Re: Reason +/-Faith

From: Nicq MacDonald (namacdonald@stthomas.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 21:09:30 MST


> Whereas it now looks as if he's in *favour* of troopers, war, hate and
> death (as well as some more benign stuff) for the Nietzschean pizzazz it
> provides in an otherwise dull life subject to harmonious Apollonian reason
> rather than unchecked Dionysian frenzy. Count me out of your Zieg Heil
> [spelling corrected].

What is the creation impulse without the destructive urge? What is life
without death? What is a beginning without an ending?

You admit that a life subject to harmonious Apollonian reason is dull- then
why the fervent embrace of it? I'd rather not fall down into the pit of
Because and perish with the dogs of Reason- I have a life to live. The
experiences that I enjoy the most, the most magical, beautiful, and sublime
events in my life, also tend to be the most destructive, pointless, and
irrational- yet I do them anyway. I continually ask why, yet reason
provides no answers... none relevant to my own experiences, anyway.

I'll let someone else worry about the singularity. I have other things to
be doing between now and then.

-Nicq MacDonald



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