#Frederick Nietzsche

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Got the courage to tackle Beyond Good and Evil.

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What is Konata doin on a cover of a Nietzsche book, why was the creator of lucky star commissioned to do art for a Nietzsche book

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Express not Repress

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One of the most important things for me in The Secret History, is the comparison between the Dionysian and Apollonian roots.

I shall start my rumbling with providing their descriptions, according to Nietzsche and his The Birth of Tragedy:

Apollonian represents all types of form or structure. It is about rational thought also.

Dionysian covers the forms of enthusiasm and ecstasy. It is drunkenness and madness.

How I see it represented in TSH?

Well, not really hard to point immediately one thing - the Dionysian ritual itself. That is what we talk about, when we say «Oh, that's some Dionysian type of shit here». This ritual is all about loosing oneself in order to see THE Dionysus. It's brutal, its ruthless, it's even bloody. All 4 of them end up covered in literal human blood of the man they killed.

The whole dynamic of the group is also rather Dionysian. Henry indeed tries hard to be all that rational and cold-blooded person, but at the end of the day, he's the one who got so excited after learning about the ritual, that he decided to took it upon himself to try.

The group? They agree to try. Rather they're all intimidated by Henry, or interested themselves. After the ritual they did quite awoke their primal instincts, that are so Dionysian.

Each of them even is a person who does not oppose any desires. Bunny? Oh please, he is a litteral embodiment of Dionysus. The twins? Yep, guilty as charged, though Camilla tries to hold back (or Richard just romanticises her, hm?). Francis? Sorry love, but yes, that's what money and an absent parent did to you.

Opposed to this world, very small and limited in population I must say, is literally everthing around them. And everyone. Our lovely Richard not-so-reliable-narrator Papen is the epitome of the Apollonian. He is rather reserved person, who took control of himself to get into the college And after everything that happened he gathered himself to actually finish the education. His hometown, Plano, is a very structured place, as we gather along the way. The Papens are like that too, pure resemblance. And Richard tries so hard to leave it behind him and loosen himself a bit. Dropping out of the medical college? Check. Going to study humanities? Check. Joining a questionable Greek class? Check. Becoming an accomplice to murder? Count him in!

Richard is enamoured by the idea of letting go, but he will never let go of that Apollonian part of him. It is just in his upbringing, one cannot easily get rid of it.

The thing about the Dionysian and Apollonian is that they do quite work together, however the clash may be destructive. Richard, who actually got associated with all of the group, who portrais everything we know about the Dionysian, is mentally destructed in the end.

Francis, Camilla and Charles also did have at least an ounce of Apollonian, so they're alive, yes. But good Lord, are they destroyed.

But still, the clash is also the source of creativity. Richard's repentance is incredibly beautifully formulated and written.

We don't really get the look on what the others have created, maybe (a series of novels from Camilla sounds nice, actually), but I sure hope that the clash created something extraordinarily amazing for them. They got their punishment already, let them live.

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You have always wanted to fuck every monster. - Nietzsche

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Beni anlamıyorlar; ben bu kulakların dinleyeceği ağız değilim.

-/Alıntı, Nietzche/-

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E perduto sia per noi il giorno in cui non si sia danzato neanche una volta! E si dica falsa ogni verità per la quale non ci sia stata una risata!

liberamente estratto da "così parlo zaratustra" di Frederick Nietzsche

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Music unites all qualities: it can exalt us, divert us, cheer us up, or break the hardest of hearts with the softest of its melancholy tones. But its principal task is to lead our thoughts to higher things, to elevate, even to make us tremble…

Frederich Nietzsche

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Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful?

He has humanized it, that is all.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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putların alacakaranlığı.

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Trying to get through this stack before the end of the year.

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Nietzsche creía, más o menos, que la noche es el lugar donde la oscuridad del instinto puede expresarse convirtiéndose en palabras, poesía.

Libre de la racionalidad del día, ese instinto se convierte en arte poético en toda su belleza.

Y realmente empieza a convencerme.

— G'

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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature

Fredrich Nietzsche

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Therianthropy and Nietzsche philosophy

I was having one of those late-night philosophical conversations with my friend and we ended up on the subject of what happiness is. Ignorance, that's what we found as the answer to the question. When you forget about reason and learn to enjoy moments of pure instinct you are truly happy.

When we reached this conclusion, the first thing I thought about was my therianthropy. This was the best explanation I could find for how to be a therian feels.

Explaining my experience better

For me, therianthropy is the moments when I can give up what is socially accepted as a human experience of happiness. In humanity we have this idea that to be happy we need an incredible job, money, a romantic relationship, being pretty and having stylish clothes. But for me, and I imagine for many other therians, these things don't cause happiness or fail to cause a certain kind of happiness.

Shifts are just our moments of ignorance, when we come as close as possible to our instincts and when we can achieve the happiness of ignoring the existence of social rules and constructions. But, if everyone experiences this type of happiness, what is the difference between Therians and non-Therians? This is where Nietzsche's philosophy comes in.

Nietzsche's philosophy

Nietzsche, unlike several other philosophers, did not defend that knowledge brought happiness (pleasure), but he did not deny that it was an important part of the emotion. For him, happiness was "fragile and volatile", only having meaning through the possibility of its non-existence. "Death is beautiful because it is what gives meaning to life". Happiness can only exist if you know what sadness and emptiness are. Knowledge is what teaches you to recognize this complex spectrum of emotions.

Therianthropy, following this logic, would be the knowledge that makes you capable of experiencing a type of happiness. The happiness of an animal instinct.