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    The document tells a story about King Minos of Crete and the Minotaur. Theseus volunteers to kill the Minotaur to end human sacrifices. He defeats the Minotaur with help from Minos' daughter. This leads to an annual tribute ship to Apollo, which over time has all its parts replaced, posing a philosophical question about the ship's identity.

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    The document tells a story about King Minos of Crete and the Minotaur. Theseus volunteers to kill the Minotaur to end human sacrifices. He defeats the Minotaur with help from Minos' daughter. This leads to an annual tribute ship to Apollo, which over time has all its parts replaced, posing a philosophical question about the ship's identity.

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    The document tells a story about King Minos of Crete and the Minotaur. Theseus volunteers to kill the Minotaur to end human sacrifices. He defeats the Minotaur with help from Minos' daughter. This leads to an annual tribute ship to Apollo, which over time has all its parts replaced, posing a philosophical question about the ship's identity.

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    The document tells a story about King Minos of Crete and the Minotaur. Theseus volunteers to kill the Minotaur to end human sacrifices. He defeats the Minotaur with help from Minos' daughter. This leads to an annual tribute ship to Apollo, which over time has all its parts replaced, posing a philosophical question about the ship's identity.

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    We have heard stories realating to hare and tortoise .

    the tale of two brothers ,


    story of the three axes , these stories taught us patience honesty and what not ,
    but all of this components are related to one and only one thing that is binder to
    all this learnings and that binder is our identity , without our identity we are just
    a lost ship in vast ocean of this materialistic world .
    Today I am gonna narrate you a story ,which will give you a deeper
    understanding of your identity . SO the story takes place in Greece , where there
    was a king named MINOS of crete island he worshiped Poseidon for a sign of
    divine approval for his rule. Poseidon sent him a magnificent white bull, which
    Minos was supposed to sacrifice back to the gods. However, Minos became
    captivated by the bull's beauty and decided to keep it instead, sacrificing
    another bull in its place.
    Angered by Minos' defiance, Poseidon caused the king's wife, Queen Pasiphae,
    to fall in love with the white bull. With the help of the master craftsman
    Daedalus, Queen Pasiphae devised a wooden cow to hide inside, and she mated
    with the bull, resulting in the birth of the Minotaur.
    The Minotaur was a fearsome and monstrous creature with the head and tail of a
    bull and the body of a man. Due to its violent and uncontrollable nature, King
    Minos asked Daedalus to construct a labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur beneath
    the palace of Knossos in Crete. As a result, every nine years, King Minos
    demanded that the city of Athens send seven young men and seven young
    women to be sacrificed to the Minotaur as a tribute. Theseus, the brave Athenian
    hero, volunteered to be one of the tributes in an attempt to slay the Minotaur and
    end the sacrificial practices.

    With the help of King Minos' daughter, who fell in love with him, Theseus
    navigated the labyrinth using a ball of thread given by Ariadne. He successfully
    encountered and defeated the Minotaur, and he and the other Athenian youths
    managed to escape Crete with Ariadne's assistance.
    To celebrate his victory , the people of atenes started sending a ship to delus
    every year to worship apollo , this practice carried on for years the people
    thought to named the ship the ship of theseus , they started preserving the ship,
    at some point the parts of the ship had to be changed due to its bad condition ,
    some planks were replaced with the new ones , yhere came a point where all
    the parts of the ship were replaced by the new one fine day a philosphoer
    noticed that , if all the parts of the original ship afre changed thus that mean its
    still the same ship or the old parts are the ship of thesus
    This paradox challenges the traditional notion of identity and prompts further
    questions:

    What defines the identity of an object? Is it its material composition or its


    historical continuity?
    If the original Ship of Theseus is no longer the same, when did it stop being the
    original? Was it when the first plank was replaced or when the last one was
    changed?
    If the ship is still considered the same despite all the replacements, could the
    same concept apply to humans and other objects undergoing continuous
    change?

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