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photoI'm Mal bf is Colin Together 27 years live in Shetland Looking for more friends Into dinner parties and board game evenings/weekends I am trying to raise funds to register my website www.as-assist.com as a charity. It's a self help group for Ankylosing Spondylitis sufferers. I would like to be a glowworm, a glowworms never glum, it`s hard to be downhearted when the sun shines out your bum.

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ginluvvaWed 09/04/08 13:41

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In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom.

One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?"

"Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."

"Triple filter?" asked the acquaintance.

"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it."

"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?"

"No, on the contrary ...".

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, even though you're not certain it's true?".

The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued." You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really..."

"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?"

The man was defeated and ashamed. This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem. It also explains why he never found out that Plato was having an affair with his wife.

bassetWed 09/04/08 18:40

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Lovely. I like the story of Cyrus from Xenophon's "Ten Thousand". This Persian prince tended to eat roast goose, and if it was good he'd send a portion to a friend or relation situated so many hundred of miles along the Achaemenid royal road system by fast rider - with the message "Cyrus says try this - it's good."

Likewise I love the stern diplomatic letter sent to the Venetian Republic by the Sublime Porte in Constantinople (seventeenth or eighteenth century) which accuses the Venetians of sending ships THROUGH THE BALTIC SEA to aid the Sultan's enemies. Obviously their geography knowledge was slightly challenged.

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