One theory of soulmates, presented by Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium,
is that humans originally were combined of four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces,
but Zeus feared their power and split them all in half, condemning them to spending their lives searching for the other half to complete them:
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[Primeval man] could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards as he pleased,
and he could also roll over and over at a great pace, turning on his four hands and four feet,
eight in all, like tumblers going over and over with their legs in the air; this was when he wanted to run fast…
Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the gods... Doubt reigned in the celestial councils.
Should they kill them and annihilate the race with thunderbolts, as they had done the giants, then there would be an end of the sacrifices and worship which men offered to them; but,
on the other hand, the gods could not suffer their insolence to be unrestrained.
At last, after a good deal of reflection, Zeus discovered a way. He said: 'Methinks I have a plan which will humble their pride and improve their manners; men shall continue to exist, but I will cut them in two and then they will be diminished in strength and increased in numbers; this will have the advantage of making them more profitable to us.
They shall walk upright on two legs, and if they continue insolent and will not be quiet, I will split them again and they shall hop about on a single leg.'
—Aristophanes, Plato’s Symposium, [1]
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5:10 PM
Friday, November 07, 2008
Prop 8.
Land of the FREE*
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1:56 AM
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Awww. but i guess that has turned into a slang of our generation. so from today onwards i shall stop saying that. so shld you (:
