Life

No authentic writings of Pythagoras have survived,[2][3] and almost nothing is known for certain about his life.

Cool.

Cool cool cool.

A real human bean?

We share 70% of our DNA with an onion, some people more

Typical teen: “What?? No mom, I just crushed some beans earlier, I swear!”

I fear that this is where Lemmy and Pythagoras part ways irrevocably.

He also believed your soul carries on after death and enters a new body, possibly even an animal’s.

The story that he was killed because he refused to run away through a field of beans is probably fake. There’s a trope of ancient philosophers getting ironic deaths:

• Archimedes being killed because he was absorbed in his geometry (he told the attacking soldier “don’t disturb my circles!”)

• Diogenes was notorious for rejecting social norms and acting dog-like. “Cynic” comes from the Greek word for “dog”. He died of food poisoning after eating raw octopus, showing you can’t really live like a dog.

I have a kid I sometimes call “Little Bean” as a term of endearment.

This is not what I meant.

Well, Pythagoras wasn’t so wrong either, all living beeings on Earth are descendants of the first single-celled life that formed at the beginning of the Earth, also beans and humans.

bean

‘Ecce homo, qui est faba’

Isn’t Pythagoras also the guy who believed that farts were the soul leaving the body?

And that beans were therefore toxic and related to death.

Chat, is this true?

What kind of bean? Don’t most varieties we eat today come from the Americas?

It’s a shame he never had the pleasure of Bradford Pear trees in the spring. 🤢 🤮