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IT DOES NOT RESONATE ON A RICHTER SCALE?
Why I love Nietzsche ;0P “…he repudiated Christianity not because he considered it too rational but because he considered it the archenemy of reason…” “…with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more; this created all gods and afterworlds. Believe me, my brothers: it was the body that…
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C.S. LEWIS, MY LOVE: Christianity and fake “news” in American politics ;0D
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS/Chapter 14, Circa 1942 My dear Wormwood, The most alarming thing in your last account of the patient is that he is making none of those confident resolutions which marked his original conversion. No more lavish promises of perpetual virtue, I gather; not even the expectation of an endowment of ‘grace’ for life,…
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: social responsibility.
THE MORAL BASIS OF DEMOCRACY: Chapter 7/Circa 1940 The war-ridden poverty-stricken world of today seems to be struggling essentially with problems of economics and its ills seem to be primarily materialistic. Yet, I believe, that we do not begin to approach a solution of our problems until we acknowledge the fact that they are spiritual…
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J.D. SALINGER, MY LOVE: words to live by ;0)
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, Chapter 24, Circa 1945 “I don’t want to scare you,” he said, “but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause.” He gave me a funny look. “If I write something down for you, will you read it carefully? And keep…
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, MY LOVE: the changing subjectivity of “truth” ;0)
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL – Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. OUR VIRTUES/Aphorism 231. Circa 1886. Learning changes us; it does what all nourishment does which also does not merely “preserve” – as physiologists know. But at the bottom of us, really “deep down,” there is, of course, something unteachable, some granite of spiritual…
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, MY LOVE: That thou her Maid art far more fair than she.
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. WHAT IS NOBLE/Aphorism No. 263 CIRCA 1886 There is an instinct for rank which, more than anything else, is a sign of a high rank; there is a delight in the nuances of reverence that allows us to infer noble origin and habits. The…
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