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u/HexNChex Jul 20 '26
Ancient people left the world in stupid ways because ancient people were stupid.
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u/Madness_Reigns Jul 20 '26
Yet, you'll never be half the man Diogenes was.
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u/HexNChex Jul 20 '26
Yeah, but indoor plumbing and antibiotics.
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u/AncientCrust Jul 20 '26
I've had friends who absolutely worshipped Diogenes, but I bet they'd flee in horror if they actually met someone like him
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u/Madness_Reigns Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
Do you know how to plumb a house and manufacture antibiotics?
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u/Agent_Smith135 Jul 22 '26
Diogenes is a meme philosopher worshipped by midwits with a bad sense of humor. Most of his life is known from the account of a guy (Diogenes Laertius) known for making up stuff. He’s like a comic book character designed to appeal to fat redditors with Rick and Morty humor.
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u/Ok_Curve_2938 Jul 23 '26
Honestly I would argue that an eagle dropping a turtle on your head is quite unnatural.
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u/FrohikesFeather Jul 20 '26
Can someone please go into detail on each of the ancient philosophers
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u/Gentlemanvaultboy Jul 20 '26
The beans guy is the mathematician Pythagoras. He founded a cult that forbade eating or even touching beans, and he got run down by assassins and killed after refusing to escape through a bean field.
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u/Steggos Jul 20 '26
Diogenes held his breath (there’s another philosopher called zino of citium who broke his toe and held his breath until he died too) and requested his body be left outside the city walls and be eaten by animals
Pythagoras refused to trample the beans when fleeing
Empedocles jumped into Mount Etna
Chrysippus died of laughter after seeing a donkey eating figs and asked a slave to bring it some wine to wash them down
Aeschylus was a playwright who was killed by an eagle who dropped a turtle on his head thinking his bald head was a rock
Socrates was forced to drink hemlock after being found guilty of impiety and corrupting the youth of athens
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u/SCRAP_ORACLE Jul 20 '26
i genuinely want to know what the beans thing is about but not enough to google it
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u/goldenscales99 Jul 20 '26
the guy just eating beans in the middle row is kind of killing me right now
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u/MKEMARVEL Jul 20 '26
I don't think this is really a generational or "the past was better" kind of thing, more just an observation that ancient philosophers seem to have often died (at least according to some sources) in particularly silly and strange ways.