Tower of Babble

(note : these are all sung to different tunes)

SOCRATES
Wherefore
O men of Athens
I say to you
Therefore
Acquit me or not
But whichever you do
I will never alter my ways
Never adjust my approach to the maze
Never repent till the end of my days
Even if I have to die many times

THOMAS AQUINAS
God is apprehended by imagination, intuition
Reason, touch, opinion, sense, and name and so on
While on quite the other hand we find we can't begin to understand him
So to some it seems a shame to go on
But he is all things in all
And he is nothing in any
He is often found in one thing small
Conversely he is often missed in many

MARTIN LUTHER
God almighty has made our rulers mad
God almighty has turned our people bad
For the German nobility with typical agility
Have so applied their skill at egregious laws
That the people are led astray
They feel beholden to obey
It may be just the German way
But God, it gives one pause

LEONARDO DA VINCI
The rise of man

Was natural

Man is so levitable

Instead of admiring man's filling of the void
We should rather be surprised
That God had man so tyrannized

Man will be strong
So long

EDWARD GIBBON

The decline of Rome
Was natural
And inevitable

Instead of inquiring why Rome was destroyed

We should rather be surprised

That Rome remained so strong

So long

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
What is noble nowadays?

SARTE
Atheistic existentialism, which I represent
Is more coherent
I do believe it

BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Man is a complex of patterns, of processes

SARTE
There is no such thing as human nature, not in all or few men
Since there is no God to conceive it

BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Man is a complex of patterns, of processes
(spoken)
I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am.
I know that I am not a category, I am not a thing, a noun.
I seek to be a verb, an evolutionary process, an integral function of the universe.

ALL
So high
In my
Lovely ivory tower of babble, babble, babble
High above the rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble
Greatest minds of history
Solving life's great mysteries
So listen to me (so listen to me)
Know how life should be (know how life should be)
Oh, what does it matter that they don't agree?

(all verses repeat together)

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