This is again an extract from the book I read last and also mentioned in another thread here. The forum is so stagnant, I felt like throwing a pebble…
“***According to Plato, at the beginning of creation, men and women were not as they are now; there was just one being, who was rather short, with a body and a neck, but his head had two faces, looking in different directions. It was as if two creatures had been glued back to back, with two sets of sex organs, four legs and four arms.***
*** The Greek gods, however, were jealous, because this creature with four arms could work harder; with its two faces, it was always vigilant and could not be taken by surprise; and its four legs meant that it could stand or walk for long periods at a time without tiring. Even more dangerous was the fact that the creature had two different sets of sex organs and so needed no one else in order to continue reproducing.***
*** Zeus, the supreme lord of Olympus, said: “I have a plan to make these mortals lose some of their strength.”***
*** And he cut the creature in two with a lightning bolt, thus creating man and woman. This greatly increased the population of the world, and, at the same time, disoriented and weakened its inhabitants, because now they had to search for their lost half and embrace it and, in that embrace, regain their former strength, their ability to avoid betrayal and the stamina to walk for long periods of time and to withstand hard work. That embrace in which the two bodies re-fuse to become one again is what we call sex”.***
The thought is provokably debateful too. But only for the inquisitive and excited minds.
Re: Plato on the Existence of Man on Earth and Sex
mai nai to plato ko yeh sab nai sikhaya tha.lagta hai ous ka damagh kharab ho gia baad mai.isi liay aisi ajeeb o ghareeb batay ker raha hai :D
fiction ki had tek to sahi hai likin reality sai is ka door door tak koi taluk nai.
Re: Plato on the Existence of Man on Earth and Sex
Obviously not if you talk about it in our religious perspective, but its just a mythological theory. Dont take it too seriously, reverend Socrates :aliyish:
Re: Plato on the Existence of Man on Earth and Sex
Ha.. sounds like just another fictional theory of creation.. not too different (in terms of lack of logic and sanity) from the creation theories in various religious.
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OK
when they were like 1 creature with 2 faces and stuff and as you mentioned they needed no one else for reproduction how did they do it like the intercourse if some 1 is u know, ur back is glued with some 1 else’s back and both facing opposite direction
Hello? scroll back and read again whether I have claimed it to be my theory?
I really feel amused when such comments pop up that sound totally hollow of any sensibility.
as far as the later part of your query, thats so naively cute. Paulo Coehlo is supposed to be a philosophical writer. He is more into spiritual than merely physical, but well since this is what actually arouses your imagination. Visual imagination, i should say
I wished there had been some age limit for membership on GS. Or atleast in some particular forums where it needs more to be sensibile than simply a flooding and posting just for the sake of it :hinna:
srry…jst made me imagine that..hahaahaha
yes tumare tabiat kharab ho jaay gi coz I agreed !!