Diogenes the Cynic in Athens and even though he was not the father of Cynicism, he certainly has earned the title from his mentor an the official father of Cynicism and especially what do you think of sexual antics, like being virtually naked in public and homeless and defecating in public and urinating in public and walking around with his pinky finger extended, so to speak at the effeminiency him being and giving his middle thumb finger, to his critics and is this acceptable and sociable behavior and what is the points or the point that he's trying to make?! tThe point he's trying to make as he tells everybody is to go back to Nature and the simple life and the life of self sufficiency and yes it's ironic that he begs in front of statues and idols and when people ask him why does he do so and his answer was or would be that he was practicing rejection and obvious connotation if you please is the statues and Idols are nothing and cannot provide anyone with anything as the superstitious Athenians believe that the spirits of the Gods possesses statues and we make we and we must make offerings to them but they give nothing back except what the temple priests Dole out. But doesn't that go against his preaching of Going Back To Nature to Simple Life and non-dependency and self-sufficiency and that everything we need can be found simply in nature and all? Yes and he will tell you something like this that people are doing themselves a favor when they give him money and food and tips for basically it is better to give than to receive type attitude in a street artist roundabout way of speaking and in more flowery words, that he was doing them a favor for instance and meanwhile he forges like a dog, with his dogs and is quite an act when you think about it, the man who eats and sleeps and lives not only with the dogs but like a dog and we'll even pee on you if you insult him and one time a ritual to do man wanted to show him his villa mansion or state and told him that everything is so beautiful here and so please do not spit on the floor for in those days Villas had beautiful mosaics for instance on the floor if you were a rich man made out of little cubes of colored tiled called, Testi from the root word for testicle because these are very sensitive little cubes and must be laid out with great sensitivity to create a beautiful pattern or image and after the richest state holder gave him a tour of his mansion, he's spitting his face instead of on the floor on his proverbial mosaics and the rich man said why did you spit my face and he said that you were right everything here is beautiful except you or face and you so to speak. Well why doesn't he find some sort of work or gainful employment where he won't have to be homeless naked and begging with the dogs and creating all these Antics and outdoor Street drama for a living ? Well that he was a wanted man and on the lamb and on the run from his hometown and city-state of Sinope the Greek colony on the Black Sea in North Anatole and has lost his citizenship and is stateless and calls himself a cosmopolitan and some say he is coined the word, as a man of the world and a citizen of no country as before mentioned and therefore he is not eligible for any Social Services and was captured by Pirates after escaping from prison and then starved on the ship before being sold as a slave or a runaway fugitive to a Corinthian man and when the Pirates asked him what do you do and what are you good at he told them that he was good at ruling over men and so a man bottom was a tutor to his two children and as you can imagine eventually he worked off his slavery and was back on the streets so to speak homeless and with no family for his father had died in prison after both of them were charged with defacing currency for moral reasons as coins with images became idols called Mammon and he believed that the Love of Money was the root of all evil and so he makes his livelihood acting out and begging and foraging with his dogs and making a spectacle out of himself in front of the whole world and especially in Athens and Greece which are the two proverbial centers of the known world and the whole world has become his stage and nobody can do anything about it or to him for his to old to be a slave of any worth and depends on the kindest of strangers, as he acts out his sermons and messages in a down-to-earth way in the open and not hiding away writing down his philosophy like other sheltered philosophers too and this is why he is critical for instance of Plato for coming from a well to do family and could afford to be adventurous as his journey was to Egypt and being captured by Pirates and all and held for ransom is Pirates do on the high seas and while diogenes was held by Pirates and being starved with inadequate food he told them that if you were selling pigs or cattle you would fatten them up to get a better price and how silly are you for not adequately feeding us and starving us before taking us to Market and on such account he was given extra food and shared it with the other captured slaves for instance and but he is a devoted student of mine and someday May write my story for I am not a scholar or an academic or a writer and in fact I may be even functionally or professionally illiterate and as many people are for instance in rural Greece and Socrates was a tradesman and a retired Hop light soldier with honors and am acting out being a normal and decent and average human being that wants to see fairness and Justice and equality and selflessness in this world and Society we live in and I have no great gifts or a gifted Sculptor like my father before me and am retired now and want to leave this world in a better place than I have found it and just like normal and average citizen and why did the Oracle of Delphi say that I was the wisest man in Athens is beyond me other than that I have a gift to gab and am a storyteller at our drinking symposiums and having a lot of fun with people listening to my stories and views on how things should be for the average citizen and retired Soldier and Sculptor and in essence I epitomize the average working man and that is my gift and calling in God's eyes I do believe and I must take note and criticize the superstitious ways people are living in Athens in Greece and the Greek world and the whole world for that matter for the world is filled with superstitious beliefs that have no Foundation or footing in reality and beyond that they're superstitious beliefs have led them to build temples to Aphrodite's where in secret and out of the view of the public they fornicate and make love not only with anatomical statues of a marble made up of Bacchus with his erected penis to make love to and with the men anatomically correct statues of Aphrodite's as well as the temple prostitutes and priestesses and they dare criticize diagines for being virtually naked in public and sunbathing instead of showering and making love to himself instead of making love to statues objects and Temple prostitutes of which the outwardly highly moral Athenians and their own eyes have only one wife or husband and yet hold slaves and concubines and with the naked statues of Kings tyrants displayed in public with their heads modeled bodies that are not their own and the naked statues of Aphrodite's in public and with male statues like Backus also in public with his famous or infamous enlarged penis in places and how can poor and homeless diogenies be blamed for walking around virtually naked among these statues and making love to himself public in protest against a law forbidding masturbating in public or just out of playing necessity where nowhere to go and know where to hide and being exposed to the world anyways and being moral and just and celibate and monogamous at the same time and never having a family of his own and has only he himself to take care of living in his minimalist and low impact on the environment life, on whether he chose that life or whether it was chosen for him by others or by God, as some sort of chastening or example of doing some unknown sin or sins in his life out of the sight of the public other than peeing on someone for treating him like a dog and throwing chicken bones to him while people were eating and feasting and mocking him and his dogs and if this is or what his great sins are or were and I mean seemingly being rude and nasty to people for no apparent reason at all except to point out other people's hypocrisy and rudeness and neglect of him and aging man end of such abuse and neglect it is not only the abuse of the homeless but of the age it also and it wouldn't surprise me if he lived to be 90 years old living his intoxic life of non luxury and the pursuit of pleasure of which Athenians have became sadly famous for in their pride and victory is over Persia, their most hated enemy and now the Persians are supporting Sparta and the peloponnese and was Sicily with backings going this far as the new Roman Republic of which was just born after Lucius Brutus over through the last Roman King and has become a Republic and we are flanked now both on the East and on the west with people that hate us and want to destroy us and enslave us, while people are still living in there hedonistic life of pleasure after their victory from Persia and how long can or will this last only history will tell and The Barbarians are already at the gate so to speak and people are still living in pleasure and secret debauchery instead of loving and caring and supporting their neighbors and praying to God and not to Zeus that rascal and adulterer and kidnapper and rapist but the whole Greek world still worships and will continue to worship until a time of change has come and we have those in this city that believe in the one true and good God as surely as we have a Jewish Community also in Athens and their most famous prophet Isaiah, who preached barefoot and buttocks naked for three years, warning the back sliding and idle worshipers among them and in Egypt that the king of Babylon is coming to take them all away naked and barefoot five hundred miles away on a death March too Babylon as slaves
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