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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (18588)	11/14/2004 3:29:59 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

"Greg's ramblings remind of the syphilitic Nietzsche who began weeping at the sight of a horse on a German street." Syphilis is not a requirement for a sense of compassion and mercy. Many people have weeped for many reasons. They say that Jesus weeped. Well...there is reasonable certainty that the biblical Jesus never existed. But there is also certainty that many named Jesus have indeed weeped. Why not, Nietzsche? I see Greg's self-serving "faith" and fear of "Hell" as having no connection to the compassion of Nietzsche for the suffering of another creature. Did you not cry at the death of your first dog? I did. We have a capacity to conceive of unicorns and devils and ents and SaltHeart FoamFollower, too. But they were all inventions in stories. Some really good stories.....but stories, nevertheless.

To: average joe who wrote (18588)	11/14/2004 11:45:40 AM
From: exdaytrader76	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Nietzsche's father and brother died within a year, when Nietzche was only four years old. Such a traumatic tragedy is likely to have led him to his philosophy of nothingness. It reminds me of the experience of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, during the civil war. harvardregiment.org