- The things from which existing things come into being are also the things int

o which they are destroyed, in accordance with what must be. For they give justi
ce and reparation to one another for their injustice in accordance with the arra
ngement of time. (Anaximander)
- Like soap, food is also something which we consume with its need. We don't co
unt who used more soap, and who didn't even use it. It is used when someone need
s it. Why then we count food? Are we living to eat, or are we eating to live?
- If A gives B a loan, then it means A has the amount of loan to spare...and A
can live without that money. The returning could be of 3 types
1. B gives A the amount equal to what he had loaned
2. B gives A the amount greater than what he had loaned
3. B gives A the amount less than what he had loaned
Certainly, any sensible man would say 3rd option is best because we know A gives
B only because A can live without the money...so getting less than what he has
given is okay, since he can live without it...and getting less is still a bonus.
But the 2nd option seems good because 3rd option if applied would cause people
to hide their money...and lie to others that they are not able to help because t
hey don't have the money while they have it. 1st option is by no way superior to
any of these...because it is immoral, unethical and unjust. Thinking that A liv
ed without that money for days so should be rewarded for his waiting...is non-se
nsical. If A was so desperate, he shouldn't have given the money in the first pl
ace. Someone might argue that A gives B, and after some time something trivial c
omes up for A and he requires his money back. This is ridiculous. Because the mo
ney is not A's, he has already given that money to B and should take responsibil
ity instead of making another one poor and desperate by asking of returning the
money or applying high interest rates.
- The stories of Homer and Hesiod blasphemously attrbute to the gods theft, tric
kery, adultery, and all kinds of behavior that, among humans, would be shameful
and blameworthy. The clear truth about the gods no man has ever seen nor any man
will ever know. Human beings have a tendency to picture everybody and everythin
g as like themselves. Ethiopians make their gods dark and snub nosed, while Thra
cians make them red-haired and blue eyed. The belief that gods have any kind of
human form at all is childish anthropomorphism. 'If cows and horses or lions had
hands and could draw, then horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, cow
s like cows, making their bodies similar in shape to their own.' Though no one w
ould ever have a clear vision of God, as science progresses mortals could learn
more than that had been revealed. 'There is one God, greatest among gods and men
, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought.' God is neither limited no
r infinite, but altogether non-spatial: that which is divine is a living thing w
hich sees as a whole, thinks as a whole and hears as a whole. 'There is only one
God because God is the most powerful of all things, and if there were more than
one, then they would have to share equal power. God cannot have an origin; beca
use what comes into existence does so either from what is like or what is unlike
, and both alternatives lead to absurdity in the case of God. God is neither inf
inite nor finite, neither changeable nor changeless. But though God is in a mann
er unthinkable, he is not unthinking. On the contrary, Remote and effortless, wi
th his mind alone he governs all there is.' (An account of religion by Xenophane
s)
- You dim-witted...dense...dumb...daft...dippy...dorky...doltish DOOFUS!