[RascalPuff]

Your recent post indicates that you're not much on reading books, whereas, a previous post seems to lean heavily toward extensively studious experiences in literature...

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Originally Posted by MJA
Great Thinkers

If you want to be a great thinker, study the greats.

Some of my favorites in no particular order are:

Boethius, he saw the truth.
Socrates, came close to defining truth. He tried but never grasped it.
Aristotle, some say the greatest of all Saw oneness, but thought it not true.
Epicurus, epic, what a place to be.
Bible, "the truth shall set us free." Amen!
Spinoza, "there is only one substance God or Nature." Invented proofs
Descartes, "I think therefore I am." From a hotel in Ulm Germany, the same place Einstein was born.
Poincare, found resolve in coffee.
Hue-neng, Zen master about the nothing of nothing.
Milton Freidman, freedom of business.
Dr. King Jr. Freedom of Equality.
Plato, had trouble with cave people. "You cannot conceive the many without the one."
He knew our sences to be untrue, and thought only truth was attainable after death.
Shakespeare, "Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
Lincoln, held the union together through a war of division, WOW!
J Adams, Independence
Jefferson, The truth of equality.
Gandhi, died for equality.
Einstein, questioned measure, found Relativity, and came close to truth.
Thoreeau, The truth of nature.
Bertrand Russell, I learned the Old Greek from him.
Jane Goodall, Knows the truth.
Crazy Horse, My favorite Native American.
Buddha, About going back to the market place.
Nature, the truth.
The axial Age, was right on.
Pythagoras, "all things are numbers," Not!
Paramenides, "On Nature."
Copenhagen Interpitation, a group of great thinkers. They tried.
Master Chuang Tzu, very wise.
Nietzche, "the mountains of truth."
Mandella, Equality.
Dante, on love.
Seneca, Fortune.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.
Hawking, Very smart.
Hiesenberg, Questioned measure.
Capernicus, Moved the center of the universe. Double Wow!
Michelangelo, Study nature for truth.
Parsigis, Zen and the art.
Feynman, Democritus, and the list goes on and on.

But know one I believe knew the truth of everything, because if they had, we would be free.
That's coming soon!

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MJA

Dear MJA:
Your spelling is as irreproachable as your list of distinguished persons and their achievements.
Your ostensibly ardent studies - and your apparent retention of them - certainly know how to sharpen a point.

Best regards,
- RP