He does good work. Very clean. That skylight he put into the White House was a bit sketchy, but it seems he's found his nietzsche niche.

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What they've unwittingly done is show why science is superior to religious dogma. Ofcourse there are many scientific "truths" that, in time, will be qualified or disgarded, it's called learning. The difference between science and religion is that scientists question and look for the correct answer. They keep questioning until a truth- like the earth being a globe or the earth orbiting the sun- is arrived at. At any time their "truth" is also open to question. Were it not, we would still believe the earth was flat and the sun orbited us. The religious, on the other hand, question nothing and simply accept with blind faith. "Faith means never wanting to know what is true" Friedrich Nietzsche.

What in the fucking hell were they thinking? I do hope they did something like AC suggests, because hell, this would have given me nightmares now. (that first scene anyway)

>> ^ponceleon:
yeah, way to quote fail:
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche


Heh, correction fail.

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26964.html

Pff, dragons.. who ever heard of dragons?

Fail.

The misquote at the start completely ruined this for me. I know, I'm strange, but using one of Nietzsche's best quotes and awarding to Mark Twain kind made me throw up a little in my mouth.

yeah, way to quote *fail:

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Yeah that's a Nietzsche quote. I'm thinking the video is about how differently little kids see the world - to them the world is completely bizarre and foreign. They don't understand the reasons behind anything. So what to us looks like a normal kids show, to them looks like an acid trip. Everything is a source of fear except the mother - the one source of security in the kid's world. But the mother doesn't really understand this - she's so used to the world that she forgot what it looked like when she was a little kid herself.

>> ^Samaelsmith:
Also, what's with the monster fighting and abyss gazing quote being attributed to Mark Twain? I could have sworn that was Neitzsche.


I completely missed that quote, but yeah, it is a Nietzsche quote... Wtf...

>> ^gwiz665:
"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear."
- Daniel Dennett.

Nietzsche wrote something similar in "Die fröhliche Wissenschaft" (Gay Science):

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."


And since most of the comments before me were written on a computer, I feel obliged to add a quote of Alan Turing:

"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."

Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche was partly to blame for his being misinterpreted. After his mental breakdown, she took over his notes, and she managed his estate after his death.

Elisabeth was a raging anti-Semite. Her deceased husband had attempted to found a colony Paraguay in order to erect a "pure Aryan" community, and she shared his views. Naturally, she edited her brother Friedrich's writings and tried to hide from the world the fact that Nietzsche had held anti-Semitism in the highest contempt.

>> ^EndAll:
or rather misinterprets


no that conversation actually happend. you didn't hear about it?

Upvote for Nietzsche joke =)

I think Nietzsche is the first writer who pointed out to me that Christianity is a religion of weakness, not strength...of servitude, not leadership...of intolerance and conformity, not love.

It's a very wicked little scam when you really think about it: the promise of a better world after you die, if only you shut your mouth and do as your told while you're alive.

I stumbled upon a Danish woman's blog once, and she wrote about how she didn't want to worship a dead man, broken and hanging from a cross. She wanted to worship the gods of her heritage, the warriors and victors.

In a lot of ways, I think she's right.

Thus Spoke Zarathushtra - Nietzsche
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Dhammapada
Othello - Shakespeare
The Divine Comedy - Dante
The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch
Sophie's choice - William Styron
Le petit Nicolas - Jean-Jacques Sempé

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