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DAUHUMAN 5 points 4 months ago*.

Plato’s myth in “The Symposium” describes humans as originally androgynous beings later split in two by the gods, who now seek their “other half.”

“Across lifetimes, some souls are not searching—they are remembering. Drawn by invisible threads, they find each other again and again, proving that true connections are never lost to time.”

BubbaPharm.com 5 points 4 months ago.

Kudos for that incite. I love his allegories, and his explanation for the inevitable attraction between men and women.

For everyone else, Plato’s Aristophanes describes an original human as being spherical, with four arms, four legs, and two faces on a single head . . . and then it was split. People have also drawn some funny depictions of what this proto-human looked like (lol).

PS: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is my go to when I need a reality check from the ‘shadow masters’.