posted March 08, 2011 03:35 PM            

Chapter III: What is Religious

Aphorism 54

* People used to believe in 'the soul' as they believed in grammar and the grammatical subject:
people said that 'I' was a condition and 'think' was a predicate and conditioned — thinking is an activity
and a subject must be thought of as its cause. Now, with admirable tenacity and cunning,
people are wondering whether they can get out of this net — wondering whether the reverse might be true:
that 'think' is the condition and 'I' is conditioned, in which case 'I' would be a synthesis
that only gets produced through thought itself.

Aphorism 55

There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important.
People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ...
Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,'
to their god; the joy of this particular festival shines in the cruel eyes of the ascetic, that enthusiastic piece of 'anti-nature.' Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? In the end, didn't people have to sacrifice all comfort and hope, everything holy or healing, any faith in hidden harmony or a future filled with justice and bliss? Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves? To sacrifice God for nothingness — that paradoxical mystery of the final cruelty has been reserved for the race that is now approaching:
by now we all know something about this.

Aphorism 120

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Aphorism 157

The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night.

Aphorism 146 (1886)

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.
And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

My response to that Aphorism is this:

The abyss can reflect/see;
only the good in me,
and so therefore,
I fear not the illusory monsters nor the abyss.
~LEXX

posted March 09, 2011 10:01 AM            

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

ohhh yes.

posted March 10, 2011 10:00 AM            

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Originally posted by Mystic Melody:
Aphorism 120

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

ohhh yes.

and I love YOUR quote, LEXX. <3

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Thank you
Hope life is being kind to you!<3

posted April 18, 2013 08:17 PM            

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Originally posted by taureau20:
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posted April 18, 2013 08:18 PM            

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Originally posted by SunChild:
Awesome Lexx.

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