“…Meletus evidently convinced the King Archon that there was a case to be heard, and the archon set a date for the trial. Some weeks passed between the preliminary hearing and the trial. This should have been a time for the defendant to prepare his defence, but on the day Socrates claimed to be speaking off the cuff and even told one of his associates that he had spent his entire life preparing his defence, by consistently doing no wrong.”
That’s from the opening pages of Robin Waterfield’s excellent new book Why Socrates Died. This passage struck me, because it reminded me of something another wise man said not long ago: How much preparation does it take to tell the truth?
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Socrates and Coyne . . . interesting parallel. One knew only that he knew nothing; the other knew everything but that he knew nothing.
hey hey — keep it clean.
How much preparation does it take to tell the truth?
Either a whole lifetime, or a lot of last minute cramming.
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from the referred article: “He reminds me of a political leader mid-campaign, pre-debate, at the end of a long set of preliminary rounds, well-prepped, psyched for the main event,” Robin Sears, a spokesman for Mulroney said in an e-mail exchange.
“People forget that he is an incredibly disciplined lawyer as well as the most effective (political) strategist of his generation, comfortable with thousands of pages of evidence, chewing over strategies and lines of engagement, legal process and nuance.”
these ppl are really drinking the blue koolaid. repeat the big lie long enough aaand "Elohim will give them strong delusions to believe the lie"…and you deceive yourself into thinking black is white.
the truth will out the lie regardless.