The first Think Tank of the Western World
existed five hundred years before
the birth of Jesus Christ.
It can also be said that the first Street Gang
of the western world also existed
five hundred years before
the birth of Jesus Christ.
The Pythagoreans wore black cloaks with hoodies.
They had both a secret language and a special symbol.
(Their "gang" symbol was a pentangle
with five equal sides.)
They also commit murder.
But they only murdered their own:
anyone who violated the code of silence.
Their leader was born in Greece
on the island of Samos. His image is HERE
But the
pre-dating the Roman Empire–
was based on Italian soil
(then called Croton).
Pythagoreans were partially the equivalent
of a high school Math Club whose membership
was not limited to a nationality or a gender.
Country of origin meant diddly-squat.
Gender or social status meant diddley-squat.
The talents of the brain meant everything!
Numbers were their calling cards:
One was unity
Two was the female
Three was the male.
Four is square
and symbolized shape
Five is 2+3
and symbolized marriage.
Music made them muscular
and mystery made everyone else jealous.
Music and math go together
like Yes and Yes
"To Think is the Thing..."
the Pythagoreans did sing.
The olive branch was their salad bar
with lots of unadulterated Greek yogurt.
They were the first vegetarian society to outlaw beans.
They were also the first people to be exterminated.
But only six were Jewish.
Seven were African.
Eight were Arabs
Nine were Oriental.
The thirty-seven others were Greek.
All were killed by those
in need of knowledge and wisdom.
They did invent a reason
for everyone to hate Math.
They were said to invent music
but that is not true.
The Pythagoreans just enabled others
to take credit for doing so.
They didn't invent philosophy
but they were the first to give it a name.
Pythagoras was the first man
to fully understand astronomy.
The Brotherhood of Pythagoreans
discovered the first computers:
inside their very own heads.
Slightly less ancient Greeks
named Plato, Socrates, and Aristlotle
all agree that no one influenced them
more than Pythagoras.
Their reasons were as simple as
A squared plus B squared equals C squared.
They probably said that in Greek
a language I do not speak.
But I do eat a lot of yogurt.
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Footnotes
AN UN-ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF PYTHAGORAS
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
Better minds than ours have said all of the above.
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