Thursday 18 January 2007

Episode 13 - Nietzsche said, God is Dead.


There's a song by the Manics that has the line mentioned above. When ever I hear it, it always sticks in my head for days afterwards. Don't know what Mr Friedrich Nietzsche really meant - could look it up but I'd rather ponder on it myself.

To me God is a concept that is common to everyone, even atheists. Ok, so atheist don't believe in God as such but everyone without exception has a belief system of some kind - just not everyone calls it God. So, did Nietzsche really mean that there is nothing left to believe in and that investing hope in something bigger than ourselves is redundant?

No matter, we all still believe in our own little gods.

Went to the beach today. The weather was terrible and the waves crashed in showering us with spray. I took a few photo's in the gathering darkness - they were crap - in the hope of catching the foam and spray plastering the rocks. We didn't hang about long as the children complained of the lazy wind - it blows through you and not around you - and went to the library. Picked up a few books, one on some mad Aussie called Chopper, another on Football in Iraq. Also, bought a book by Michael Palin.

Went home, sent the kids to bed and watched another re-run of Top Gear. Sometimes, I reach a low ebb unexpectantly and punish myself by listening to Jeremy Clarkson over compensate for his no doubt minuscule penis by raving on about cars that only the fortunate can afford.

Its my own personal form of masochism.

I just done a spell check on this blog and I have spelt "believe" wrong time I've typed it. Vaguely worrying for no particular reason.

1 comment:

ArcoJedi said...

Nietzsche said God was dead, but then later and quite directly, God pronounced Nietzsche dead. SO who really had the last laugh?

Seriously, the concept of God that you are describing that each of us has --even the most pronounced atheist-- is pretty much the nature of humanity exactly as God created them.

For everything that we can learn about ourselves, the human being,
--what we are made of
--how our brains work
--our place in the universe
all of these things ignore the most obvious fact staring us right in the face. In the center of everyone is a small hole that for their entire life they will strive to fill. Some fill it with drugs, some with alcohol, some with sex, some with obsessive compulsions less dangerous but no less empty in their eventual ability to satisfy and some simply fill it with mundane and daily tasks of daily life. And yet, they can never truly fill this hole. What's remarkable about this hole is that it is the best proof of a loving God that we can ever find in all the universe.

How? God created us and placed this hole inside our soul at the same time he gave us free will. The hole is small but impossible to ignore. There is only one thing that can fill this hole completely and satisfactorily and that is love for Jesus Christ. It is up to us each separately and individually to decide to follow Him. We have free will for that purpose. God won't make us do it and cannot make the decision for us.

I hope this makes sense. You can believe it or just wait and ask Nietzsche, you know, the next time you see him. &heart;