May I ask you, when you claim you read Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil and the Genealogy of Morals for example, and you find him saying basically tha...
"If anybody could recommend any work by women I would appreciate it." I recommend Simone Weil. Gravity and Grace, Waiting for God, The Abolition of Po...
Fyodor Dostoevsky Friedrich Nietzsche William Blake Sören Kierkegaard Simone Weil Plato Arthur Schopenhauer Giacomo Leopardi Ludwig Wittgenstein Grego...
Nietzsche's own physical weakness and inability to escape the atmosphere of the study made him take a rather unrealistic view of the man of action som...
But from what I have read about Blake, he almost never went to a church service in his whole life. I don't believe he was a Swedenborgian in the same ...
You should read Blake's Works instead. He rejected Swedenborg in the end. By the time he wrote his most influential works it is true that he was INFLU...
"You're really both wrong here. Nietzsche neither surpassed Christian thinkers nor was a confused man. His project was decidedly different from the Ar...
Not true that Blake was a Swedenborgian. Blake was an original and an artist. He is not to be classified or cathagorized I believe. Blake had rejected...
Aquinas more deep than Nietzsche? Lol. That finished our discussion probably. Since you dont understand Nietzsche, and I doubt I am capable of making ...
It is by the way curious that it seems like you think that your idea about man's weakness being an argument for the existence of God would be somethin...
"The real weakness is that of the Emperor and those who go along with it. The child exposes this weakness. There is strength in acknowledging imperfec...
Yes, you are correct that determinism is the Only logical conclusion to draw from Classical traditional theology. That also implies those Christian th...
Was his "will to health" helpful in achieving health? In other words how is "willing" something helpful at all? — Agustino Nietzsche said Will to heal...
That is not what Dostoevsky meant. He meant that if it was proved to him that Christ wasn't God, that christianity wasn't true, he would still follow ...
I will answer you more thouroughly later today, but right now I am busy. Though I Think I must say it is really pointless to answer your questions and...
Genealogy of Morals is the most brilliant I have read I think. And parts of it is just exceptionally funny. But that goes for his other works too of c...
Yes and probably, we can never be happy, that is one thing that Nietzsche despised about christianity. That it became heavenly utilitarian. And also t...
I will read Works of Love. I like Kierkegaard a lot. I just prefer Nietzsche at the moment because he IMO tried to dig even deeper in some areas. Plus...
To start with, Nietzsche didnt base his philosophy on his belief in his own strength or health, but in his will to health. One of his most important c...
1. Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 2. Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche 3. Baghavad Gita 4. The Gay Science by Nietzsche ...
"Nietzsche was fundamentally right, that if there is no God, then all is resolved into a will-to-power. And Spinoza was right too, who defined joy as ...
They say so yes. But this life is all we know about, the rest is about faith. There is only now. I like Wittgenstein talking about eternal life in Tra...
And eternal suffering is what we all deserve for being Born in to God's failed mess of creation without our saying in the matter. If I live a life alo...
"Nope. Christianity has been very successful, so clearly that "remote" part of the Middle East wasn't so remote at all. It's the world's largest relig...
"You have a very strange morality then. Clearly getting rid of evil is a good thing, not a bad thing. Would you rather that the criminal torment his i...
I understand concerning tradition. It just seems to me that God could communicate a little more clearly than by sending his son to die in a remote par...
If a criminal is in jail to rot, I would most often cry(Which Silouan would too obviously) but sometimes in exceptional cases rejoice. So it is all ab...
When I call the New Testament ungifted, what I mean is basically that they seem incapable of delivering a clear message. But perhaps being clear didnt...
"Why not? You keep telling me about the NT writers, that doesn't matter. The OT and NT were never meant to be stand-alone - they need to be read and u...
Time=movement basically. Is there no movement in eternity? By your definition if eternity, then what suggests that there will not be an end to the pun...
I am not given an "oppurtunity" to play a part in God's game. I am FORCED to or else eternal hell awaits. Yes I read your answers on the bible texts i...
"Extend": It doesnt matter, living after death is still an extension of this failed life and existence right? Or do you suggest that there is no life ...
Romans 9. Try Reading that with an honest mind. Or all those parts in the "gospel" of John where he talks about how many of the jews not Only did not ...
I am FORCED to play a part in God's mean little muppet show, that is, I am forced to strive to be with him and exist and live forever. The other alter...
The Only one with a truly Free choice is God. If I am not free to choose whether I want to exist eternally or not, If I am FORCED to play a part in Go...
If I want to destroy myself, but I dont want to want that, what shall I then do? Change my Will? Or pray to God and say "Please make me stop being wil...
If I want to destroy myself, but I dont want to want that, what shall I then do? Change my Will? Or prsy to God and det "Please make me stop being wil...
Okay, then Perhaps we do agree to a certain extent. But yet, you as a Christian say that I can not come to God by my free choice without him making me...
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