I went into a church yesterday for the first time since Easter of 1996. I have never been so afraid of a mob mentality as I was at the time. The dude in the front would say, “HE HAS RISEN”, then all the people in the church would say, “HE HAS RISEN INDEED” in a monotonous unison.
It really freaked me out.
Besides that, I found out that Nietzsche was wrong, because God isn’t dead, (I suspect that the preacher hadn’t really read that much Nietzsche). And also, that the jews killed Jesus.
Interesting to think about what these people must do with the rest of thier time.
I hear about the zombie thing alot, but actually seeing it in person can be very disturbing. I’d like someone to explain to me how you can feel right about yourself when you’re chanting something with a whole crowd of people. Even if the preacher had said ,“WHAT TIME IS IT?”, and everyone all at once said, “TWO-THIRTY”, it would’ve been weird. I dunno man. Crazy trippy shit.
Actually, I’d hazzard a guess that at the time Nietzsche wrote it, God was dead. But since then he’s been resurrected to some degree. Perhaps blame LSD?
I think God probably should be dead. But he isn’t, sadly, and Nietzsche was wrong. I suppose he’s more on life support, and that is sort of what Nietzsche meant, in that clinging to a failed hypothesis is leading the world into nihilism (before the nihilists here jump on me, I mean nihilism as Nietzsche understood it).
That “God is dead” statement is nothing more than the report that statistically, europe was losing faith in religion and accepting science as an authority.
If you try to make any more sense out of the statement than that, you are going to be as confused as the people who still believe in God. Because “God” is a meaningless concept…so are any polemics about it.
Impious, tell me what this means: “dinst is gone”. I say this because dinst is no longer here.
So what does “dinst is gone” mean exactly? For it to mean anything, “dinst” would first have to exist, so one could determine that it “is gone”. But dinst doesn’t mean anything…so “dinst is gone” doesn’t mean anything either.
By ‘God is dead’ Nietzsche primarily means ‘The illusion of God has ceased to occur’. Remember, in Thus Spoke he had a madman running around shouting it out…
God will never be dead, he will change with the times though. The ability that allows us to think in the abstract allows us to believe in science, God, aliens, ghosts, astrology, psychics, etc.
What I like seeing is those snide youth Christians who wear tshirts saying, “Nietzsche is dead.” As if that’s even a good argument against his ideas.
‘God is dead’, to me, is a way of saying God’s legitmacy has been questioned, marking the beginning of his murder, and is now being regarded as meaningless, marking his actual death. God’s current legitimacy is pretty much nonexistent; almost no churches withhold any significant power anymore. Terrorism is just God’s last dying throws, a reaction to his postmodern demise.
Presumably you attended the afternoon service. Had you attended the morning worship everyone all at once would say, “NINE-AM”. Try a Wednesday evening service sometime: shout it out brother, “SEVEN-PM”!
