(August 21, 2015 at 7:56 am)Randy Carson Wrote: Is that the essence of modern European Judaism, Kaninchen? Have G-d's chosen people, the heirs to Moses and the prophets, really been reduced to understanding "how to live a considered/examined life"?
Please tell me that there are still some Jews who take their faith seriously and that you're just speaking from your own apatheistic perspective.
That will teach me to wonder if Randy Carson can really be as bad as I perceive him to be.
As I said, in order for an answer to have meaning, you'd have to understand the context which is something you're incapable of doing - I used to think it was just laziness, by the way, but it isn't. Of course, it would probably have helped if you'd understood what a 'considered/examined life' meant but, obviously, even that's beyond you.
Judaism, Randy, has never been Christianity minus Jesus - it wasn't 2000 years ago and isn't now.
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
