hat did Nietzsche say about Zarathustra? I know he is mentioned in the title, but was this any relation to the historical Zarasthustra? Is the fact that Z was...
y understanding was that Zarathustra was modeled after Zoroaster, the 6th century BC Persian prophet. Have to do more checking into it, though, and will get...
arathustra is supposed to be a more correct rendering of the old Persian name. Zoroastrianism is a dualistic religon, involving a great cosmic battle between ...
ust as Nebuchadnezzer and Nebucadrezzer are the same as Nabuco Donosor. I think the original Zarasthustra was a reformer of the traditional Persian religion....
ell, i gave up on wittgenstien, it started to give me headaches, though i think it was the edition, it had the german alongside the english..i didnt handle...
hy did they come up with the idea of the Antichrist, anyway? I realize that it is in the Book of II John, and then alluded to (some say) in Revelations and the...
hy not go along with the sentiment? You get more out of the book if you do. Many 19th<br>century people understood what Christianity was really about; ...
he bible has spawned all sorts of peripheral rantings -- christianity if full of them. One of my main problems with it is that civilizations were around long ...
s that Christians tend to assume that if you believe in God, then you must believe in all the rest of the mythology, including that madness is due to ...
iolets are bluish/if it wasn't for Christmas/we'd all be Jewish. We don't really want that, do we? What's wrong with atheism, anyway? The US seems a long way...
find it oddly humorous that the same folk who go from day to day waiting for the next insight from cosmopolitan hold the notion that there is absolute good and...
he cult of the Semi-intelligent Primate.<br>I prefer the Temple of the Featherless Biped, but that's just me.<br>Well sure, there are no absolutes (although...
he rampant Christianity in the US is quite overwhelming...the States are SO puritanical, though, that I fear the majority of Americans will never relinquish...
hat is belief in goals anyhow?<br>personally, i dont require faith in the integrity of a pursuit in order to attempt it....<br>maybe i do, but i try to excel...
ot all believers are creationists. I don't think most are, in fact.<br><br>Most people make pragmatic decisions and do not allow the obvious fundamentalist ...
ut it is still impossible for me to have any sort of intellectual respect for believers -- fundamentalists or otherwise. The whole "my god is better than your...
could be in luv!<br>I agree that people who maintain that they are soo sure of their skygod that they want me to join and believe what they believe seem to ...
hat's the reference for the story about the partygoers? I don't think we need to be eternally grateful to Christianity for stopping that sort of thing. I think...
hat we would have been better off without Christianity? This is the type of question that will never vbe answered, since there is no control group: a Jesusless...
hat we would be better off without Christianity is one of the unanswerable what ifs of history. But you presume to answer it, in suggesting it was a good ...
RA over here means Independent Retirement Account.<br>The govt. allows you to contribute up to $2000 per annum for retirement either with a tax shelter going...
RA over here means Independent Retirement Account.<br>The govt. allows you to contribute up to $2000 per annum for retirement either with a tax shelter going...
t is an interesting thought, even if we can't presume to know what things would be like. What sorts of things would be different? What, if anything, would be ...
ut marx really should not be demonized, the guy was at least intellegent enough to put forward both political and economical treatsies, besides, just as hitler...
read Marx's work as containing the seeds of Stalin's massacres, just as St Paul's letters contain the seeds of the Inquisition. For what would have been Marx's...
o play Jesus's advocate for a change, there is a world largely untouched by Christianity, the ancient civilisation of China. I remeber a tv documentary a year...
ut was unable to post a reply. What I was going to say it that China is not entirely unaffected by Christianity, because Marxism is a Godless form of...
