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But he used it as a 'formula' - a philosophical device - as well as in a poetic sense.

There is no evidence at all he contracted syphillus, this was a beat up by one of his first biographers, who was antagonistic toward him. Modern research points toward a long acting tumour of the brain behind his right eye, or a possible genetic brain disorder (his father had something similar).

His romantic drives had no other course beside that of sublimation, whether scorned or not. This inevitably embittered him to some extent, as it would anyone, but he rode it well on the whole. I think the unfinished nature of his eternal recurrence idea bespeaks an attitude of humility toward the li...

Nietzsche used the idea of the eternal return as a device for upholding his ideas and passions. Its as if he didn't really care to examine the idea very closely, if at all. It was like a melody he heard and loved so used it in his prose and poetry. I think he should have looked at it more seriously.

Both had syphilis - whatever syphilis did to their thinking is no longer relevant to our thinking - we have antibiotics.

Our thinking these days is, how shall we say it, less syphilitic and more antibiotic.

Breath

http://www.leonardsax.com/Nietzsche.pdf

Nice Article and observations, like: "What if we accomplished the hardest transformation of all and overcame our possessiveness? Notice that Lennon says imagining no Heaven is “easy if you try” and imagining no countries “isn’t hard to do,” but as for imagining no possessions, “I wonder if you ...

The link is no good. Simpler questions are the moe difficult, such as why is space black. This does little for me: http://www.amnh.org/education/resources ... radox.html

1. What is the Bible? A rather desperate recourse for those lacking good literature, with some interesting enough stuff in it. 2. Should the Bible be read? Why/why Not? Nothing SHOULD be read, though an unwritten 11th commandment would have it otherwise. 3. What is Bible doctrine? Mountains out of m...

I think the universe is maybe another creature of some sort; like a man , an atom, an ant or a star...whatever. Infinite creatures... that's existence. I don't know what type of creature a universe is. It may be just an aspect of some creature like the ocean is an aspect of earth. We look out and se...

The questionn is flawed because it doesn't identify either the specific chicken or egg referred to. Generic chickens and eggs only exist within language. How specified would you like it? Suppose you make the specification you would like. PhilX The items of language belong only to language. The item...