08 JUN 2012 by ideonexus

 Gallileo's Realy Revolution

What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and to replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, a new concept of science—and even to replace a pretty ...
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Wasn't in his new scientific truths, but in his methodology for obtaining them.

08 JAN 2011 by ideonexus

 The Samurai are Prohibited from Professional Sports

Gentlemen of honour, according to the old standards, rode horses, raced chariots, fought, and played competitive games of skill, and the dull, cowardly and base came in thousands to admire, and howl, and bet. The gentlemen of honour degenerated fast enough into a sort of athletic prostitute, with all the defects, all the vanity, trickery, and self-assertion of the common actor, and with even less intelligence. Our Founders made no peace with this organisation of public sports. They did not sp...
Folksonomies: voluntary nobility
Folksonomies: voluntary nobility
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A professional athlete is an "athletic prostitute," and the Samurai do not participate.