From: (Anonymous)	Date: March 18th, 2006 08:13 pm (UTC)		(Link)
Beyond Good and Evil

I finished reading this masterpiece of Nietzsche yesterday. It was truly the greatest and most insightful read I've ever had and nobody can convince me that it can ever be read enough times, as it is such a complex, honest, and deep journey into the human psyche, soul, motive, and conscience. After all this time, it can be considered a novel look at the human mind as is revealed through the uncovering of philisophical biases, political and religious hypocrisy, and spiritual stagnation. It must have really blown people away when it was published. It turns all so-called "truths" on their heads...or as I see it, back on their feet!
What really amazed me, though, was so much of what I've read about Satanism cearly there as its roots and foundation. The good guy badge (Nietzsche called it the badge of morality), altruism and love actually being "egoistic," doubt and the search for truth being absolutely necessary, attacks on Christian belief/masochism, the admiration of art and the artist, the burning desire for human improvement, the excitement of life as it is our one and only chance, the need for using enigmatic methods of hiding oneself from destructive and even unworthy eyes, etc, etc, all there!
Vex, if it wasn't for reading through your sight first I wouldn't have understood a large chunk of what was in there and maybe would have put it down at Chapter one. Heck, I wouldn't have even gotten into Nietzsche (perhaps never have) if it wasn't for you and your hard work. I owe you what I don't know if I can ever give back.

Thank you, once again.

--Ray

From: (Anonymous)	Date: September 13th, 2006 04:42 pm (UTC)		(Link)
The Fall of Rome

Hey, Vexen...do you agree with Nietzsche's verdict in The Anti-Christ that Christianity was responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire?

	From: vexen	Date: September 14th, 2006 03:38 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: The Fall of Rome

I am unsure; I suspect that the internal politics and other stuff may well have caused its decline without Christianity; I think it made things worse but I don't *really* think it caused the decline. Once the decline had already started is when Christianity really became important ... and hastened the collapse. I think. The fall of the Roman Empire isn't something I know a whole lot about.