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There's a double standard then. Moderators can be as insulting as they like, but any response is deleted. Is that really the kind of site you want to ...

I wasn't involved in the discussion. My concern is that this is becoming a habit on Xtrix's part: to delete comments in a discussion he's taking part ...

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Yea, Nietzsche's amazing.

"In ‘Schopenhauer as Educator’ Nietzsche is centrally concerned with addressing the problem of cosmodicy, as indeed he is throughout much of his work....

The idea is that the saint has given up on society because life among other humans is so painful. The reason loving mankind would kill him is that the...

A little backdrop on the saint: "Although it is acknowledged – e.g., by Walter Kaufmann – that Nietzsche later removed the figure of the saint from th...

"From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the ...

That's it's a virtue to remain flexible. If we've been influencing the climate long enough that we concealed a 2000 year old cooling trend, then cutti...

I see that. Yes. That the climate has been headed toward an insolation minimum in the Northern Hemisphere is old news. This is the startling part: See...

Let's try to stay civil.

The narrative you quoted says we've been affecting the climate for 2000 years. There's research that says it's actually 6000-8000.

I want to point out that this is not the narrative most people are familiar with. Most people think human contributions to climate started 200 years a...

This is an essay about the saint. It requires university access, which I'll have tomorrow. If you already have it, enjoy!

Why not? Do people just flee to the Eurasian steppes and live with camels to escape the draft? Or do they dress like Cossacks and get so drunk their h...

That makes sense. Mankind is earthly. The Saint wants an ethereal perfection he represents as God. Z says he loves the earthly. He wants to be of the ...

There's not much CO2 in that.

The point is, the Enlightenment was supposed to be the triumph of reason. Almost immediately, European culture turned against that via Romanticism. In...

Sure. It's the fallout from the death of God that Nietzsche addresses, though.

And here we have an Enlightenment theme: The saint says: "Go not to men, but stay in the forest! Go rather to the animals! Why not be like me—a bear a...

Ok. The saint might be a symbol for clergymen in general. Off to themselves, they aren't aware of what's been happening in the world, that is, that th...

In the second section, we meet the famous saint. The two have crossed paths before. The theme of going up and coming down recurs. The saint has had hi...

Yes. Atheists don't say, "God is dead.". They say, "There has never been a god." That statement expresses a cultural truth post Enlightenment. There's...

Right. :blush: :up:

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I don't see where that question is coming from. The death of God is an historical event. It's not a doctrine Nietzsche is pushing.

I'm sure you don't think Zarathustra comes down the mountain to teach atheism. That would be contrary to the text.

It's the eternal return. The death of God is an historical event.

It's the eternal return.

Are you asking me? Or saying that it's not dependent? There's obviously a distinction between high and low. It's a division. What are your thoughts?

He's also called Zoroaster. He's the founder of Zoroastrianism. According to N's sister, he had a peculiar relationship with Zarathustra since childho...

Yes. But he's talking about a mutually dependent relationship between the source of life and light, and his own being, divided by high and low: the ea...

@"Michael" This allows him to get away with just using sentences as truthbearers. In the real world, we don't have that luxury.

My relationship to Nietzsche isn't entirely intellectual. I had nightmares the first time I read TSZ. Something about him crosses the boundary between...

I'd just like to take an appropriate chunk at a time and discuss, ask questions, cross reference, etc. I don't see a problem with using multiple trans...

Is that the translator you prefer?

Wa ha ha haaaa!

I can't access that website. Which translator is it?

Some aspects of life need squashing.

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He doesn't use the concepts of God and faith in a conventional way. Those things are in the background to me. It's what he was saying that's amazing, ...

Kierkegaard's point was that Christianity is a dead religion. I think you've gone way too long not understanding Kierkegaard and how he was saying the...

One of the main reasons morality sometimes wins out over economic flourishing is that the quest for more money eventually becomes hollow. Prosperity f...

This is the Thomas Common translation. It's easy to access. This is a Wikipedia introduction: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None is a boo...

Schopenhauer wasn't his contemporary. He was about two generations back, and people who are familiar with both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche note how simi...

Alrighty then.

If so, it's bullshit.

That's true, but it's like we're collecting puzzle pieces. We don't have all of them yet. True.

Scientists don't expect human extinction to take place due to global warming. That's correct. That's already started happening. The earth is getting g...

Correct We do know what the forces were. I just described it to you.