Aug 18, 2018 05:09 PM
(This post was last modified: Aug 18, 2018 05:17 PM by Secular Sanity.)
(Aug 18, 2018 07:38 AM)Syne Wrote: Irrelevant. The adaptive pressures existed and created the evolutionary psychology long before civilization.
Is this a genetic trait that is only passed from mothers to daughters?
(Aug 12, 2018 03:22 PM)Ben the Donkey Wrote: Painful world we live in, isn't it.
Terrifying...
"Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'."—Nietzsche
And yet, exhilarating!
Syne Wrote:So this was a reference to "life" making friends?
He lets you know where and when he's unpacking a metaphor for either truth, life, wisdom, or alterity.
Now read THE SECOND DANCE SONG.
He not only understood this, he felt it. His last sin—temptation...pity for the higher man.
Oh you higher men, it was your distress that this old soothsayer foretold.
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.
You don't go beyond good and evil to create oughts and ought nots. You don't kill god to replace him.
But like Peterson, this is something you'll probably never understand.
"Who would not hate thee, thou great bindress, in-windress, temptress, seekress, findress! Who would not love thee, thou innocent, impatient, wind-swift, child-eyed sinner!
Whither pullest thou me now, thou paragon and tomboy? And now foolest thou me fleeing; thou sweet romp dost annoy!"
And we gazed at each other, and looked at the green meadow o'er which the cool evening was just passing, and we wept together. Then, however, was Life dearer unto me than all my Wisdom had ever been.
Thus spake Zarathustra
