== IF you bang them hard against each other so that flakes
   fall off... you'll have magnetized flakes in one case and "not
   magnetized" flakes in the other case. Then you can leave the
   rods alone, play with the flakes. The flakes will attract each
   other in the case of magnet rod as source, and the flakes will
   do nothing to each other in the case of the plain rod. == He's
   another nerd like us sitting behind our computers/phones on a
   little forum in the far corner of the Internet, discussing
   things of no cosmic consequences in the grand scheme of things,
   just killing time ultimately before we die. So, I don't take
   things personally smile emoticon = If you can keep that attitude
   in mind when online talking to people, nothing anybody ever says
   will affect you unless you choose it to. Affords an amazing
   amount of self-control with zero effort. == How you live your
   life is your choice. It's not my place to decide for you. I
   don't have to wake up in the morning in your body with your
   mind. I have my own, thanks smile emoticon == Truth? Unless you
   believe in the Platonic realm, which you appear to, truth is a
   construct. Granted, certain truths seem to have "stickiness"
   because of resistance to change among the participants of a
   society, but nevertheless, there's no ontological reality to
   truth, just epistemological. == You appear to engage in "magical
   thinking - that certain words and sentence constructs have a
   certain innate "power" or "force" in and of themselves. They
   don't. Sorry. == The unconscious didn't exist as a concept until
   the late 19th/early 20th centuries. We also have no evidence of
   their talking, but rather writings, fragments of writings,
   ancient historians talking about them, and many many copies of
   their words through the centuries until they reached you, today.
   I believe what we've received is accurate enough though,
   conceptually close enough to be acceptable, By the way, "We"? is
   this you and Plato standing along across the span of 2500 years,
   against some dude sitting in an ugly yellow chair typing words
   on a laptop on a cold back porch in the middle of the night?
   PLEASE, do take me to your TARDIS. Mine is lost across the
   street. == Bring Plato here and we'll talk. I just see words
   typed by you, presumably, unless you're a bot, which would be
   easy enough to construct. Minimal coding required for that. ==
   Not in my lawbook but if that's a rule in your lawbook, you
   might wish to turn yourself in for crimes committed. == Words
   don't speak. There's you and I here, typing words on
   computers/phones. These are your words and my words, put
   together by you and I. Plato isn't here. Hes dead. == I haven't
   seen a valid argument. Just a guy diverting conversation. I
   don't mind the diversion. I'm enjoying myself. I suspect you are
   too, otherwise you would have stopped. == Oh, I'll be like this
   when I'm 88, if I'm not dead yet. I reveal intelligence to civil
   people within civic discussions. To all else, absurdity. == If
   you've lost, you don't have to stay. I wasn't battling. Just
   enjoying a nice internet chat. == I'm spreading truth. To you. I
   can't blame poor reception on your end, for I am a poor
   communicator, what can I say? == I agree. By continuing engaging
   with you, I am doing right. It is its own reward. == I'm just
   playing your truth game better than you are. Nyah nyah Learn
   from a pro. tongue emoticon == Not me. I'm not a pro. Try
   Socrates or Plato. They're much smarter. == Physician, Heal
   Thyself. = Requires a metal pick just between the eyebrows and
   with a sharp jab UP. Bricks are not nearly sharp enough. I don't
   recommend it though. Let's see, if you were in Generation Z, you
   would have had me drink bleach by now, so I'd place you in
   Generation Y. - Requires a metal pick just between the eyebrows
   and with a sharp jab UP. Bricks are not nearly sharp enough. I
   don't recommend it though. Let's see, if you were in Generation
   Z, you would have had me drink bleach by now, so I'd place you
   in Generation Y. == Asshat places you as a gamer, around the
   ages of 23-26 years old, previously active in multiplayer gaming
   but more intelligent than the crowd, so you upgraded to forums.
   == You're certainly under 27 because by that point, you would
   see someone of 44 not as "too old for... [x]" but rather on the
   older end of the direction your heading in. Your not a teenager
   because ... well, they don't say asshat. You're well read enough
   in your subject matter to have some education, either formal or
   informal, which takes time in either case, enough to form
   arguments quoting people properly, and yet immature enough to
   believe you are STANDING FOR TRUTH., alone in the world, just
   you and the Ancients together against "the herd". Anyway, I'm
   likely wrong on all counts but it doesn't matter. I enjoyed our
   exchange smile emoticon