• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

The core difference between conservatives and liberals...

Wise words. It would be good that mankind would head back to seek the wisdom of Greece. There have been many revivals of the Greek thinking over the years. There is also this idea that mankind has really changed since their culture has existed. But as Will Durant points out is that we are basically the same trousered ape as we always have been. There is nothing new under the sun. By the way....both Socrates and Plato were not proponents of Democracy....especially as Plato got older he turned into a despot. But hey, we love our own despots dont we...!
 
It would be cool if we could convince a wise man to come to this forum to see what he might be like. In the mean time I’m stuck with you guys.
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