Nietzsche, Death of Christianity, Nihilism as our Fate

[marcovandenberg]

Johannes, keep going. And isn't Nietzsche still the greatest Occidental philosopher since Kant? Aren't we always waiting for the one who steps onto his path? Surely, that one will help us jump across the abyss. Keep going Johannes.

[meinking]

Absolutely fantastic. And that seems to be where we are now in the West, in a period of "weak nihilism."

[clumsydad]

When one realizes that humans are yet only just beginning to know themselves and the world, all of this makes much simpler, direct sense. It's that we're embedded in superstitious thinking to console ourselves that we find the mental challenge of extricating ourselves. An 'accountant of life enhancement' - it's that when we are all on the same page with our metaphysics and ontology life becomes simple, but getting to that state is the raging through the mass conflicts and wars and authoritarian waves. In trying to control the resources and the narratives - this is the unawareness and brutality of 'history'. The death of god has nothing to do with killing spirituality, but in fact for the western consciousness it opens up spirituality. It opens the door to true 'being' in the world as humans. Thanks Johannes.

[ivancleveland]

Hey Dr. niederhauser, I’ve been really interested in your thinking for a year or two now and I’m also subscribed on your Substack, I’m an undergraduate in philosophy in the states as well. Nonetheless I was reaching out really to ask on the secondary literature or texts in general that you have found most helpful in your thinking path as it relates to Heidegger, Nietzsche, technology, and modernity in general. Thanks!

[HarbingeroftheNew]

Woe woe unto, bring me here now the harbinger of the new,

Woe woe our day, I only yearn for the high and great,

Woe woe unto, bring me here legions found in centuries far and few,

Woe woe unto, bring me here now the harbinger of the new, — totentanz with outstretched hands, yearning for you,

Woe woe unto, lease for me not the greatest due, it is time now ye beckon on me hither, calleth up on to me thither what I hath come to do,

Woe woe unto, bring me here now the harbinger of the new.

Great video as per usual; one cannot but feel the atmosphere oh so electric, toiling in wait for direction and light; likewise it is as if too few realise the potentiality of our times for the new epoch, a time adjacent to birthing of Rome but contending in flavour with the continental Germanic and Anglo…what a sight that would be.

[jaylinn]

You see, God is far smarter than Nietzsche. Nietzsche cried out, 'God is dead!'

But God said, "Hello?? That happened some 2, 000 years ago! Are you that dull? You have not seen the Son of God dying on the cross?"