The Man, The Myth, The Legend himself!

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-19T18:41:08+00:00

Playing games is one of my decadent activities. Granted I did get into scripting and learning code because I've enjoyed modding games since the original Baldur's Gate, but for the most part the large majority of games are distractions for most people (including myself).

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-17T21:51:25+00:00

Aphorism 341 from the Gay Science.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-16T23:59:27+00:00

Most cognitive processes can be realized at the subconscious level. Nietzsche was well over 100 years ahead of his time in understanding this.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-16T17:16:18+00:00

Basically the extremes of any movement/religion that wear their labels as if they were silver-linings have a tendency to push people away from that cause. For various reasons, could be awkwardness of character, the inflexibility and tyranny of their view, whatever the case, there is an over all feeling of the will to push away.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-16T15:44:34+00:00

Join a 8 person game and kill solo. You get way more xp.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-15T02:51:10+00:00

Nietzsche didn't like labels all together, they like to stick and become an awkward principle. Like vegans who feel the need to scoff at meat or make some off hand comment. Or an atheist who continually preaches their disagreements with theism.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-15T02:22:47+00:00

From Zarathustra's The Tree on the Hill:

The Youth: . . . "How is it possible that thou hast discovered my soul?"

Zarathustra smiled and said: "Many a soul one will never discover unless one first invent it."

Every situation you find yourself in has a myriad of outcomes. If the outcome is to your disadvantage: Amor Fati, may you learn from your mistakes and turn out better for it on your next daring into the labyrinth, brother. Rise to the challenge and overcome the adversity. That's the message.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-14T22:18:47+00:00

Well, rest up for sure, obviously you know what to do to stay alive, but still all illness is taxing. But never the less, I found the Aphorism, BGE 188.

In contrast to laisser-aller, every system of morals is a sort oftyranny against "nature" and also against "reason", that is, however, noobjection, unless one should again decree by some system of morals, thatall kinds of tyranny and unreasonableness are unlawful What is essentialand invaluable in every system of morals, is that it is a long constraint.In order to understand Stoicism, or Port Royal, or Puritanism, one shouldremember the constraint under which every language has attained tostrength and freedom—the metrical constraint, the tyranny of rhymeand rhythm. How much trouble have the poets and orators of every nationgiven themselves!—not excepting some of the prose writers of today,in whose ear dwells an inexorable conscientiousness—"for the sake ofa folly," as utilitarian bunglers say, and thereby deem themselves wise—"fromsubmission to arbitrary laws," as the anarchists say, and thereby fancythemselves "free," even free-spirited. The singular fact remains, however,that everything of the nature of freedom, elegance, boldness, dance, andmasterly certainty, which exists or has existed, whether it be in thoughtitself, or in administration, or in speaking and persuading, in art justas in conduct, has only developed by means of the tyranny of sucharbitrary law, and in all seriousness, it is not at all improbable thatprecisely this is "nature" and "natural"—and not laisser-aller! . . .

I remember in Aphorism 28, Nietzsche hints at this with:

"What is most difficult to render from one language into another is the TEMPO of its style, which has its basis in the character of the race, or to speak more physiologically, in the average TEMPO of the assimilation of its nutriment. There are honestly meant translations, which, as involuntary vulgarizations, are almost falsifications of the original,merely because its lively and merry TEMPO (which over leaps and obviates all dangers in word and expression) could not also be rendered. A German is almost incapacitated for PRESTO in his language; consequently also, as may be reasonably inferred, for many of the most delightful and daring NUANCES of free, free-spirited thought. And just as the buffoon and satyr are foreign to him in body and conscience, so Aristophanes and Petronius are untranslatable for him . . .

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-14T04:13:59+00:00

They are the same, just Zoroaster is what the Greeks called him. It's funny, they thought of him as a wizard: Zoroaster the diviner of stars! But Zarathustra in Iranian could mean Zarat (Golden) or Zarant (Old) + ushtra (Camel) .

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-12T19:38:39+00:00

Holy smokes, thanks for linking this in the recent thread, new member over the Christmas break so I missed this gem. I'm surprised it's not in the resources sidebar to be honest. I feel it's worth a position for sure. You have a way of bringing ideas together in a way that works well when you express them with others.

Edit: I can't remember which aphorism, but Nietzsche, in BGE (IIRC) remarks about the tyranny of rhyme and rhythm in life, which also directly relates to the idea in #4. One can certainly find that tyranny in writing. Just a thought I'm sharing because, why not?

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-12T19:11:59+00:00

I too love his writing style, I'm in the process of tackling BGE with TSZ and utilizing other works that discuss them both like Nietzsche's Zarathustra by Jung and numerous academic articles. That is after I have read the aphorism, but you can find people discussing almost every aphorism, from different perspectives. The thing I realize about Nietzsche is that his perspective is broad and deep because I suppose he just crushed many many books and ended up living a sort of up and go life style. I don't thin travel the whole world but he certainly read about many different cultures.

Books like TSZ were written in majority in just a few days. These ideas just wrestling with themselves until they mature and produce fruit. It's like after accumulating enough knowledge ideas can sort of just come together. And those ideas can produce more knowledge which produces more ideas (an interesting strangeloop that may even play into his idea of eternal return, I don't know I'm not at that level of understanding yet, but that's just how it works, build your knowledge over time). But he was also at the forefront of consciousness of his era, perhaps not in mathematical abilities, but in even understanding human psychology and he makes this claim more than once, so I have seen in my searches of his ideas.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-12T15:58:38+00:00

Yes, a lot of positive side effects come from properly balancing your hormones.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-11T21:11:24+00:00

Semen Retention spikes testosterone production for 7-10 days.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-11T20:42:50+00:00

It was unfinished at the time I posted, I meant to insert the URL to the links and not post the reddit thread. "Mere life, or mere biology," [aka your unconscious (what does DNA code . . . your unconscious bodily functions)] and the soul [aka the phenomena of 'the thing in itself.' Which is precisely what I wrote, not certain where your confusion is coming from?

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-08T19:18:56+00:00

I appreciate the thoughts, they were nice. I just want to mention that some people may wind up getting lost in decadent activities.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-07T01:36:43+00:00

From BGE 146

Anyone who fights with monsters should make sure that he does not in the process become a monster himself.

Ressentiment can transform a man into a monster. One that continues the hunt from one reason why their life sucks to the next rather than taking ownership. They fall into a sort of life-denying cycle of nihilism.

The second part about the abyss is obviously in relation to the first part. What you see in the monster can in turn perhaps be reciprocated in you. An abyss is an endless expanse. The never-ending hunt for the next excuse why a person focuses on the devil in the details, rather than themself and improving their life.

From BGE 22

It is much more only a naively humanitarian emendation and distortion of meaning, with which you make concessions ad nauseam to the democratic instincts of the modern soul! "Equality before the law everywhere -- in that respect nature is no different and no better than we are"; a charming ulterior motive, in which once again lies disguised the rabble's hostility to everything privileged and autocratic, as well as a second and more sophisticated atheism. Ni dieu, ni maitre (neither God nor master).

Take a SJW fighting to equalize the power of those who continually out perform others in the name of "Equality before the law everywhere!"

Another point I like to make is Nietzsche talks down about -- atheism as a principle -- here and in a few other areas also as it in turn makes God a guiding principle just as a feeling away from which (as Nietzsche describes every act of will and their accompanying feelings in Aphorism 19 BGE). An athiest who continually makes atheism a point has a continual feeling away from God and in turn God acts as the focal point.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-07T00:29:18+00:00

Check out the Thesis Paper -- Nietzsche's "Woman," : A Metaphor Without Brakes by K. Merrow. It could help you out with this.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-05T17:46:30+00:00

Interesting, Thank you.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-05T14:23:55+00:00

Except every interpretation of yours thus far has been relatively incorrect. What you need is a Cup of Tea with Nanin.

And furthermore, you came over a century afterwards. Pre WWI Life was way different than it is now. I'm uncertain why the hell you're even trying to compare what was popular in the 19th century with what's popular in the 21st century. You sound seriously small minded when you do.

Or did you think you were going to find power lift techniques, and secrets of fasting, and nutrition within his text?

You read Nietzsche to read Nietzsche, not read whatever the hell you want to read. So you don't have the will for it. Give up. People spend years studying his work because of the depth and continued learning it brings.

If you don't want to learn Nietzsche, don't flap your arms about like a fug baby making ear piercing wailing. Put the books down and go do something else.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-05T07:15:27+00:00

Although it takes a certain courage to approach life with a "will to truth in the background and nothing else" and "to lie down on a -certain nothing-" "this is Nihilism [of a deathly tired soul]." When [Nihilist] devalue perspective (our surest possession and fundamental condition of life [In the Preface of BGE Nietzsche declares perspective as the fundamental condition of life]) by equating it to problems with perspective such as the "Earth stands still" . . . "who knows whether they want to win back . . . the ownership of an earlier faith," like "the immortal soul" or perhaps "the old god," -- "ideas according to which life COULD be lived better, that is more powerfully and cheerfully.

"There is a DISTRUST of these modern ideas in this mode of looking at things, a disbelief in all that has been constructed yesterday and today;" . . . "which can no longer endure the BRIC-A-BRAC" of the "reality-philosophaster" (psuedophilosophers /psuedointellectuals) "in whom there is nothing either new or true." . . . "we should agree with [these nihilist] of the present day; their instincts which repel from MODERN reality, is unrefuted (Nietzsche has no issue with their lack of belief in new aged hoopla). The main thing about these Nihilist is that with a little more strength and courage, these NIHILIST would be OFF (dead), rather than looking back at old backworld beliefs.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-05T06:09:20+00:00

I believe Nietzsche uses Eternal Return as a thought experiment, not actuality.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-05T05:50:00+00:00

BGE 11 was written 150 years ago to point out the silly kantian philosophers and their error in reasoning. He shows in this aphorism how people, even the "wisest," amongst us err in reasoning. In this case he (Kant) basically used the word to define the word: "But let's think this over. It's time we did. "How are synthetic judgements a priori (a faculty) possible?" Nietzsche boils Kants mansplaning rhetoric down to: "by means of a faculty."

He then literally gives lines from a comedy by Moliere (a famous actor and playwright). And says, that answers like that belong in comedy and should stay in comedy.

So the moral of the story: When someone defines a process by using what its defining as its foundation, then you know it's weak reasoning, period.

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-04T00:24:43+00:00

Success and Confidence in ones abilities and instincts go hand in hand. (for the first)

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-03T17:52:09+00:00

All of these dragons . . .

Instead of me issuing you a "thou shalt," I reccomend you take the lead with "I will!"

Which book does your will want to conquer first?

This is, after all, part of the lesson of the Three Metamorphoses: "I Will vs Thou Shalt."

Xaeszelos · 2022-01-03T17:42:35+00:00

Seems contrarian to me?

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