Suffering from Japanese Blue Balls

[GuyJean]

For some reason, this reminded me of Japan:



from - http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/

GJ

[Charles]

For some reason, this reminded me of Japan:

Probably because of stuff like this.

[GuyJean]

[Charles]

I don't understand what Pythagoras or switches has to do with any of that.

[GuyJean]

I don't understand what Pythagoras or switches has to do with any of that.

Maybe it's like Apple's 'switch' campaign..]The Pythagorean society is associated with strange and superstitious prohibitions, such as not to step over a crossbar, and not to eat beans (for the inside of beans 'contained' human embryos). These rules seem like primitive pagan superstition, similar to "walking under a ladder brings bad luck," rules one cannot help but sneeze at. The abusive epithet mystikos logos ("mystical speech") was hurled at Pythagoras even in ancient times to discredit him. The key here is that "akousmata" means "rules," so that the superstitious taboos primarily applied to the akousmatikoi, and many of the rules were probably invented after Pythagoras' death and independent from the mathematikoi (arguably the real preservers of the Pythagorean tradition). The mathematikoi placed greater emphasis on inner understanding than did the akousmatikoi, even to the extent of dispensing with certain rules and ritual practices. For the mathematikoi, being a Pythagorean was a question of innate quality and inner understanding. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras[/QUOTE] GJ

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