Nietzsche was a pathetic human being...

I've been 'around' a few years now, am not familiar with some of the long-hairs (or is it 'beards?') mentioned in this thread, but the label 'deep thinker' applied to many who are outside of the mainstream has always amused me. Usually used with arrogance and the term philosophical as not being able to be proved as being 'wrong.'

Reminds me of the 60's term 'heavy' used to label deep thoughts of that time among the 'down-to-earth-children' Hippies who sat around taking drugs and 'expanding' their minds.

And then of course are the 'deep' eastern types who sat around cross-legged, 'contemplating their navels.'--something that was heavily discussed whether Adam could have done....

I think that those who border on mental instability with a high possibility of mental collapse do 'psyche' themselves out of reality and into psychosis which many term as being 'deep.'

 

Most of what you wrote there, I agree with. I especially like your last sentence.

 

Elucidate, please...by all means, post your knowledge and rectify my supposed faulty "handle on him."

If you don't, it's not believable that you actually read him--maybe read ABOUT him, but unless you show your having read him, I don't believe you "enjoyed" his works.

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I think that may have been the case with Nietzsche as well.

 

Who is to say that N (Fel's term of endearment) was nothing less than a passive-aggressive 'latent' serial type?! It wasnt morality as such that constrained him from acting out, but fear in the social consequences..

 

Just had a look and I just love how ‘unbiased’ and 'methodically thorough' this guy is! Yeah, he makes it just as clear as day that Jesus was nothing but a sun allegory, as David Icke makes it clear as day that Prince Philip is a shapeshifting lizard.

Serious exegetes (also those noting parallels between New Testament stories of Jesus and stories of Horus) would especially love this 'argument':
“The term, Son of God, was a pun for sun of God. This pun does not apply to "son of man," which applies in the literal sense to the constellation Orion.”



Sorry mate, you can’t be taken seriously, nor can your source.

 

I agree it's an apt description, but I just dont think bitterness, misanthropy or the like necessarily means that a person has nothing interesting to say. Just look at Bill Hicks

 

Oh sure--he's interesting, or I never would have read him. My point overall is how on earth does he rise to the level of academic respect he has gotten as a legitimate philosophical thinker--I think he's mostly other people's ideas and his own acrimony nurtured in an unbalanced mind.

 

The work usually credited to Einstein is mostly other people's effort as well. There's the old adage in academia: "Stealing from one person is plagiarism. Stealing from several people is research." Hopefully you get what I'm hinting at as I'm struggling to find a less abstract way to put it.

 

While I agree that the pun reference is wrong, that doesn't negate the rest of what is presented. He gets some things wrong, but other things - a majority - are dead on.

 

Of course new insights are built upon the work of others. However, what "knew insight" does Nietzsche propose? He doesn't--he dismantles instead, and offers nothing in explanation for the advance of knowledge. It's all deconstruction.

 

So hit the like button, then. They already took away all my little green dots, I want some of them back.

 

jesus was against church for their ignorance

and before i am done, the whole of the theological oppression will be destroyed.

People like you will be extinct

 

There, happy?

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before you're done doing what?

 

truth destroys ignorance

Ever read your bible

rev 22: ,

4 and they shall see His face, and His name [is] upon their foreheads,

 

Since the author is wrong about the pun, then what else could he be wrong about? That statement alone discredits the source in my opinion.

 

I agree completely. Nietzsche teaches all to be a worthless sack of genetic material, with no ambition to amount to anything. I've only read as much as I can tolerate of his work, which is more than I'm proud to admit. He is one of the most disgraceful "intellectuals" of his time.

 

You're so scary. Did you read the end of Revelation? You're quoting it (out of context, of course). LOL.

 

It doesn't look good for him, I know, but the important arguments, which are clearly illustrated and can be checked out from other sources, make a lot more sense than something like the pun claim. It just means you don't take what he's saying without salt.

 

If thats what you think Neitzsche teaches, then it seems you could tolerate only a page or so before giving up.

 

If you say so.

 

Or you can immaturely dismiss it all out-of-hand. I just see you using ad hominem at this point.