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[blueshampoo]

"Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest."

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

I'm really looking forward to reading Nietzsche.

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Consider this: If you have two lazy eyes, can either be considered "lazy"? Is laziness relative?

[fatglenda]

According to some Orthodox website, Jesus really did have a lazy eye.
So maybe Ted Neely wasn't only cast for his Jesus-esque looks.
Maybe he was hired for the lazy eye too.

This particular Pantocrator has one eye, the right eye, larger than the other. Of course the different-sized eyes have a particular meaning. Each eye stands for one of Christ's two natures - the larger right eye for his divine nature and the smaller left eye for his humanity. In naturalistic terms, the left eye is a so-called "lazy eye".



[I don't think Christ really had a lazy eye. I think they are making excuses for Ted Neely.]

Just because you can't understand something does not mean it's written poorly.

[fatglenda]

Hello. This is an anonymous post. How's it going?

First of all, your pretentious statement that Nietzsche was not a good writer made me chuckle. As I said in my subject, just because you cannot understand something does not mean it's bad writing. There are two issues to take into account here. First of all, as I very seriously hope you know, Nietzsche works have to be translated. Therefore, the words you are reading differ with the translation. Second of all, Nietzsche wrote in a "confusing" manner on purpose. As Walter Kaufmann, translater for "The Portable Nietzsche" (which, by the way, is probably the best translation of Nietzsche's works that I have come across) said, "Great writers [AKA: Nietzsche] are far more difficult to transpose into another language than is usually supposed, and Nietzsche poses many additional difficulties." Now, quite frankly, I trust Walter Kaufmann, a Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, much more than I trust you.

Second of all, Nietzsche purposefully kept his ideas somewhat hidden. I will paraphrase him, as I do not have all my book by me at this time (and I don't care quite enough to go and procure them from my shelf in the next room). His words are elegant and largely over-embellished for the simple purpose of testing the reader. If you are unable to surmise his main points, then he did not want you to understand him in the first place.

Now, I must say that you are rather pretentious. I doubt any of you know very much about Nietzsche at all, and, if you do, they're probably facts that have been warped by benign history teachers since the dawn of the 20th century. Truth be told, I'm a little angry at myself for wasting my time typing this up when my audience is a bunch of intellectual wannabes without brain cells to call their own, but it is done now, and I will post it.

Have fun with life. Or don't. I surmise that you people are the type to sit and whine about life rather than going out to enjoy it, which, quite frankly, would have pissed Nietzsche off to no end.

Thank you.

- Skyler Stone

[fatglenda]

Don't be a coward, respond to his post.

- Mark Borchardt

Just because you don't understand something does not mean it's written poorly: An abridged version

[fatglenda]

Now, I had to chuckle. Now, quite frankly, I trust Walter Kaufmann, A Professor Of Philosophy At Princeton, much more than I trust you. Now, I must say that you are rather pretensious.