August 2012
July 2012
new life realizations and decisions
1) I decided not to go down the creative writing path at this point in life because I just do not have enough confidence. I mean, John D’Agata just has to say, “UR ESSAY IS NOT LITERATURE!” and I get crushed and have nightmares about him all summer and write zero things except for this blog.
“A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul is distressed that it owes thanks.”
—Human, All Too Human, Part I by Nietzsche (via thedailynietzsche)
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (via naro)
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
—Friederich Nietzsche (via josiemac28713)
“Not necessity, not desire—no, the love of power is the demon of men.”
—Friederich Nietzsche (via whisperingsoftly)
“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”
—Friederich Nietzsche (via totrulyexist)
“In the Gospels according to Matthew and Mark we read of Christ crying out in agony, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ This is a profoundly personal, painful, and existential atheism. Not an atheism that arises from some rational reflection upon an absence of divinity but rather one that wells up from the trauma of personally experiencing that absence. It is not some precursor to the atheism of people like Richard Dawkins. It is not a comfortable theoretical rejection of the divine. Christ expresses a deeply felt loss, one that has more in common with the atheism we see expressed by Friederich Nietzsche. On the cross, Christ undergoes the deepest, most radical form of divine loss, one that is experienced.”
—PETER ROLLINS
“It seems to me that the religious instinct is indeed in the process of growing powerfully—but the theistic satisfaction it refuses with deep suspicion.”
—FRIEDERICH NIETZSCHE
Guys. I love Nietzsche.
He’s so angsty and earnest and bold and emo.
I think every time a New Atheist talks, he stabs Nietzsche in the face.
If only the New Atheists were not so uptight, they, too, could know how to enjoy a cannibalistic orgy!!!!!!!!!!
