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To: average joe who wrote (70821)	10/21/2003 7:46:37 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 70976

> They probably prevailed because of superior horses and camels. Far from it. The Iranians felt obligated not to fallow the king. The soldiers were actually dragged into battle in chains. And the king was eventually killed by an Iranian miller. Afterwards, the combination of cultural bias towards respecting contracts, not using deceit, and a cultural shock kept them chaotic for the next two centuries. Like I said, it will take too long to go over these. > Nietzsche is known as a philosopher who was very poetic in his writings... It's been a while since last time I read Thus Spoke Zarathustra Some of the details are sketchy in my mind. But this I am clear about. Nietzsche's philosophy was in direct opposition to that Zorathustra's (unless you think Nietzsche had a twisted sense of sarcasm). He argued that since Zarathustra was the first founder of orthodox morality, he must have also been the first person to have seen the wrong of his ways. The book is not so much about what Zarathustra said, but rather about what Nietzsche thought Zarathustra would have said if Zarathustra had spent a few years in a cave pondering upon his doctrine. ST