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A famous quote from an equally famous philosopher, it is almost never quoted in its entirety. The full quote:

"God is dead (then the part that people almost always leave out) for we have killed him."

Friedrich Nietzsche is not insulting God, he's not saying he's superior to God or that God is a failed and pointless belief, he's saying that humanity has killed the belief.

People say things about Nietzsche with almost no basis, taking partial quotes and misinterpreted teachings then forming ludicrous ideas about his life and thoughts. Before you say something about this man (or anyone else for that matter) get your facts straight.

Oh, yeah. Funny as hell T-shirt in response to the partially quoted phrase:

"Nietzsche is dead"
-God

EDIT: Forgot to add the disclaimer:

I am in no way advocating the teachings of Friedrich Nietzsche, this includes his belief in the Superman and the belief that the comman man should be enslaved by said Supermen. I am just stating that facts should be straight.

He was a misogynist who thought that übermensch should rule us all.

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"But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality."
Free your mind! (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/berkman/comanarchism/whatis_toc.html)
I like big butts!

http://www.angelfire.com/mo3/terrapvlchra/images/steatopygia.jpg

He was a misogynist who thought that übermensch should rule us all.

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"But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality."
Free your mind! (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/berkman/comanarchism/whatis_toc.html)
I like big butts!

http://www.angelfire.com/mo3/terrapvlchra/images/steatopygia.jpg

when in truth I shall rule you all!!!!!!!!
bwahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

He was a misogynist who thought that übermensch should rule us all.

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"But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality."
Free your mind! (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/berkman/comanarchism/whatis_toc.html)
I like big butts!

http://www.angelfire.com/mo3/terrapvlchra/images/steatopygia.jpg

when in truth I shall rule you all!!!!!!!!
bwahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Okay, any intelligent comments?

He was a misogynist who thought that übermensch should rule us all.


Hardly true. His model for the overman was someone like Goethe, a crippled writer, or his paragon, an "artistic Socrates". The mark of an ubermensch was not power over others so much as it was power over his own passions and reason. Power over others was a possibility, but hardly a necessitation.

The best way I've ever heard his ethical system described was as very similar to Aristotle's virtue ethical system, but with the Platonic "citizen" ideal of subservience substituted for mastery. Even then, the ubermensch should not do anything that might limit the freedom of the people, because it is only through such freedom that future ubermenschs might develop.

Okay, any intelligent comments?

Wrong boards. 8)

I say sit down and read some Bakunin or Boetie...then Nietzsche seems less zany. At least to my eyes.