Why Notzche? Sorry, I couldn't resist. Nietzche is very much a "nihilist" that appeals to people going through the throes of adolescence. If you hadn't noticed, people who frequent forums such as this tend to be adolescents (in psychology if not in age!).
I don't agree. There's more to him than the adolescent rebelion part of God is dead. I don't know if you have read much already, but there are a lot of educated and intelligent people on the board. There's a thread in site feedback which has a poll about age of the members. A nihilist? I don't know. He questions everything, but still strives towards an ideal: the ubermensch. Is somebody with an ideal a nihilist?
What happened to Bohemian Nightmare? I was just beginning to have fun. Goddamnit, I just want to insult somebody. Like you, kiddie?
in my opinion the reason he is so popular would require examination of the audience who holds him in such high self-esteem, its pretty evident that the ego's on this board border on self-worship so the idea of a superior person graced at birth with the right to rule over all would be very appealing even to the fat little virgin sitting at his comp trying to prove he's smarter than the rest with his thusaurus in one hand and his dick in the other. When it all comes down to it, Nietzsche was wrong, just like all the others, but to admit that would require the deflation of the grand ego-machine that this board feeds
The American Nihilist Underground Society (ANUS) In my view, a nihilist is someone who denies inherent value.
A4Ever: Thought you might find this link interesting Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/n/nihilism.htm
"There are no truths, only interpretations" is not contradictory as he is asking you to believe his interpretation. Nietzsche speaks elsewhere and clarifies his theory of truth, partially to evade the linear thought pattern of dialectics.
Oh fuck off groupie.. everybody is OVER the argument. Try and keep up. "data enty error" hahaah not likely. Not that it even matters, who gives a shit about spelling??
did i mention how much Nietzsche blows yet? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Nightmare, did I mention that your mother - Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Ach, this is no fun. Peace.
You know I will concede that after doing some research on Nietzsche ive found that his discourse is a lot defferent that what i thought it was. I think my main beff is more with alll the maralyn manson obsessed cynics who use Neitzschean philosophy to condemn humanity. As for Neitzschean, i think i was/am niave about him. PS xev's mother is a roadwhore. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"There are philosophers who have repudiated the goal of truth - Nietzsche, for example, who argued that there are no truths, only interpretations. But you need only ask yourself whether what Nietzsche says is true, to realise how paradoxical it is. (If it is true, then it is false! - an instance of so-called 'liar' paradox) ...A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative', is asking you not to believe him. So don't." Possibly the least intelligent thing I've read in a good while, and I'm in public high school. It was already refuted in this thread nicely but I just have to say that I haven't read the book this guy wrote and I likely won't simply for this quote it is so dumb.
Invitation Take a chance and try my fare: It will grow on you I swear; Soon it will taste good to you. If by then you should want more, All the things I've done before Will inspire things quite new. pg. 41 Being serious about truth, --- Being serious about truth: what very different ideas people associate with these words! The very same views and types of proof and scutiny that a thinker may consider a frivolity in himself to which he has succumbed on this or that occasion to his shame---these very same views may give an artist who encounters them and lives with them for a while the feeling that he has now become deeply serious about truth and that is admirable how he, although an artist, has at the same time the most serious desire for the opposite of mere appearance. Thus it can happen that a man's emphatic seriousness shows how superficial and modest his spirit has been all along when playing with knowledge. ---And does not everything that we take seriously betray us? It always shows what has weight for us and what does not. Pg. 144 Source: Nietzsche - The Gay Science [Walter Kaufman translation]
literary advice for a loser like me but dont pity me dogs lick peanut butter off me I smile. I have kissed the abyss.
