Chapter Five/ Philosophy by Pastor Peter Christian Romanowsky of Sausalito

I am blown away this morning somewhere in January 2023, after the war series of storms in January I have ever experienced on land or on the sea of San Francisco Bay where I am both riding dictating and finger poking and printing my newest book project and unedited and unfiltered at this time and a living manuscript that I can go back and forth and correct and embellish and even idealize congratilized in the sense that sometimes times maybe overlapping in my heartfelt historical accounts of the ancient past and my knowledge and studies matriarchy thinking in the sense of being educated and matriculated by the Holy Ghost of God and of whom by his faith and knowledge given to me to navigate to passages of time travel through history in an imaginary way and through my mind's eye of seeing things in the past the way they were and what to learn from the past without looking back continuously as Jesus said that you can't plow a field straight while you're constantly looking back and yet by looking Back periodically one can learn from not only our own mistakes of which are not sins if done with the pure heart and pure intent for some say the road to somewhere is paved with good intentions as if good intentions or something turned into wrong and Evil by making mistakes and we are required to make mistakes and if we don't make mistakes we will never have anything to learn from and like an eraser on a pencil is just as necessary as the pencil even though it's the shortest part of the pencil so to speak in a poetic and Flowery way and as I think and pray in my heart and ruminate about pores and Tippy the wife of Socrates and it breaks my heart and it also Muses me the greatest name in philosophy would be partnered with the saddest name in history and one whose name has not entered into the history books like Socrates but has found its way or her way into the dictionary as a name associated with a dissatisfied and nagging and call some wife to this day and what a sad heartbreak that these two most famous people would go down in history at the office it ends of the opinion polls and yet obviously then Tippy socrates's wife was at his execution in the room with his three children crying and wailing I have some testing passing into the next world of what she had no fear of and had been preparing for all his life and no doubt especially since being a retired Hop light Soldier in the Peloponnesian War hero and a civil activist involved with politics as well as becoming a philosopher in his dreams and certainly would have wanted to walk around in a thin robe barefoot with a walking stick and a small little rucksack and went preaching along the roadsides like Homer for tips and blessings without charging anyone anything of which was the custom of philosophers and the way they dressed idealized and like even Christ who is forced to go on the road after in his hometown they attempted to murder him for declaring from the book of Isaiah that he was the Fulfillment of The Prophecy of the Messiah and had to go on the road like the philosophers of old with nothing but his robe and leaving everything behind and Nazareth including the family and family business there's a carpenter and then venturing down to the Sea of Galilee not too far away and meeting rough and tough fisherman Peter James and John who became his best friends and companions and no doubt bodyguards also for who would want to miss with three rough and tough fish and of course he collected other assorted disciples along the way and I'm sure Socrates and his dreams wish he could live like that and then diogenies came and fulfilled his dreams of vicariously after his passing and became the Socrates gone mad according to Socrates the student Plato and there was a lifetime and the team between Plato and diogenes in the prophetic and poking of fun at each other with diagonies having the upper handle and for he was living the dream of Socrates alone and free and non-dependent a non-restrain a non-committed to a family and children as Socrates was and couldn't take his message outside of Athens and yet he took his message to the world and how diogenies became Socrates vicariously postmortem and when on into the history books and not just in the dictionaries as a troublesome and quarrelsome wife and insecure like Tippy socrates's wife go home history may have misjudged and only God knows what was in tiffy's heart and all her insecure feelings with her three children 40 years younger than age in Socrates and no doubt living on the margin with his military pension and stone Carvers Guild retirement fund while Socrates continues to expose himself to the public on philosophical , judicial and political matters of what she was thrust into the Limelight after by some would call fate and others call God giving him the lottery ticket on a 500 person jury to be the foreman is the luck of the draw some might say to have a voice in defending the generals or admirals that were accused of leaving their men behind on the high seas after a naval battle during the storm and defending them and losing his defense for them and them having to drink the hemlock like he would in the future and at least we know something about Tippy before she was the object of some of Socrates is so teachings and machinations and conversations okay I am starting to go into a trans now and my writer's block has been unblocked and let me share my machinations and feelings about Socrates wife Tippy and the way she's been portrayed in the dictionaries as being synonymous with being a shrew, and angry woman, a dissatisfied woman, a harsh woman, an argumentative woman and above all most infamously portrayed as a nag. Now and nag me is a horse and of course she is named after a blonde horse, for in Greek her name Zane for instance of the two Greek words that make up zantipa, means blonde or zany. Plus Tippy means or is translated a horse of course and Socrates likened himself to a horse fly and said that he was a horse fly on the horse state of Athens. He never said he was a horse fly stinging his wife xantipa, in fact she is also can be seen as a longsuffering woman. If Socrates was asked what made him go into philosophy I'm sure he would say it was his wife and if so, then one way or the other she made Socrates the philosopher that he became. There are no women philosophers in ancient recorded history per se, she is the closest one to being a histories example of a wise woman or a philosopher woman and her philosophy was keeping the philosopher in line and but she could never get him to wash his dingy light robe or wear shoes instead of going barefoot Summer and Winter and apparently looking to shovel somewhat all the time and specially after long hours at the the drinking parties called symposiums and no doubt had to be escorted or shuffled home at times and there was a 40-year difference between her and her husband and that would make any woman a long sufferer and a kind of woman that every older man would like to meet and she probably wasn't very pretty and just like Socrates not very handsome and but apparently she had golden blonde hair at least and probably a steady sturdy body to a born three children and is the same in her own way and even though she has been the object of many seemingly unflattering or borderline remarks and an ancient Greece they had a God name terminus, who kept the boundaries and walls and borders for it is said without terminus there would be no Law and Order and there was a sort of terminus between Socrates and Xantippie and if they were two separate spheres and in orbit around each other and could never quite mix and as iron sharpens iron, what some people may have thought Xantippie was nagging, she was honing his skill and grooming him at the same time to go out and face the world and do your thing and all that I asked is to do it right Interruption in my train of thought and it is trans time and here is the word of wisdom for everything you see is a delusion and everything that you do not see is the truth and it takes a house to make the perfect egg in a well seasoned iron frying pan and my mind is going back now to 500 BC when the whole world went through a sea change from Athens with Socrates and China with Confucius and zoaster in Persia and the birth of taoism and Buddhism and the founding of the greatest City in the New World Tesla con of which also lasted a thousand years and this was a tremendous and Epoch event of which we will be going deeper and deeper into as this book gets deeper and deeper into the spirit of the golden age of Athens at this time and the thoughts I'm having is again about socrates's wife and Tippy and the bad rap she has had throughout history and the butt of many jokes so to speak and again in reality she was the only wife of a philosopher that I've ever heard or read about of hand and of which makes her very special as the only known history and historical facts about Xantippie and of which makes her a very important figure as a woman in philosophy and one that again no doubt Socrates would say that she made me the philosopher that I have become and must have been a tough woman and a demanding woman to keep Socrates corralled in his domestic life while he was historically changing the world in public and beyond anything that he could probably imagine happened when he came on to public scene as the jury Foreman of the trial of the generals who were accused of leaving their fellow sailors behind during the storm and two of them were condemned to drink hemlock as their punishment and one of them was sent into exile and this is really what put Socrates on the world stage as well as the play called the cloud that lampooned and we will go into further details about that play and how Plato said that is what swung the jury and socrates's trial against him and also Socrates was accused of charging for his wisdom of which was which was not a tradition among the philosophers in Athens for none of them were thought of or allowed to charge for their speeches or wisdom as Socrates was falsely charged while another well-known philosopher that he quoted was charging people and was never accused of such a thing publicly like he had been accused and even Saint Paul never charged for his preaching and boasted about it and was a tent maker and supported himself and others except when he was on the road delivering badly needed money to the famine in Jerusalem and when you're on the road yes you have to accept traveling money but other than that Paul was a self-supporting missionary from all we know and understand and of which made him the greatest missionary that ever lived for there is no profit and was no profit and what he was preaching and carried on the ancient tradition of philosophers not charging for their wisdom.