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THE GREEKS AND US
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Whenever I am told to be more positive,
I think of Homer who begins his story with a rape
and ends with the destruction of Troy.
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And what do we learn from the ODYSSEY?
Only this: even when one is engaged in as innocent an undertaking as going home, one will have to deal with obstructionists.
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If you dismiss Homer's testimony as suspect
on the grounds that he was an unbeliever,
let's consider the Bible:
Why did the Good Lord introduce a serpent in the Garden?
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There are those who maintain it was not the Lord who did that but the CIA. But I for one don't believe everything I am told, and that's where my troubles begin. When I am told, for example, that we are better or smarter than the Greeks because we no longer believe in many gods some of whom fornicated with mortals,
all I can say is, that's true, we have made some progress in that department. We believe in only one God who is divided into three, and only one of the three, the Holy Ghost, engaged in the business of impregnating a mortal.
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The Greeks condemned Socrates to death
because he said “Of the gods we know nothing.”
Christians, by contrast, persecuted and killed only those who did not share their dogmas, lies, and propaganda.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Or, as the French are fond of saying,
“Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme merde.”
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Whenever I am told to be more positive,
I think of Homer who begins his story with a rape
and ends with the destruction of Troy.
*
And what do we learn from the ODYSSEY?
Only this: even when one is engaged in as innocent an undertaking as going home, one will have to deal with obstructionists.
*
If you dismiss Homer's testimony as suspect
on the grounds that he was an unbeliever,
let's consider the Bible:
Why did the Good Lord introduce a serpent in the Garden?
*
There are those who maintain it was not the Lord who did that but the CIA. But I for one don't believe everything I am told, and that's where my troubles begin. When I am told, for example, that we are better or smarter than the Greeks because we no longer believe in many gods some of whom fornicated with mortals,
all I can say is, that's true, we have made some progress in that department. We believe in only one God who is divided into three, and only one of the three, the Holy Ghost, engaged in the business of impregnating a mortal.
*
The Greeks condemned Socrates to death
because he said “Of the gods we know nothing.”
Christians, by contrast, persecuted and killed only those who did not share their dogmas, lies, and propaganda.
*
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Or, as the French are fond of saying,
“Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme merde.”
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