| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/1/2007 5:28:49 AM | | You should read the source material. "God is Dead" is not a triumphal cry, but a lament. I'm not going to give you any more than that since I'm working off of memory and he's a really great writer and an incisive thinker. I'd be doing him an injustice. | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/8/2007 1:46:59 AM | Satan is dead.
Here is Satan tell me if you see him.... Within the inverted pentagram withing the roads at the white house (google earth that)
Within the poisons in our food supply (aspartame, flouride, gmo, .....) Comes from companies related in an almost incestual relationship together (secret groups)
In that goat hand thing
Blaphompet
Illumaniti
NWO
National I.D. if you do not accept you can not buy or sell sounds like 666 too me.
Lies
depleted uranium
genocide
9.11
MEDIA CONTROL
Thought police
lies
gfy! Nietchky suks pp.
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/8/2007 5:47:28 PM | It is common in the philosophy community to say that no man under 25 should be permitted to read Nietzsche, for it will inevitably get misinterpreted and go to his head, making him an arrogant ***hole for years to come.
He's one of those philosophers for whom no single book, chapter, paragraph, or especially single quote, can be taken as an autonomous statement. To 'quote' Nietzsche and believe it is representative, would be like to quote Einstein saying "everything is relative." The more you read of Nietzsche the more it becomes clear his ideas are very much unlike the sentence-long quips the float around the internet these days.
Then again, to really get to know N takes a long time and a lot of reading, which in the end is dreadfully unsatisfying, because he was full of sh*t. | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/8/2007 6:42:40 PM | He is just a man on a couch. All the beautiful people do not like what he says because it is dead and dark.
Sure some people like dark and evilsh things. Like murderers and killers some of those black haired kids with black jack boots and monotone voices like Nietzsche.
People that love and choose to feel no they like Kant or Aristotle or they may like modern thinkers like John Lennon ,David Suziki, or Chomsky.
Whatever they may like Hitlers style or the new Jewish thing Naziew kill everyone not whiteish or whatever our new war is about.
What ever you think in the end your dead.
I choose to feel (and be happy)
So gfy NISHKY | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/11/2007 9:58:55 AM | Nietzsche was good and honest but if you really want a contempary person who I feel is just as honest then you should try reading some of Henry Millers' work. I think he take what Nietzche was saying and then goes a little futher. some of his works are
Trillogy:
Sexius
Plexius
Nexius
this series is very good.
his other books are The Tropic of Capricorn, and The Tropic of Cancer.
If you read any of these let me know what you think I always enjoy a good conversation on life. | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/13/2007 9:42:12 PM | | Nietzsche was never negative about humanity. All that he stands for, and all that he has written were just ..accurate observations. One who will follow the rules and regulations of a blind religion out of fear are weak-minded. | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/14/2007 5:22:21 AM | | absoultly true covergirl, you are right about him not really being negatve about humanity, and it wasen't till after his death many many years later that people started to put that black stigma on him. | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/15/2007 9:05:14 PM | Almost without fail, it is those who have never read Nietzsche that have the worst opinion of him.
When I think of the story of how Nietzsche, out for a walk one day, happened upon an old horse that was being used to haul wagons in the city; a horse that had fallen because it was old and tired and abused by an owner who was whipping it mercilessly, trying to make it get up and do some more work; and how Nietzsche fell onto the animal, sobbing, trying to shield it from that vicious beating in what were obviously its last moments on this earth... I am glad that he died before the First World War, so that he did not have to witness that insanity and suffering and misery.... | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/16/2007 8:59:51 PM | I believe that Nietzsche was one of those minds that walked the fine line between insanity and genius. Some of his works are simply amazing and have done much to further my own philosophical meanderings, while on the other hand other pieces have the tone of an "emo" adolescent who has been grounded by his parents and scorned by his first love, which isn’t going too far out of line with some of the happening in his life. Not to say that these works aren’t brilliant as well, just I have a gag reflex for self-pity. I truly believe if Nietzsche was born in this age he would have been diagnosed with some combination of mood/personality disorder and place on anti-depressants, what this says about our society I leave for you to interpret.
I believe it is so tragic how his sister paraded visitors to view this genius when he lost his mental capacities, and even worse how she omitted and added words and ideas to this great man's works in order to fuel fascism. It’s a great cautionary tale of brilliant words being twisted and mutated to fit any cause it reminds me of The quote “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/17/2007 11:02:54 AM | Well to clarify my above post, I wasn't trying to say that Nietzsche is flat out negative. The main difference is not their view on the good in humanity, but the evil. Rand would say that evil is always impotent, a dead end, and pointless. That evil has no rightful place in the world and is not a necessary component of human existence.
Nietzsche, on the other hand, would say that an evil man can achieve greatness, and a great man can be evil. That good requires evil to exist, and vice versa, and that in human existence evil serves just as much of a purpose as good.
Or, to better sum up in with Futurama quote:
Fry: I'm so confused. The Bender I liked turned out to be evil, and the Bender I hated was good. How can I live my life when I can't tell good from evil?
Bender: They're both fine choices, whatever floats your boat. | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/18/2007 9:55:28 AM | Nietzsche understood existentialism without seeing the point of it. You must look inside yourself and then look around you and smile.
He definitely could have use therapy. | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/18/2007 11:18:51 AM | | True, I think he's very misunderstood, he is really exploring the nature of paradox itself, but most people tend to want to see things in Black and White, it's less confusing. | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/20/2007 5:35:13 PM |
Hell, most can't have an opinion on Nietzsche if they HAVE read him. The man is very inscrutable, and I think a great majority of people misunderstand his philosophy.
He seemed to have ludicrous ideas involving evolution and "eternal recurrences," and he isn't known for his metaphysics.
I agree with the first part of your reply, however, the second part is a complete misinterpretation. Eternal recurrence has a lot more do with his ideation of power and life philosophies and is the most misunderstood aspect of his philosophies. | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/20/2007 5:39:31 PM |
You should read the source material. "God is Dead" is not a triumphal cry, but a lament.
Exactly, this is abundantly clear if you read the whole passage and not the sound bite. 
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/20/2007 6:07:32 PM | "God Is Dead"
Its just total bullshit... its a concoction of a false morality and theism.
I would burn it as an insignificant work of a whining man who is afraid because he understands that his life is not so much in his own hands. This passage is merely reflecting the perspective of a spectator in solemn dismay.
Show me something interesting about this man. | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/20/2007 6:21:00 PM | Nietzsche needed a nice, warm shower and a prostitute.
At first, I wondered if I should share an opinion.. I hardly know anything about the guy. But then I decided thats not a good excuse. I've been on this earth for 23 years and I know what I know and what I know about Nietzsche is that he needs to get knocked off his pedestal.
Nietzsche is dead. The regular above average philosopher today could serve a better life's work than this guy. For one thing, ditch the theism. And be less ambiguous. | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/20/2007 7:12:41 PM | Body: So what if you think he is dull, I'm sure Nietzsche would have found people like you to be equally obtuse! You see, you haven't even read him and acting as if you can get into what he meant by that book by reading ONE line.... it's pathetic and your opinion carries no weight. It's like reviewing a movie you haven't even watched  | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/20/2007 7:25:00 PM | | Nietzsche wasn't misunderstood. He was simply misrepesented. People are lazy and don't read. Most of the posters here will have read none of his work, or little. Nietzsche was rolled out by the Nazi germans and his work twisted slightly to fit with the morals of the time. Since then.........people have said Nietzsche was misunderstood because they are going on the word of the propoganda, not the man. | |
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| Regarding Nietzsche - what is your opinion of him?
Posted: 10/20/2007 10:44:16 PM | | I didn't delete any responses. I read the whole passage, not one line and my analysis was that he is speaking from the perspective of this worried onlooker who feels like hes part of some group that is, again, an ambiguous statement by him when he refers to "us" and he clearly is showing signs of distress over his feeling of uncontrollable fate that is so ****ed up because hes linking the future to the past as if theres some certain catastrophe lurking in the future with the cause being past events which is (if you're not a moron) logically false, ontop of this, his morality is bias and the whole thing is smothered in some theist mojo lacquered with the shocker statement that god is dead. NIETZCHE SUCKS. GET OVER IT. YOU WASTED YOUR TIME BELIEVING HE WAS IMPORTANT. | |
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