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Zhonghuà Rénmín Gònghéguó
Mar 2000
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What did Faithless mean with "God is a DJ"?
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Zhonghuà Rénmín Gònghéguó
Mar 2000
time: 06:33
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What did Faithless mean with "God is a DJ"?
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MikeH
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Ming on rakastajani
May 1999
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quote:
Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, "I seek God! I seek God!" As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...
Whither is God," he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him...
Friedrich Nietzsche. The Gay Science (1882), section 126 |
So, Neitzsche didn't say it, he got a character to say it. Big difference.
In The Antichrist (1888), Nietzsche says:
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The Christian conception of God... is one of the most corrupt conceptions of God arrived at on earth..." And, when he was already close to insanity, he called himself "the Anti-Christ. |
Basically, he's saying that the shared cultural belief in God, which until then had been a shared European concept, was/is dead.
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maybe the translator was crazy
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BeBro
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of the Krauts
Mar 2000
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Originally posted by paiktis22
Well I kind of made a self inflicting injury  and I bought the book for myself. It is one of the very few books, actually basically the only one I've encountered, where I just couldn't make sense of it! Not in the slightest! Maybe it's the translation but it really didn't make any sense to me. I suppose it's one of these books where it's good to have some guidance when reading it. But it wasn't even proper greek... some kind of strange language.  |
In the late 16th century there was a popular "Faust" book, which had however quite a different meaning. In this older book Dr.Faust (which really existed, btw) makes a pact with the devil (as in Goethe´s book) to get more knowledge, and then has to pay the price - his life. This book was more intendet to "warn" of the idea that humans should strive for more knowledge (to become god-like) - you have to see it on the background of the time, in conflict between the christian morals, and newer developments like humanism, boom in natural sciences etc....
Then the story became popular on theatres as well, Goethe saw as a child one of these plays, and he tried later several "versions" before his own "Faust" was released. He transforms the basic idea from the popular book into a great tragedy so full of facettes that even Goethe himself admitted the book (or at least esp. part II) is very hard to read.
However the main theme of Goethe´s Faust is what it means to be human, what individual autonomy is, and where human limits are (if there are any ).
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...bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the perch...er...church, he'd be pushing up daisies! He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible!
and so on and so forth.
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Zhonghuà Rénmín Gònghéguó
Mar 2000
time: 06:33
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not allowed to say what? gay? fag?
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