1.
Though this word is true evermore, yet men are as unable to understand it when they hear it for the first time as before they have heard it at all. For, though all things come to pass in accordance to this Word, men seem as if they make trial of words and deeds such as I set forth, dividing each thing according to its own kind and showing how it truly is. But other men know not what they are doing when awake, even as they forget what they do in sleep.
I’m not really sure what this means. Maybe it’s something to do with the “seed equation” of the universe? I don’t understand the final part.
2.
So we must follow the common, yet though my Word is common, the many live as if they had wisdom of their own.
All the same yet all different. Same language, same culture but all with different thoughts. No two ever the same, but some so similarly aligned that they resonate.
3.
(The sun is the width of a human foot.)
Sounds like he was lying on his back, and held his foot up to the Sun to block it. So he found out that the Sun is the width of a human foot.
4.
Oxen are happy when they find bitter vetches to eat.
Had to look up vetches. Well I ate a week old pizza once, it was by no means as good as it was when fresh, but it did the job.
5.
They vainly purify themselves by defiling themselves with blood, just as if one who had stepped into the mud were to wash his feet in mud, Any man who marked him doing thus, would deem him mad.
And they pray to these images, as if one were to talk to a man’s house, knowing not what gods or heroes are.
Dunno.
6.
The Sun is new every day.
Totally agree. I would take that further and say the Sun is new every Planck second. Perhaps even more frequently than that.
7.
If all things were turned to smoke, the notrils would distinguish them.
Distinct / indistict. What is indistinct that can be distinguished? I like this guy.
8.
It is the opposite which is good for us.
Or the middle. Depends.
9.
Asses would rather have straw than gold.
Well yeah, sitting on gold would make your ass pretty cold.
10.
Couples are things whole and things not whole, what is drawn together and what is drawn asunder, the harmonious and the discordant. The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one.
That’s it for now. I realise this topic is much in the style of @iambiguous’s “Thread for mundane ironists”, which I finally remembered to bookmark, it’s full of quotes and quips, a fortune mod waiting to happen.
