My Philosophical Doppledanger

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So… My ancestors got here in the US prior to the revolutionary war, your basic Pennsylvania Dutch stock. We went all over the place, married non Germans, yet for some bizarre reason we always remained “German Americans.” Both my first and last name is German. We change up the spelling of the last name every once and a while, by a letter or two, but it sticks. This is funny as hell, how this identity remains, cause nobody in our family likes one another. Looking around in my family tree has been astounding at times, given the severe contradictions. I look at a ancestor who was chased out by a stone throwing mob in Missouri, or farmers in Idaho who never quite managed to figure out how to grow corn in the Idaho badlands over the last some 140 years they been there, and I say “yup, that’s us” while I hear my brother is trying to get funding to do a movie of our ancestors, cause he sees we founded military units and major police forces, explored who knows how many frontiers, etc. I really don’t want that shit dragged up. I prefer the historians of law, sociology, and surprisingly even philosophy… but that’s not movie worthy. Nor are guys running long distance, or having a knack for starting communications companies.

So there is a difference of opinion and outlook of just who our family is.

I get a package in the mail today, and its a refutation of “my book”. Very well written refutation, and I gotta admit, I agree with the guy at several points. Problem is, though it gets my name, and somehow even my current address right, I didn’t right the fucking book.

It doesnt help that it is a “philosophy book” on Astrology. I have little interest in astrology… but my account on meetup.com suggests otherwise. When I lived in San Francisco and Hawaii, I joined literally EVERY philosophy group out there. As the years went by, the good ones died off, as no one wants serious philosophy. Groups discussing medieval logic, dogen, even a Wittgenstein bar group (Don’t drink) are gone. Deleted out of existence. For some fucking reason, every astrology group, masonic group, amnesty international, kabbalah… all these groups I really didn’t like but still bothered with at least once to ensure I get well rounded exposure to various thought. I look at my meetup.com account now, having never updated it, and it looks like I was a pot smoking hippy astrologist.

Well, this person saw that too. He also saw my clean shaven picture on the site, and the picture of me in “my book” and I look like my evil bearded twin in it. Evil isn’t the word. Not really at all. No… for those of you who saw the American TV Series “The Office” it is Dwight’s weird as shit Menninoite/Amish relatives with those weird fucking beards looking back at my in the printout. My face, their stupidass beard. And a straw hat, and suspenders.

This fucker… has ruined… my life. What the fuck is a Amish version of me out there, closely related enough to look this much like me, smart enough to write two books, possibly wanna put our family’s inventive streak to use in writing histories of astrology?

This is really pissing me off, as I’ve done a lot of research on Theophrastus… especially on Monism and Dualism, and traced it to the start of 9th century Islamic Alchemy. I’ve always been weirded out by being identified as a Alchemist, even quit this site for the longest time when Arc insisted I was a alchemist (I am so not). I just generally research philosophy and history, and when I notice a link others fail to see, I take up the research, unbiased and unattached. Doesn’t mean I identify with it.

Apparently, my Doppledanger doesn’t approach history the same way… he is a believer. In astrology. Amish fucking astrologer with my face and a gay ass beard, using my name.

He has my face and our beards don’t even grow anything alike.

I just got a 99 Dodge Durango. Spent half the night working on it, the book is in the SUV. I keep switching between working in it and reading it. I wonder what kind if vehicle this asshole drives.

Fucking genetic traits backfiring. They did research on great English writers like Alexander Pope, and couldn’t find noticeable genius in their family trees. In our family, shit keeps popping up. Can’t say its always genius, but the intention towards subjects certainly there.

Eugenics just ain’t gonna fucking work. Its like those Roman Noble families seeing their ancestors… EACH ONE A NOBLE, yet only SOME had achievements, and some tried with mediocre results. Kinda hurts the dignity of the whole affair. All the Julian’s and Scipios after a while riding high on just a few ancestors, despite numerous ancestors in administrative roles.

God forbid, I’m lucky I don’t know the correct spelling of my fathers side. He was a historian too, and the very little I know if that English lineage is he isn’t the only intellectual, but beyond that I don’t know. If I started tracing out my family by five degrees in both sides, looking at their published works, a part of me would undoubtedly be wowwed, but at the same time, would I be even more freaked out than I am right now seeing something more stomach lurching.

I have to change my last name now. I don’t even know what to choose. Thus us just so fucking dussapointing that I’m getting identified as thus guy now. I can’t even imagine the confusion of my wikipage in 60 years as people fight over Amish me and real me being one and the same, or separate. I don’t take many pictures of myself, so its all gonna be overall straps and strawhats for me.

Fuckin A.

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I’m gonna get a Maori Face Tattoo.

This isn’t him… this guy grooms himself, my guy doesn’t appear to care… but how would you feel if someone mistook you as this guy, and his shitty mystical waste of time book is going to get confused with a essay of actual research on your part, and if you shaved the fucker, he would look just like you?

This is proof there is a God, and that he likes to play mind games with me.

Fuck you Amish me, Fuck you.

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=D>

Those ideas are far older than that. Most like to think the Greeks were the first to handle this stuff. Not even hardly. Shirley you know that, so I won’t call you surely.

Yeah but it’s so seductive man. It’s the kind of thing where, after you read about your signs, it’s too late to un-know what you’ve read, and you start to think ‘gosh, this really does sound like me’. I was seduced at a young and ignorant age by astrology and really got into it. Did charts and all kind of shit. Born under a bad sign. Since, I’ve been the embodiment of a love/hate relationship between my astrological elements. Capricorn sun sign, Tiger chinese zodiac, and these two are constantly fighting. Capricorn has no time for the bohemian nonsense of the Tiger, and Capricorn bores the hell out of the big, adventurous cat. When they ever do come to an agreement, I transform into an extraordinary unstoppable force. Ever see a Tiger-Goat climb a mountain? Of course you haven’t, because he climbs it so fast. Blink your eyes and he’s already at the top, smiling down at you. I’ll throw you a rope, or be waiting all night for you to finally catch up. Tiger has no patience for this. Gemini rising, something Capricorn can’t tolerate because my mouth and intellect won’t ever stop running (true to the Gemini form). Mars in Sagittarius. Let’s go to war and I’ll become all philosophical. Moon, Mercury and Venus in Aquarius; freakish, streakish and odd. My love is always strange and unorthodox, I stay cool and detached, analytical, I can’t just fall in love. I have to approach it like a scientist. But if and when I do, Tiger takes over and I start pacing and purring uncontrollably. Then strong, sensual Capricorn goes to work and the earth starts to shake. I can’t remember my other planets… would have to do the charts again.

What are your signs? I’ve got you pegged as a fire sign and I DON’T think you could be a Cancer or a Taurus. And if you are, your personality is dominated by your other sign influences.

Which is precisely why high culture does not necessarily equal genetic quality. Think of those skinny, pale skinned feminine princes in all the movies.

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This thread is hilarious. I woke up this morning and was immediately put into a good mood by it. Thank you.

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Don’t get me wrong it is a very logical system, and a great mathematical product, but natal astrology is… SO FUCKING USELESS, its not even funny. I could say there is a Darwinian advantage in knowing the system well enough to attract women interested in it, and you know what, that does work, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to the conclusion, it ain’t fucking worth trying to breed with such women. Don’t want any offspring of mine having to deal with that sort of easily impressed mother.

I’m an Aquarian… duh. I come off as a firey sign because my emphasis on my method… Comedy as a dialectic tool that triggers catharsis would require a exceptionally well rounded yet foreword thinking approach. There is incredible altruism in seeing where the thought patterns of others are incredibly weak, contradictory, and harmful, and not only bringing attention to it (which would be pure destruction, which is quite cruel in and of itself, I disagree with it), but to leave an awareness lurking there is something better.

As I know your attracted to Nietzsche, I’ll let you in on a aspect of your history largely forgotten.

Nietzsche wrote TWO autobiographies. One called Ecce Homo, which was repressed by his sister for years. It really hurt him, and he went into the insane asylum thinking his greatest work had more or less been denied to humanity. This wasn’t as much of a delusion of grandure at this point, because this is precisely what happened. For the first time in His life, his ego matched his outlook. He went in and out of productive spells, was observed stealing books out of the sanatorium library. His friends visiting him at times thought he completely recovered, but at other times he went to complete shit, as you would expect. But he managed a second biography, half sexually delusional.

The big question arises, why write “My Sister and I” so differently from Ecce Homo, his other biography? Well, he had dropped his pretense at this point. He was locked away, the struggle not worth it, as he couldn’t well apply his Master-Slave dichotomy upon anyone save the guys he saw walking in the streets below (said he was looking for lions, his supermen, in the behavior of the men alone). Being a patient threw him into a state of absolute weakness and dependency that he couldn’t himself deny. It upset him like no other, forced a certain revaluation. You don’t see me attacking him much from this era, as I just… don’t have the heart to. There has been alot of research verifying the authenticity of this final biography by a professor of German literature at UCLA who went through the archives of Nietzsche’s German friends, and found large sections of it correspond with sections not even published out of those archives till years after this work came out.

So why would Nietzsche need to write so differently? Why not just a revamped reworking of Ecce Homo? Because Ecce Homo wasn’t a original work. It was heavily, heavily… I stress heavily, modelled off the work of the Renaissance Philosopher Jerome Cardan. I usually say plagerised, but I slept in a SUV tonight and feel charitable today.

Some of the best lines of Ecco Homo was preserved in it, its outline comes from him. Its one of the best models one could use for construction your own, just never came across someone so deeply dependent.

Jerome Cardan was a medical scientist and a philosopher, inventor. He designed weapons, explored and advanced our study of anatomy and law, and wrote a lot on dieting. But what is nearly forgotten is, he was once the premier astrologer of his age. This is an era when the pope in the Vatican actively and obtusely sponsored astrology and slapped the emblems of his sign on the Vatican walls, which is obnoxiously pagan, but there hasn’t been an era of Christianity that hasn’t flirted with pagan ideas… were a religion that grew out of the classical world, and were the religion today most heavily shaped by them, and not for a moment did we ever forget this.

Jerome Cardan’s chart showed he was going to die. He was a firm believer in astrology, and completely accepted it. Wrote everything off in fact, and when the time of his timely demise approached, sat around for it to come, stoically.

He sat, and sat. And he sat some more. Astrology is a terribly precise science, but its predictions sometimes come a little offtimed, so for good measure, he sat around for another year to die.

He didn’t die. This pissed himself off something fucking aweful. What in the fuck just hsppened? Did he dedicate his whole life to mastering a worthless art, and sat around waiting to die, for no reason? Yep. You can’t drawl any other conclusion from this, especially when your the greatest mind of a era checking and rechecking your math. His calculations were as correct as ever, and he was stubbornly alive.

Now how is a philosopher to take this? Nietzsche faced this same conundrum in the sanatorium. He obviously wrote prior to being committed in the hysteria of being committed as his final end… you go through those doors, you cease to be. We conviently like to leave his onset of madness at him hugging a horse, then he goes batshit crazy, and dies a decade later catatonic.

Both still had productivity left in them, and some time to rework their ideas. What Jerome Cardan did, was try to derive his essential fixations in the mathematics of astrology into its own field of study that could be scientifically investigated and verified. We get the modern start of probability theory from Jerome Cardan. From Nietzsche, we get nothing. Ecce Homo was published eventually, and everyone abscribe it to him. His other work floated around half forgotten for decades. Only a handful of people bother to read it, because of the mischief of a single translator who has been proven to of intentionally lied and twisted the facts about it. Prior to him, a lot of people accepted it.

So, all we have of Nietzsche’s thoughts is Ecce Homo, and the work ironically isn’t even his. The second irony is, it speaks of the onus of knowing one’s fate… it can be very untroubling, and can mislead you. Once you arrive, you discover the hysteria want warranted, cause your still more or less there.

My personal interest in astrology was derived from my understanding that Alexander the great bought several astrologers with him from the west, to India… and that in India, the astrology revolved around more than 12 signs. I couldn’t figure out the fucking importance of this necessity to increase it… It happened at a time when western and eastern philosophies were being introduced, and thought a deep insight into Alexander’s outlook would arise, and perhaps a pattern imprinted upon Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism with a shared origin in this era. I eventually came to the conclusion that I don’t fucking care. Indian astrology came later, from Christians living in Roman Alexandria, one author named Paul… the Indians preserved the tradition rather exactingly, and its more evolved that the Chaldean system used in the west today. But our hippy chicks hold to the older system, so it was all more or less for nothing. A great scientific revolution loss, ignored, fuck history, everyone seems okay with this. I of course am aware it influenced more that astrology, but sldo mathematics in India, but only guts like me are interested in such things.

As for your interest in the antiquity… It goes back 9000 years. Across neolithic mesopotamia, the villages were astrologically aligned to certain signs. Don’t expect a fully fledged system here, cause it doesn’t exist. Just the starts of it. A lot of celestial mythology was swapped, same myths pop up in India as in Egypt… not all, just some, as is expected.

Eventually, the first philosophers pop up in mesopotamia, and their fixation was completely upon the stars. That’s our start.

In the cults of this era, the basic paraphenalia of civilization, both its technology and conceptual abstractions, all “things” were codified as Mes.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_(mythology

At some damn point, the Orphic religion codified its Cosmogony, which suggests the mesopotamians already had a pretty stable pilgrimage route set up between the various city states, and a high degree if syncretism. It undoubtedly was discovered doing this filled the goddess’ treasure with more silver coils, and so sects started cooperating. Regional heros and gods (their mortality or immortality specifically mentioned for doctrinal necessities per location to appease the Orthodox of local priests) became the inventors of the many things. Music theory was advanced… Listen to this song from Ugurite, just north of abrahamic Judea… prior to the Greeks, people knew how to rock, YouTube videos of Hadrian Hymn No. 6

The Greeks and Chinese inherited the ideas from the phonecians, was brokenly received intact by the Greeks in spurts.

I’m impressed with the antiquity. I’m impressed with its evolution. It is a early attempt at modelling psychological understandings systematical. But the final result, even if it preserves neurological insights, is mostly gibberish and useless.

The astrological schools, such as Antioch, went on to influence medicine. For every one empirical datum, they offer 99 useless Datum that can’t possibly benefit patients. Luckily, this stuff hasn’t been fought medically since Jerome Cardan. The university of bologna was a holdout for a long time, keeping it on their curriculum. I for one, I salute it, and send it off… bon voyage.

I gotta get a Klingnon Bat’lith now can fight this pitchfork wielding clone of mine for my name back. I hope the goats don’t bite me in the ass.

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I gotta tell ya Ferg, all that about Fritz sounds a little sketchy to me. First, as far as I know Ecce Homo was written in less than three weeks directly before his collapse. Hardly enough time to get together some material to plagiarize, don’t cha think? Second, how can autobiographical content be a forgery?

The book is a beautiful display of megalomania, self praise, self clarification (do not mistake me for someone else!) and personal testimony. It was a signature work written by a man in his last moments of lucidity. His last dance before cashing in his chips. At what point could any of this content be a ‘copy’ of someone’s ideas? Are you telling me Fritz thought coffee breeds darkness because somebody told him it does? You can’t plagiarize a diary man.

That aside, what is most impressive to me, assuming that he did in fact have syphilis and/or a brain tumor, is that he could still write so well with this being in its advanced stages. They should have his brain in a jar like Einstein’s for study. How did his mind continue to work so well with all those little viral creatures throwing a big ass keg party in his brain like that? I haven’t found one philosopher who could write as well as Fritz other than Kierkegaard.

Yeah astrology is a pseudo-science for a simple reason: you cannot say that because planetary body X was in position Y when Joe was born, Joe has good money making skills, is very compassionate, and is prone to suffering stomach problems.

You cannot draw a logical connection between things floating around in space and the behavior of human beings… unless you’re talking about gravitational forces and shit affecting women’s menstrual cycles.

Another problem with astrology is that the descriptions of the sign’s habits and behaviors are very ambiguous. Take any given adjective for a sign; Libra is balanced and diplomatic. Okay. How do you define ‘balanced’ and ‘diplomatic’? Shooting someone in the knee can be called diplomatic in the right contexts, while taking a shot to the knee could be diplomatic in others.

I think rather what we have here is a placebo effect. I could’ve told you you were a Virgo before you discovered astrology, and as you read your profile you’d be all ‘omg that IS me!’, and then you’d start acting like a Virgo as the sign was described to you.

Looks like you’ve certainly done your research though. Very impressive. I don’t know how you remember all that shit. I can’t even remember where I last posted.

But slow down for a minute and tell me about this forgery thing in a little more detail. Give me an example.

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[ knuckle bump ]

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If you align western and Chinese astrology at Goat - Capricorn, you get Libra with Dragon. Now if i were to say china was the land of the dragon and that it’s religion [Taoism][Buddhism is Indian [Virgo]] was of balance and harmony, does that not sound like China? So China is Libra.

I don’t think you can match your time of birth, or your personality or the persona of a country directly with the stars. However i do think the human mind can visualise correlations between patterns in it’s subconscious and conscious thinking, and then map that against a bunch of dots in the night sky which IT makes into respective patterns. Just read any threads of ‘hating me is easier’ on maths.

The universe is not disorganised chaos, it is order with a sprinkling of chaos.

It is so easy for people to attack astrology ~ mostly due to intellectual embarrassment, but all those people throughout the ages were stupid - really?

I am not saying it’s right, but there are patterns at work in the world and we are all riding time’s arrow [given it’s attached to light which is a universal medium].

It would be nice if everyone got off their high horses and took a serious look at astrology. It wont be people who already agree with it who find something in it eh!

Oh and it may go back this far…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave
ancient-wisdom.co.uk/zodiac.htm

Maybe those ancient shamans [probably drug induced] trances brought out patterns and symbols in the minds eye?

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I didn’t click the pictures, but I’m assuming your talking if hypnogogic patterns? I’ve done a lot of work on them, a lot of my understanding of the philosophy if size comes from it. I fucked up a month ago doing it… I had this bright idea that I could do basic rule patterns for cellular autonomata, like a checkerboard, and just have it move around in that pattern for a few hours, get my mind use to the visual concentration if presenting a scrolling rule, then move on to a more chaos prone rule.

Well, I hadn’t been doing it much before (intentionally at least) for some time, and was having troubles projecting a basic triangle all at once… parts would form and then fade away. I gave up after ten minutes… and relaxed, thinking if nothing, and then a fully formed triangle can spinning up from a southern to northeast trajectory.

This more or less fucked up every theory I had on how they are formed. I didn’t know there was a off monitor area to this phenomena, and that you actually had to visualize it for it to exist. Its like commanding your computer to project a triangle on your screen, it doesn’t happen, but later on out of the blue one just floats in across the screen like its been on a journey somewhere off screen.

Anyway… You more or less proved my point on the biography. It was put together very fast, and I honestly can’t recall coffee loving being mentioned in either, the strong statements, often near identical, comes from both. Ecce Homo wasn’t published till long after.

Prior to me, I can only find evidence of one researcher noting Nietzsche even took any ideas for further development from Nietzsche. I can’t actually place when he read the book, but I’m guessing it was because of Cardan’s theories on Dieting. Given the relatively late writing of Ecce Homo and his deeply obvious heavy (not sketchy, obvious as fuck) reliance on the autobiography, his acquaintance came late to it.

Its the only work on dieting by a renaissance philosopher out there.

I wouldn’t throw away finding parallels with the roaming stars of the sky and the feedback loops of the mind, especially considering some go into a retrograde motion. It was actually quite clever to notice that the mind has feedback loops that interact with stable personalities. I don’t necessarily throw the neurological observations that may be present in astrology, I just wouldn’t resort to it first, second, or even tenth in order of important psychological theories. Your not gonna diagnose a disease, or talk a jumper off a roof with astrological methodology.

The particular edition of “The Book of My Life” was a paperback white cover, with a Renaissance era woodcut of a corpse on a table ready to be dissected, much of it already was.The online version I gave to Orb (think it was Orb) who knows how long ago sucks, hence why it was free. I just can’t find that edition I had. I want it again, and gas nothing to do with Nietzsche. Cardan was a early exemplar of the basic personality type in a era of little competition and obsfuction. Doing a neurological charting of each section would give a rather precise axis of where my type is naturally active in the mind, and what aspects we’ve adopted from institutional learning. Its the early thinkers that matter.

As for your being stumped on thinking and writing with syphilis, it wasn’t uncommon in the 19th century. A lot hit the whorehouse, Nietzsche told his doctors he caught syphiliys twice (guess he figured what the hell the second time) in a whorehouse. This was sadly very common.

Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, and Charles Baudelaire had it. It doesn’t shut down automatically the brain, and even when it does, does it in cruel spurts and withdrawals.

A unexpected, and ironic side effect of the disease is a desire to eat random shit… In Nietzsche’s case, it was actual shit. He would hide his shit, then chomp down. But, he was also reading in periods after to this, conversing with people, enjoying music.

Had they just let him be, and let his shit mold over, he could of cured himself and then proceed to write the world’s most disturbing cook book “The Path to Health is Paved in Shit: New Recipes For Polish Sausage”.

I think sometimes these solitary authors got messy and gobbled down just enough penicillin from their messy rotten stores during long bouts that they may of suppressed the disease long enough to recover a bit. Hard to go out and shop, much less remain hygienic, if your a half lunatic bed ridden living alone… A little moldy bread down the throatz and walla.

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Spent countless hours, yet again, looking for this particular edition of the autobiography, been image searching woodcuts.

This guy aint it, but damn… some people just have bad luck.

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I’m lost man, and I don’t like it. You’ve spun me for a loop, Ferg. I didn’t want to be forced to wonder if Nietzsche didn’t write it. I just wanted to enjoy it. Kaufmann is telling me the manuscript is getting tossed back and forth between Schlechta and Podach. Schlechta reprints a previously published version and apparantly Podach gets editorial directions by Nietzsche but then says “the hitherto familiar Ecce Homo does not exist”. Later, Podach says he has not indicated where whole sections in the manuscript sent to the printer are crossed out. Finally, nobody can decide whether or not Nietzsche or Gast deleted anything. Nietzsche sends the manuscript to Naumann and then asks for it back so he can make changes.

Stop everything and start over. How do you know all this confusion about the origins of the book isn’t a result of this volley ball game with the manuscript between publishers and printers?

Somebody bring me Sauwelios and Fixed and everybody sit the fuck down.

We’re going to get to the bottom of this.

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Wait… um. You just brought up a interesting point that has stumped me. I obviously don’t have my favorite edition of Jerome Cardan’s biography (hence I wouldn’t be searching for it, the online translation is really hideous)… but I have been stumped in regards as to why Cardan had so many more topics, and Nietzsche only took some.

Ive come to figure Nietzsche just thought they were irrelevant to him or Hus desired self image.

Anyway, I get my information from professor Walter Stewart, a professor at UCLA. He went through Nietzsche’s “NachlaB” (fuck if I know how to make that funky B) looking at all the books in his two works on Nietzsche, focused on My Sister and I. He never mentioned Jerome Cardan (I’m the one who found that) but through his chronology I know Ecce Homo was published rather late.

If I recall, he wrote about it in "Nietzsche “My Sister and I: A Critical Study”

He caught Kaufmann in some serious outright lies in the work, which more or less kills any legitimacy Kauffmann has as a historian. I simply won’t tough him now.

He (Stewart) also did a lot of work on Gast, including delving in his archives. I have no reason to dismiss that he edited Ecce Homo, but your statement that it was edited and reduced down is very intriguing and makes sense to me. I don’t know the actual data he wrote, but its fairly easy to guess which direction he took when looking at how much bigger Jerome’s work is.

There can be, absolutely NO DOUBT that Nietzsche took from Cardano, but the degree is indeed up for dispute.

If your interested in Ecce Homo for the pleasure of light reading, go right ahead and ignore this. However, if your a serious historian, or a personality typologist who use autos biographies in your typology, this awareness is crucial. Old boy wasn’t very inventive… well read, maybe, but had to borrow for his own biography.

I’ll skim over both works tonight to see if I can find it.

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Kindle Edition of “My Sister and I: A Critical Study”
Location 1994 of 5887

(Section 19 of chapter 2, where he systematical nails every assertion Kaufmann makes)

  1. Kaufmann asserts:

I took he (sic) sister to task for withholding Ecce Homo until 1908, and merely recorded in my Bibliography that two of Nietzsche’s other works were not published until 1985. This last fact is entirely overlooked in My Sister and I, while Nietzsche’s mental collapse (in January 1889) is emphatically claimed on his sister’s suppression of Ecce Homo (9f.)- which she had, as Dr. Levy must have known, never even seen at the time, Nor is it credible that Nietzsche himself, at the asylum, should have complained of his family’s suppression of the book" (32). (Kaufmann, Partisan, p.374)

W.S. Comments

What Kaufmann is referencing here is to the statement in the Introduction: “It was Ecce homo which Nietzsche’s family- taking advantage of his failing health- suppressed.” In fact, Nietzsche’s sister is never mentioned in the introduction as the culprit in the suppression of Ecce Homo on either of the pages that Kaufmann cites! His argument is thus a bald face contradiction of the truth. Moreover, Kaufman appears unaware of the fact that the idea to suppress Ecce homo actually did not originate as early as February 1889- only one month following Nietzsche’s breakdown, and that his sister had absolutely nothing to do with it- another fact which Kaufman us unaware. Indeed, on 4 Feb 1889 Overbeck informs Peter Gast of Nietzsche’s publisher’s (Constantin Georg Naumann’s) opinion on the matter: “Naumann himself, in his communications with me, doesn’t appear to be thinking of continuing to print Ecce homo; infact, for the most part, he isn’t considering it at all.” On 9 Feb 1889 Overbeck makes his own feelings about Ecce homo clear to Fast, that this book: "for the moment should disappear; that a publication at this moment could put at extreme risk what is most probably an inestimable document in its consequence.

There can be no doubt it was Overbeck’s, Gast’s, and especially Naumann’s opinions were at the root of the suppression of Ecce homo and that it was not the decision of Nietzsche’s sister as Kaufmann asserts in his curious fabrication of information from “My Sister and I”. Then too, of all his friends, Nietzsche confided most in Peter Gast about Ecce homo in the months just prior to his breakdown. When Gast finally visited Nietzsche in January 1890 in the Jena Sanatorium and spent some three weeks with him, there was every possibility of Ecce homo may of arisen. If Nietzsche was lucid enough to voice an opinion at this time, his reaction of suppression of it would have followed along the lines of the complaint made in My Sister and I. Why should this be so? Because of all the books Nietzsche had written, Nietzsche held out the greatest hope for this particular one as his crowning achievement in the months just prior to the breakdown. He tells Gast on 30 October 1888 that he began the work on his birthday, and that he feared that the first book of his proposed “Revaluation of all Values” is so volitile that it might be possibly confiscated. By Nov 17 he is telling his mother that his new book will open people’s eyes to such an extent that he’s falling off his chair with pleasure. He clarifies his mission to Branded on 20th November as an assault on the Germans and on the Church and Christianity. By 26th of November he tells Paul Deussen that not only is the book in press but that it was the bible of the future. By 22 December, he reports to Ferdinand Avenarius that two portfolios of the book have already been printed. And by 2 January 1889, just one day before his breakdown, he writes excitedly to Naumann, “Fame and eternity: forward with Ecce [homo]”

It is absolutely clear that Nietzsche put tremendous stock in this one book that he saw as what he calls “the bible of the future.” He was obsessed with Ecce homo right up to the letter with Neumann demonstrates. He was obsessed with Ecce homo right up to the end as the letter to Naumann demonstrates. We will later examine if there is any credibility to his being lucid enough not merely to complain about Ecce homo but intellectually cogent enough to write “My Sister and I”. Suffice to say that because of the details eludicated above, Kaufmann’s charge again Lack’s credibility.

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I hand typed that on my phone… Damn.

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Everyone sleeps around here too much.

Listened to this none stop since my last post.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJp59o72d8w

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=sShe58IL47k

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=DNI9cuo4EJI

You know… those Teletubbies, they don’t have privates, but they have these little prongs on their head, and all live together with this little dog that sucks everything. I wonder what happens in that mound after Teletubbies bye-byes. Porntube videos of lesbians tribbing pop up on their stomacks as the vacuum-dog does its rounds to each one.

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=-yOZEiHLuVU

Just watched the sun rise from the east this morning while listening to The Gladiator themesong my Enya. My life has meaning now.

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=AFa1-kciCb4

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Fun fact. Every one of those was filmed in Italy, thus earning the title ‘spaghetti westerns’. I guess the producer thought the Italians would pass for Mexicans. Had me fooled.

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Teletubbies too? Mama mia!