Fun fact: as my philosophy prof never failed to point out platonic friendship in the original Greek sense did not exclude sexual relations and related to a relationship between mentor and student, which meant they were homosexual in nature. Cmp.: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/hide-and-seek/202303/the-true-meaning-of-platonic-love
39ReplyInteresting to see that. Definitions that exclude sexual relationships seemed very heavily based on weird conceptions of who should be having sex and end up making it harder for people who engage in sex for reasons outside sexual and/or romantic attraction to describe themselves.
9ReplyAnd asymmetrical?
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Shouldn’t the fourth panel have been another question?
17ReplyI think the Socratic method is when the teacher questions the student continuously.
27ReplyWhat evidence do you have to support this?
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First good out-loud laugh of the day. What was that 311 lyric…
Aristotle I'm not, but think of Socrates.
10ReplyI prefer my relationships Kafkaesque.
4Reply"But I don't wanna be a giant bug!"
"Why not?! I told you I'd still love you!"
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Pointy ass tittays
-2ReplyPointy ass too.
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Im disturbed by how comfortable this immediately feels ...
Like I know and understand, yet ... the scientific need to destroy anything romantic, to explain the unknown ...
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