/lit/ - Literature

What was his best work?

Dude, like nihilism bro

I spent the better part of my entire life "seeking the truth". I've extensively studied Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Shinto, Hinduism (mostly Shaivism), Christianity, Islam, Ascended Masters teachings, and Satanism (joyofsatan.org).

Do you know what they all have in common? They're all man-made.

I encourage you to use some common sense reading the following.

Most call entities residing on a different plane of existence "ghosts". I choose to call them what they are, entities. We don't understand them, so why label them? These entities can be malevolent, benevolent, and neutral. Some can be tricksters, and love to play pranks. Here's an example: Christians are some of the most gullible and close minded folk I've ever seen. Most Christians are inherently afraid of demons because of subconscious programming. Many trickster entities will pose as "demons", most likely because they want to get a good laugh. Have you ever scared a friend and then practically suffocated laughing so hard? Christians are plain gullible, and they're the easiest target for pranks. Besides trickster entities, malevolent entities exist. Think of them as sadists. They love to cause suffering, and they seem to leech off of negative emotion. Let's go back to the Christian sheep metaphor, now. What's the easiest target for a sadist? A close minded sheep that's instilled with fear through subconscious programming since childhood. These malevolent entities know the subconscious programming exists within many, and they know when someone is vulnerable. They also know how to exploit those vulnerabilities. Let's remember that these malevolent entities FEED off of negative emotion. For a Christian, that would be posing as a demon, moving stuff around, making noises, potentially even causing you physical harm (if the entity is powerful enough). Want to know the best defense against a malevolent entity? Not giving it negative energy to feed off of. Daoism specifically teaches us how to engage ourselves in behavior. Don't contend, and you can't be contended with. Simply ignore the entity. Show no fear, show no interest, the answer is to not encourage the entity. Don't give it negative emotion to feed off of, and don't dwell on the fact that there is an entity bothering you. Do not antagonize the entity, either. You may not necessarily respect the entity, but don't show it disrespect. We have very limited means of communicating with any of these entities, and we don't truly understand them in the slightest, don't act like you do. Do you know what I consider "magic" to be? Interacting with the world in ways we don't understand. We observe, and do what works based off of the observations. If you're a Wiccan or a Satanist, you manipulate energy, you do rituals, you meditate, but do you really understand what you're doing? Sure, it might work, but do you know why?

Why is Jordan Peterson so fond of Nietzsche even though Nietzsche is so critical of trying find the causes and remedies of societal problems by seeking and testing them in the psychological-moral domain (as Peterson does)?

So was the Nitzch an atheist or not?

How do I into Nietzsche?

"The means by which Julius Caesar defended himself against sickliness and headaches: tremendous marches, the most frugal way of life, uninterrupted sojourn in the open air, continuous exertion--these are, in general, the universal rules of preservation and protection against the extreme vulnerability of that subtle machine, working under the highest pressure, which we call genius."
- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

How did he write so many great works while suffering from chronic migraines? I can barely think when it gets really bad.

What movies would Nietzsche watch? He probably would want something exciting

>Everything I don't like is life denying XD

Did this guy like horses or something?

THE BOWL IS DEAD

>It is possible that beneath the sacred story and disguise of the life of Jesus there lies hidden one of the most painful examples of the martyrdom of knowledge about love: the martyrdom of the most innocent and most desiring heart, which was never satisfied with any human love, which demanded love, to be loved and nothing else, with hardness, with madness, with fearful outbreaks against those who denied him love; the history of a poor man unsatisfied and insatiable with love, who had to invent hell in order to send there those who did not wish to love him - and who finally, having grown to understand human love, had to invent a God who is entirely love, who is capable of total love - who takes pity on human love because it is so pathetic, so unknowing! Anyone who feels this way, who knows about love in this way - seeks death. - But why dwell on such painful things? Assuming we don't have to.

What did he mean by this?

Source: http://nietzsche.holtof.com/reader/friedrich-nietzsche/beyond-good-and-evil/aphorism-269-quote_567da45db.html

So can we just call philosophy a pool out of which we can reel ways to become increasingly complex being?

Seems like Nietzsche was just saying that philosophy as a practice is wholly subjective. Information not properly articulated (in addition to personal prejudices) causes the messages being sent from one to another, or many, to be obfuscated.

Is there a solution? Why can't all living humans be on the same chapter of life and simultaneously realize it? I'm sure that what communism tried to solve but we know how poorly that was implemented.

Was Nietzsche's philosophy all about human or male empowerment?

If not, what philosophers were all about being "strong" or being "men"?

>>10950918
Sweet Jesus Christ, we're hitting levels of ressentiment that shouldn't even be possible, someone get the Ubermensch Police Squad in here ASAP

>...if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
I've been up all not, tossing and turning thinking about this quote. What did he mean by this?

The man made a genius contribution with his notion of ressentiment, but in what ways were his words incomplete? What has been said on perhaps the usefulness of religious guilt, or could it even be innate as opposed to learned? What have other philosophers said about religious guilt?

Is this guy right regard Nietzsche?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2dQ64iVp6I

How is anyone supposed to not get an anti-semtic message from his views on the "dark haired" folk?

>>10789034
Fuck, I forgot the picture

How to not be The Last Man in today’s society?

>Verily, it is a blessing and no blasphemy when I teach: Above all things standeth the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of hazard, the heaven of sportiveness.
>"Sir Hazard"--his is the most ancient title of nobility in earth: him have I restored to all things, I have saved them from the slavery of ends.
>This freedom and heavenly brightness I set over all things as an azure dome, when I taught that above them and in them there willeth no "eternal will."

What did he mean by this?