You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Urban legends don't always make a lot of sense
If the government was sending secret agents to take data from the Polybius machines, why would they wear black suits? That's not exactly an easy way to blend in at a video arcade.
If the government was sending secret agents to take data from the Polybius machines, why would they wear black suits? That's not exactly an easy way to blend in at a video arcade.
It's not black, it just looks that way to trichromatic species like humans. Heh heh, sometimes I forget how few colors you mammals tend to see.
OF course, we're not as great with colors as are pigeons and butterflies and a few other species.
And absolutely nobody sees colors like the mantis shrimp; who is, I must admit, probably the most superior form of life (or would be if it wore hats).
My point is, in the end it doesn't matter what Aristotle looked like, and it seems that when he was drawn in any place, he was drawn looking like most people of said place and wearing the most common style of clothes. In Nuremberg, he was drawn as a blond guy wearing typical Bavarian clothes; and in yet another culture (I can't tell what the writing is) he is drawn looking like the guys in the picture, wearing a neat hat and such clothes; and in another culture (I can't read the writing) he is drawn as a black man in flowing robes.
I was thinking so, but I was also thinking "Wait, what if it's Ancient Persian or Aramaic or some language I don't know of? It looks Arabic to me, but I don't know; and I don't want to come off as culturally insensitive by mistaking cultures and languages for each other". Better to just say that I can't read that writing.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
The past is another country: they dress like us there,.
Some constants in those pictures is that Aristotle is looking left, is wearing blue, has both hands visible but not both feet, is not standing up, and has no ears.
So, if we meet Aristotle in real life, we will know him because he's the blue-wearing, two-handed, sitting-down, no-eared, guy with two hands visible but not two feet visible looking to the left.
Thus, Aristotle could, in fact, be an Orangutan with a peg-leg.
I bet in Pirate Orangutan culture, that's how they draw Aristotle.
Let's look at how the Renaissance draws Aristotle:
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Magic card called Yawgmoth's Will gets abbreviated to Yawgwin because, well, you cast it and then win basically. (In other words I was referencing the thing that Fossilmaiden was referencing)
heh yeah I had cooked carrots as part of my dinner and Dusty was 8egging so I decided to give her one of those instead of the chicken and she loved it and kept 8egging more and nommed every last little carrot sliver I gave her.
I love my cat. I think I have mentioned that a whole lot of times.
It's just........ I can't 8elieve I have my very own kitty cat and she is so cute and she wakes me up with purrs. And that sweet adora8le little thing is MINE.
My childhood was Ivanhoe, Treasure Island, redwall, Narnia, Little Women, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen, Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle, Norwegian folk tales and King Arthur, I Spy and Where's Waldo, Time Cat and Prydain, the thirteen Oz sequels and the numberless Magic Tree House books, Boxcar children and Peter rabbit, If you give a mouse a cookie and Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day; Arthur and Madeline; time warp trio and Catwings; 2 X 2 = Boo! and Strega Nona; Dinosaur Danes and ANTics; Bernstein Bears and Curious George; A little Princess and The Secret Garden; Half Magic and The Castle In The Attic; Mrs bindergarten gets ready for Kindergarten and Time For Andrew; Nancy Drew and Hardy boys; A to Z mysteries and Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots, Animorphs and Magic school bus; Hatchet and My Side Of The Mountain; little house on the prairie and Captain Underpants; The paper-bag princess and The Fledgling; Winnie The Pooh and Paddington Bear; The pokey little puppy and Rainbow Fish; A Series Of Unfortunate Events and Purple Hair I Don't Care!; Harry Potter and Amelia Bedelia; Ralph the Mouse and Charlotte's Web; Tale Of Despereaux and The Whipping Boy; Lost in the Library and Cloudy with a chance if meatballs; I love You Stinky Face and The Monster At The End Of This Book; Journey To Terezor and A Single Shard; a bunch of stuff by Jules Verne and The Borning Room; How to be perfect in just three days and Harry Potter, Katie in the Wild Jungle (not sure if exact title) and, best of all, Dany And The Dinosaur.
And many, many more books not mentioned in this poet 194646.
Nicholas decreed that the figure of the cock (rooster) should be placed on every church and has served as a religious icon and reminder of Peter's denial of Christ since that time, with some churches still having the cockerel on the steeple today.[3]
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It's not black, it just looks that way to trichromatic species like humans. Heh heh, sometimes I forget how few colors you mammals tend to see.
OF course, we're not as great with colors as are pigeons and butterflies and a few other species.
And absolutely nobody sees colors like the mantis shrimp; who is, I must admit, probably the most superior form of life (or would be if it wore hats).
Also, I love this picture of Aristotle and Alexander the Great
I mean, Aristotle's beard is so great, and Alexander has one of my favorite facial expressions ever.
And here's the Nuremberg picture of Aristotle (the Nuremberg in Bavaria) This one is great because it has a hat.
And yet another picture of Aristotle, this time again with both Beard and Hat.
My point is, in the end it doesn't matter what Aristotle looked like, and it seems that when he was drawn in any place, he was drawn looking like most people of said place and wearing the most common style of clothes. In Nuremberg, he was drawn as a blond guy wearing typical Bavarian clothes; and in yet another culture (I can't tell what the writing is) he is drawn looking like the guys in the picture, wearing a neat hat and such clothes; and in another culture (I can't read the writing) he is drawn as a black man in flowing robes.
I was thinking so, but I was also thinking "Wait, what if it's Ancient Persian or Aramaic or some language I don't know of? It looks Arabic to me, but I don't know; and I don't want to come off as culturally insensitive by mistaking cultures and languages for each other". Better to just say that I can't read that writing.
Some constants in those pictures is that Aristotle is looking left, is wearing blue, has both hands visible but not both feet, is not standing up, and has no ears.
So, if we meet Aristotle in real life, we will know him because he's the blue-wearing, two-handed, sitting-down, no-eared, guy with two hands visible but not two feet visible looking to the left.
Thus, Aristotle could, in fact, be an Orangutan with a peg-leg.
I bet in Pirate Orangutan culture, that's how they draw Aristotle.
Let's look at how the Renaissance draws Aristotle:
Left-looking, two-handed, no-eared, not-standing, blue-wearing, not-both-feet-visible, and, of course, it's Aristotle.
And another one of Aristotle and Alexander the great:
So, let's look at a picture of Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato, and see if you can figure out which one is Aristotle:
(psst, standing won't be a clue here, as one guy is sitting and the other two clearly have stools hidden beneath their long robes)
Sorcery
You win the game.
It's just........ I can't 8elieve I have my very own kitty cat and she is so cute and she wakes me up with purrs. And that sweet adora8le little thing is MINE.
And many, many more books not mentioned in this poet 194646.
RESURGAM.
is it bad that I liked that movie when I was a kid?