Nothing But The Truth

Confucius Essential Analects Books 7,8,11

I continue reading with a great pain in the neck (since the book is backwards) I continue thinking about Confucius as an ordinary person. What makes him superior from us? From anyone? What makes him think that what he says is the soul truth and a holly word? " It is Heaven itself that has endowed me with virtue. What have I to fear from the likes of Huan Tui?" (Book7 7.23)

This guy reminds me of my 94 year-old grandfather. Not mentioning he is an elder, he is also THE MAN. Everything, everything he says is a holy word. It may be the stupidest thing ever said in history. For example, before we were to go to a swimming tournament, were we had to swim 400m freestyle. We had lunch in their house since they lived near the pool. Anyways, he came with the brilliant idea that " Alexander the Great drowned in a pool after eating too much lunch". We had shortly studied Alexander, so we new, that no one knew exactly how he died. We thought it was a joke at first, but it came out he was firm with his answer, no matter how stupid it was.

First: No one actually knew what happened to him, he could have food poisoning which made more sense, or murdered.

Second: Were there any pool back then? But for my grandfather, it is the soul truth, and we shall all be overwhelmed by his wisdom and knowledge.

No matter how many theories of Alexander's death we said, he never changed his mind, and he will never do. So I compare him to Confucius, since both think they are superior and know EVERYTHING, and there is no one on the whole earth that my prove them wrong. "The common people can be made to follow it, but they cannot be made to understand it." (Book 8 8.9)