So someone spoke to me of Nietzsche today..
Now Herr Nietzsche and I go back a long way.
The first time I heard his name was in school..on the posterboard outside our classroom.
Someone had scribbled,"God is dead"- Nietzsche.
Underneath it, someone had scribbled back,"Nietzsche is dead"- God
That's when began my love story with the mad German philosophers..
way before I had discovered Freud and Einstein.
What cool people..to kill off 'God' like that.
It was almost liberating. I guess this was whe I formed the basis for my agnostic belief system and a fascination for thinking and high philosophy.
That's when I discovered Hermann Hesse's Siddartha too.
About a crazy and cool monk in ancient India, who although loving the Buddha's message, refuses to become a 'official' disciple. To find his own truth.
I guess that's what Nietzsche has given to me.. despite his Faustian overtones and later on hijacking by the Third Reich.
He continues to stand like a rebellion in the face of history. Destroying all the institutions and 'gods'.
So man can be born.
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