Wine Jar Cynics

This episode is about tips and tricks for language learning.

Son Goku story inspiration starts around 5:00 Mark.

Chinese Monkey King:Journey to the West is argubly one of the most important pieces of literature in China. It is deeply rooted in the Anime Character Goku.

Dio, Gene and Mac discuss and interpret different allegories, philosophies and symbols in the first Matrix movie. We also discuss the prequel film Animatrix and mention the 2 sequels.

Main topics discussed

-Plato's Cave allegory

-The Matrix in mathematics

-Cartesian Skepticism

-Fable of the Sparrows and Owl (Nick Bostrom's Super Intelligence)

-Plato's allegory of the Sun

-Matrioshka Brain a Solution to the Fermi Paradox

-kynics/cynic perspective

-Boston dynamics dog robot

-Our Final Invention by James Barrat (AI finding methods of interacting with the real world)

-Sophia Steward Sues Matrix directors

https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/22/inside-the-billion-dollar-matrix-lawsuit-one-of-the-internets-most-pervasive-hoaxes/

-Dune author was alive when the first Star Wars came out in 1977

-Will Smith was suppose to be the first Neo

- Keanu Reeves and the "Trans Allegory"

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/08/keanu-reeves-the-matrix-trans-allegory

Part I: Musashi Miyamoto, one of the greatest swordsmans/philosophers of Japan.

Part II (24min): Mongol, Chinese, Roman warrior ethos etc.

The mongol invasion/battle that eventually ended by the divine wind of Japan is called the battle of Bun'ei/Battle of Hakata bay.

The claim about the Greeks and Romans: (they are not the same people but the Greeks had colonies in the italic peninsula for a long time.

*correction: There were numerous non-roman generals in the imperial army. I meant to say emperors.

The Wine Jar Cynics and Warrior Philosopher Mac discuss prepping and survivalism.

Dio&Gene speak again with Mac the warrior philosopher on Psychedelics/Bruce Lee's Philosophy.

Sources: Further reading on notable inventions/discoveries while on Psychedelics/various substances: https://www.ranker.com/list/discoveries-made-by-people-on-substances/swiperight

Johannes Kepler Astrology claim:http://www.astrology.co.uk/tests/kepler.htm

Mac is a veteran and a Chinese language speaker. He's traveled all over china studying philosophy and martial arts. Hes an enthusiast of evertyhing ranging from psychedelics to spiritualism and linguistics who's our good friend.

Intro Skip around the 5min mark.

Dio&Gene discuss Zeno of Citium. Before Marcus Aurelius, the most famous stoic-- there was Zeno the cynic, founder of Stoicism. Stoicism is arguably one of the most prominent philosophies in the Hellinestic and Roman age. Even in modern times Stoicism has had a rise in popularity. This is the final episode in the successions/founding fathers arc of Cynicism. Stay tuned for episode 08: Crazy China Chronicles with our good friend Mac, an enthusiast of Chinese philosophy, language and martial arts.

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Sources:

-Encyclopedia Britannica (Zenos Life)

- Page 20-27: The Stoics 1975 FH Sandbach (Cornell Library 2nd edition)

-Zenos life at the academy, Dio Chrysostom 31.24,

-Julian Orations 7.2 11c

-Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers R.D. Hicks, Ed Chapter 1. ZENO (333-261 B.C.

Dio&Gene talk about the two pupils of Diogenes: Onisecritus (a pilot in Alexander The Great's expedition) and Crates of Thebes (teacher of the first stoic)

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-Post discussion quote: If you want to measure the virtue of a man: take away his money or give him power!

Sources:

-Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights

Onesicritus Sources: (2) Fragments and references in Jacoby, Frag, D, Griech, Hist (1929) p137

-DL, Crates throwing away his money

-Onesicritus by D.R Dudley (1937)

-Sextus Empiricus

-Apuleius

-Plutarch

-D.R Dudley (1937)

-Emperor Julian's Sixth Oration

-Cynic Epistles, Seneca

Why are Cynics called dogs?

The Doglike Tenets of Cynicism.

Why is the exchange between Alexander The Great and Diogenes is important to cynic ideology-- 38:40

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Sources:

-Goulet-Caze

-An obscure reference to "the Dog" in Aristotle's Rhetoric

(3.10.1411a25) is generally agreed to be the first reference to Diogenes.

-D.R Dudley (1937) The reason why Cynics are called dogs