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Symposium—The Transcendence of the Bride of Jesus Christ

| April 15, 2023 | 0 Comments
Symposium—The Transcendence of the Bride of Jesus Christ

*N.B.: Music by J.S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, opening chorus, See, the Bridegroom cometh Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking penetrating, revelatory, and psychologically probing questions. […]

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Symposium—Lunch with 2 New 11 year-old Students and a Jewish Mother

| April 5, 2022 | 1 Comment
Symposium—Lunch with 2 New 11 year-old Students and a Jewish Mother

About the Author—Professor Ellis Washington, J.D.—I went to Harvard Law School for 1 year (1988-89) with future POTUS Barack Hussein Obama, (b. 1961- d. 09/29/2019), but I took the opposite path in Life—New World Order, Communism, Treason, Pedophilia & Satanic Ritual Abuse vs. Christianity, Conservatism, Protecting the Children & TRUMPism. I repeatedly refused to take the […]

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Symposium—On the Confederacy, Nazism and Gnosticism

| September 8, 2018 | 1 Comment
Symposium—On the Confederacy, Nazism and Gnosticism

About the Author—Professor Ellis Washington, J.D.—I went to Harvard Law School with future POTUS Barack Hussein Obama for 1 year (1988-89), but I took the opposite path in Life—New World Order, Communism, Treason, Pedophilia & Satanic Ritual Abuse vs. Christianity, Conservatism, Protecting the Children & TRUMPism. I repeatedly refused to take the “Satan OATH” which […]

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Symposium—On Job, Trump, Suffering and Faith

| July 21, 2018 | 0 Comments
Symposium—On Job, Trump, Suffering and Faith

Job and His Friends by Ilya Repin (1869) “As long as there is breath in me, and the breath of God in my nostrils, my lips will not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. Far be it from me that I should say you are right; Till I die I will not put away my integrity […]

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Symposium — Which boss would you want?

| April 2, 2016 | 0 Comments
Symposium — Which boss would you want?

Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking penetrating, revelatory, and psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then […]

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Plato’s 5 dialogues vs. America’s political debates

| March 1, 2016 | 0 Comments
Plato’s 5 dialogues vs. America’s political debates

The Death of Socrates (1787) by Jacques-Louis David. The final moments before Socrates drinks the poison hemlock, surrounded by his grief-stricken philosophy students. *Note the particularly profound grief of Plato at the foot of the bed – It is though entire weight of the world is on his shoulders at that moment. “The State is […]

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Symposium — ask big vs. the prayers of slaves

| March 1, 2016 | 0 Comments
Symposium — ask big vs. the prayers of slaves

Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking penetrating, revelatory, and psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then […]

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Symposium–No more sheets

| November 18, 2015 | 0 Comments
Symposium–No more sheets

Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking revelatory, psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas […]

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On Socrates: life and legacy

| April 12, 2014 | 0 Comments
On Socrates: life and legacy

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. ~Socrates Prologue In my ongoing series on the Classics of Western Civilization, we now come to Plato, however, since Plato was a student of Socrates as well as the primary source for what we know of the man, and Socrates left no written […]

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Symposium: The Damnation of Ideas Part 2

| February 16, 2014 | 0 Comments
Symposium: The Damnation of Ideas Part 2

In this sequel and review of Symposium: The Damnation of Ideas created by my father, Professor Ellis Washington, we continue to delve ever deeper into the second half of the 10 books written by 10 controversial thinkers whose collective works historically have had a very negative impact on society and Western civilization; whose damnable ideas […]

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