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Ever heard of "The Grail Message by Abdrushin" written by a German (called Oskar Ernst Bernhardt) in the early 20th century. He later moved to Austria and gathered a group around him. He said he was a messenger of God (Abd-ru-shin means "servant of God") to anounce the Judgement days which has already begann as he anounced the message in the early 20th century. But unfortunately he was put under house arrest by A. Hitler for spreading the message of God. Here a taste of his writings in one of his lectures called "The Antichrist": "It is sad that until now not even the churches have known where to look for this Antichrist, although it has already been active among all of mankind for so long. With only a little alertness they should have recognized it! Who can possibly act in a more anti-Christian manner than those who at the time fought against Christ Himself and finally even murdered Him! Who could have revealed themselves in a worse and more obvious way as being the Antichrist! They were the leaders and representatives of earthly religion; the true teaching of God, as revealed in and through the Son of God, did not fit into their own structure. Indeed, the true Message of God could not be reconciled with it, since the structure set up by the earthly priests and dignitaries was aimed primarily at earthly influence, earthly power and expansion. They proved quite clearly thereby that they were servants of the human intellect, which is directed solely towards earthly knowledge and earthly power, and is hostile and obstructive to anything that is beyond earthly comprehension! Now since God as well as the spiritual remain completely outside the range of earthly intellectual knowledge, it is actually the intellect which is clearly the only real obstacle! Thus, by its nature, it is opposed to all that is Divine and all that is spiritual! And therefore, as a logical consequence, so are all those men who accept their intellect as being the highest and best thing, seeking to build upon it alone! The religious leaders of those days were afraid of losing influence among the people through the enlightenment of the Son of God. As everyone today knows, this was the main reason for the slander they sought to spread against Christ and ultimately for the execution of the Son of God. They nailed Him to the cross as a blasphemer of the very God Who had sent Him to bring enlightenment, and Whose servants they professed to be! How little did they really know this God and the Will of Him Whom they pretended to serve, in whose honor and earthly defense they, however... murdered this Son of God, the Divine messenger! Whoever expects clearer proof cannot be helped; for there is nothing more in opposition to Christ, the Son of God, and His Words! And indeed Antichrist signifies the fighter against Christ, against man’s redemption in God’s Message. Behind this, however, stands Lucifer himself as the Antichrist in person! He is the one who was able to raise his head through men! He, the only real enemy of God! He acquired the name of Antichrist through his hostile struggle against the Mission of the Son of God. None other would have had the strength and the power to become the Antichrist. And in his warfare against the Will of God, Lucifer makes use not merely of one man on earth but of nearly all of mankind, thus leading them to destruction under the effect of the Divine Wrath! With this he set his foot upon this earth as lord of the earth and of the greater part of mankind! No wonder, then, that he could penetrate all the way to the altars, and that earthly religious representatives, even those of the Christian churches, were bound to become his victims. For they too expect the Antichrist just before the predicted Judgment. In this respect the great Revelation in the Bible, like many other things, has not yet been understood. *"The Book of Revelation says that this Antichrist will raise his head before the Judgment! But not that he is yet to come! If it is said therein that he raises his head, this clearly indicates that he must be here already, but not that he is yet to come. It means that he will be at the pinnacle of his dominion shortly before the Judgment!"* Listen to this warning call, you who have not yet become spiritually deaf and blind! Make the effort of thinking very seriously about it yourselves; for this is what is demanded of you now! If you remain indolent in this respect you give yourselves up as lost! Grail Message by Abdrushin
schopenhauer and neitzsche are basically the modern epitomies of the right and left hand path respectively, where Jung was just a god damned psychic astronaut.
Nietzsche accused Kant and Schopenhauer of being Christians disguised as philosophers. And that Kant put the cart before the horse by building a philosophy around predetermined conclusion. What probably he didn't realise is that he, Nietzsche, himself set out to destroy Christian morality and to rescue humanity from the clutches of god-consciousness as a priori judgements. Essentially he was on the Left even before he articulated his thoughts. So yes, I agree with the top comment here.
@@golmaal138 left and right hand paths are completley different to right/left in politics fyi. Right hand path is the mainstream/ masses, left hand path is the individual.
Phenomenal job!!!! Nietzsche's work is so deep and passionate, and he doesn't always get things right, but he's unafraid of ripping things open to reveal truths. And it seems to me that his devastating breakdown was all but inevitable.
I've always felt the thought of eternal return busted him. He grasped that living that way as courageous fortitude meant (as Jung would say) an anhendoian situation where the psychological opposite is cathected into reality: thus amor fati became for him the flowering consciousness of a self-pity buried deep within the etiology of 'noble valuations', as the refusal to pity is unveiled as a subliminal species of ressentimént!
hey man, I was wondering, do you make them in small parts just so you can have more consistent content? I prefer the longer videos like this personally but like a lot of the stuff you put out no matter the length, just curious. keep up the good work brobro
Wonderful series, thanks! One minor criticism I have relates to the final part of the concluding video, where you describe Nietzsche's unfinished magnum opus as something he would want to be, or to be characterized as, "a neat system." Although his project was colossal and radical in its potential/partial character, he knew by long before that point that "systems" or systematic thinking of any kind in philosophy, psychology, philology, or in virtually any other field of (so-called scientific, so-called) knowledge (at least in the "human sciences") are a non-starter, and this partly on account of the theologically-stinking implications that tend to come with the imagined pursuit or possession of some closed or absolute systematic knowledge or interpretation of...well, anything really. I wouldn't be surprised if he referred to the transvaluation as an enterprise of system-building or systematizing, but can't imagine he'd want to call it that except perhaps mockingly or self-satirically. Or as Freddy Nitch himself puts it in the Twilight of the Idols: Ich mißtraue allen Systematikern und gehe ihnen aus dem Weg. *Der Wille zum System ist ein Mangel an Rechtschaffenheit.* [I distrust all systematicists and keep out of their way. The will to system is a lack of personal integrity.] Please excuse the improvised translation---'Rechtschaffen' strikes me as an especially tricky one to decipher. Thanks again.
I feel this should be a major criticism. If Nietzsche thought his work could ever be finished, he would have said so, and he often said the opposite. Instead, it is like a point that could be sharpened forever more sharp.
22:15 It's sad and horrible, and a dishonor to him. But imagine how destructive it was for the apostles!!! Not only seeing their beloved leader going through such an abhorrent violence and humiliation while also having all their beliefs crushing down in front of them. And if they actually believed he was holy it would be a shock so big is hard to conceive today. Just now i realize the extent of this devastation. I truly i wish to know all of their history but sadly i will never now (i would say a huge part that helps in the myth of Jesus is the lack of evidence but people would utterly ignore either way).
Thanks for putting this all together on one video! By the way, a Japanese Buddhist teacher named Masao Abe has a book Zen and Western Thought. One can't judge a book by the cover,but it has Nietsche face to face with Bodhidharma,the founder of Zen. I think you might find it interesting 😉🤔your great work starts my week very well 😀👍
Nietzsche is completely correct about the Protestant reformation being the thing which ruined Europe. For centuries the true and beautiful metaphysics was slowly subverting the Catholic church and restoring the old ways back to Europe, during the Renaissance this process was being accelerated, and then the Protestant reformation set us back a millennium. I feel the same thing happened in Eastern Europe, as they were reforming Eastern Orthodoxy and it was cut short but the Communists
9:00 NO... The "weak" are not weak at EVERYTHING... Pity is not about "letting the weak survive" - It's about recognizing that someone that's weak at something has OTHER things to offer. ...Unless Nietzche was talking about co-dependent people... in which case I prolly agree...
I would characterize it as an “ascension to madness” and not “descent into madness”..a middle ground could be a “retirement to madness” Nietzsche remained truthful to his criticism for Socratic rationality
Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity in The Antichrist misrepresents Christian love by focusing on pity. However, Christianity never promotes pity. In contrast Christian love (agape) is about selfless compassion and care, not the condescending or passive pity that Nietzsche attacks. His focus on pity overlooks the empowering and proactive nature of Christian love, which is rooted in humility and genuine concern for others, not weakness or superiority. Ironically, Nietzsche’s own life contradicts his ideals. His philosophy of strength, power, and individualism left him isolated and powerless in the end, without love or support. His decline into mental and physical illness highlights the impracticality and foolishness of his ideas, proving that they are not sustainable in real life. His personal fate is evidence that his philosophies, while intellectually provocative, don’t hold up when applied to human existence. So clever, and yet could not see the destructive logical consequences of a life when it is not built on the foundation of genuine love. All the best
My parents sent me to church when I was younger maybe 2yrs. Even tho I have just a basic understanding of it, even I know your not supposed to feel pity and give up your life to help the unfortunate. You’re to help them if you can by giving them food and donations if you’re able. The Bible is all about everyone taking their own journey thru life. Pity and welfare are morals that our society has instituted.
But when Nietzsche posited a physics of Eternal Recurrence (WP #1003; Kaufman ed.) for a metaphysic of Will to Power he made "the infinite" into an abstract veridical reality that leads intuitively to the concept of divinity. 2nd reason for his madness: the emptiest, most definitionally unreal of mathematical abstractions becomes a key idea in his version of reality. A paradoxicality which also condones intuitive religiosity.
My question to you is where did Nietzsche get his information on Jesus and his disciples to come to the conclusion he did about Jesus teaching and how the disciples reacted if the gospels are already afflicted with the misconception?
I'd probably translate the title as "Against the Christians" or "On the Antichrist: Or Against the Christians" as that phrase as a transliteration has a long history reaching to figures such as Emperor Julian and Celsus the Platonic-Epicurean philosopher.
I think we can all safely say that Nietzsche's least-favorite Chaos god is Nurgle. That boi embodies both a sick, twisted form of compassion AND absolute disease, plague and ruin. Lol.
Weak and meek are not the same thing. How does this dichotomy (if at all) bridge the gap between Nietzsche and the Bible? It is a virtue to possess great strength and not feel the need to use it in pursuit of our selfish desires.
I might be going crazy but I want to dedicate my life to spreading the word of overman play the seeds of the next generation for an 80 years of Frederick Nietzsche will be born
Even if Jesus didn't exist, we can be sure that what he preached does, and has influenced literally hundreds of billions of people for more than two thousand years, so... obviously your "point" is actually what doesn't exist, as in: is an utterly meaningless statement
So. He claimed Jesus as a failure human being and the people around him used the resources ( especially Roman) or the power to establish him . And they won in sense. So in the sense, even if it's not the theory of Christ, doesn't that count as victory? What I mean is, Nietzsche didn't distinguished the politics of powerless and power( and he can't, because it ultimately ends in good and evil mortality). So I wonder how did he managed to stand with the genuineness of intellectualism( because I believe Nietzsche was brutally genuine to his intelligence) . Someone please reply, so that I can close the chapter of Nietzsche, I'm brutally losing my time for him to answer this.
I feel Nietzsche is simply developing counter argument. If he believes that there is nothing beyond the material world, nor should we believe there is, it seems that je simply expects we should live like animals with no real desire, so I don't understand why he expects humans to achieve something such as status, apart from in animalistic terms (eg you can elevate yourself, if the risk isn't too high, as would happen in animal hierarchies). Theology is an attempt (rightly or wrongly) to find something satisfying beyond animal nature, but Nietzsche seems to say we should not do that.
Yes replace Christianity with his religious female family members and you will see who is really railing against. They tormented him and he fled to intellectualism.
Thank you for the high quality video. I thought at first, no wonder he went insane, writing a book like that. I suppose in Nietzsches time, there was just as much darkness as there is today. I partly agree with him, that there are to many mistakes in theology, and in the concept of Christianity, but my how and why differ utterly from his views. From my viewpoint, the term "antichrist" is reserved for the pope, and any definition of Christianity is wrong, when Catholicism is defined as it. The word Christ is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word Messiah; knowing that gives a better definition of Christianity. His words on Luther are ridiculously mistaken, because the only reason Martin Luther was important, was that he translated the Bible. Same with Erasmus. Every one was murdered in their time, for reading the Bible in the common language. So Nietzsche was right, one could claim, that Luther saved Christianity, but popery is roman propaganda, not some sect of Christianity. Later in life, Luther tried to destroy popery, just as Nietszche tried to. But at least, Martin Luther knew who antichrist was, just as the other reformers did, I didn't hear any light like that from Nietszche in this reading. Wat does he even mean, when using the word "Christianity"? I suppose Prussian Sunday worshipers, although the word "Sunday" is not even found in the Bible. That's how wrong Christians are.
This philosopher eventually became demented in pursue to elaborate his views on scripture.... this phenomenon has been observed... ! An incomplete... thought GypsyTrail
Dude.. why do you keep condemning the will to power as a 'heavily edited' and tampered with peice of work. There are reasons to argue the oposite; that minimal tampering took place.. do you think it is even possible to impersonate Nietzsche; do you think anyone would by nieve enough to make such an attempt? Regardless, i enjoy your channel; thank you for the influx of videos and material
@@WeltgeistYT Well I'll be damned; I had no idea.. A quick wiki glance and it says that only 'a minority believe the work to be authentic'; 'most Nietzsche scholars adopted the opinion of Kaufman who imediately identified the book as a forgery'.. Regardless, I stand corrected; ty
Powerful insights,,,thx,a lot,,🎩,My opinion it's ,,that religions, are dengerous to humanity ,Bible it's a dengerous book for people minds and I really don't care if others disagree with my statement ,,,🤨
If Nietzsche doesn't have a first hand account about Jesus no different than the authors of the Gospels, then he wouldn't know its distorted.He is doing the same as what he criticizes.But Nietzsche is interesting to read for entertainment, nothing more.
Nietzsche’s father was a Lutheran minister who died when Nietzsche was only 5, wonder how his atheism would have changed if he understood the Crucifixion in context?
*Neitzsche is mean spirited.* *Without compassion and empathy we can not understand lives outside our own.**Understanding is a type of strength, it enables humans to work with each other, instead of being purely selfish.**Those who are weakened by what happens to them in this life need others to help them find their strength.* *Christ's teachings were about compassion in action, the church's teachings are a different story using Christ for their own gain.*
"There was only one Christian and he died on the cross." - Ironically (not) the character of Jesus was a Jew whose primary purpose as Messiah was to prove to the world that the Jews were gods chosen people. That makes christianity itself the anti-christ.
Jesus did not say that loving one's neighbors is the greatest commandment -- He said 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind,' (Luke 10:27), quoting Deuteronomy 6:4-9. "Love thy neighbor as thy self," is the second greatest commandment, He said.
The enemy is narcissism, greed, sloth, gluttony, dishonesty and an otherwise over elevation of self or uncontrolled id. But this affects everyone in spite of standing in the hierarchy. Beggars can be slothful but rulers can be stuck with power whether they are lazy or driven. The enemy is dysfunction. Compassion is only a weakness if it causes enabling. Frederick Nietzsche was reckless.
I nearly fell into the trap Christianity is. We're made to believe that we are defective sinful beings, made by a God so distant yet so close, who has laid a plan none but himself is privy to, and we are supposed to have free will to choose even though its existence is overshadowed by this divine plan. We're made to pointlessly pity a man who died nearly 2000 years ago, we are told goring details of his suffering and emotionally manipulated to give this world for the eternal life he promised, to forgo every natural instinct, to repress our sexual inclinations, to dull our senses and faculties with superstition, to live as saints and hermits, in my opinion the weakest and most pathetic people, to essentially kill what makes us humans. I would have never gotten this close to Christianity, if not for my friend who is a wanna-be missionary, as he and I are both ex-Muslims in a Muslim country we became natural friends, but he manipulated me in times of emotional strife, pitied me and tried to feed me from his drug, I know the language is harsh, but it is objectively the truth, but when I distanced myself for a month from him and the source of my weakness, I regained my senses, I am happy to live as an agnostic man, I do not care if a God exists or not, but I am hell sure it ain't the Abrahamic one. Voltaire, Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus are the people I read and respect, for their writings have opened my eyes, even though I disagree with Nietzsche's extreme position on sympathy and pity.
@@ruler1422 Well I do not know much about what false platitudes he used to say to me, but what his worldview is broken because of the trauma he has lived through. This has caused him to adopt extreme positions on suffering, on celibacy and life. He says for instance, that Christ offered us as consolation for our suffering, the premise that we are meant to carry our crosses, I believe he sort of misquoted this metaphor. He asserts that Celibacy is a virtue, well one might agree that promiscuity is a vice, and one might take one step further and say that sex in marriage is the only accepted context, he goes to say that being celibate is the most virtuous state of being, misquoting the bible again, as in Castrate yourselves for the lord. He is superstitious in the full sense of the word, believing in witchcraft, and demons directly intervening in his life and misfortunes.
I have been studying this guy lately, and I went in really wanting to enjoy his work or find something intelligent he has said. No different than the modern common atheist, nietzsche is the epitome of hypocrisy. And unfortunately most of his doctrine is based around complete ignorance of the biblical narrative. I have never heard such a renowned philosopher speak so loudly about a topic they know so little about. He is so disillusioned by Christianity because of so called Christians, that it completely clouded his thought processes.
Nietzsche is one of those hit and miss thinkers,he at the same time has a refreshing aristocratic way of thinking that can be quite a remedy for modern day leftist blind egalitarianism,yet he also falls flat as he indirectly contributed to the state of modernity with his emphasize on individualism,materialism and relativism,which ironically lead to the current status quo.
Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, but all he did was replace Him with another, and he choose Life. All his beliefs and criticisms are based within his church of The Will, but it does not mean he is right, he simply choose one way of being over another.
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I don't really watch the video, just listen, but the voice is excellent and the explanation is so clear and simple.
Our series on The Antichrist in one video for your convenience. We're working hard to get Schopenhauer's "How to be happy" part 2 out. Should be out on Wednesday! If you found this video helpful, please consider subscribing. If you want to support the channel, please leave a like and a comment for the algorithm. Thank you for watching!
Thank you for working hard for me to be happy about Arthur Schopenhauer.
I was just reading (viewing) about S. In my personal situation, I have no one to discuss these issues with.
Ever heard of "The Grail Message by Abdrushin" written by a German (called Oskar Ernst Bernhardt) in the early 20th century. He later moved to Austria and gathered a group around him. He said he was a messenger of God (Abd-ru-shin means "servant of God") to anounce the Judgement days which has already begann as he anounced the message in the early 20th century.
But unfortunately he was put under house arrest by A. Hitler for spreading the message of God.
Here a taste of his writings in one of his lectures called "The Antichrist": "It is sad that until now not even the churches have known where to look for this Antichrist, although it has already been active among all of mankind for so long. With only a little alertness they should have recognized it! Who can possibly act in a more anti-Christian manner than those who at the time fought against Christ Himself and finally even murdered Him! Who could have revealed themselves in a worse and more obvious way as being the Antichrist!
They were the leaders and representatives of earthly religion; the true teaching of God, as revealed in and through the Son of God, did not fit into their own structure. Indeed, the true Message of God could not be reconciled with it, since the structure set up by the earthly priests and dignitaries was aimed primarily at earthly influence, earthly power and expansion. They proved quite clearly thereby that they were servants of the human intellect, which is directed solely towards earthly knowledge and earthly power, and is hostile and obstructive to anything that is beyond earthly comprehension! Now since God as well as the spiritual remain completely outside the range of earthly intellectual knowledge, it is actually the intellect which is clearly the only real obstacle! Thus, by its nature, it is opposed to all that is Divine and all that is spiritual! And therefore, as a logical consequence, so are all those men who accept their intellect as being the highest and best thing, seeking to build upon it alone!
The religious leaders of those days were afraid of losing influence among the people through the enlightenment of the Son of God. As everyone today knows, this was the main reason for the slander they sought to spread against Christ and ultimately for the execution of the Son of God. They nailed Him to the cross as a blasphemer of the very God Who had sent Him to bring enlightenment, and Whose servants they professed to be!
How little did they really know this God and the Will of Him Whom they pretended to serve, in whose honor and earthly defense they, however... murdered this Son of God, the Divine messenger!
Whoever expects clearer proof cannot be helped; for there is nothing more in opposition to Christ, the Son of God, and His Words! And indeed Antichrist signifies the fighter against Christ, against man’s redemption in God’s Message.
Behind this, however, stands Lucifer himself as the Antichrist in person! He is the one who was able to raise his head through men! He, the only real enemy of God! He acquired the name of Antichrist through his hostile struggle against the Mission of the Son of God. None other would have had the strength and the power to become the Antichrist.
And in his warfare against the Will of God, Lucifer makes use not merely of one man on earth but of nearly all of mankind, thus leading them to destruction under the effect of the Divine Wrath!
With this he set his foot upon this earth as lord of the earth and of the greater part of mankind!
No wonder, then, that he could penetrate all the way to the altars, and that earthly religious representatives, even those of the Christian churches, were bound to become his victims. For they too expect the Antichrist just before the predicted Judgment. In this respect the great Revelation in the Bible, like many other things, has not yet been understood.
*"The Book of Revelation says that this Antichrist will raise his head before the Judgment! But not that he is yet to come! If it is said therein that he raises his head, this clearly indicates that he must be here already, but not that he is yet to come. It means that he will be at the pinnacle of his dominion shortly before the Judgment!"*
Listen to this warning call, you who have not yet become spiritually deaf and blind! Make the effort of thinking very seriously about it yourselves; for this is what is demanded of you now! If you remain indolent in this respect you give yourselves up as lost!
Grail Message by Abdrushin
@@stevepowsinger733I won’t claim to be prepared for a conversation, but I’m open to trying a dialogue.
schopenhauer and neitzsche are basically the modern epitomies of the right and left hand path respectively, where Jung was just a god damned psychic astronaut.
Elaborate...Neitsche was an anarchist in that even Christ would destroy a corrupt world.
Nietzsche accused Kant and Schopenhauer of being Christians disguised as philosophers. And that Kant put the cart before the horse by building a philosophy around predetermined conclusion.
What probably he didn't realise is that he, Nietzsche, himself set out to destroy Christian morality and to rescue humanity from the clutches of god-consciousness as a priori judgements.
Essentially he was on the Left even before he articulated his thoughts.
So yes, I agree with the top comment here.
@@golmaal138 left and right hand paths are completley different to right/left in politics fyi. Right hand path is the mainstream/ masses, left hand path is the individual.
@@MCE851 lol!! left is hard core collectivist
@@coleride not really. That depends on which country your from.
Phenomenal job!!!! Nietzsche's work is so deep and passionate, and he doesn't always get things right, but he's unafraid of ripping things open to reveal truths. And it seems to me that his devastating breakdown was all but inevitable.
I've always felt the thought of eternal return busted him. He grasped that living that way as courageous fortitude meant (as Jung would say) an anhendoian situation where the psychological opposite is cathected into reality:
thus amor fati became for him the flowering consciousness of a self-pity buried deep within the etiology of 'noble valuations', as the refusal to pity is unveiled as a subliminal species of ressentimént!
He had a congenital error, it killed his father, his brother, and him. Pdychologise your way around that.
31:00 the Deformation
i know right? these people could have done better than him lmao@@christopherellis2663
*sees nietzsche*
*clicks*
Good content brother, keep on doing it.
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Excellent work as always.
That was very informative. Thank you!
Thank you
25:23 Look who's back modafocka!!! This image really brings the idea of "i'll get you on the outside" they were trying to make, well done 👏👏.
hey man, I was wondering, do you make them in small parts just so you can have more consistent content? I prefer the longer videos like this personally but like a lot of the stuff you put out no matter the length, just curious. keep up the good work brobro
Thank you, this was a great series.
Thank you
Wonderful series, thanks! One minor criticism I have relates to the final part of the concluding video, where you describe Nietzsche's unfinished magnum opus as something he would want to be, or to be characterized as, "a neat system." Although his project was colossal and radical in its potential/partial character, he knew by long before that point that "systems" or systematic thinking of any kind in philosophy, psychology, philology, or in virtually any other field of (so-called scientific, so-called) knowledge (at least in the "human sciences") are a non-starter, and this partly on account of the theologically-stinking implications that tend to come with the imagined pursuit or possession of some closed or absolute systematic knowledge or interpretation of...well, anything really.
I wouldn't be surprised if he referred to the transvaluation as an enterprise of system-building or systematizing, but can't imagine he'd want to call it that except perhaps mockingly or self-satirically.
Or as Freddy Nitch himself puts it in the Twilight of the Idols:
Ich mißtraue allen Systematikern und gehe ihnen aus dem Weg. *Der Wille zum System ist ein Mangel an Rechtschaffenheit.*
[I distrust all systematicists and keep out of their way. The will to system is a lack of personal integrity.]
Please excuse the improvised translation---'Rechtschaffen' strikes me as an especially tricky one to decipher.
Thanks again.
I feel this should be a major criticism. If Nietzsche thought his work could ever be finished, he would have said so, and he often said the opposite. Instead, it is like a point that could be sharpened forever more sharp.
What you do is great, I hope you keep this up!
Great person does great thing
22:15 It's sad and horrible, and a dishonor to him. But imagine how destructive it was for the apostles!!! Not only seeing their beloved leader going through such an abhorrent violence and humiliation while also having all their beliefs crushing down in front of them. And if they actually believed he was holy it would be a shock so big is hard to conceive today.
Just now i realize the extent of this devastation. I truly i wish to know all of their history but sadly i will never now (i would say a huge part that helps in the myth of Jesus is the lack of evidence but people would utterly ignore either way).
Do you plan on doing Zarathustra in parts like this, or maybe the Birth of Tragedy?
Yes, definitely
2:44 is that true stone? OMG that is magnificent.
What a great work! Thanks
good job!! thanks for sharing,,, it would be good if you attempt to characterize a possible near future similar to the renaissance...
Excellent channel. Thank you for making those videos.
Thank you, much appreciated
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4:10 WOOOAH, that sounds BADASS.
Amazing video, thank you so much for posting!
Thank you so much for these videos. So well presented.
Thanks for putting this all together on one video! By the way, a Japanese Buddhist teacher named Masao Abe has a book Zen and Western Thought. One can't judge a book by the cover,but it has Nietsche face to face with Bodhidharma,the founder of Zen. I think you might find it interesting 😉🤔your great work starts my week very well 😀👍
Nietzsche is a zen master for das last 11 years of his life on earth.
Sounds interesting… I’ll have to look into it. Thanks for the support Frank!
Maaan, I can not thank you enough for your videos, you are a true gem, sir. All the best to you and yours.
Nietzsche is completely correct about the Protestant reformation being the thing which ruined Europe. For centuries the true and beautiful metaphysics was slowly subverting the Catholic church and restoring the old ways back to Europe, during the Renaissance this process was being accelerated, and then the Protestant reformation set us back a millennium. I feel the same thing happened in Eastern Europe, as they were reforming Eastern Orthodoxy and it was cut short but the Communists
... so says you... cough ....
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Suprisingly uplifting
Excellent series, a very well encapsulation of "The antichrist". Keep it up!
Im very grateful for your clear explanation, it makes a lot more sense now
9:00 NO... The "weak" are not weak at EVERYTHING...
Pity is not about "letting the weak survive" - It's about recognizing that someone that's weak at something has OTHER things to offer.
...Unless Nietzche was talking about co-dependent people... in which case I prolly agree...
I can’t wait!
This is pretty good. Thanks man.
What is the name of the statue shown at 13:44 ?
I would characterize it as an “ascension to madness” and not “descent into madness”..a middle ground could be a “retirement to madness”
Nietzsche remained truthful to his criticism for Socratic rationality
I find this very good but there are other reasons for disliking pity and Christianity.
What’s the painting¿ at 8:16 thank you
What do you think of Anthony Ludovici as an introduction to Nietzsche?
Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity in The Antichrist misrepresents Christian love by focusing on pity. However, Christianity never promotes pity. In contrast Christian love (agape) is about selfless compassion and care, not the condescending or passive pity that Nietzsche attacks. His focus on pity overlooks the empowering and proactive nature of Christian love, which is rooted in humility and genuine concern for others, not weakness or superiority.
Ironically, Nietzsche’s own life contradicts his ideals. His philosophy of strength, power, and individualism left him isolated and powerless in the end, without love or support. His decline into mental and physical illness highlights the impracticality and foolishness of his ideas, proving that they are not sustainable in real life. His personal fate is evidence that his philosophies, while intellectually provocative, don’t hold up when applied to human existence.
So clever, and yet could not see the destructive logical consequences of a life when it is not built on the foundation of genuine love.
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Wow. This is a phenomenal ~recount. Thank you, for sharing!!
My parents sent me to church when I was younger maybe 2yrs. Even tho I have just a basic understanding of it, even I know your not supposed to feel pity and give up your life to help the unfortunate. You’re to help them if you can by giving them food and donations if you’re able. The Bible is all about everyone taking their own journey thru life. Pity and welfare are morals that our society has instituted.
You clearly did not read it
But when Nietzsche posited a physics of Eternal Recurrence (WP #1003; Kaufman ed.) for a metaphysic of Will to Power he made "the infinite" into an abstract veridical reality that leads intuitively to the concept of divinity. 2nd reason for his madness: the emptiest, most definitionally unreal of mathematical abstractions becomes a key idea in his version of reality. A paradoxicality which also condones intuitive religiosity.
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My question to you is where did Nietzsche get his information on Jesus and his disciples to come to the conclusion he did about Jesus teaching and how the disciples reacted if the gospels are already afflicted with the misconception?
I'd probably translate the title as "Against the Christians" or "On the Antichrist: Or Against the Christians" as that phrase as a transliteration has a long history reaching to figures such as Emperor Julian and Celsus the Platonic-Epicurean philosopher.
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He is so anti pity (and compassion overall?) yet he took so much pity on the horse getting lashes he stepped in to take the lashes himself ?
Getting a Christian ad on this, löl
11:36 sounds like Bill Gates is one of Nietzsche's doctors
I think we can all safely say that Nietzsche's least-favorite Chaos god is Nurgle. That boi embodies both a sick, twisted form of compassion AND absolute disease, plague and ruin. Lol.
Weak and meek are not the same thing. How does this dichotomy (if at all) bridge the gap between Nietzsche and the Bible?
It is a virtue to possess great strength and not feel the need to use it in pursuit of our selfish desires.
What is resentimo?
fascinating.
What is his take on Aquinas or Orthodox on the more balanced material realm with the concept of God?
Good question. He spends a fair bit on Augustine in the Antichrist but regarding Aquinas I’m not sure on the top of my head
This book belongs to those not yet born. . .
"...what this leads to is a distrust of the word nature."
This is why Peterson is nihilistic.
Great!
I might be going crazy but I want to dedicate my life to spreading the word of overman play the seeds of the next generation for an 80 years of Frederick Nietzsche will be born
you can't be Anti something that doesn't exist
He believes there was one Christian. And he died on the cross. It is the religion of Christianity and its morals that he is against.
Christianity exists
Even if Jesus didn't exist, we can be sure that what he preached does, and has influenced literally hundreds of billions of people for more than two thousand years, so... obviously your "point" is actually what doesn't exist, as in: is an utterly meaningless statement
So. He claimed Jesus as a failure human being and the people around him used the resources ( especially Roman) or the power to establish him . And they won in sense. So in the sense, even if it's not the theory of Christ, doesn't that count as victory? What I mean is, Nietzsche didn't distinguished the politics of powerless and power( and he can't, because it ultimately ends in good and evil mortality). So I wonder how did he managed to stand with the genuineness of intellectualism( because I believe Nietzsche was brutally genuine to his intelligence) .
Someone please reply, so that I can close the chapter of Nietzsche, I'm brutally losing my time for him to answer this.
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I feel Nietzsche is simply developing counter argument. If he believes that there is nothing beyond the material world, nor should we believe there is, it seems that je simply expects we should live like animals with no real desire, so I don't understand why he expects humans to achieve something such as status, apart from in animalistic terms (eg you can elevate yourself, if the risk isn't too high, as would happen in animal hierarchies). Theology is an attempt (rightly or wrongly) to find something satisfying beyond animal nature, but Nietzsche seems to say we should not do that.
Only interesting counter point I have seen on this subject
He was righting all this book about himself and his life story if you understand him well.
Yes replace Christianity with his religious female family members and you will see who is really railing against. They tormented him and he fled to intellectualism.
No wonder the man lost his mind.
Probably it's not enough to be a genius when you are so weak from within and so arrogant from without.
Thank you for the high quality video.
I thought at first, no wonder he went insane, writing a book like that. I suppose in Nietzsches time, there was just as much darkness as there is today. I partly agree with him, that there are to many mistakes in theology, and in the concept of Christianity, but my how and why differ utterly from his views. From my viewpoint, the term "antichrist" is reserved for the pope, and any definition of Christianity is wrong, when Catholicism is defined as it. The word Christ is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word Messiah; knowing that gives a better definition of Christianity. His words on Luther are ridiculously mistaken, because the only reason Martin Luther was important, was that he translated the Bible. Same with Erasmus. Every one was murdered in their time, for reading the Bible in the common language. So Nietzsche was right, one could claim, that Luther saved Christianity, but popery is roman propaganda, not some sect of Christianity. Later in life, Luther tried to destroy popery, just as Nietszche tried to. But at least, Martin Luther knew who antichrist was, just as the other reformers did, I didn't hear any light like that from Nietszche in this reading. Wat does he even mean, when using the word "Christianity"? I suppose Prussian Sunday worshipers, although the word "Sunday" is not even found in the Bible. That's how wrong Christians are.
Christianity is metaphysics of a hangman
You have drunk a little too much Seventh Day Adventist Kool Aid.
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For all the merits of Nietzsche, this thesis of Luther restoring Christianity is just laughable
This philosopher eventually became demented in pursue to elaborate his views on scripture.... this phenomenon has been observed... ! An incomplete... thought GypsyTrail
If the picture of Jesus in the bible is already distorted, how does Nietzsche think he's arrived at an accurate picture of Jesus?
How does nietzche know what christ was like beyond what the gospels say. Maybe the theological blood of german protestants was asserting itself here
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Yah still don’t understand maybe I’m not ready to understand what the hell he is talking about
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Dude.. why do you keep condemning the will to power as a 'heavily edited' and tampered with peice of work.
There are reasons to argue the oposite; that minimal tampering took place.. do you think it is even possible to impersonate Nietzsche; do you think anyone would by nieve enough to make such an attempt?
Regardless, i enjoy your channel; thank you for the influx of videos and material
Impersonating Nietzsche has been done before. Look up “My Sister and I”
@@WeltgeistYT Well I'll be damned; I had no idea.. A quick wiki glance and it says that only 'a minority believe the work to be authentic'; 'most Nietzsche scholars adopted the opinion of Kaufman who imediately identified the book as a forgery'.. Regardless, I stand corrected; ty
It's pretty well known his sister heavily tampered with will to power, to help it appeal more to nazi doctrine.
Sad. He found out though...
Nietzshe is indeed powerful, but Jung already identified his weakness:
The Last Man.
Christianity was forced by authority and power of Rome ,passivity ,humility,love were forced by Rome they wanted you to be like that
Powerful insights,,,thx,a lot,,🎩,My opinion it's ,,that religions, are dengerous to humanity ,Bible it's a dengerous book for people minds and I really don't care if others disagree with my statement ,,,🤨
Egalitarianism, which is the product of Christianity is far more dangerous.
The story is good. Look at Jordan Peterson
Good One! @@Verårtu
If Nietzsche doesn't have a first hand account about Jesus no different than the authors of the Gospels, then he wouldn't know its distorted.He is doing the same as what he criticizes.But Nietzsche is interesting to read for entertainment, nothing more.
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Nietzsche’s father was a Lutheran minister who died when Nietzsche was only 5, wonder how his atheism would have changed if he understood the Crucifixion in context?
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing....christ is the only christian....the cross made life to be futile
His views on pity shows why he was not successful with women
*Neitzsche is mean spirited.* *Without compassion and empathy we can not understand lives outside our own.**Understanding is a type of strength, it enables humans to work with each other, instead of being purely selfish.**Those who are weakened by what happens to them in this life need others to help them find their strength.* *Christ's teachings were about compassion in action, the church's teachings are a different story using Christ for their own gain.*
Not at all. He was noted for his overtly cheerful disposition. He just had a low tolerance for b.s.
He wasn't an American.
"There was only one Christian and he died on the cross." -
Ironically (not) the character of Jesus was a Jew whose primary purpose as Messiah
was to prove to the world that the Jews were gods chosen people.
That makes christianity itself the anti-christ.
Christians would claim the complete opposite.
the next few lines of the beginning of the book whill give you a good insight why i call Nietzsche a nazist
Jesus did not say that loving one's neighbors is the greatest commandment -- He said 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind,' (Luke 10:27), quoting Deuteronomy 6:4-9. "Love thy neighbor as thy self," is the second greatest commandment, He said.
The enemy is narcissism, greed, sloth, gluttony, dishonesty and an otherwise over elevation of self or uncontrolled id. But this affects everyone in spite of standing in the hierarchy. Beggars can be slothful but rulers can be stuck with power whether they are lazy or driven. The enemy is dysfunction. Compassion is only a weakness if it causes enabling. Frederick Nietzsche was reckless.
I nearly fell into the trap Christianity is.
We're made to believe that we are defective sinful beings, made by a God so distant yet so close, who has laid a plan none but himself is privy to, and we are supposed to have free will to choose even though its existence is overshadowed by this divine plan.
We're made to pointlessly pity a man who died nearly 2000 years ago, we are told goring details of his suffering and emotionally manipulated to give this world for the eternal life he promised, to forgo every natural instinct, to repress our sexual inclinations, to dull our senses and faculties with superstition, to live as saints and hermits, in my opinion the weakest and most pathetic people, to essentially kill what makes us humans.
I would have never gotten this close to Christianity, if not for my friend who is a wanna-be missionary, as he and I are both ex-Muslims in a Muslim country we became natural friends, but he manipulated me in times of emotional strife, pitied me and tried to feed me from his drug, I know the language is harsh, but it is objectively the truth, but when I distanced myself for a month from him and the source of my weakness, I regained my senses, I am happy to live as an agnostic man, I do not care if a God exists or not, but I am hell sure it ain't the Abrahamic one.
Voltaire, Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus are the people I read and respect, for their writings have opened my eyes, even though I disagree with Nietzsche's extreme position on sympathy and pity.
Damn, you were close to the truth, odd that you failed to find it because of false platitudes. I pray you find it.
@@ruler1422 Well I do not know much about what false platitudes he used to say to me, but what his worldview is broken because of the trauma he has lived through.
This has caused him to adopt extreme positions on suffering, on celibacy and life.
He says for instance, that Christ offered us as consolation for our suffering, the premise that we are meant to carry our crosses, I believe he sort of misquoted this metaphor.
He asserts that Celibacy is a virtue, well one might agree that promiscuity is a vice, and one might take one step further and say that sex in marriage is the only accepted context, he goes to say that being celibate is the most virtuous state of being, misquoting the bible again, as in Castrate yourselves for the lord.
He is superstitious in the full sense of the word, believing in witchcraft, and demons directly intervening in his life and misfortunes.
The shrigma male (rarest male type)
There is only 1 sigma male and he dies of pity on a plus sign
@@satnamo Nope passivity isnt sigma
I have been studying this guy lately, and I went in really wanting to enjoy his work or find something intelligent he has said. No different than the modern common atheist, nietzsche is the epitome of hypocrisy. And unfortunately most of his doctrine is based around complete ignorance of the biblical narrative. I have never heard such a renowned philosopher speak so loudly about a topic they know so little about. He is so disillusioned by Christianity because of so called Christians, that it completely clouded his thought processes.
The kingdom of god is within me because man is a god in ruins
I see why people are rattled by this dude 😂
Nietzsche is one of those hit and miss thinkers,he at the same time has a refreshing aristocratic way of thinking that can be quite a remedy for modern day leftist blind egalitarianism,yet he also falls flat as he indirectly contributed to the state of modernity with his emphasize on individualism,materialism and relativism,which ironically lead to the current status quo.
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Compassion for others is the problem. Selfishness for your family only is the cure.
Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, but all he did was replace Him with another, and he choose Life. All his beliefs and criticisms are based within his church of The Will, but it does not mean he is right, he simply choose one way of being over another.
I feel like he didn’t study universe law. Vibration energy etc. he’s too deep and complicated