The Blaney Philosophy

The Blaney Philosophy


Xenophanes Part 11

November 01, 2019

we're going to talk about the critique from the Xman. thanks for making it this far with me through Journey here to figure out what this guy's talking about and if he's worth talking about at the end of this this the last paragraph of the Internet Encyclopedia philosophy ties things together very nicely and we're going to be looking at fragment 34 and then fragment 38 after that so...fragment 34 the Xman says and of course the clear and certain truth no man has seen nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things even if in the best-case one happened to speak what has been brought to pass deal he himself would not know what is saying there is a pinions allotted to All Star game basically opinions are like elbows everybody's got them just because you got an opinion you know how helpful to listen to as other people's opinions and hey sweetie now this ultimately seems to have earned him a place in the philosophical Canon from a traditional standpoint already seen in previous episodes that the Axeman applies also advanced good reading of these X-Men skeptical statement is to see them not as an attack on the possibility of knowledge per se but rather is a charge against arrogance and dog dog mad ism jiggly with guards to matters we cannot directly experience oh yeah so basically saying luck they had a harvest this year there is an eclipse across the sky by there's the Sun that goes across the sky we have floods all the stuff you can't just say wow the God of this that and the other thing did this and there's a really wacky stories goddess of love or you know are some half man half God things are all kind of I understand human experience but not that grated explaining the world the universe and everything you know what helps you get along I think really there of what now this is me I'm just kind of talk in here on what I'm reading here what my opinion is and has does he said opinions a lot of two or even Tommy play really identify with those stories in the Greek mythology katsas to be understanding ourselves and I think more comfortable with life in general and being a human being and it's not so frightening that lower self differentiating between the two you can't just say well I'm really like a higher self person in silver coming sure and I'm one with God like that's really nice is it realistic is it something we've observed can we really just like her finger on it and say yeah that's true I have evidence of that and you can't you know you can live your life by those stories but that's not going to be you know something that's really going to convince anybody else you know you're right it's just like hey you know what you're really good dude you have solid moral when you're trying so hard to be like a portable good person and you know what and I'd say you know what real solid character right there flood bringing it to another level saying let's play a girl that security blanket let's look at what we can really observe in this a universe and make decisions and judgments based on that Avenue Chanel so that brings us right over to so now he's saying bringing all silver to fragment 38 zooming around with knowledge is limited by what we can observe when will figs or much sweeter so it's kind of like you know pair to what fig we didn't have honey compared to the Fig and maybe we'd be like hey it's pretty sweet but you know kind of a problem there you know what if somebody's hanging out I'm not a food guy put if I don't know honey and all I eat is figs and then maybe I'm thinking figs or sweet but you know honey you still existing but anyway following along with this paragraph last paragraph here therefore brought a speculations on the workings of the Divine in the car play matters are matters of opinion although some opinions with seams Square better with how things ought to be understood to rational thinking and our experiences of the world any thoughts and such matters should be tempered b