'Passionate anti-Christianity as a form of Christianity' Please elaborate, could this be in reference to the great dynamic of 'Christiandom', ie. the 'Athens...
Aside from that, what else is there? Dionysus? Very good. It reminds me of a family friend who was taking a sales course. One class was about how to overcome...
... One may hate Christianity because one wats to replace it with another religon, like Islam, Judaism, or Marxist secularism. Nitzsche's anti-christianity is...
... I always thought this passage signified that immorallists remained true to themselves, rather than beleiving ourselves to be acting for good and the...
... The passage continues:- "A strong temptation fights within us; the strongest perhaps that exists - the temptation of Truth… Truth? How do I come by this...
I think I should define lying. In my opinion, there are two types of lying. Sub-concsious Lying, when people do not let themselves know their truth or failure...
... Lying is employed by either "type" of lier - it's employed for the same basic reasons, i.e. manipulation, regardless of state of consciousness. ... No one...
JSM, Sorry for the long pause between replies, teenager problems here at the homestead. One could, like the central character of "The Dream of the Ridiculous...
... not ... Some people are altruistic. Evolutionists can explain why. I see nothing miraculous. But I can get a buzz from the bluebells in Kew Gardens....
... That is too dogmatic. Many people need to lie. ... True enough. But that is not an explanation of what is wrong with lying. What is wrong is that if you...
... I don't understand what you mean by your example of the bride. ... In any serious war one fights to win. I don't imagine that Nietzsche would have blamed...
... explaination of lying ... weakness. Those in authority need to lie, including presumably the 'princes of Europe'. Those who do not are the free spirits,...
"A man of genius is unendurable if he does not possess at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness" Nietzsche - B&G #74 What does Nietzsche mean by...
... And what does he mean by 'cleanliness'? Dr Johnson was arguably a man of genius. He confessed he had no fondness for clean linen. "Dr Johnson, you smell!"...
And speaking of DR Johnson, I think that Boswell's life of Johnson is a much better book than Eckermann's 'Conversations with Goethe', (described by N as the...
I do not believe that the end justifies the means, if we build our victories on weak foundations, then they are not worth anything. As to who we are, we are...
We are [...] *good Europeans*, the heirs of [...] millennia of the European spirit: as such we have outgrown Christianity, and precisely because we have grown...
If it does happen, then it's ... "As soon as it is no longer a case of preserving nations, but rather of producing the strongest possible mixed European race,...
... precisely ... it's ... in ... I do believe that the United States will be the target of some sort of attack in the next year or so, and the culprit will be...
Garrett wrote: "And do you really have the strength to witness another holocaust towards one of the most superior races of people in the world?" I do not...
The climate of opinion re Israel is very different this side of the Atlantic. Americans may be surprised, even appalled. Here's an item from Daily Telegraph...
... - But it won't be a matter of surviving, it will be a matter of either winning or losing. And both are transformative, so you don't necessarily know what...
... the rights of both the Jews and the Palestinians. So would many Jews; but the voices of such pacific Christians and Jews are being drowned out. [Sobran] -...
What makes heroic? – To go to meet simultaneously one's greatest sorrow and one's greatest hope. What do you believe in? – In this: that the weight of all...
... Now it's a chicken and egg argument. As I remember it, the Jews returned after a long absence and we, the Western Christian nations, headed by Great...
"...so you don't necessarily know what you'll end up with either way." Survival will be just a first "victory". After that I don't pretend to know what will...
... "The Parable of the Young Man and the Old So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as they sojourned, both...
... That is not on the cards. Does the fact you see a race as 'superior' make any difference to the reprehenisiblity of a 'holocaust towards' it? That is a...
