thegmanshouse

In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his
wisdom.

One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said, 'Socrates, do you
know what I just heard about one of your students?'

'Wait a moment,' Socrates replied. 'Before you tell me I'd like you to pass
a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test.'

'Triple filter?' asked the acquaintance.

'That's right,' Socrates continued. 'Before you talk to me about my student
let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say. The first filter is
Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is
true?'

'No,' the man said, 'actually I just heard about it.'

'All right,' said Socrates. 'So you don't really know if it's true or not.
Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are
about to tell me about my student something good?'

'No, on the contrary ...'.

'So,' Socrates continued, 'you want to tell me something bad about him,
even though you're not certain it's true?'.

The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued.' You may still
pass the test though, because there is a third filter - the filter of Usefulness.
Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?'

'No, not really...'

'Well,' concluded Socrates, 'if what you want to tell me is neither True
nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?'

The man was defeated and ashamed. This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.



















































It also explains why he never found out that Plato was sha****g his wife.

ROFLMFALEMONJELLO!!!1!!111

I drank what?

Thats the one, i saw/read the above joke and your forum avatar/siggy from yonks ago came into my head, Bill and Teds excellent adventure was on TV the other week and when sour-crates came on TV the knucks image came into my head.

If i see pacman TFC and a certain map (screenie in the Gallery i do believe) springs to mind, with some american chasing me with an umbrella.


God i have weird image associations, i had better tell my psychiatrist and psychologist as my issues and problems run deeper than they think

Hey look what I found...

Wasn't there a photoshopped one where sour-crates was holding up his middle finder pointing it upwards. Teehehe.

I thought you did that one?

Good memories!

Would i be so rude ?























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