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Prinsexx -> RE: Looking into the abyss (8/13/2008 7:03:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: IronBear
Considering the amount of self-righteous narrow minded people about and within the BDSM culture (a number of whom who post here in CM with their inability to understand that things different to their way is not necessarily wrong), I'd say that the full quote: 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 gazes also into you. fits the BDSM area like a glove and should act as a warning against being so damned eager to nit pick or faule find.
IB
(The incorrigible, irrepressible and irreverent Bear)
The thing about my friend Freddie…..known to others as Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900): he only lived until he was 56. He was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist (studied grammar, historical linguistics).
He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language (different word order or syntax) and displaying a fondness for aphorism (original thoughts and definitions). Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism (things are either in-existence or are aware of their existence and those things in-existence) and postmodernism (all things current).
His style and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth raises considerable problems of interpretation, generating an extensive secondary literature in continental philosophy (German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism and hermeneutics, (study of theories….what a kink eh?), structuralism, post-structuralism, French feminism (especially pre-cognising that uppity bitch Simone de Beauvoir). and the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and some other branches of western Marxism and analytic philosophy.
Some of his major ideas include interpreting tragedy as an affirmation of life, and eternal recurrence (a concept which posits that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur in a self-similar form an infinite number of times). What a far-out dude!
Nietzsche began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. At the age of 24 he became the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel (the youngest individual ever to have held this position), but resigned in 1879 due to health problems, which would plague him for most of his life. In 1889 he exhibited symptoms of serious mental illness, living out his remaining years in the care of his mother and sister until his death in 1900.
Wonder if he would have been accused of having a dysfunctional behaviour pattern if using the forums here on collar? You know why he is one of the most amazing persons I would like to invite around to dinner? Not only because he could move from the metaphoric to the concrete all within one sentence but because he lived in a world where his experience (being on the edge of an abyss) finally overcame his desire to explain the logistics of the balance.
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