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That was a good debate between Gustav and Richard. I believe that Gustav made the better case. In order to see it in its proper perspective we must try to see it from the parent's perspective, especially since parental negligence is the issue. If the parents are sincere in their extreme faith, then ...

When one, or the other, debater has exhaused his ability to counter intelligently they either resign gracefully, or resign in some less than gracious manner. A prime example of the latter is resorting to an ad hominem (personal) attack. The point being, it is much easier to attack the person than th...

Hi, Psy: A dictionary can never make for an ending point to a discussion, not a constructive one anyway. NS: This is a statement making a pretense at being universal, "never," and then admitting to the broad area of exception, "non-constructive." So, I will take the above to mean...

Psy: A dictionary is a good starting point for discussion about what each party means by a word, but it is no ending point. NS: It is often an excellent starting point, and can also serve as a fine ending point in many of the debates where nothing divides the sides except for the (mis or differing) ...

Non Sum , whats with all the Webster? Did you get some form of radical brain surgery? NS: Are you saying that I have a, "radical brain"? Besides, any surgury performed on my brain would have to be called, 'micro-surgery.' Which brings us (kicking and screaming) back to my lexicological Jo...

Psychonaut: So in the foetal stages wherein it resembles creatures from our evolutionary history it is not human, but once it looks sufficiently cute it becomes abortion? NS: I've yet to see a "cute" baby. (myself excepted, of course) The fetal stage begins with the 9th week, and it resemb...

Sally: we should probably try and turn this more towards Nietzsche... Rolling Eyes NS: I wasn't aware that we'd turned away from him? I've found your, and all other, comments to be extremely relevant, and quite incisive at that. What I find lacking, at least in my own comments, is some criticism for...

Mhoriane: I have the Thomas Common translation, I much prefer your one - which is it ? NS: I wish I knew. :? That particular quote, I quoted from a quote in my BG&E intro. When you asked where to find it in TSZ, I searched my Kaufmann copy (which is also a much poorer version of that quote). Sor...

Hi S9, RE:NS: So, how does convention detach itself from convention without doing so conventionally? S9: Perhaps by scrapping everything and starting over from scratch. NS: "Starting over" isn't an option, since both the "scrapping," and the "starting," would themselves...

Hi S9, S9: ... free spirits, aka the fellows who allow themselves to question everything, even what they themselves might finally think of as truth? NS: Are you saying: 'Free' even from the shackles of their own best reasoning? Where would that land you, I wonder: your own 2nd best reasoning, someon...

Hi Sally, Has everyone else gone off to read BG&E? Hopefully, they aren't waiting until they've read it in it's entirety. :? S: Would even the slaves in Nietzsche's society be free spirits NS: That would seem a bit contradictory; though Epictetus may have made that work. I thought N was advocati...

Sally: I think he's only writing for the free spirits. NS: I don't get the sense that he desires only to preach to the choir. He's far to eager to instruct, destruct, and indicate 'a better way.' He would have us all 'become' free spirits. Sally: he seems to be at complete opposites to the Buddhist ...

Sally: I have a question already actually, about the title. I presumed the "good and evil" of the title had moral connotations, NS: My copy discusses the title in the intro: 'good & evil' are certainly to be taken in their moral sense, with 'beyond' (GR: jenseits) open to several prepo...

Hi Miss Lewis, ML: I believe if what I have heard is correct that he felt they could not think rationally or intellectually very well. NS: I suspect that was based on his observation that women universally failed to reason the obvious, i.e. how desirable a male companion he'd make. "Behind all ...

Hi Van, V: One can strive to 'believe' that it is better to have one axiomatic-theorem building in one's landscape that is built of steel than an infinite array of axiomatic-theorem buildings made of paper. NS: Even 'steel' is just a temporary state twixt dirt and rust. As bio-degradable as 'paper.'...