What's got you feeling less than cheerful and healthy?

Come on. Open up that heart of yours, Ace. Let us in.

Just be sure to leave a homo seat as buffer between us.

Quoting Nietzche? Jesus.. Time for an intervention....

"God is dead" - Nietzche

"Nietzche is dead" - God

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. -- Nietzche. ????

I know what you're trying to say, but an Asshole who called God: the deification of nothingness, and who had such a cheerful, healthy heart that he stuck his head in an oven and killed himself? Loose shit ACE

Can't be all sunshine and porn 24/7/365 ya know.
Every once in a while a dark mood hits.

Yeah, and Mencken was an anti-semite.

Are we to embargo quotes from important thinkers who also said things with which we disagree?

Look, I gotta tell ya, I know you're on this "Right must boycott" kick and all but I really could not keep up with all the boycotting the Left wanted me to do when I was a liberal, and I don't think I'm really keen to keep conservative-kosher either.

Nietzche said "God is dead." So? A lot of people don't believe in God.

Like, you know, me for example. (Or, let us say, I don't affirmatively believe in God, but neither do I affirmatively disbelieve in the possibility of his existance. Agnostic, in short.)

Anyway... I just can't keep conservative-kosher. I'm not going to stop watching Arrested Development or Deadwood just because they depict all sorts of bad behavior.

he stuck his head in an oven and killed himself

I heard it was a microwave.

He stuck his microwave in an oven and killed himself?

I heard it was an EZ Bake Oven.

Which is an important lesson: Those little light bulbs can kill.

Yeah, but it takes forever.

OK, he may have died of VD.

Are we to embargo quotes from important thinkers who also said things with which we disagree?

Such as the 72VIRGINS, in their Treatise On Moslem Jokes?

We started out writing a long dissertation, but this kind of argument is sooooo boring we gave up.

How 'bout how many Moslems, oops, Islamofacists (not that there's anything wrong with that) does it take to shut down Moslem jokes on a website?

None, it only takes one #$%& neocon.

Re: the original quote.

Cholesterol kills intellectual curiosity too?

He contracted VD from an oven? What was he cooking in that thing?

72Virgins,

I'm really sorry you're miffed that you can't post unfunny, idiotic, and quite offensive jokes about Muslims on this site.

PS, you also can't post Nigger or Kike or wetback jokes, just in case you were wonderin'.

This is free-wheeling but it is not anything goes. I don't like racism, and I don't want to be associated with it, and I am entitled to patrol the comments for material I find objectionable.

It's not just YOUR comment. The fact that it appears on my bandwidth makes it MY comment, too, or at least one someone can argue (with some degree of persuasiveness) that I have endorsed through silence.

Our war is not with Muslims generally, but with Islamofascist killers. I don't think that's a terribly difficult thing to keep clear; I myself have had to edit my own posts when I realized I had written something that was just anti-Muslim rather than anti-Islamofascist.

I don't like losing readers, but yeah, I guess my politics are neocon/slightly libertarian/slightly libertine, and if that bothers you, well, there are other blogs that might be a better fit for you.

W/ regard to the whole left/right thing, I liked this line from Nietzsche: "At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be stupid."

The Nietzsche quote that comes to mind when I think of Ace is:
"He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you."

Ace, I can only assume that the people bashing you for quoting someone who once said "God is dead" have never actually read a book of Nietzsche, let alone the second sentence that follows that quote, which is "And we killed him." Nietzsche's criticizing modern man for allowing science and rationalism to replace emotion and imagination (e.g., religion), thereby killing an essential part of the human experience.

Nietzsche was a man of contradictions. He hated modern Christians and was probably an athiest, but also admired Jesus (don't let the title of one of his books, The Antichrist, fool you)..

Nietzsche died of syphilis. He was a raving loon at the end (well, more of one.) and his sister was sort of transcribing and editing the stuff into usable form. She kept his legacy alive and his reputation intact.

He was interesting, yeah.

"Man without God is a beast, and never more beastly than when he is most intelligent about his beastliness." --Whittaker Chambers

Whittaker Chambers also wrote that from every page of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, "a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: 'To a gas chamber — go!'" (Rand was Jewish, by the way)

When it confronted with people who weren't religious, Chambers wasn't exactly known for his clear thinking.

Ace - I think you were thinking of the following:

"Terrible experiences pose the riddle whether the person who has them is not terrible."

Another good one:

"Objections, digressions, gay mistrust, the delight in mockery are signs of health: everything unconditional belongs in pathology."

This is really getting philosophical, so I thought I should offer to all of you a quote that changed my life, words that you can truly live by, from the greatest mind of the 20th Century. Ponder the wisdom I am about to offer you.

Here it is:

"Watch out where the Huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow."

Frank Zappa

Steve in HB,

Well, since I got the quote from you in the first place, I s'pose you'd be the one to know.

Thanks.

BTW, you're a dick.

I got a whole bag of "shush" with your name on it.

"Life is a circus, don't you be the clown."

Love that quote.

Nietzche is peachy but liquor is quicker

"You go to Hell, you go to Hell and you DIE!"

-Mr. Garrison