Nietzsche birthday

Happy bday, Nietzsche!

 

have you read the kaczynski manifesto?

 

Yes I have. Have you? What did you think of it?

 

all of these photo montages would be better if dracula had a cool beard...

 

isn't this thread ultimately pointless.

 

isn't this thread ultimately pointless?

 

I pity the fool who don't find meaning in celebrating nietzsche's birthday :redface:

 

Wouldn't that be fitting considering Nietzsche was the ultimate existentialist?

 

Better now?

 

yes.

 

i think the man had brilliant ideas on anarcho primitivism but he went about it the wrong way. if he had gone about getting his message out in a different way rather than forcing it with violence, people might have actually taken it seriously.

i learned a lot from it. about myself and the way i think of society as a whole.

 

I completely agree. I've never heard anyone else have a good opinion of it.

Although it may be sad, it never surprises me when someone like that chooses violence over reason.

Violence is immediate realisation, whereas reason is a gradual change within those who are willing to listen. Most people aren't willing to listen to reason.

Hence we use war as a collective opinion.

 

edit...double post

 

Nietzsche is credited with one of my favorite quotes...

"What does not kill us will make us stronger."

 

someone is thinking!

 

i raise your double post and drop you a no, it turned into a celebration of the stache and beards... and that was highly needed to ease stress

yeahhh

 

I was trying to make a witty remark from a nihilistic position which I believe is what nietschze endorsed.

I tried reading nietschze once but it was pretty difficult to follow.

 

I find it hard to be taken seriously when you present such nihilistic ideas or opinions such as those expressed by Nietzsche. I've read a lot of his work and I love it, I understand where he was coming from. Many people don't however like those ideas, such has been my personal experience. They either think your a nazi, or a cold, compassionless asshole if you express such ideas.

Unfortunately his message was taken the wrong way when used by the Nazi's. Hitler got too caught up on the 'will to power' and he wanted to be a ruler for people who represented something that Nietzsche's philosophy tells them to provide for themselves. Those familiar with his work would clearly understand this. Unfortunately Germans in the 1940's didn't.

It was then used again in the 70's or 80's by conservative Christians. The line, "God is dead," was used to describe how they felt. That god had been replaced with peoples own hedonism. I'd be willing to assume most of those christians got nothing more out of Nietzsche's work other than that one line, and I'm surprised they used it. Nietzsche and christianity don't mix. They were only using it as a catch phrase.

Ultimately the message is about freedom and passion. But Nietzsche's work unfortunately comess off as disturbing and sad to people who unfortunately can't get that message out of it.

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Life is meaningless and pointless. It is up to you to give it meaning by developing passion. Only when you do this will your life have meaning. When people rely on a god to provide for them they stop providing for themselves and are eternally indebted to that god. When people live by an extrnal set of morals they aren't living for themselves and aren't living their way.

When we provide for ourselves, give to ourselves, rely on ourselves, and develop and live by our own set of morals, we are ultimately the creator of our own world and are indebted to none. We are then responsible for everything that happens to us, good and bad, and must be willing to face the conseqences. When we are responsible for our world, we decide what is right and wrong, and our only real purpose is to do right by ourselves, take for ourselves what it is we want and should have, even if it happens to be at the expense of another.

That's a short version of his ideas.

 

Well, Gillette razors weren't invented until 1901.

That is Epic Beard Man. He enjoyed his 15 minutes of fame this past summer as an internet meme.

 

Before the advent of razors, hair was sometimes removed using two shells to pull the hair out.[4] Later, around 3,000 BC, when copper tools were developed, copper razors were invented. The idea of an aesthetic approach to personal hygiene may have begun at this time, though Egyptian priests may have practiced something similar to this earlier. Alexander the Great strongly promoted shaving during his reign in the 4th century BCE to avoid "dangerous beard-grabbing in combat", and because he believed it looked tidier.[5]

Ninety percent, or 94,000,000, of American men over the age of 15 shave, with 75% shaving daily. The average fifteen-to -twenty year old shaves 275 times per year, while shaving frequency rises to almost daily for men aged twenty to sixty-five.[6]



Badasses choose to have awesome facial hair.