(August 23, 2015 at 10:33 am)abaris Wrote: Both my grandfathers have been jewish. But, at least the one that didn't die before I was born, wasn't religious in any way, shape or form. The only tradition he helt up were the obliogatory pieces of matza at the Easter table and a few jiddish words he used to call me by when I was little. Lifelong socialist although he was a rather successful tailor and came from a family of merchants. I doubt the other one was more religious, since he's known to have gambled away his fortune at the tables of Abazia and Monacco during the 20ies and 30ies. And both married christian women, one of them even divorced before. So, they obviously weren't traditionalists.
So, truth to tell, I don't know shit about judaism although, technically, I'm half jewish.
Yes, we're just as awful as everybody else, though sometimes somewhat noisier.
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
