Pausanias said many things that made me stop and then think about how his portion of the bull session relates to us as students. One thing that jumped out at me was the line: "Evil is the
vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul,...(11 Plato Symposium). Anyone who has ever watched Shallow Hal knows what this quote is all about. For those that haven't seen it I'll give you a quick plot summary: Hal (Jack Black) is a man who is extremely shallow he is only capable of judging people based on their exterior appearance and not on their interior 
appearance. One day he runs into Tony Robins who hypnotises Hal so that the exterior appearance of women matches their interior appearance. How wonderful of a trance to be under, imagine how many babes beyond belief would be walking the streets. However, I fear we would see ugly beyond what we know ugly to be today. Go to the movie store and rent Shallow Hal, and you'll know what I'm talking about. This again just affirms that "all that is the past possesses the present. Prof. Sexson told us one day in class not to go for the "hunk" but to go for the person who makes us laugh, but what if we could have both?(figuratively speaking, I'm not in the market for any hunks.)
vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul,...(11 Plato Symposium). Anyone who has ever watched Shallow Hal knows what this quote is all about. For those that haven't seen it I'll give you a quick plot summary: Hal (Jack Black) is a man who is extremely shallow he is only capable of judging people based on their exterior appearance and not on their interior 
appearance. One day he runs into Tony Robins who hypnotises Hal so that the exterior appearance of women matches their interior appearance. How wonderful of a trance to be under, imagine how many babes beyond belief would be walking the streets. However, I fear we would see ugly beyond what we know ugly to be today. Go to the movie store and rent Shallow Hal, and you'll know what I'm talking about. This again just affirms that "all that is the past possesses the present. Prof. Sexson told us one day in class not to go for the "hunk" but to go for the person who makes us laugh, but what if we could have both?(figuratively speaking, I'm not in the market for any hunks.)
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