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I don't know man some of those guys are absolutely shredded. Maybe they're just platonists?


Diogenesists? Diogenesers? Followers of Diogenes?


I'm low on ancient Greek knowledge, what are you getting at?


Why would they be platonists? Diogenes was the Greek philosopher who shunned material things and famously lived in a barrel. Seems like that would be the ancient Grecian philosopher that might inspire some form of voluntary homelessness.


There's a (apparently un-substantiated[0]) claim that Plato was buff; "Plato" was apparently a nickname and meant "broad" in Classical Greek, referring to his wrestlers physique.

[0] I heard this claim a long time ago, but according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato#Life) it's apocryphal. The Talk page has a decent argument for it not being the case.


Ah fair, I meant in that they're homeless so they must live in their heads/in ideas which are more real to them (hence Plato), so they're shredded from always being active and outside.


I believe followers of Diogenes are called Cynics


Ah, yes.




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