Said in Japanese like this:
"YOTE-soo no yoy KOH-toh-BAH: MOSH-kah-shee-TEH, tah-BUN, KAH-moh-SHEE-ren-ai, ah-TOE-day," or something like, "Four words Great Confucious like very much: perhaps, maybe, possibly, and later."
A pop psychologist on Oprah might say Master Kung "scared of commitment." (?)
We know what Ez and RAW took from Kung. I recently read this passage from Nietzsche's _The Antichrist_: [pagans say Yes to life and "God" is the great "YES" in all things, but] "The 'law,' the 'will of God,' the 'holy book,' 'inspiration' - all mere words for the conditions _under_ which the priest attains power, _with_ which the priest preserves his power; these concepts are found at the basis of all priestly organizations, of all forms of priestly or philosophic-priestly rule. The 'holy lie' - common to Confucius, the law of Manu, Mohammed, the Christian church - is not absent in Plato. 'Truth is there' : this means, wherever it is announced, _the priest lies."
If we buy this semantic use of "priestly" then "maybe" as it's cashed out seems suspect? It sounds great: how was it cashed out?
Thass wut I wanna no...
Thanks for the inspiration, I totally dig your writing!
bc
I really appreciate that, Bobby. Danke!
I'm spending more time spewing my thought-streams over at a blog called:
http://overweeninggeneralist.blogspot.com/
I'll be writing much more about RAW and ideas related to him there, but right now I'm just enjoying writing about all sorts of aspects of intellectual life.
Brilliant. Great title, too.