I'm sure our resident clasicist will correct me on this.
The ancient greeks believed that a man's soul was immmortal, only so long as his friends remembered him.

I like to think this is true, which is why I'm thinking of my friend now, before we cremate him on Friday. He introduced me to drugs, what more can I say, a real star.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:48, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I can take consolation from that version of 'immortality'

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:50, Reply)

Sartre says this too
'Those dead who have not been able to be saved and transported to the boundaries of the concrete past of a survivor are not past; they along with their pasts are annihilated' p.112, Being and Nothingness, J-P S.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:04, Reply)

I have that book on my shelf
It's HUGE, and was a cunt to read, and made me hate Sartre.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:10, Reply)

I love that book!
Mine is covered in scrawled notes.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:33, Reply)

I love what he says
Just wish it wasn't written in obscure/complex English. The translated works of Socrates/Plato are just as fruitful for interesting ideas, but far easier to read.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:39, Reply)

Plato and his cave....
Ah...happy days.
EDIT - You did a philosophy degree, didn't you?
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:47, Reply)

Yes I did
And I used the allegory of the cave in my dissertation (when talking about The Matrix, how once Neo has seen outside the cave he is unable to return to it).
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:49, Reply)

This exactly.
so long as there are records of our acheivements, somehow we will last forever. We don't necessarily know the names of the people who built the pyramids, but they exist and are clearly man made, so their acheivements still stand and have impact on us today.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:13, Reply)