Ernie: About the origins of WWI , on possibly every historian's list of profound questions,
that is up there at number 1 or no worse than # 3 or #4. My own view is that this really needs an answer drawn from the Book of Revelation, that is, Revelation decoded. But no "fundamentalist" on earth has the remotest idea of how to actually decode the book and not end up with pre-set doctrines that date to the 19th century. That approach misses the point entirely. Here let me sound like a fundamentalist, since -in my own very strange way- about some matters I am as fundamentalist as anyone gets. In his case what clearly happened in 1914 was some kind of visitation by Satan. Do not ask me for ANY details; they are not mine to give. But it seems as clear as possible that in some way Satan began to mess up the 20th century in a big way, and that we are living in "end times." OK. how does anyone document a visitation by the Devil? Wish that I knew. Some concepts that I worked with back in the early 2000s seemed worthwhile at the time and I think still have promise, but my concern is that even if I got it 100% right (and maybe my views are no better than 25% right) who would believe me? Better to spend my time on other things. -------------- Nietzsche: To keep your head about him, you can do no better than Kaufmann. There is a lot (really a lot) of scholarship about him, and I have read a good deal of "modern day stuff, but am very mistrustful. Much recent scholarship bangs the drum for views that Nietzsche would have found totally absurd or irrelevant or downright evil. Back in the 50s / 60s / even the 70s and 80s, I think most of the N. scholarship at least attempted to be objective. With one caveat, there were still a great many Nietzsche=Fascism people doing work. And many people today still refer to these studies. But Kaufmann set that record straight during the time he was alive. Namely: Yes, there are some elements of N's philosophy that can be taken as preliminary to Fascism/ Nazism, but that is kind of like saying that today's Democrats are pure Marxist-Leninists, which, while there has been influence, is hardly the whole story. There's also N's syphilis-induced insanity of his final years. Basically I regard all the stuff he wrote in the last year or two when he still wrote, as mostly so much raving and ranting. "Will To Power," of course, was his sister's redaction of his papers, put together in such a way to make N seem like "young Hitler." His sister was a full blown anti-Semite and N eventually came to be disgusted with her views and disowned them. To repeat the point, I spent maybe 20 years in Nietzshe's shadow, as it were, but finally had enough. There still are N-like ideas floating around in my head, quite a few actually, but these have all been winnowed from a lot of material much of which I came to regard as off base or downright wrong. One thing I will say, however. Thus Spake Zarathustra was a work of pure genius. On my "to do" list is a goal that maybe I will never achieve, to write a 'poetic' book as good as Zarathustra, as important, as filled with truths. BUT it must not resemble Z, it must not simply be a spin off or the like. So far, the kind of inspiration necessary to do this has not happened and that kind of project would require something akin to divine revelation. Finally, I think my mother was partly the product of the "harsh discipline" school of education once prevalent in Germany and imported to America with Grandpa and Grandma. So, yeah, "tell me about it......." That is, please don't tell me about it, enough already, with its aftereffects. Billy ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2018 1:51 PM To: Centroids Discussions Subject: interest in things German Re: [RC] Prussian education system - Wikipedia Hmmmm On Sep 14, 2018, at 11:51 AM, Billy Rojas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: May I ask what has brought on your newfound interest in things German? 1. I’m listening to a podcast about the origins of WW I 2. I run into people who are huge fans of Nietzsche 3. My greatest parenting failure is arguably the Prussian-style hard-heartedness of expecting children to conform, even if it makes them miserable. Which is probably necessary as a parent, but also incredibly dangerous if you do it wrong. 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