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Have they not heard?

Nietzsche is dead!

The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. “Whither is Nietzsche?” he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him—you and I. All of us are his murderers.

The corpse rots but interesting shadows are pushing underneath…


Upon hatching, the larval ichneumon feeds either externally or internally, killing the host when they themselves are ready to pupate.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumon_wasp)

Certain species of Ichneumon wasp inject their brood into other creatures. They grow. The form may remain but the larvae chew and grow fat on the content until the form is just a stretching membrane around things, seething with life- growing fat, white from lack of light – teeming, swarming, …. multiplying.

Deleuze was always a big fan of buggery; taking Hegel from behind.
With Nietzsche – you can’t even get that far – the height, the solitude beats ya back – confusing and defeating you like a system of carnival mirrors.

If Nietzsche is to be “taken”, proletarianised – made available to the rag tag motley: us ordinaries – a job must be done with infinite care and patience.

We must move like burglars.

Buddhism evolved from Hinduism.
But it happened in a quite clever way.
Every term from Brahman, Atman, Jivatman, Samsara, Karma, Dharma left carefully and precisely as was.
Each one gradually became a hollowed out shell – most, eventually, turned precisely to their opposites.
The external edifice, the facade stays up –but the content is chomped up by a wriggley crew of maggots.

Eternal recurrence, superman and perspectivism all the words will remain on the outside.
But the nobility, the solitude, the higher altitudes and all or most the content must go or be altered beyond belief.
Onwards maggots, motleys, ranters, proletarian, levelers, ignoramuses, commoners, thieves, tramps, whores and pirates!
Start reading – start chewing.
Nietzsche for the masses!
Bring Nietzsche down.
For a people’s republic of Nietzsche!

It has been related further that on the same day the madman forced his way into several churches and there struck up his requiem aeternam deo. Led out and called to account, he is said always to have replied nothing but:
“What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of Nietzcshe?”

(modified Nietzsche quotes from : Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882, 1887) para. 125; Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.] – used without permission!)

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That’s because understanding is created, not taken. And if a person, only having an understanding of the surface, goes so far as to attempt to copy [create+understand, internally] “something”, their eventual result will only be what they are personally capable of creating. Thus, a superficial shell, creates another, in the same way that a bacteria divides itself, and afterwards, there are two.

Not only are the ichneumon, the cestodes and the nematodes feeding away, for the sake of turning innerds into their own surface, but also, parasitic worms with some backbone and two feet, have all but raviged their fellow parasites, chewing on nearly pure reality, and shitting out nearly pure fantasy.

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krossie related in an interesting post:

But we understand he meant:
It has been related further that on the same day the madman forced his way into several churches and there struck up his requiem aeternam Nietzsche. Led out and called to account, he is said always to have replied nothing but:
“What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of Nietzcshe?”

(“requiem aeternam deo” the “deo” being dative as in eternal rest “to God.” the original requiem text is “requiem aeternam dona eis Domine,” or “eternal rest grant unto them, Lord.” cool wordplay, eh? )

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You cannot expect a krossie to know Latin, Anselm.

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(Sauwelios,
i didn’t mean any disrespect to krossie. i thought his post was cool. i just made a small contribution to it.)

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There are multitude of Nietzsches,some more correct than others. Certainly the most bizarre incarnation was that of Bremen pastor Albert Kalthoff (1850-1906) who smuggled Nietzsche into the Prosestant church. "Kalthoff’s Marxsist-based rejection of Jesus was linked to Nietzsche’s vitalist antihistoricism. A man who lived in another historical period could not be made into an absolute law for one’s own time… Nietzsche, Kalthoff wrote,was the embodiment of his age and its possibilites,it’s disease,and potential for recovery. Consciously or not,Kalthoff proclaimed,“we all carry part of him within us.” Steven Ascheim “The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany 1890-1990”. Such was Nietzsche’s influence even then.

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I just want to say “Props!” (as in to give proper respect) to krossie. What a clever and fun-to-read post. “Onwards maggots, motleys, ranters, proletarian, levelers, ignoramuses, commoners, thieves, tramps, whores and pirates!” Great stuff! =D>

I wish Nietzsche’s writings on all mankind. Though the masses may chew him up and regurgitate something wholly different or unintended by Nietzsche, I think it would be for the betterment of all of us, rather than if they remained oblivious to his writings.

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Only that it is utterly unoriginal. It’s what non-Nietzscheans always say when Nietzsche is mentioned:

You even have T-shirts saying that. Krossie only elaborated on that, copy-and-pasting some passages from Nietzsche’s books and replacing “God” by “Nietzsche”.

Nietzsche introduced a madman saying God was dead.

I introduce a dead man - Nietzsche - saying God is mad.

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It still think that it was fun-to-read. :slight_smile: