What did Nietzsche mean by "God is dead"?
>>357335
Protestantism killed Him
>>357335
He meant that he had defeated god in a fight to the death.
That is an animal with many faces. Primarily you should understand that it is not an angry phrase, or an anti-religious standpoint, although the man himself could be considered an ideological enemy of the church. The statement is lamenting the loss of potentially worthwhile values men of the church are supposed to take to heart when a process of normalization and disinterest caused by regularity occurs over time. God is dead because he is mundane, his value is gone, and sadly it cannot be taken back by anyone who cannot questions things enough─not necessarily to question and realize the faults of religion, but to question and come to any greater understanding and awareness of a position.
The phrase is not happy, it is sad.
Also consider his thinking that men should be their own gods and it takes new form, but this is a decent summary.
>>357335
He means that he came out of his mom's ass instead of the customary opening in the vagina.
>>357335
The idea of God is dead. God is a tool used to describe things we don't know or are unsure of. With the Scientific Revolution, science can explain those things. Science is the new way to understand our world,
>>357387
t. retard
>>357335
The real meaning of this quote can only be established when you analyse the circumstances and the time in which he said it.
Religious explanations keep being replaced by scientific explanations. And when people realize that their Godly explanations are inferior to science, they lose faith in God (or at least partly).
God was also the giver of moral values back in the days. And Nietzsche says that losing faith in the source of all morals means you would have to reject the morals themselves, because they lack legitimation.
"God is dead" is a quote used to indicate an observation of moral decay, caused by the rejection of the "source" of morals (it was God back then for many people).
He also states that overcoming this lack of faith and lack of morals is only possible by becoming the Übermensch (super human, homo superior). Which is what NatSocs and fascists picked up and morphed into their "national" or "ethnic" super human.
When Nietzsche says God is dead is he just referring to the collapse of traditional morality in the context of nihilism in 19th century Europe. It just means the universal signifier justifying and sustaining the theological-political hierarchical society can never be recovered and thus we are forced to rethink the structure of everything we previously knew, felt and respected. This new freedom also brings new risks.
>>357335
Alluh Akbar
>>357335
>>357335
It's important to understand that it was a cultural statement, not a theological statement.
>>357618
Nietzsche was referring to the concept of God, and the chains of religious morality that had restrained the human spirit, he was influenced by the French Revolution's overthrow of the theocratic absolute monarchy and it's acolyte priesthood.
people need to stop just saying "god is dead"
finish the fucking quote and then it'll make sense to you.
>>357637
>and we have killed him
YEESSSS
VICTORRYYYYYYYYYYY
The influence of the church has ended. It was a political statement.
>>357759
In context it was a madman running about a market telling people they had killed god.
It was a addressing christians who had accepted humanist ideals but still pretended god was the center of the universe
>>357350
This is pretty much how i interpreted it.
I wonder if indricotherium would have made for a good military animal.
if a war elephant could carry body armor along with a small tower containing a few armored troops, then I'd imagine something of that size could easily carry 20 troops in the same manner.
they'd be living siege towers.
>>357799
>indricotherium
Would be a nightmare to feed and it would be slow as fuck
>>357799
>kill one animal
>20 dead soldiers
>>357335
god is a fucking pussybitch
>>357799
no tusks or trunk, so it's pretty much just relegated to stomping shit.
maybe just for transportation.
What did anon mean when he said "OP is fag"?
>>357340
i laffed
That Socrates and Jesus killed the divine by trying to make the divine the Logical and the Forgiving. This degenerates the divine into a static and dead realm, especially compared to the pre-Abrahamic (Greek in particular) divine realm. In the pagan pantheon, disorder and cruelty aren't denied, they are embraced as obstacles that can be overcome and make one stronger. This is why the pagan, pre-Socrates and pre-Christian values are vastly superior, and why rejection of them leads to the death of God
scientific advances like space exploration for example means we can logically conclude that god doesn't exist, so he's "dead".
Ok faggots a lot of you have probably not even read the gay science so I'm going to post the part about God being dead.
"Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: "I am looking for God! I am looking for God!"
As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have you lost him, then? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? or emigrated? Thus they shouted and laughed. The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances.
"Where has God gone?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. We are his murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually falling? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is it not more and more night coming on all the time? Must not lanterns be lit in the morning?"
>>357799
It would be pretty strong, but strengh doesn't scale too well. An elephant can only lift one quarter of it's own weight, if straining. Could an indricotherium carry much more than an elephant?
"Do we not hear anything yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we not smell anything yet of God's decomposition? Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whosoever shall be born after us - for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto."
Here the madman fell silent and again regarded his listeners; and they too were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern to the ground, and it broke and went out. "I have come too early," he said then; "my time has not come yet. The tremendous event is still on its way, still travelling - it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves."
It has been further related that on that same day the madman entered divers churches and there sang a requiem. Led out and quietened, he is said to have retorted each time: "what are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchres of God?"
There, now you can discuss it with an actual source at hands.
[Source: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882, 1887) para. 125; Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.]
>>357756
WE DID IT BOYZ
LAWFAGS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
>>357799
More importantly, imagine if we had weaponised entelodonts.
A giant, semi-carnivorous pig would be the stuff of nightmares. Christ, regular boar are bad enough.
>>358950
>semi-carnivorous
You mean omnivorous, like regular pigs.
Entelodonts are actually more closely related to whales and hippos than to pigs.
>>358950
>a bear that can't stand upright
>>359030
Yes, but unlike regular pigs they were apex predators.
True, but they're pig-like. Hence the nickname "terminator pigs."
