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  1. Aug 2023
    1. Remember that I did not ask you to give me two or three examples of piety, but to explain the general idea which makes all pious things to be pious.

      I think this is interesting because it kind of reminded me of our class discussion on Monday, when we were talking about sultry and what our definitions for the word are. Soc was told the meaning of pious was related to the situation of him objecting his father, a very general vague meaning of the word. Before he decides if he agrees or understands it he wants to know the actual meaning of the word. reminds me of our descriptions of sultry which were true to us in the situation but not to everyone, they wouldn't think of the same things we did.

    1. "And, if he compelled him to look at the light itself, would hiseyes hurt and would he flee, turning away to those things that he is ableto make out and hold them to be really clearer than what is beingshown?

      From my understanding this seems to connect with the analogy of the man in the sunlight and the prisoner in the cave lit by fire, you take the man out of the cave and make him look into the light he would be blinded and turn away. I think this connects with the idea of people that have different concepts and ideas of things based on various factors of where they are from, so if you try to change or challenge those ideas at a rapid pace they will fight the ideas and turn away to them.