Thus the barbarian sage spake: "Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones."
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
Intelligence and Spirit: "Once self-realization concretely becomes part of the order of thought that extends over into reality [...] all given truths, all achieved totalities, all traps of history begin to slowly vanish like a spider's web baptized in a corrosive solvent."
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Replying to @schniedel32
Strangely spider web has been one of the most popular metaphors in history. Quran is usually a hodgepodge of past texts, but then there is the story of how Mohammad escapes his enemies. He goes to a cave and god creates a spider web at the entrance of the cave.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
Huh I never knew. Well I knew the story of the spider web in the Quran but not that the web itself is a popular motive. Would you mind giving me some other sources/myths/stories on the significance of the web? I would be very grateful.
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Replying to @schniedel32
From the top of my head: the egyptian stories about the goddess Neith, Aristo of Chios's likening of logic to a spider web, fragile but curious, Chrysippus's theory of pneuma as compared to a spider's web, Nietzsche's spider web of reason
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
I'll try to look for those. For now it's sleepy time in Krautland. We thank you for the insight as always. Keep it coming!
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