(March 27, 2015 at 11:13 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(March 27, 2015 at 10:58 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Now that this thread has been resurrected from the dead, it gives me two thoughts.
First, it reminds me of something Friedrich Nietzsche wrote:
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
It is funny that Nietzsche was such a Christian!
(It is equally bullshit, yet somehow some people believe it anyway, even though everyone knows it is false. Everyone knows that sometimes people are crippled and maimed without being killed, and are not thereby stronger.)
Hell, Nietzsche himself spent the last 11 years of his life in a state of complete mental collapse. If that doesn't give the lie to that statement, I don't know what does.
Actually, that doesn't. He could have said any number of sensible things before his mental collapse, and earlier sensible statements would not have been rendered false by his later mental collapse.
In this case, though, what he said was drivel. Somehow, it is said in a way that makes people like it and believe it, even when they know it is false. But it is drivel, for the reason I stated in my post.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
