Ancient Greeks and Eris

[Cain]

Try the Art of Eristic Debate then

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/controversy/chapter1.html

[P3nT4gR4m]

Aaaargh! How can I compete with people who have access to those kind of tactics? For the record I shall be most just agreeing with everything you say from now on 

[LMNO]

That is actually a fairly wise choice.  Sometimes.

[P3nT4gR4m]

That is actually a fairly wise choice.  Sometimes.

Agreed

[Triple Zero]

Aaaargh! How can I compete with people who have access to those kind of tactics? For the record I shall be most just agreeing with everything you say from now on 

you too shall read schopenhauer.

(just agree with this and you might not EVAR have to agree with ANYTHING anymore in yuor life)

[Cain]

Its awesome.  I tend to have it open while flaming tards on another forum I visit.

[Triple Zero]

would make a good selling line:

"schopenhauer's art of controversy is the last book i ever agreed with"

or something.

i found my dutch translation of it back (after a few years lying on top of a friends' bookshelves), gonna give it a good re-read soon.

[LMNO]

Its awesome.  I tend to have it open while flaming tards on another forum I visit.

I figured as much.  You do brilliant work.

[Cain]

Actually, not while on that forum.  I tend to relax there.  This one is the one I've been steadily trolling for years, and have now got rid of most of their members.

And they foolishly created a flame forum there! 

[LMNO]

Feel free to x-post the jucier bits.

[Cain]

I've got some screen shots of my smaller comebacks, will link them in the ITB Lulz thread.

[Cain]

Interesting....did you know the Greeks like Discordians have a five stage period of history?


The Golden Age

According to Hesiod, this was the age when Cronos was in power. It was an age of perfection, of innocence and happiness, in which truth and justice prevailed, not through, force, or power, but through man,Äôs natural goodness. Labour was not necessary, because the earth freely gave its wealth and riches without labour; warlike instruments did not exist, because peace was in the hearts of men. It was always spring ,Äì the only season ,Äì and men were always young; fruit and flowers bloomed without being planted, and milk and wine came from the rivers, the honey flowed from the oak. Death, when it came, was a pleasant sleep, and men were transformed in to good spirits or demons, and were then appointed to watch over men on earth and to guard and guide them.


The Silver Age

An age, despite its name, of suffering hardship, and decay. Zeus introduced the seasons of the year, which meant the displeasure and discomfort of summer heat and winter cold, and he reduced the spring. Houses ,Äì not necessary in the golden age had to be built, and labour became necessary for man and animal because nature no longer gave its treasures for the asking. The silver age men were strong and powerful, but they were impious, defiant, and mentally weak. When they died, they lived under the earth as spirits, but Zeus did not confer on them immortality, which was one of the gifts of the age of gold.


The Brazen Age

The work of Zeus, when all things were made of brass (or bronze), was a period of war, violence, savagery, and strife, in which strong men ,Äì stronger than those in the silver age ,Äì destroyed each other. In this era, when men died, they stayed dead.


The Heroic Age

The age of demigods and heroes.  Superior to both the silver and the brazen ages, it is the period associated with the Theban and Trojan Wars.


The Iron Age

The last age and the worst. This followed the heroic age, which is suspiciously modern in its resemblance to later and present-day society. It was not merely a period of struggle and hard labour, but of labour degraded into toil. Crime was common, and all the qualities that we hold up as ideals, truth, modesty, virtue, honour, decency ,Äì were stifled. Day and night were made miserable by care and worry. Mean and selfish purposes dominated men, who used the earth,Äôs wealth in mean and selfish ways. The qualities that we are supposed to be ashamed of were the ones that were uppermost: fraud, deceit, violence, and hatred. The world was red with blood, and civil and foreign wars were as common as crime. With the world in such a state, one can hardly blame Zeus for his descision to drown the world and its inhabitants ,Äì only the fear of setting heaven itself ablaze kept him from starting a fire ,Äì and to create a new world and race.

[Ambassador KAOS]

well crafted and educational opener.

thumbs up.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

well crafted and educational opener.

thumbs up.

LOL THREAD RUINED!

[Your Audience]

Do many of you worship Eris?