Well, unfortunately for Xenophanes, he lived and died just before Plato arrived on the scene to help him realize that his shallow theory is the result of him being utterly fooled by the illusions on the cave wall.uwot wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 7:57 amI suspect you have got it arse about tit and that gods are created in our image. Once more, as Xenophanes said:
But mortals suppose gods are born,
Wear their own clothes and have a voice and body.
The Ethiopians say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
While Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each would shape
Bodies of gods in the likeness, each of their own kind.
Forgive me for constantly uploading the same (over-used) images from my book, but I tried to demonstrate the superficial nonsense proposed by Xenophanes in yet another of my illustrations...
The blurry captions read as follows:
"The great God in "heaven" just above the topsoil, created "acorn" in his own image. So obviously, the great God in heaven has a very light colored shell with a cap that extends halfway down his perfect oval body that ends with a well formed nubbin like mine....
...All of the rest of you who have darker shells, or oddly shaped caps, or poorly formed nubbins, do not fit that description. Therefore, you are not created in the image of the great God in "heaven" just above the topsoil."
And in keeping with the acorn theme, there's this illustration..."You are such an idiot!"
"...We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye..."
The captions read as follows:
"He was so young, why did he have to die?"
"Why does God allow this to happen?"
"This is such a tragedy!"
"Death is so cruel!"
"Oakley, get down off of that ladder!"
"I think there's something up here!"
Meanwhile, up in acorn heaven..."Oakley, there's nothing up there! Have some respect for the dead, please!"
And the point is that Xenophanes would be amongst the seated mourners. Indeed, he would be the one yelling up at Oakley in defiance of what the (Plato-ish) Oakley is claiming to see through the peephole in the ceiling of their lower dimension of reality."Wow! Just wait till the gang sees this!"
I shouldn't have to explain any of this stuff. And that's because the meaning in the imagery should be self-evident.
On the other hand, whether or not the obvious metaphor can be applied to humans (as is depicted in one of my flagship illustrations)...
...is another issue altogether.
Nevertheless, you can at least see why I refer to humans as being "THE ULTIMATE SEEDS" (be it true or not).
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