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Friedrich Nietsche: THE JOYFUL WISDOM, III, 125, 'The Madman'

posted 13 years ago by kogaway-2
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This passage explains the movie:

The Madman, — Have you ever heard of the
madman who on a bright morning lighted a lantern
and ran to the market-place calling out unceasingly :
" I seek God ! I seek God ! " — As there were many
people standing about who did not believe in God,
he caused a great deal of amusement. Why ! is
he lost? said one. Has he strayed away like a
child? said another. Or does he keep himself
hidden ? Is he afraid of us ? Has he taken a sea-
voyage? Has he emigrated? — the people cried
out laughingly, all in a hubbub. The insane man
jumped into their midst and transfixed them with
his glances. " Where is God gone ? " he called out.
" I mean to tell you ! We have killed him, — you
and I ! We are all his murderers ! [....]

[–] filmlover17 13 years ago

How exactly would you interpret the movie while bearing in mind this piece by Nietzsche?

[–] TemporaryOne-1 13 years ago

Remember the visitor's speech: Humankind Acquires Then Destroys, and per Nietsche the destruction includes the destruction of G-d (We have killed Him, we are all His murderers....) (and G-d is much more than merely G-d, G-d encompasses human inquiry, curiosity, intellectualism, pursuit of knowledge, the humanities, etc).The Madman - the locals mock the very thought of G-d ergo they murder G-d ergo G-d does not exist ergo humanity is murdered ergo humanity does not exist (not as in, nobody exists, but as in, humankind is devoid of humanity, humankind is a shell of itself because humankind lacks humanity spirituality passion culture creativity philosophy arts etc)A Torinoi Lo - an automated bare-bones existence devoid of humanities which is an existence that has murdered humanity which by default [is an existence that] has murdered G-d

[–] atheismo 13 years ago

Your keyboard is jammed, is it? What's with the O? Or are you in a christian cult who dares not to write down HIS name?

My GOD!

:)

[–] eraserdead 13 years ago

Some religions choose not to write the word God down and so write it as G-d. Your post is quite disrespectful I must say, and I don't even believe in God.

"I forgot where I am..."
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[–] innn 13 years ago

indeed my God
I must also say I neither believe nor non-believe
but there must be very strange those religions that are capable of writing down the word G-d and not the word God, I mean writing down anything rather than proper language
I became member of such cult:
"The OP d-liber-tely exp-s_d h1ms3lf to criticism by denaturating natural language"
BTW I found it difficult to read the OP post it could be that it was addressed to members of said cults

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[–] PoppyTransfusion 12 years ago

TemporaryOne, I encounter your posts frequently on various film boards and find you to be an erudite poster whose writing takes my breath away with its ideas and depth of expression.

I'm a fountain of blood
In the shape of a girl

[–] asmodeux-1 12 years ago

I think your annalysis of Nietzsche has no knowledge about his writings, its merely an interpretation based on your own religious cooncepts which by far seem christian.

For Nietzsche, god is the concept that doesnt let the human to fulfill his fullest potential as the predicament of most religions is metaphysical. That basically means everything you do in this life is senseless unless it is actively pursued towards god. And the religious creates a morality (which is a set of actions and behaviours) that pursues toward that goal. And the religious transforms his life into a career towards god and towards the metaphysical prize which is heaven and while he does he forgets the basic principle of existence that is: that the morality he created towards god is just that, a creation, that life its just one and its the only important thing, that god is a concept that protects his mind and spirit from the fear of assuming his own existence and responsability with this existence and that outside from all this his only purpose is to live his life, to furiously survive and endure, to enjoy, and to be him.

So your point on the dead of god as the destruction of the world has no sense. The dead of god is an apocalypse only for the believer and the worshiper, for that who despised life in pursuit of metaphysical worlds and god.
Thats why the gypsies appeared and said: "youre weak, youre gonna perish" as much as with the dead of the metaphysical promise their own world sinked into the abyss. they were not ubermensch, the gypsies were as they are far away from good and evil, worship freedom absolutely and belong to anything.

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[–] asmodeux-1 12 years ago

Your "Nietzsche" commentary has nothing to do with anything Nietzsche wrote.

probes? annalysis? none... non sequitur...

ergo youre idiot.

Whereas you posted your own personal convulted Christian beliefs in response

Whereas you know nothing about Nietzsche "moral of slaves" and furious anti-christianism that i wholeheartly share, which whoever that have read about Nietzsche will inmediatelly recognize... but no, you didnt.
ergo youre idiot

and yes. idiots doesnt belong to this world.
ergo the best thing for them is to leave the ubermensch to live.

and yes, i may be a lying troll for the people of your kind.
ergo i give a flying fck

btw i have the impression ive read you somewhere, threatened you before? scared of me you return again like the morally incompetent and psychologycally resented youre? smells like... christianism around! i must wash my hands!

[–] StanleyVonAnderson 11 years ago

One can't read Nietzsche if they can't even speak English. I understand that you may not be a native speaker, but you make a fool of yourself when you try to insult someone without even making basic sense of your sentence structures, grammar and spelling.

[–] ivansnightmare 11 years ago

Wait, you're telling me you can't read Nietzsche in his original German, or all the other dozens of languages into which he's been translated? Nietzsche is just for English speakers, huh? Good thing you called that other person a fool though.

This confession has meant nothing.

[–] tiligo-mes92 9 years ago

If you (honestly) can't understand what asmodeux wrote, I'm afraid you're the only uneducated fool around.

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