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[-] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Huh, I was watching a YouTube video about the Sabians in Türkiye the other day and how they were Pythagorians who didn’t eat beans

https://youtu.be/L00Fyu_5GXk

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 13 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

We found Shrek.

[-] Grimtuck@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

They're the ones that make you cry easily

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago

Pythagoras it's human being, not human bean!!! Silly goose!

[-] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

He also died because when he was being chased, he refused to run through a bean field, trampling on the beans.

He used to also lecture by dressing like a girl, and sitting behind a curtain so that only his shadow would appear on the curtain. I love stories of ancient trans people.yes they also believed in silly things sometimes, but they were just as intelligent and creative as we are. They were human in every way that we are today.

[-] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 94 points 1 day ago

> be me
> greek philosopher
> love wisdom
> realize eating animals is kinda fucked up
> go veg
> "oh yeah well what about protein dumbass?"
> plebs forgot one thing
> BEANS
> eat beans nonstop
> all beans all the time
> beans beans beans
> everything starts to smell like beans
> breath smells like beans
> farts smell like beans

pff w/e this is wise af

> fap to own wisdom
> cum smells like beans

Fellow philosophers, I have just concluded a series of rigorous scientific experiments...

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

MOTHERFUCKER DIED FOR BEANS

https://philosophynow.org/issues/78/The_Death_of_Pythagoras

Although the death of Pythagoras hinges midway between myth and history, it hung on the weightiness of a mere bean. Whether lima, pinto, or fava was never recorded, but Pythagoras died for that bean. It was a bean which contained within it a new view of the cosmos which would infiltrate the crevices of people’s beliefs, insinuating itself into the world and persisting for more than a millennium.

[...]

There were many rules to follow if you were to be accepted into the Pythagorean Brotherhood. Fail in any of these and you were likely to be cast out from them with great ceremony. A mock funeral would be performed and you would no longer exist in the minds of the Brotherhood. One rule that could never be broken was the edict to refrain from eating beans. This stemmed partially from the Pythagorean precept that each person should strive for tranquillity and peace, savoring the harmony which mirrored the harmony of the heavens, the outer boundaries of the universe. But eat a plateful of beans and see what this brings you! The gurgling and squeezings of your intestines becomes anything but tranquil. Further, one Pythagorean goal was to purify the body and psyche so that one could return to the sun and rise even beyond the sun to the stars and the Milky Way, for which purification beans were counterproductive. But there was a deeper reason for omitting beans from the diet. It was believed that to eat a bean was akin to eating human flesh.

[...]

Suddenly Pythagoras came to a stop. A vast bean field stretched before him. He stood frozen, uncertain what to do. His eyes focused on a single bean dangling inches from his papyrus- covered feet. So true was he to his ideals that, even at the risk of losing his own life, he was unwilling to trample upon even a single bean. Staring down upon that vibrant bean, the sun low in the sky, he imagined it to be blossoming into a divine ripeness before him. And as he stood there, hesitating, contemplating his next move, his pursuers caught up with him. They lifted their weapons, and bringing the knifes down hard, spilled Pythagoras’ blood on the plants – ending his life for the sake of a bean, and for the deep wisdom immersed in that diminutive cosmic object.

[-] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

Patron saint of the lemmyverse

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I’d die for a bean yaknowwhatI’msaying

Pythagoras what a weird dude.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 6 points 18 hours ago

> BEANS
> eat beans nonstop
> all beans all the time
> beans beans beans

https://youtu.be/au3-hk-pXsM

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 15 hours ago

'Ecce homo, qui est faba'

[-] Sunspear@piefed.social 103 points 1 day ago

I'm sorry, but cum.

You can swear on the internet. And this isn't swearing even, it's just related to sex, you know, something natural

[-] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 1 day ago
[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago
[-] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 21 hours ago

Typhus? How rude to wish a disease on this poor person!

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 63 points 1 day ago

I'm sorry, but cum.

This is what I say when I'm about to finish too soon.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 19 points 1 day ago
[-] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 26 points 1 day ago

It wasn't a censor, OP just got a little too excited

[-] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm with you. Censorship is killing my sanity. But here's the issue.

We already have content restrictions in place to "protect" under 18s whether they're mature enough or not to see porn or gore. Physical and digital media have PEGI, BBFC, etc. ISPs have parental control - the UK has Content Lock. We have parents with personal preferences for their offspring's access.

National or global censorship is useless. In their insatiable quest for power and money the corporations and governments are trying to turn the internet into a child's internet. If these are the lengths they're willing to go to, if their intentions were honest, it would surely be easier to let the adults have the freedom of adults and build a second internet for children. Maybe age lock that. Instead of killing everything consenting adults made.

This is equivalent to taking a bar, stripping out the slot machine, alcoholic drinks and erotic dancers, adding a ballpit, replacing live sports with cartoons and still checking ID at the door. Except now they want to swap ID for fingerprints.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago

There are already multiple search engines only for children. It's only excuses to seize power over people.

[-] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 4 points 19 hours ago

Just imagine the change that could go through social media platforms if, instead of censoring their content, users would just share links to platforms which allow them to freely share without unnecessary censorship.

On the other hand I'm a bit scared of what the rich assholes would come up with instead if they can't work themselves off at the enshitification of reddit et al..

[-] cobwoms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago

these days it's not because people are trying to censor the content from the viewer, but they're censoring from the algorithms. they want their content to be seen, and algorithms will demote content when it has profanity. probably not the case on lemmy, but this was a screenshot from somewhere

[-] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

This is also why you‘ll see/hear the verb „unalive“ and have people refer to „seggs“.

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[-] bryndos@fedia.io 3 points 17 hours ago

mmmm, primordial bean soup.

I'm still eating it though even if it is my (step) nXgrandmother.

[-] f314@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago
[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Life

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

Cool.

Cool cool cool.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

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

This is not what I meant.

[-] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

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

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

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

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago

I mean, have you see a fetus? At some point, it looks like a bean.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Whats wrong, sweetie? You’ve barely touched your refried fetuses.

[-] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

I honestly love that we've all agreed to misattribute this relationship of triangles to Pythagoreas, because it's meant future generations keep learning about Greece's greatest crackhead.

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

Chat, is this true?

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

Oh shit guys it's bean season again

[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

life back then mustv been crazy people just thought whatever

People still just think whatever tho.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
[-] TheWordBotcher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

The little discussed Pythagorean Wild Conjecture.

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