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Socrates

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Opening night of his 1988 World Tour.
Opening night of his 1988 World Tour.

Socrates (pronounced "So-krates") was a famous IRL troll who lived in ancient Greece until being executed for grievous trolling. He invented The Socratic Method trolling technique, which consisted of asking your opponent stupid questions until they left or went batshit insane, either outcome providing much lulz. Most probably was a character invented by the other troll named Plato to serve his neocon lulz.

Contents

Trolling Technique

  • Generally attacked philosophers with Unwarranted Self-Importance
  • Purposefully defending insane ideas.
  • Being blatantly condescending while pretending to agree.
  • Feigning humility while being elitist.
  • Pretending to be ignorant.
  • Challenging and then PWNING his victims out in public.
  • Posting CP.

Jews killed Socrates

The poison that killed him.
The poison that killed him.
  • EUTHYPHRO: What? Somebody has, it seems, brought an indictment against you; for I don't accuse you of having brought one against anyone else.
  • SOCRATES: Certainly not.
  • EUTHYPHRO: But someone else against you?
  • SOCRATES: Quite so.
  • EUTHYPHRO: Who is he?
  • SOCRATES: I don't know the man very well myself, Euthyphro, for he seems to be a young and unknown person. His name, however, is Meletus, I believe. And he is of the deme of Pitthus, if you remember any Pitthian Meletus, with long hair and only a little beard, but with a hooked nose.

They did 9/11, Jesus, and Socrates too! Fucking kikes.

Socrates Has a Posse

Truly one of history's greatest trolls.
Truly one of history's greatest trolls.

Socrates attracted a core group of followers, as well as many a 13 year old boy for them to educate. The most notable member of his clique was Plato, whom he taught most of his yiffing techniques and of course, the infamous philosopher's position. His other companion Aristophanes (a noted furry with a thing for frogs and clouds) is said to have written a hilarious entry about him on a lulzy site preceding ED's method. Socrates is also famous for starting a huge flame war with Xenophon, a religious retard who he, while dressed as a pirate, pwned with a combination of his own technique and a primitive form of the Fifty Hitler Post. The event produced much lulz, as well as a plethora of Socrates/Xenophon slash fic.

Regression

Socrates was eventually pwned by the government for corrupting the youth, but instead of escaping like he was expected to, he opted for the kamikaze flamewar, which led to his dramatic death. It's common knowledge that he did this mainly because drinking hemlock was better than dying of the gay. Since then much has been written about Socrates, all of it tl;dr and shit nobody cares about.

See Also

philosophy People who think they know what the hell Socrates was talking about. Like all of us, they really have no fucking idea.

discworld A community devoted to the abhorrent theory that Socrates was in fact responsible for spawning the Harry Potter clausule with his philosopher's stone, which was actually a frozen brick of Plato's hotchpotch.

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