from EH Why I am a destiny 5. Zarathustra, the first psychologist of the good, is—consequently—a friend of the evil. when a decadent type of man ascended...
... This passage should be read over and over again, and repays deep study. I shall give a detailed commentary to show how well it fits my own interpretation...
... I have been taken to task http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ourpalnietzsche/message/23517 for rooting much of NIetzsche's inspiration in resistance to ...
... So are we to think of Zarathustra or Nietzsche as invoking devils? Who were the devils of the twentieth century? Hitler and Stalin surely? Surely one would...
- ... This again suggests a relation between the Ubermensch and Milton's Satan, who still offers the best literary model of the Devil's point of view....
The ultimate realization about America, that will forever escape the Europeans, is that America is first and foremost a warlike nation. No other people on the...
heraclitus_arisen wrote: At least the Americans died fighting for freedom. MOODY; How do you define and qualify this "freedom" that American soldiers are...
... Individually you are an aggressive people, yes. Does that translate into being warlike? Apparetnly your soldiers are greatly inferior to ours. At least...
... East Germans used to be taught that they had all been 'liberated' in 1945 when Red army came in and smashed their cities and raped all the women....
I presume this should have been posted to OPN but was sent to me by mistake. Recently I had 2 posts from Tony I'll post here when he gives me the ok' ... just ...
... As the 'good and the just' do. ... Not even by their standards? ... Whgere do yo get the suggestion? Teh 'Highest men' are those highest in the eyes of...
... You, who are not Zarathustra, what do you want? You want to achieve greatness? What might that mean? If I want to achieve greatness it is in my own way....
... into being warlike? - Maybe we'll all get to find out soon: DUBAI - The Islamic Army in Iraq, one of the main armed groups fighting US forces in the...
... freedom. ... soldiers are "dying for"? - From a poll of 4,974 Iraqis living in and around Baghdad: "Will the security problems cause you to? Not come out...
... since the Sunni party with the most supporters withdrew from the elections. It happened on the same day as the tsunami- so I understand if not many took...
... election will be brought into question if Sunnis refrain from voting. I think the elections are for western consumption- don't think the Mullahs give a...
More puzzling is why so-called Nietzscheans consider the shenanigans unfolding in Iraq to be of Nietzschean worth. Iraq is now America; an America controlled...
... shenanigans unfolding in Iraq to be of Nietzschean worth. - Only insofar as it has to do with will to power, I suppose. I have yet to really understand...
... More than that it should be about honesty concerning w to p. The interesting thing about your posts is that they appear to express a measure of dishonesty....
- Secondly when and how does a lie turn into a cnoviction? ... From Antichrist 55:- --One step further in the psychology of conviction, of "faith." It is now a...
... interesting thing about your posts is that they appear to express a measure of dishonesty. In presenting what seems to be the US government line as if it...
... Achaemenid ... - Yes, that's why I said more precisely. I think you get the gist, however. Saddam viewed himself in the tradition of Hammurabi, ...
... That is just horribly simplistic. I take it you must mean Athens via Alexander. In that sense Saddam's claim cou8ld have been Sumer via Hammurabi. If the...
... From the passage I quoted:- "I call it lying to refuse to see what one sees, or to refuse to see it as it is" I imply it is apparent to you as it is to...
... Not when they have begun as lies and turned into convictions, not according to N anyway.. ... Certain relevant facts are, those which bear on the question...
... All wars involve the use of propaganda, which involves lies. The interesting thing here from a Nietzschean view is that you seem to want to present what...