen_is_mightier_than_the_sword

T.G.I.M. (Thank God It’s Monday)
Telling the story exactly how it happened, has happened, or perhaps better stated as will happen, this is a post that was to be written today as I work from the patio at Starbucks, and while there was a preset mental draft in regards to the topics that were to be touched upon, something interestingly enough interrupted the flow which I will now share in regards to what was posted on the social media status updates about an hour ago.

Lunchtime Status Update 12PM – Im working outside 2Day and plan 2 for the rest of this week, so when I got change 4 my food, the girl that Im cool with @SB’s asks if I am ok with a $2 Dollar Bill As Change? I said, you bet, that means its my lucky day! I looked it on up on BING and came back with 2 sides of the story. 1.Many say that they are UNLUCKY. 2.Others claim that there is a Black Man PICTURED on the back of the $2 Dollar Bill sitting @ the signing of the Dec. Of Independence sitting @ the table. Either way, the picture confirms that someone MUST write the scripts, so, its time to get my keys and pen a strokin! What would you like 4 YOUR life story 2 be?RB

This has been a 10 year and perhaps a lifelong venture into discovering the factors behind this popular phrase and slogan in regards to the pen and its level of might, so when I looked it up on Google, the Wikipedia write up listed above states that the Thomas Jefferson building in the U.S. Library Of Congress actually has the phrase as a decoration on one of its walls, the library building which happens to be named after the individual who is pictured on the front side of the piece of currency listed below as well as the original author of the formal  draft of the Declaration Of Independence which began with the pen.

Deuces! 2012 Edition.

Moral Of The Story

This is one of those posts that has no meaning other than what we each decide to assign to it and is offered in hopes of not answering the question but rather questioning the answers while reporting the news in real time which by default, leads to the automatic consideration of possibly different perspectives.

wealth

[welth]

noun
1. a great quantity or store of money, valuable possessions, property, or other riches: the wealth of a city.

2. an abundance or profusion of anything; plentiful amount: a wealth of imagery.

3.
Economics .
a. all things that have a monetary or exchange value.

b. anything that has utility and is capable of being appropriated or exchanged.

4. rich or valuable contents or produce: the wealth of the soil.

5. the state of being rich; prosperity; affluence: persons of wealth and standing.

“When someone says the rich get richer,
visualize wealth and put yourselves in the picture.”
KRS – ONE – 2nd Quarter Free Throws Speech - I Got Next 1997

An utmost different yet utmost relevant perspective to consider.