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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i know nietzsche loved his zarathustra but i hate it-- it's grandiose, juvenile, and silly. beyond good and evil is where it's at.
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the reason i don't want to bring it up is because my answer is going to be "it's a very fun book".
i get the symbolisms and all that shit but overall, i rather read it like a straight narration of some crazy hermit coot who runs into tons of people who know him and tells them weird shit (not to mention his dr doolittle moments). i see how someone can look at it as the new bible for a new living, "god is dead" and all that shit but i certainly don't feel my beliefs challenged at all.
it is an enjoyable book, but if i were to have a conversation with a philosophy major and tell those words to him/her, the response would be "you're an idiot"...actually, i'd love to say that to a philosophy major just to see the irritation on his/her smug face.
...i forgot what else i wanted to write here, i'll post it when i remember.
ED: ahh yeah, i remember.
to me it's like amateur guemará or talmud stories.