2007-03-10 22:42:58 · 11 answers · asked by Judas. S. Burroughs. 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
we are paveing the way that the ubermench might live.
2007-03-10 22:52:46 · answer #1 · answered by Zarathustra 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nietzsche was wise in many ways, and I love a lot of his ideas. And then again, he was absolutely nuts in many other ways.
If the idea of God were dead, this forum would not exist. Maybe someday.
2007-03-10 22:46:05 · answer #2 · answered by Snark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are still young to understand the existence of God. You still believe on superman , which is a story for children
2007-03-10 22:57:39 · answer #3 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Gott ist tot"
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. ..."
— Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Section 125, tr. Walter Kaufmann
"Nietzsche began his career as a philologist. He was appointed professor of classical philology at the University of Basel at the age of 24 but resigned in 1879 due to health problems. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science. In 1889 he suffered a mental collapse, probably of syphilitic origin. Nietzsche lived the remainder of his life as an invalid under the care of his mother and sister, until his death in 1900."
Seems this man was a bit unstable. We see he may have came down with syphilis which would probably have been through sexual contact with an infected person, possibly a prostitute.
It seems he was referring to "God" as a concept and not so much a person. So we have "killed" the "concept" of God through our crimes.
Nietzsche may have been a brilliant man and perhaps ahead of his times. But, I still see not much evidence that he believed in God as a Supreme Being.
In this material existence we are allowed to commit the worst crimes anyone can imagine. However, we still must pay the price. We will still get the karma. But, nature's way is to get around to inflicting bad karma when it is good and ready. So the bad karma might show up instantly or it may take many years. The consequence is that we wonder if karma actually exists. This helps us to keep the illusion that maybe karma doesn't exist, but then some may note that perhaps karma does exist since it seems the bad karma does come around sometimes.
Similarly, material nature allows us to lean in the direction of believing there is no Supreme Being, but then we notice that maybe there is a Supreme Being. So until we have achieved total spiritual enlightenment we have to struggle with trying to believe the Supreme Being exists despite the arguments of the atheists.
For some, God seems difficult to understand, and so in the name of material progress they choose to reject God. But, we cannot prove the Supreme Being does not exist. And though it is difficult to prove the Supreme Being "does" exist, we find it preferable to have faith that there is a Supreme Being.
To fear God is the lowest rung of understanding God and relationship with God. Fearing God can also be classified as approaching God in awe and reverence.
The trend is to forget God and even reject God in favor of so-called material enjoyments. But, are we really enjoying? We go against nature to enjoy and so we can get bad results for such so-called enjoyment.
For instance, we can take whatever intoxication we like, but we may then overdose and die or some other probem. Similarly, we may decide to have sex whenever, wherever and with whomever we like and then we could get venereal disease and even die.
So we need to advance to the level of fearing God. Once we have advanced to that level then the next really great level is to learn or reawaken our love for God.
In the spiritual world loving God is completely natural. Therefore, we are actually re-awakening our love for God.
2007-03-10 23:05:24 · answer #4 · answered by devotionalservice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nietzsche is Dead
The god of cultures, and cathederals and tradition that Nietzsche wrote about is dead.
God of love, compasion, and beauty lives
2007-03-11 00:45:04 · answer #5 · answered by Pieter H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haven't you watched Bruce Almighty? God's not dead, he's passing on his powers to us so we can become God too, and share the universe with him. Isn't this great? We have a democratic God finally... Yahoo!
2007-03-10 22:53:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I hear the smurfs beat superman there.
2007-03-10 22:49:47 · answer #7 · answered by jovvijo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christopher Reeve is dead. That should give you a clue.
2007-03-10 22:46:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not dead.He is just on a permanent vacation.
2007-03-10 22:49:39 · answer #9 · answered by Demopublican 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god is above time.he has made laws and allowed universe to evolve.superman is evolution of man.since god is above time he is above death.
2007-03-10 22:54:20 · answer #10 · answered by bhargavi r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋