We are too busy giving meaning to what we say that the truth is lost, which for all we know might be meaningless. The best case to be made for the existence of a god is the fact that everything good happens on its own, art and cultures just grow beautifully and in a harmony that can't be explained. Everything can only be bad once altered by our consciousness; that's a good case for a caring god, who must be too good to be conscious; God must be drunk.
2.1.12
Drunk thoughts
Being read severely harms writing; an effect that precedes its cause. I write best when I am too sleepy or drunk to write, that is why I will never write anything that I like. When I'm drunk or sleepy I know I won't write, and I know therefore there will be nothing to read so I get good thoughts; lazy, sleepy, drunk and honest thoughts. Measurements distort their own results, and just like that, reading changes what is being written, even listening changes what is being said; honesty defined as telling an undistorted truth becomes impossible even with oneself if one is listening. Ironically, it is not being drunk that takes us to another world, it is being sober; being drunk is getting back to the real world...that is my experience.
22.8.11
Positivity!
Recently, reading "The Genealogy of Morals" made me realize something that, now that I think about it, seems so central to Nietzsche's philosophy; for Nietzsche positivity is not only about acting and being oneself, one must also be positive in thought. In the preface he mentions something he disagrees with and then writes that it is of no use to refute his opponent, but merely to replace it as a positive thinker would, but I also realized that the replacement itself is a positive one. Darwinian thinkers view the origin of morality as a distinction that has been coined by those who an action is in favor of or against in a period preceding the forgetting of that origin and these values of good and evil becoming what they are now, making the origin of morality merely accidental, something that no one intended and that has originated merely as a way for those benefited or harmed by another's action to praise and blame.
Nietzsche on the other hand, being positive in thought, views the origin of morality and the words 'good' and 'bad' as a way that aristocrats and nobles has used to indicate their superiority; thus replacing a theory that gives credit to forgetfulness and accident to one which claims that morality was rather something originated by strong people. Not to condemn or praise another, for that would be too negative, Nietzsche preferred that morality be a product of a more positive endeavor, that of pride and action.
Nietzsche then says that morality was transformed and has become a way to condemn and only conditionally praise those abiding by its rules. He criticizes the new form morality has taken - which he calls slave morality in most of his works - as negative, since it calls this evil and otherwise is good (one need only think of the ten commandments starting with "Thou Shall not.") On the other hand, the morality he describes as master morality originated merely to praise those who are being themselves, and precisely for that reason, it condemns out of contempt for that which is opposed to the good.
17.7.11
The glass boat
The glass boat is that boat with the glass bottom so that passengers can see the colorful fish, reefs and beauty of a whole different world hidden under a blue surface. Down there its so quiet and pretty, the fish look beautiful and satisfied, they don't seem to care that someone is watching, they are beautiful whether someone is looking or not and they don't even care that they are so beautiful.
What is it supposed to mean, that ride in that damn boat? That there's a whole different world so beautiful and natural, or that our world is so ugly? I watched it and for a moment I forgot that I am not a fish, that in my world there's boredom and despair, that I'm not so colorful and pretty, I'm mostly the same color allover my skin. God must be so boring if he looks like us, I can only believe in a fish God.
We like to dive but no fish likes to go to land (No, I don't believe in the little mermaid!!) This is probably for a reason, our world sucks compared to their's, they don't need to take a break but we desperately do.
I really wish I was a fish, at least as pretty, as forgetful or as careless as a fish. That is impossible so I wish I never went on that glass boat.
7.5.11
Advice from a dead man
Dear living person, here's a list of the things I wish I had done while I was alive, perhaps it can be useful for you getting a better life:
1- Get drunk often, you will not have the chance to do that once you die.
2- Be passionate, every moment you spend without being intensely felt through is a dead moment.
3- Face your fears, any fear faced twice will not be there for the third time.
4- Have a long healthy enjoyable life, but don't forget to have a nice death.
5- You are not too great not to know of hatred and envy, then be great enough not to be ashamed of them.....well that was Nietzsche but he had a good point there.
6- Don't think too much of what people think of you, they're gonna forget you at best in a few centuries, so do forget them now.
Enjoy your life, please don't forget to give me your feedback. (once you die)
21.4.11
Isn't it Ironic?
The aim of justice is for citizens to feel safe, it achieves this by means of scaring them.
Ignorant people have the highest regards for knowledge, and not because they lack it. They simply don't know what it's worth!
We like to think God is so great, yet by doing so we limit his greatness by applying our own standards to it.
Ignorant people have the highest regards for knowledge, and not because they lack it. They simply don't know what it's worth!
We like to think God is so great, yet by doing so we limit his greatness by applying our own standards to it.
People like to show off most when they have nothing impressing.
Atheism these days is applying religious rules to religion, what this results in is a consistent religion not real atheism.
People want to gain the recognition of others only when they fail to recognize themselves.
On many occasions it takes more strength to accept defeat than to keep on fighting.
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