MOTHERFUCKER DIED FOR BEANS

https://philosophynow.org/issues/78/The_Death_of_Pythagoras

Although the death of Pythagoras hinges midway between myth and history, it hung on the weightiness of a mere bean. Whether lima, pinto, or fava was never recorded, but Pythagoras died for that bean. It was a bean which contained within it a new view of the cosmos which would infiltrate the crevices of people’s beliefs, insinuating itself into the world and persisting for more than a millennium.

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There were many rules to follow if you were to be accepted into the Pythagorean Brotherhood. Fail in any of these and you were likely to be cast out from them with great ceremony. A mock funeral would be performed and you would no longer exist in the minds of the Brotherhood. One rule that could never be broken was the edict to refrain from eating beans. This stemmed partially from the Pythagorean precept that each person should strive for tranquillity and peace, savoring the harmony which mirrored the harmony of the heavens, the outer boundaries of the universe. But eat a plateful of beans and see what this brings you! The gurgling and squeezings of your intestines becomes anything but tranquil. Further, one Pythagorean goal was to purify the body and psyche so that one could return to the sun and rise even beyond the sun to the stars and the Milky Way, for which purification beans were counterproductive. But there was a deeper reason for omitting beans from the diet. It was believed that to eat a bean was akin to eating human flesh.

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Suddenly Pythagoras came to a stop. A vast bean field stretched before him. He stood frozen, uncertain what to do. His eyes focused on a single bean dangling inches from his papyrus- covered feet. So true was he to his ideals that, even at the risk of losing his own life, he was unwilling to trample upon even a single bean. Staring down upon that vibrant bean, the sun low in the sky, he imagined it to be blossoming into a divine ripeness before him. And as he stood there, hesitating, contemplating his next move, his pursuers caught up with him. They lifted their weapons, and bringing the knifes down hard, spilled Pythagoras’ blood on the plants – ending his life for the sake of a bean, and for the deep wisdom immersed in that diminutive cosmic object.

> BEANS
> eat beans nonstop
> all beans all the time
> beans beans beans

https://youtu.be/au3-hk-pXsM

Clean version.

It wasn't a censor, OP just got a little too excited

I'm with you. Censorship is killing my sanity. But here's the issue.

We already have content restrictions in place to "protect" under 18s whether they're mature enough or not to see porn or gore. Physical and digital media have PEGI, BBFC, etc. ISPs have parental control - the UK has Content Lock. We have parents with personal preferences for their offspring's access.

National or global censorship is useless. In their insatiable quest for power and money the corporations and governments are trying to turn the internet into a child's internet. If these are the lengths they're willing to go to, if their intentions were honest, it would surely be easier to let the adults have the freedom of adults and build a second internet for children. Maybe age lock that. Instead of killing everything consenting adults made.

This is equivalent to taking a bar, stripping out the slot machine, alcoholic drinks and erotic dancers, adding a ballpit, replacing live sports with cartoons and still checking ID at the door. Except now they want to swap ID for fingerprints.

these days it's not because people are trying to censor the content from the viewer, but they're censoring from the algorithms. they want their content to be seen, and algorithms will demote content when it has profanity. probably not the case on lemmy, but this was a screenshot from somewhere

heh butt

CUM!

We found Shrek.

They're the ones that make you cry easily

And a real hero

He's a pseudomythical figure and you should treat stories about him about the same way you treat a story about Moses and the like

Especially because Greek "historians" just straight up loved lying to make a good story

Possibly. It could be or it could've been invented to make some point long after Pythagoras' life

From Wikipedia "Bean":

cultivated since the seventh millennium BCE in Thailand, and since the second millennium BCE in Europe and in Peru.

So from Asia, and in Europe 4 kiloyears ago

The nine kiloyear Thai date suggests beans were among the first domesticated plants in afroeurasia