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Posted by Thomas on 3/12/2007, 4:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Zarathustra Prologue 3" --Previous Message--
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Yes I understand that pity, but form a position of strength, is essential, perhaps because otherwise we could lack an emotional basis, drive, to help others. As Zarathustra who went down from his mountain half-admitted, that he loved men. But from a position of strength too.
Thomas
: Here it is:
: A man who says, "I like this, I take
: this for my own and want to protect it and
: defend it against anybody"; a man who
: is able to manage something, to carry out a
: resolution, to remain faithful to a thought,
: to hold a woman, to punish and prostrate one
: who presumed too much; a man who has his
: wrath and his sword and to whom the weak,
: the suffering, the hard pressed, and the
: animals, too, like to come and belong by
: nature, in short a man who is by nature a
: master--when such a man has pity, well, THIS
: pity has value. But what good is the pity of
: those who suffer? Or, worse, those who
: PREACH pity? BGE 239
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