(August 23, 2015 at 1:45 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:
Now, THERE's the Kaninchen I know. Well said.
The Torah: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Number and Deuteronomy.
(But look, you need to keep this on the QT...if some of the folks around here catch wind of this, they'll start caterwauling about G-d condoning genocides and rapes and all sorts of stuff.)
Except, of course, we've spent millennia rowing between ourselves about "what was that all about then?"
On the one hand, while on the other hand, while on yet another hand . . .
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
