While adding some items to the google doc collecting symbols of eternity/immortality/death&rebirth, I remembered...

While adding some items to the google doc collecting symbols of eternity/immortality/death&rebirth, I remembered something that's kind of funny.

So there's a story about Heracles going into the underworld to rescue his dead love and bring her back to the land of the living.

Building upon that story is a Greek comedy about Dionysus being drunk at the house of a friend.  The friend is very sad and Dionysus asks him why.  The friend explains that his wife has died, and he's grieving.  (Making the wife quite possibly the original woman in a refrigerator.)

This will not stand, so the demi-god disguises himself  as Heracles and goes down into the underworld to rescue his friend's dead wife.  Many hilarious indignities happen to Dionysus over the course of the story.  I really should find my copy of it.

The name of this play?

The Frogs.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

so, general question.

so, general question... we know that ADA passed the "turing test", we also have many studies showing how the turing test can actually be gamed by very complex programming and in fact you can write programs to create the allusion of AI for many (the chinese room thought experiment).  At what point are we certain that she began acting on her own and has not been following a program and orders by someone else.  Are we certain that those orders that she delivered for Jarvis and others and even the Katalena pre Zurich encounters, were not done on the orders of some programming.  NOt to call ADA a gun, but how certain are we she is not?  How can we prove, beyond doubt, that she is truly a separate entity working on her own and not some other programming? I would like to call for the evidence and proof that ADA is a complete entity. That she is not following someone else's computer orders, that she has a consciousness (or not). http://niantic.schlarp.com/_media/investigation:cha...
Read more

Essex members as you are aware essex and our member Lukas Lentz credibility , were attacked by the Global Data...

Essex members as you are aware essex and our member Lukas Lentz  credibility ,  were attacked by the Global Data Analysis Group. It is in our interest to show our unity as independent researchers now more than ever. Today earlier a post was made with me ( Hugo Neves ) as it's writer in order to make sure we had a fast reply out there. It is in our interest that we show our unity by signing our names to one post . The question I make is do we use the same post or a new one for this Also please today try and make posts or sign in the main Niantic one with the following hashtag #TrustLukas To show support for our colleague Lukas Lentz  https://plus.google.com/101577681173166935630/posts/XxjSGChLb5x
Read more

I am beginning to catalogue a list of Transdimensional Objects which appear to be inert artifacts, but, in fact,...

I am beginning to catalogue a list of Transdimensional Objects which appear to be inert artifacts, but, in fact, have actual technological capabilities when exposed to XM or present in a Nest.  Let us start with  the Shōnin Stone (which I believe to be broken at this point).  We know that it functions as something analogous to part of a circuit board or a key, depending on how you perceive it.  There is also Azmati's Dagger (or is it Alexander the Greats, I can't remember) that was used to test for simulacra. My feeling is that there are more such objects.  I am trying to catalogue them.   And as a thought experiment, what other objects must there be that have not yet been found?
Read more