25 October 1997
RI-942i 'Socrates - Self-portrait of his Death'
from Ambassador for Mankind
Message # RI-942i for Internet
'In order not to have to
admit the flagrant wrongness of his beautiful "rightness",
Socrates decided
to refuse to escape from prison and
to rather take the poison and
TO PRETEND
- first to himself with great self-righteousness,
and then to his friends -
that dying would bring him into a higher spiritual state, and
that he would, by his death, even defend democracy!!'
'Ambassador for Mankind'
(Not only Bridey Murphy could be proven as an actual past life.
(see the book "The Search for Bridey Murphy"
by Morey Bernstein, Copyright 1965, 1973, 1990)
People get reborn, you know,
and they can remember in great detail a past death they experienced.
At for instance the following World Wide Web address,
http://AmbassadorForMankind.org/ri-bulletins/ri-942i.gif
you find a 'self-portrait' of
Socrates shortly after his death.)
Now let's look at what we found out about Socrates.
Socrates ran away
from any responsibility
for others and for society
(he turned down a public office offered to him),
he ran away
from anything that needed an actual, alive handling,
from facing any unpleasantness and evil
that IS part of life and
that HAS to be faced IN ORDER TO DEFEND LIFE.
Socrates started to run away from responsibility for life
when he, as a boy of 4 years old,
found the "solution"
that he was "too good himself
to deal with 'such low things of life' as are evil and suppression",
when he - with some other children -
was faced with having to handle a very nasty boy.
Young Socrates,
instead of PREVENTING, as he used to do, the boy from fighting children,
ran away to the top of a hill and
contemplated
"how great life is without facing and handling any evil" and
"how 'noble' HE is -
when he does NOT stoop down to such low things, and
when he does NOT make his 'noble' hands dirty by handling actual life".
And he was being very, very "right"
about himself, and about choosing this noble attitude.
However, the other children WERE, as a consequence of Socrates' decision,
badly beaten up by the nasty boy,
but young Socrates was very able to strike that - unpleasant - fact
from his awareness.
After all, he HAD just now decided
not to occupy himself with "such low manifestations of life"!
And so Socrates CONTINUED the rest of his life -
always running away
from unpleasant circumstances, and always running away
from unpleasant people.
And when some nasty people of Athens sentenced him to death,
Socrates saw
that his "solution" was not that survival for himself at all any more
(as it had NEVER been for others whom he refused to defend).
But to Socrates,
opposing the verdict on him and
opposing the people who passed the death-sentence on him,
would have meant
admitting to himself
that his "solution" to life
- to nobly REFUSE to actually face and handle suppression -
was not so "right" after all,
and NOT survival at all,
now ALSO not for his OWN personal survival!
In order not to have to
admit the flagrant wrongness of his beautiful "rightness",
Socrates decided
to refuse to escape from prison and
to rather take the poison and
TO PRETEND
- first to himself with great self-righteousness,
and then to his friends -
that dying would bring him into a higher spiritual state, and
that he would, by his death, even defend democracy!!
Plato did not really buy the pretense and the lies
that Socrates enforced on himself and on his friends, and
so Plato stayed away from Socrates' final "noble" act.
Ever since,
Socrates
has wanted to destroy Plato and others
for wanting Socrates to look at himself,
has wanted to destroy Plato and others
for wanting Socrates to face
his self-righteous lies and
his pretense,
for wanting Socrates to know HIMSELF
- or in the old Greek language:
"Gnothi Seauton".
From the 'Symposium' by Plato:
"But, my dearest Agathon,
it is truth which you cannot contradict;
you can without any difficulty
contradict Socrates."
(see also RI-941i 'Benjamin Franklin's fatal decision of 1788' of 24 Oct 97
http://AmbassadorForMankind.org/ri-bulletins/ri-941i.htm)
Koos Nolst Trenite - Ambassador for Mankind
Copyright 1997 by Koos Nolst Trenite
Personal Web-page:
http://ArtOrg.com
Personal Web-Library:
http://AmbassadorForMankind.org/ri-bulletins/
Library Search Engine:
http://AmbassadorForMankind.org/ri-bulletins/search.html
References (available also at the Library "http://Art-Org.com/"):
- Describing or mentioning Socrates
RI-259Ri 'On Socrates' of 19 Aug 1995
RI-778i 'Plato's pupil Socrates Disconnects from L. Ron Hubbard' 9 Jan 97
RI-003i 'SEC CHECK Marc Yager RTC' of 14 Sept 1994
RI-395Ri '"Ivory Tower" defined' (revised) of 2 Dec 1995
RI-239i 'Koos and LRH and Ethics' of 17 July 1995
RI-032i 'SP-Declares are Intended - Use It' of 9 Mar 1994
RI-406i 'Serenity aids your survival - Part II. IMPORTANT' 10 Dec 95
RI-527i 'Pulling Known Withholds - Ivory Tower' of 19 Dec 1995
RI-681i 'L. Ron Hubbard's Serenity group, More - Part B' of 27 Aug 96
RI-757i 'Making a violent psychotic saner' of 11 Dec 1996
- About or mentioning Vincent van Gogh (as a later reincarnation of Socrates)
RI-678i 'Vincent Van Gogh and his Misery' of 22 Aug 1996
RI-108i 'LRH on Exchange, Money, Friendship - Van Gogh' 14 Mar 95
RI-727Ri 'Van Gogh's "Starry Night"-painting' of 29 Oct 96
USP-047 'Trying to murder actual friends - Van Gogh' of 18 Mar 1994
RI-704Ri 'Real Art is not hard to understand' of 30 Sept 1996
- Bulletins about or mentioning Plato
RI-29Ri 'Koos, LRH, Miscavige - the Truth' of 7 Dec 1994
RI-239i 'Koos and LRH and Ethics' of 17 July 1995
RI-778i 'Plato's pupil Socrates Disconnects from L. Ron Hubbard' 9 Jan 97
RI-259Ri 'On Socrates' of 19 Aug 1995
RI-003i 'SEC CHECK Marc Yager RTC' of 14 Sept 1994
RI-80RBi 'The Eternal Critics - Exposed' 28 Jan 95, revised 3 Mar 96
RI-281i 'How LRH could make up for his tyranny (in Syracuse)' 7 Oct 95
RI-361i 'Why LRH invited SP "OT's" as staff (GOLD!)' of 17 Nov 1995
RI-395Ri '"Ivory Tower" defined' (revised) of 2 Dec 1995
- About facing and handling evil and Suppressive Persons
RI-908i 'The Ostrich-factor - on facing evil or criminality' of 16 July 97
RI-262i 'Creating despite Suppressive Persons' of 20 Aug 1995
RI-713i 'Handling Attacks Correctly - Space and Love' of 18 Oct 1996
RI-646i 'FACING those who are mean or dishonest' of 31 July 1996
RI-010i 'Confronting a Suppressive' of 12 Oct 1994
RI-024i 'Definition of "Potential Trouble Source" - IMPORTANT' 19 Nov 1994
RI-058Ri 'Fair Game Series - Treatment of Enemies' of 1 Jan 1995
RI-487i 'Dialogue: On Enemies and Hostility' of 20 Feb 1996
RI-535i '"An Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend" = INSANE' of 10 Apr 1996
- About RI-Bulletins
RI-380Ri 'Obtaining Truth from the RI-Bulletins' of 1 Nov 1995
RI-50RQi 'RI-xxxi series Archive - Content and Use' 28 Dec 94
Revised and Replaced on 6 March 1996
These references and other RI-Bulletins can well be obtained here - or
at the Library of Koos' writings on
http://AmbassadorForMankind.org/ri-bulletins/
http://AmbassadorForMankind.org/ri-bulletins/usp.htm
http://AmbassadorForMankind.org/ri-bulletins/telepathy.htm
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