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The Maury Show

Maury: Thank you, everyone. Glad you could be with us. Today we have two local philosophers from Athens-- That's right on the tail end of Greece. Everybody, please welcome Aristophanes and Socrates!!!

(Audience cheers)

See, 10 years ago, Socrates and Aristophanes both went to a party at Agathon’s estate. Spectators report that there’s a bit of tension on the subject. Aristophanes brought you here because he feels like your friendship is in danger. Why?

Socrates: I really don’t know. I don’t want to go on tangent but I literally did nothing wrong. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a little “friendly debate.” I mean, there’s nothing logical about your ideas of love. Soul mates????? Really??

Aristophanes: I don’t want to talk about it. I already asked you not to laugh at me.

Maury: But let’s talk about it. What’s your idea of love?

Aristophanes: Well don’t judge me. But. Not to get too mushy but everyone has a soulmate. Everyone has a second half. The gods gave us the right to have a soulmate.

(Audience awws)

Socrates: Love isn’t soulmates. Love is not divine or mortal, it is a messenger between the two. Your entire idea is that love is beautiful when love isn’t good or bad. Love is something else. I’m flexible in my thoughts but you’re just wrong. I met this woman named Diotima, she explained to me and taught me the ways of love. Love is the child that Poverty conceived by Plenty. Like his mother, he is always in a state of need, but like his father, he can scheme to get what he wants.

Aristophanes: But love is beautiful, why can’t love be beautiful?

Socrates: Love wants beauty, it doesn’t have it. How could you say that everyone has a soulmate when love is different for everyone?

Aristophanes: Obviously, beauty is different for everyone, we all see beauty in different things, but at the end of the day, we all still have that one person that makes us whole. Originally, we had 8 arms and 8 legs. Because we were misbehaving, the gods split us in two so we would always be looking for our other half. I’m still looking for my soulmate.

(Audience: Awww)

(Socrates: scoffs)

Aristophanes: And you think soulmates are weird? What about mind pregnancies?

(Audience yaks)

Maury: Please elaborate, I’m really coming into this with no context I’m- How do you get mind and soul pregnant?

Socrates: Well, it’s a lot more complex than that. If someone or something gives you wisdom, then you are therefore, impregnated. When you give wisdom to other people, you are impregnating them. This way, you can ensure your legacy by impregnating as many people as you can with your wisdom and passing on your knowledge.

Aristophanes: Just saying, soulmates are complex too but you don’t give me the time of day when I talk about it.

Maury: So this is clearly a communication issue

Socrates: Yeah, maybe we should just communicate better. Can I leave now?

Maury: Not yet, we’re not quite done. We have a special surprise in the back. Aristophanes told me about your situation with your friend, Alcibiades.

Alcibiades: I’m here to get my man back. I know we’re soul mates.

Socrates: This is ridiculous, I can’t believe you’ve done this

Maury: Alcibiades, come on out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

(Audience cheers)

Maury: Aristophanes, you’re the local expert here. If two people are soulmates, they would have the same DNA. Yes?

Aristophanes: Yes, that’s true. If they are soulmates, they were once connected in a past life and they were split by the gods so therefore, they would be two of the same

Socrates: There’s no way you’d be able to prove it

Maury: Alcibiades, do you want to tell Socrates what you came to me a couple weeks ago to talk about?

Alcibiades: Well, Aristophanes and I were chatting a little while ago, and he recommended we get a DNA test to try it out.

Socrates: Don’t you need both of our DNA to do that?

Maury: We actually already have it

Socrates: How’d you get my DNA?

Alcibiades: You were at my house the other day

Socrates: I know we’re not soulmates so I don’t even care. Whatever.

Maury: The results are in. If you all are ready to hear then…?

(Audience: Yeah!!!!)

(Socrates: Boos)

Maury: Socrates and Alcibiades..you are… SOULMATES..

Alcibiades: *Jumps into Socrates laps* AW HONEY

Aristophanes: I TOLD YOU

Socrates: THIS is BULL****, I’m *****, this is rigged

Maury: Join us again next week when we discuss Alcibiades alcoholism

(Audience cheers)

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Written as Agathon

If Socrates says he doesn't know how to write a proper eulogy and therefore he will not, why does he go on to do so? By definition, a eulogy is a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly. He states that the truth does not matter at all, and that one should simply ascribe all the finest possible qualities to one's subject whether or not what one says is true. According to the definition, he performing a eulogy. In addition, he then admits he will be performing a eulogy (but of a different kind) by asking Phaedrus if he might be permitted to give a different kind of eulogy, one that speaks the truth and doesn't use fancy language, but uses only the words that come to him as he speaks

Socrates asked me whether or not Love is love of something or other, in the same way as a father is a father of a son or a daughter or the way a brother is the brother of a sister or a brother. I said that Love was love of something, which prompted him to expand on my point. Love desires what is is love of. If love desire what he loves, that would suggest that he does not have the object of his desire in his possession. When we desire something we have--for instance, a healthy person who wants to be healthy--what we desire is to continue to have that thing in the future, not in the present.

I suggested that the gods are organized through a love of beautiful things. After Socrates has me agree that Love must be of beauty which in turn implies that Love itself must be wholly without beauty, I had to admit that Socrates is right and that I was wrong. I was forced to surrender and say that I cannot argue against Socrates. What I didn't like is that Socrates insinuated that I was preaching falsities when he said it is easy to argue against Socrates but hard to argue against the truth. Is whatever Socrates does automatically the inherent truth?

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ERYXIMACHUS

Expressed in the bodily responses of plants and animals

Right to gratify good people and wrong to gratify bad people

Your love reconciles conflicting elements of the body

Xi is the fourteenth star in a specific constellation. Eryximachus claims that astronomy studies the effects of love on the movements of stars and the seasons. Seasons refers to the seasonal movements of the constellations.

Implant one type of love in the body and flush the wrong kind out in order to reconcile and create love between antagonistic elements of the body

Medicine helping illnesses shows the disharmony between

Athletics, agriculture, and music are all governed by the god of Love

Common love should suggest caution with actions. One must be careful to gratify the recipient without rendering him self-indulgent

Hot and cold, wet and dry are common examples of discordant or divergent elements of the body

Unity of the elements of the body is vitally important

Sneezing worked to stop Aristophanes’ hiccups and now, he must fill in the gaps

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anyway so i feel like the western obsession with romantic love is symptomatic of the absence of community we experience in our socially isolating society,

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I just wanna be the girl of someone’s dreams ya know

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“Never play with fire, water and love, all of them are fatal.”

— Yusha Rizvi

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Deleting their number is nothing..

But when you finally delete the text thread…. It’s a wrap.

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Love yourself first!

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“Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.”

Adyashanti

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Love yourself through thick and thin.

@poetpastry

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