Happy Birthday Friedrich Nietzsche

[€uroMeinke]

On this day in 1844, Friedrich Nietzsche was born.

His works created the foundation for contemporary existentialist thought - or to some the birth of the culture wars. But more importantly he helped shape my own brand of anarchistic, elitist, and nihilist thinking.

Cheers Friedrich

[sleepyjeff]

Happy Birthday FN...hope that whole Overman thing works out ok for you

[flippyshark]

Quick Name this movie...

Reverend Johnson: Order, order. Goddamnit I said "order".

Howard Johnson: Y'know, Nietzsche says: "Out of chaos comes order."

Olson Johnson: Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard.

In honor of Friedrich's big day, I offer the following cocktail recipe.

THE UBERMENSCH

Mix 2 tablespoons of Pump-Tech brand Muscle Building Powder into 1 pint of good German beer. Declare God dead, drink up and feel your will to power grow!

[sleepyjeff]

You may or may not know that my sig line is a very roundabout indirect nod to FN.

[€uroMeinke]

For our Mouse Adventure team, Pro-bono - we had cutomized "credentials" the wear on a lanyard. Mine featured the transition clip from Kubrick's 2001 a Space Odessey where a bone is transformed into a space craft (as a metephore for man's evolution and the intoduction of "tools" to technology). In this scene, Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" is played - itself being the composers homage to Freidrich Nietzsch. In this way I celebrated.

Unfortunately, my brain is so fried from the last two days that I haven't a clue as to either Flippyshark's movie reference of sleepyjeff's sig lines. Perhaps tomorrow after sleep I will understand - otherwise, you might get a PM from me.

[sleepyjeff]

My sig line is the last words spoken by David Bowman before he turned into the Star Child

[flippyshark]

My little movie quote is from Mel Brooks philosophical classic BLAZING SADDLES.

2001 is my favorite movie, though.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

2001 is my favorite movie, though.

I love this movie too. First time I watched it I had just read Homers Odyssey and I caught many of the Allegorical stuff on that line..........but then many years later I watched it again after reading the story of Zarathustra......I think Clarke was thinking Homer and Kubrick was thinking Nietzsche.