Once there was a man called Socrates. He used to go around asking questions. He used to ask people what they thought 'justice' and 'wisdom' and 'goodness' and 'knowledge' were, given that they thought they had those things and given that they were paid to teach other people what those things were.

They couldn't answer his questions so well. He exposed their ignorance. They turned on him. He faced trumped up charges of 'corrupting the young' and 'believing in false gods' and he was sentanced to death by being made to drink Hemlock.

Socrates is a tragic hero. For philosophers and all people who like to question. He was not well received by society and by his culture. Philosophers tend not to be. I know I'm not well received at times because people are afraid of questioning. People are afraid that that the process of questioning... Makes them look stupid.

It doesn't make people look stupid. But for those who cling to ideals and are afraid of questioning I ask... What are you afraid of?

I don't understand... But then I've never been ashamed to say 'I don't know' and 'Oops I was wrong'.

Regarding starting my own thread...

What happened to the original topic of this one?

Oh yeah... People want to ignore it.

Put me on ignore peoples.

I'd much prefer it to your posting and attempting to get other people to ignore me.