File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_2000/nietzsche.0009, message 59


Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 20:11:13 +0530
From: "Chand B. Rangwani" <orpheus-AT-india.crosswinds.net>
Subject: Re: No comments please


zatavu-AT-excite.com wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:18:55 +0530, nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> wrote:
>
> >  Will people on this list stop speaking their rectums. Zatavu, no buddhist
> >  wears meshes on their mouths -  the jains do - and their philosophies are
> >  remarkably different.
>
> I knew there was a specific name for them, but I couldn't remember what it
> was. I thought it was a branch of Buddhism, and I appreciate your correcting
> me on that misconception. But just because someone makes a mistake doesn't
> mean they are speaking out of their rectums. Isn't there a more polite way
> to correct someone? Why do we automatically have to go for the insult when
> it is clear that someone has made an honest mistake?

My apologies Zatavu for the rudeness, and I don' expect you to
understand how intellectually suffocating and perceptually limited that
lambda creep appears. On top of that you make elemental mistakes, then
claim that people don't look out for the facts, boy, even you would be
irritated. My apologies again, but nobody should mind calling the other
anal - Nietzsche was the most anal of us all.

Also, I'm not too sure about your statement that EO applied Darwin to
interpret Nz. EO is remarkably happy with his ants and conservation
efforts and has little patience for farting philosophers. One of my
favourite lines from Wilson, far above any Nietzschean line which seeks
to inspire action towards a "higher self": 

"...better to spend long stretches of time just searching and dreaming."

And you didn't really clear up whether  Wilson's view of natural
selection has any common ground at all with Nietzsche. Please don't
confuse specific natural history concepts with those of Wilson his
sociobiology (which claims that everything from human aggression to
falling sperm counts) can be explained by "creative theories" of
evolution is still controversial among scoentists because it brings in
an element of story-telling into science. The most convincing story
wins.



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