/lit/ - Literature

Grab the nearest Nietzsche book you have, open a random page, and type out a random aphorism.

>Every society has the tendency to reduce its opponents to caricatures—at least in imagination—and, as it were, to starve them. Such a caricature is, e.g., our "criminal." Within the aristocratic Roman order of values, the Jew was reduced to a caricature. Among artists, the "philistine and bourgeois" become caricatures; among the pious, the godless; among aristocrats, the man of the people. Among immoralists it is the moralist: Plato, for example, becomes a caricature in my hands.

Who was the first philosopher you read, when, and why?

Pic related, I was 17. I had my first big breakup with a girl like 2 months before, and I knew why, because I was incredibly naive and I fucked it up due to my idiocy. I had a weak father who left the family when I was young, so I was really weak paternally, which should clue you in on the nature of my naivete. I discovered Nietzsche then and he kind of became a surrogate father.

if Nietzsche were alive today would he be as influential? what would he write about?

Is there a person who BTFO'd Christians harder than Nietzsche did?

Christians have this image of anti-Christians as being like Lucifer, they are rebellious like a child and ultimately resentful towards the father figure. But then here comes Nietzsche, a man whose father DIED literally as a child, whose paradise "lies in the shadow of my sword" as he himself wrote, who found heaven ON EARTH, who wrote The Antichrist out of pure PASSION for the earth. A metaphysics of being that cannot be dismissed as based on resentment or sickness. Nietzsche is hygienic, you can sense it in his writing, which is what makes him so dangerous to Christ.