Übermensch! Übermensch! Da-da-da-da-da-da Übermensch!
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I started reading up on Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche again. He has always fascinated me. He had two main statements that jerked
me.
1). That of the Ubermensch – commonly known as the
superior man or the superman and
2). The whole “death of God” concept – which even as
I type this feels so… unright [I should say wrong but humor me]. It’s like
incest I would think – the death of God? And not even in the supremely
messianic portrayal seen every Easter, no this was more like getting rid of Him
completely. With all my faults, even that seems too much.
But then a friend of mine gave me a brief logic a
few years ago and I could see a glimmer of a gem in a jewel box, wrapped in an
oil cloth. The point was made that, Nietzsche advocated THIS-WORLD ism [not
correct title but that’s how I’ll break it down]. If there was no soul, no
other place to go to; if this was the only realty there was, you would
obviously try to make the very best of it; to push yourself beyond what you
think you can do; to be the UBERMESCH, supreme and perfect man. “The Übermensch is not driven
into other worlds away from this one.”* I thought about it. There was a life
lesson there. See, some Theist believe in the Other World; the Spiritual World.
Most definitely, we are ambassadors sent here to speak God’s great word and
spread love. And because we believe that this world is a passing phase and it’s
not really home, I fear that most will not COMPLETELY dedicate to it because of
our general separation from it. Perhaps that is why you have weird old men in
the US who think climate change is no big deal and who are also… Theist [just a
wager, nothing more]. In Nietzsche, I see a philosophy that says – make this
world count. Make you count WHILE you are here…. Not when you get to Heaven
[which funny enough is similar to the gospel notion of “occupying” or keeping
busy while waiting on the Lord.
I
don't believe in reincarnation in its true form but I DO BELIEVE in genetic
reincarnation. What that means is: instead of the soul doing a cycle, one body
to another, it is the code that does it passed down from person to person [and
generation] till it finds WHOLENESS again. Take my mother for example. Time and
time again, she was told that she looks like, no… IS her great-grandmother. Height,
weight, temperament, the works. She never once met her great-grandmother. The
code though, the genetic information reached came down the line till it found
WHOLENESS in my mom. And so, as a young woman, she became sort of the rebirth
of that woman. Genetic Reincarnation – that’s my hypothesis.
I’m not big on past life regression either but the truth is,
as long as you live on the planet you do experience past lives. The person you
were at age five is not the person you were in high school and they’re not the
person who’s a working professional. These are your past lives. Yet sometimes
their trauma(s) creep or run into this present one. Thus, in order to live THIS
life to the fullest, one must resolve one’s past lives [disappointments,
anguish, doubts] so I can move forward.
So to review, I have found life affirming principles and
hypothetical answers in belief systems not my own. I have not changed my
belief; I have not pledged allegiance to any new belief but I am able to pull
good messages from them all. Yet, most of the earth is unable to do the same. The
human condition fascinates me. Any trace of a life lesson stops the minute the
belief in a thing is suspended. How are we ever to grow if we never see the big
picture at work? Or maybe what we need is not a big picture, but a
microscopic, CSI look into things not our own. The results may be surprising.
*quoted from wiki for better or worse. read more about Neitzsche's Ubermensch and other philosophies here if you'd like to.
Thank you big bro...there is much wisdom here
ReplyDeletedude, you are much welcome. where here to make grow.
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