File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9803, message 34


Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:41:53 -0600
From: "Paul S. Rhodes" <sadecamus-AT-sprintmail.com>
Subject: Re: Smirking at Nihilism



>Ahhh . . . so N throws out the old values for being essentially nihilistic
>(that is, favoring death over life) and so is branded a Nihilist for rejecting
>nihilistic values?
>
>No, not the doctrine of Eternal Recurrence.  Just self-overcoming . . .
>becoming worthy of being the murderers of God.
>
>Friedrick Haines

Self-overcoming?  To what end, may I ask?


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My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory
The old Lie:  Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
                              --Wilfred Owen

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scroundel.
                              --Samuel Johnson

Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot.
                              --Al Franken






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