MeisterEckhart
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Mattyfisk wrote on Oct 12 th, 2022 at 5:24pm: MeisterEckhart wrote on Oct 12 th, 2022 at 5:11pm: MeisterEckhart wrote on Oct 12 th, 2022 at 5:02pm: Mattyfisk wrote on Oct 12 th, 2022 at 4:50pm: MeisterEckhart wrote on Oct 12 th, 2022 at 4:18pm: Mattyfisk wrote on Oct 12 th, 2022 at 4:11pm: MeisterEckhart wrote on Oct 12 th, 2022 at 11:08am: Mattyfisk wrote on Oct 12 th, 2022 at 9:58am: Nietzsche blamed the Joos. No, he didn't. That was his sister, Elizabeth who had control of Friedrich's work, after he descended into madness and after his death, along with her husband Bernhard Förster who repurposed it for antisemitic propaganda. Come come. Nietzsche's entire argument is about the influence of the Old Testament on Western thought. It's not just a few words here and there, dear. You mean the Christian New Testament. The Old Testament is severe - not about love, forgiveness or forbearance. No, dear, I mean the Joos. Read your Geneology of Morals. You need to study him. 5 years is the minimum. You mentioned the Old Testament. I think Nietzsche liked 2nd Temple Jews and before. Tough bastards. Took on the Romans a few times. Christianity, now that's one religion that really pussified the mind, for a Nietzschean. The Old Testament – well, that is something quite different: every respect for the Old Testament! I find in it great men, heroic landscape and something of utmost rarity on earth, the incomparable naďvety of the strong heart; even more, I find a people. In contrast, in the New Testament I find nothing but petty sectarian groupings, nothing but rococo of the soul, nothing but arabesques, crannies and oddities, nothing but the air of the conventicle, not to forget the occasional breath of bucolic sugariness which belongs to the epoch (and to the Roman province) and is neither Jewish nor Hellenistic. It's a bit hard to see the Torah as anything other than the book of the Joos, Meister. But that's just me. Yes, well. Seems like Nietzsche found a lot of Nietzschean value in the Old Testament (Torah)!
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