The importance of challenging your own beliefs

I think there is finally a man who has written literature that is truly challenging to every single person's beliefs. That man was Frederick Nietzsche. If you have the courage to read his literature, I would suggest the following titles to start off with.


The Anti-Christ
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil

 

I command you to change your personal spiritual beliefs immediately, and believe exactly whatever I decide is the correct interpretation of whichever one of the multitude of scriptures in the world that I say is the ONE TRUE RELIGION.
If you refuse, I am compelled to warn you, the most hideous tortures that the worst criminal minds that ever lived will be enacted upon your person for no less than a googleplex to the power of a googleplex millenia. That is a fairly long time, I might add.

courage to read? huh? since when does reading require any type of courageous quality. I never fear going to the library. I have read few books that scared me. "Michelle remembers" is one that did, though.

 

The NAZI's liked Nietsche a lot - not very surprising, given some of his ideas.

 

Wait, man. I wasn't saying THIS is it. I was simply saying that I think you can gain a LOT from reading his literature. Take what you will from it, discard the rest.

 

And the Nazis misinterpretated and misunderstood Nietzsche. But, it brings up a valid point. It sort of makes you curious as to the vision of the future that Hitler had, so I decided to read Mein Kampft too, to try to understand it. I mean I'm not nazi or anything like that, but I like to be able to understand something before I judge it, hence most people are just like "Fuck that asshole Hitler". Okay, fair enough, but tell me WHY you say fuck him. Don't just spout the dribble that society has drilled into you.

 

I've always found his writings interesting...

 

Yes, thinking for yourself is quite important.

 

However, what they did was necessary for the world to be what it is today.

Maybe Hitler realized that the Jewish people were portrayed by the Old Testament as the Master Race and decided to show the hypocracy and evil of treating another group (Gentiles) as inhuman (inferior, no use to mankind). The real question is, did God's chosen people (all people) learn the lesson yet, or do they still need another Hitler (anti-christ) to rise up and educate them on the 'wrongness' (read:unpleasantness) of viewing another as inferior and wrong.

 

I've read Beyond Good and Evil.I remember the general feeling I got was one of a sort of self-annihilation, but I read it at a time where i could only absorb and understand later, through experience. I tell you, the void looks beautiful from here, does it not?


The thing about the issue of the Holocaust is that you cannot find a religion in this world that has not been used by some whacko or another to impose his will upon others. Such are the birth pangs and death cries of spiritual evolution.

Much Love
(eMLa!)

 

Can it be god that you haven't heard? You're dead. So said Nietzche.

I dont say anything at all about Hitler - I think history speaks for itself.

But since you've been dead since at least the 1890's, you won't have heard.

 

Shit your right. I am dead. Thanks for reminding me, I'll go back to sleep now. Goodnight.

 

It's 6:32 right now.

 

Okay.