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Buddhism and Christianity

Although he considered both Christianity and Buddhism to be nihilistic, decadent religions, Nietzsche did consider Buddhism more realistic because it posed objective problems and didn't use the concept of God. In all religious history, Nietzsche believed, Buddhism was the only positivistic religion because it struggles against actual suffering, which is experienced as fact or illusion (the concept of Maya) in various traditions of Buddhism. Christianity, on the contrary, struggles against sin, while suffering can have a redemptive quality. Nietzsche claimed that Buddhism is "beyond good and evil" because it has developed past the "...self–deception of moral concepts... ."[27] Buddha created the religion in order to assist individuals in ridding themselves of the suffering of life. "The supreme goal is cheerfulness, stillness, absence of desire, and this goal is achieved."[28] Buddhism had its roots in higher and also learned classes of people, whereas Christianity was the religion of the lowest classes, Nietzsche wrote. He also believed Christianity had conquered barbarians by making them sick.[29] Buddhism objectively claims "I suffer." Christianity, on the other hand, interprets suffering as being related to sin.[30] Buddhism is too positivistic and truthful, according to Nietzsche, to have advocated the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity. Nietzsche called these virtues the three Christian shrewdnesses. Faith and belief are opposed to reason, knowledge, and inquiry, he believed. Hope, to him, in the Beyond sustains the unhappy multitudes.[30]



Origin of Christianity[edit]
Jewish priesthoodJ

Jewish, and subsequently, to a greater degree, Christian, priests survived and attained power by siding with decadents, Nietzsche claimed. They turned against the natural world. Their resentment against those who were well–constituted led them to "... invent another world from which that life–affirmation would appear evil ... ."[31] In order to survive, the Jewish priests made use of the decadents and their large population. The Jews were not decadents, themselves. According to Nietzsche, they have "...the toughest national will to life which has ever existed on earth."[32] However, they pretended to be decadents so they could "... place themselves at the head of all decadence movements (— as the Christianity of Paul —) so as to make of them something stronger than any party that affirms life."[31]

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The Death Instinct freud
and The Will to Nothingness nietzsche


Freud read Friedrich Nietzsche as a student, and bought his collected works in 1900, the year of Nietzsche's death; Freud told Wilhelm Fliess that he hoped to find in Nietzsche "the words for much that remains mute in me." Peter Gay writes that Freud treated Nietzsche's writings "as texts to be resisted far more than to be studied"; immediately after reporting to Fliess that he had bought Nietzsche's works, Freud added that he had not yet opened them.[18] Students of Freud began to point out analogies between his work and that of Nietzsche almost as soon as he developed a following.[19] After his early interest in it, Freud turned against philosophy and directed his attention away from metaphysical issues.[20]


Theodor W. Adorno writes that Freud was Edmund Husserl's "opposite number...against the entire claim and tendency of whose psychology Husserl's polemic against psychologism could have been directed."[163] Fromm identifies Freud, together with Karl Marx and Albert Einstein, as the "architects of the modern age", while nevertheless remarking, "That Marx is a figure of world historical significance with whom Freud cannot even be compared in this respect hardly needs to be said."[164] For Paul Robinson, Freud "rendered for the twentieth century services comparable to those Marx rendered for the nineteenth."[165]

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Odysseus and the Siren Call of Reason

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Kant touch that,
not so much a philosopher king as a philosopher priest.

Going down with the Germans, such a beautiful language, I wish I could read, fucking translations are for the birds.

I'm talking about the Baltimore Ohhhhhhrioles


What would would Lou Salome say.?

Make me an angle that flies from montogomery
make me a motorized book

acid flashbacks
Nietzsche and Freud
and the humor of Christ

chilled to the bone

fingers shaking
An effort of the will to lift them and type
as close as I can get to dancing

"The Moloch of Abstraction"

Nietzsche Freud Swift

Life Against Death N.O. Brown
The Denial of Death.

I try to imagine Freud's cancer gnawled face

Civilization and its discontents

Living the good life Like Henry
even without Anais

Reading the Anti-Christ for the first time.