Heraclitus is sometimes called The
Obscure because he wrote in such a way as to make his ideas difficult
to understand. That he was able to do this without the benefit of
PowerPoint is evidence of his genius. He said the sun was about a
foot across. He also said you can't step in the same river twice,
because he never walked a dog along the Mississippi. When he got a
bad case of dropsy, he slathered himself in cow dung, lay in the sun
all day, and died. They also call him The Weeping Philosopher, and
that's probably why.
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I always hate arguing with dead Greek philosophers, but Dat Ol' Man Hericlitus got it wrong: You actually can't step into the same river once. Think about it.
Shee-it man.
You can never do the same thing once.
Aggie, meet Mikey.
Mikey, meet Aggie.
Coupla peerless presenters of linguistic shenanigans and epistemological hijinx.
"I ate a bug once."
"I did the same thing once!"
Pleased to make your acquaintance, Mikey.
You can't eat the same bug twice?
I suppose one can, if you're still hungry and it's a big enough bug.
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