File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9810, message 66


Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 01:37:31 -0500
From: Cyprus <sadecamus-AT-sprintmail.com>
Subject: Re: god


>	god is also dead because 'it' never was. Thus the great comedy of
>an Irish writer like Joyce: who commands Vico to make the cycles become
>the humorous eternal re-runs of herstory as she is tyold[fw 1] and so
>Nietzsche becomes the wolf man - no more high seriousness or
>sententiousness. However : the eternal return is also the tragic and thus
>the need for forgetfulness as Klossowski says in his essay about N and the
>eternal return....

Huh?  Wait a minute here.  I think we need to go back to basics and ask
some very naive questions before we start in with the post-modern blabs.
If "God is Dead" means, as you claim, that God never ever was, then why did
N. not say just that, that God never was.  Why did he insist upon the death
of God, rather than the non-existence of God?  Had he chose the latter,
well, then his Atheism would have been simple, but the Death of God is a
nettlesome matter philosophically for something has to exist to die, eh?
And seeing as God is immortal, the Death of God becomes a very weird
parodox, doesn't it?  Or am I being too naive and simple-minded?

Toodles,

Paul S. Rhodes

___________________________________________________________________________
Sokrates:  You there, sirrah!  What is thy purpose upon my roof?
Strepsiades:  Ah, sir, I walk upon the air and look down upon the sun from
a superior standpoint.
                                       --The Clouds




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