Now how can that be?
A very attention grabbing title, I will admit. But is it accurate? Quite obviously, I have decided to write this paper on Friedrich Nietzsche and his essay, "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life" in the Happiness: Classical Readings in Philosophy text. But can it be definitively said that Nietzsche was a Nihilist or did he merely espouse the merits of nihilistic thought when it was convenient or coincidental? Was he a Nihilist, a Rational Egoist, a Perspectivist, an Existentialist or merely a Nietzschist? Or has he only recently, and out of expediency, been attached to nihilism? It is truly hard to pin the man down into one convenient category, but insofar as his statements that, "Gott ist tot" in The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra he can be deemed nihilistic in his very nature (though perhaps not necessarily to what nihilism is construed as contemporarily and colloquially).
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a girl i'm dating entrusted me with $200 to safeguard with explicit instructions not to lose it. That's easily understandable enough, right?
You see, it was about a third of her tax refund check and she wanted to make sure we had it when we take our little trip to Asheville in April to go see the Faint in concert.
Well, sure as shit i "lost" it. Well, not really lost, but blew it on a stripper named Racine. Actually i prefer to see it more like i was injecting that money back into the economy by spending it on an eightball and booze enough to convince this lovely little working girl to go have a bit of fun with me. I enjoyed myself... and Racine is in a dumpster somewhere, but i digress.
Suffice to say, my girl was quite pissed when i finally had to admit that i misplaced the money. As we say here in the South, "she really got to cussin' me" over it.
As i tried to explain myself, the conversation went a bit like this:
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.
Hondas... great cars, but I hate the kids that drive them. They just act so silly... anyone else ever notice that?
Don't bench race with me. Ever. It's insulting, and it makes you look like a tool. The fact that you ordered an over-priced "cold air" intake, full "high performance racing" cat-back exhaust, decals and neon under-lights does not make you Speed Racer. The fact that you had to pay a "speed" shop to put it on really doesn't help my opinion of you.
The fact that you yourself installed the 280 extra pounds of body kit, strobe lights, subwoofers and $500 Recaro racing seats does not make you an accomplished mechanic. The fact that you brag about the "great deal" you got for your car's "tuner chip" on eBay makes me giggle.
The mere fact that you talk about wanting to "throw a turbo or some Nos on that bad boy" makes you look dumber yet. (Cars are chicks, dude. Just like ships. And no one except those ridiculous movies calls it "< ... Read more ...
