God is Dead

[Madame Pandora]

CB,

I love Nietzsche. Now...was that Pride and Prejudice? Philosophy and Pride? Prejudice of Philosophy? One of those...lol

 

[Madame Pandora]

Damn it, I'm sorry, guys

This was supposed to be a REPLY on the quote thread. I hit the wrong damn button. <insert picture of me looking like an ass here>

MP

 

[naudiz]

Nietzsche is dead. - God

And here I was thinking: whatever it is, I'm just *not* going to reply.

 

[Ambrosious]

Hey!

That's EXACTLY how I end up starting 15 threads a day. Just a slip of the mouse.

 

[R Nitelight]

Ambrosious

That's EXACTLY how I end up starting 15 threads a day. Just a slip of the mouse.

That doesn't explain the other fifty a day, though....

 

[Madame Pandora]

Sure...LAUGH...

I'll be KICKED OUT OF THE DOG POUND FOR THIS!

MP

 

[CelestialBody]

MP

 

[Whispersecret]

<growls> I'm gonna have to take your collar away, MP, if you insist on continuing to play with Mr. Thread-a-Thon. Arf!

 

[Ambrosious]

<growls> I'm gonna have to take your collar away, MP, if you insist on continuing to play with Mr. Thread-a-Thon. Arf!

That's rich.

Just rich.

 

[Guest]

Don't believe everything you read in Nietzche. He was quite insane and his sister was a proto-nazi (she added lots of anti-semitic messages to his texts after he died). Come to think of it, all the modern philosophers have been a bit bonkers. Witgenstein was certainly a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I pretty much stick with Socrates, early Freud (before the sex), and Betrand Russell myself. Oh, and that Jack Handy guy from Saturday Night Live.

 

[Dillinger]

One sticks one's finger into the soil to tell by the smell in what land one is: I stick my finger into existence... it smells of nothing. -- Kirkegaard

 

[Guest]

I love the smell of nothingness in the morning.

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Endlessly]

I have a black T-shirt that says 'Neitzsche' in big white, friendly letters on it from the time I was in Godspell. It's the only T-shirt I wear on a regular basis, even though I don't really agree with him. Someone once asked me, "Nitchky? Is he a football player?"

His ideas of Christianity as a slave religion are interesting, but I don't really jive with his idea of the Neitschean hero. There have only been two, according to his own criteria:

Achilles, and himself. *chuckling*

 

[Nobody Special's wife]

OK sorry wrong post again... sorry all,, NS

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[Edited by Nobody Special's wife on 01-10-2001 at 01:54 PM]

 

[Nobody Special]

hu?? what ?? did some one say that all the great philosophers are Insane?? Well I guess they would be, cause most of the great ones were killed in public by Government order..

Socrates
Jesus Christ (BTW where is the Bible that he wrote that is banned by the Christian faith??)

Just mention a few...

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[Todd]

I have read the book that refer to and it makes no claims to be written by jesus. Also I have found from secular sources that it was written by a secular source to try and discredit jesus who they deemed to be a dangerous threat.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Out of curiousity- would Nietzche's "superman" have to be perfect to live with the knowledge that there is no higher authority-and still manage to lead what most people would see as a virtuous life?

Oooooo. Nice question. I could so easily segue into the theme of "2001 A Space Odyssey", but I won't.

Thus Spake Zarathustra.

 

[CelestialBody]

Keep going

 

[Guest]

[B
I guess I'm a little screwed up in the head-I like a Locke's ideas-and Rousseau's.[/B]

Maybe insanity is a natural reaction to a universe that no longer seems to have any meaning. Until wide-scale industrialisation and the start of the modern age, people in the west knew their role in life - there was a rigid heirarchy: God, Pope, King, Lords, Servants, Serfs etcetera. Everyone's name was somewhere on the guestlist. Your life had meaning. When Nietzche said "God Is Dead" he was just articulating what many people were already feeling - that from the late 19th century onwards religion and traditional views of society didn't have as much relevance to westerners. Once you take "God" away from the equation, what's left? I guess Nietzche was suggesting that you become your own God, aim to become a "superman" - become better than the ordinary man or woman. The way the Nazis manipulated and misinterpreted his ideas shows you how dangerous an idea like that can be.

Not a big deal. Out of curiousity- would Nietzche's "superman" have to be perfect to live with the knowledge that there is no higher authority-and still manage to lead what most people would see as a virtuous life?

I don't know.

By the way, who was the gluttonous Scottish philosopher? Was that Locke? He seemed to have a few interesting ideas for his time.

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Guest]

Mr Creosote Is Dead

Oh, actually, CB, it might be Hobbes (that's a Scottish name). I was reading about him. He was from the Scottish Borders and I think he advised some king during a trip to France or something. My memory's a bit vague about the whole thing. I just liked the fact that there was a Scottish philosopher and that he ate a lot.

 

[CelestialBody]

Where is