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Posted by Thomas on 3/26/2007, 4:03 pm, in reply to "Re: Zarathustra, Prologue 7: the meaning of life" : Sombre is human life, and as yet without
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: Can't it just mean simply: cristianity is a
: corps and it's morals are killing man?
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: Why should Zarathustra be a Jesus or a
: anti-christ, when he in fact can be a no
: one, the void? And do he, Zarathustra, ever
: succed?
:
I wonder if Zarathustra is often using Biblical phrasing just to catch the ears of his Christian audience, and then to lead them away from it?
: meaning: a buffoon may be fateful to it.
: I want to teach men the sense of their
: existence, which is the Superman, the
: lightning out of the dark cloud--man.
: But still am I far from them, and my sense
: speaketh not unto their sense. To men I am
: still something between a fool and a corpse.
: [A fool because the people thought he was
: crazy, a corpse because they could have
: attacked and killed him? Th.]
:
: Says who? I see that Zarathustra with that
: just say he is the rope-dancer...
:
Yes it could be, at least that's what the buffoon says in Prologue 8: that Zarathustra could be a rope-dancer too, and a buffoon. Both figures are in him, in us...
Thomas
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