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   marvellousnightmare

   3 November 2024

   Beautiful, dark, and bitter. I love the despair, yet I believe every death brings us rebirth. Can a human really kill God? Only our expectations of the Divine, perhaps. Our spiritual innocence, maybe. Our belief in universal goodness.

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      papadosshortstories

      3 November 2024

      Thank you. I think we humans can kill God by stopping believing that there’s something good in human beings. It is said that God is in every one of us, so if we stop believing in good, we automatically kill him.
      That’s how I have interpreted Nietzsche, especially after I read „The Birth of Tragedy“ by Nietzsche. 🙂

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         marvellousnightmare

         4 November 2024

         I interpret Nietzsche’s words in a similar way, I also think he meant the loss of “goodness,” which we expect the Divine to be a beacon of. But that only means humans killed their image of God because God is way beyond whatever we have in our heads or society. I understand the quote, but I’d say humans lost connection with God or turned away from God. “Killed” sounds more intense, but in my humble opinion, it exaggerates what happened, unless we state that it is humans who created God and that it’s all in our heads – I personally disagree with this perspective, but it’s just me 🙂

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         papadosshortstories

         4 November 2024

         That’s the great thing with Philosophy, there’s no right or wrong interpretation. That’s why you can talk about philosophical themes for hours without having any results. And the next day, you can continue further, again and again. 😂🤗☺️

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         marvellousnightmare

         4 November 2024

         That’s why I love it so much, haha ❤

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