PSA: Nietzsche did drugs only because he had severe and
painful chronic health problems—and the drugs
burnt out his brain, leaving him as an invalid lunatic for the last decade of his life!
Drugs were the tragedy of Nietzsche’s downfall. nutildah is despicable—“WTF!?”-tier brain-damaged, ignorant, hallucinatory druggie
scum, listing Nietzsche as an example of how drugs are just so cool. And although I don’t usually question people’s merit-sending, it is
very clear in this case that suchmoon is such a lunatic.
Merited by suchmoon (4), strawbs (2), vapourminer (1), 600watt (1), sirazimuth (1), P_Shep (1), soullyG (1), OutOfMemory (1)warning: nullius-sized post follows; I tried my best to keep it engaging
[...hallucinatory illogic about how LSD, pot, shrooms, etc. improve your mind oh so much...]
As far as other drugs are concerned, some of the world's most famous inhabitants owe their inventions and works to them.
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Nietzsche - opium addict
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So the idea that doing drugs necessarily burns one's brain out is patently false.
Read a book:As the result of over-work, excessive indulgence in drugs, and a host of disappointments and anxieties, Nietzsche’s great mind at last collapsed on the 2nd or 3rd of January 1889, never again to recover.
The last words he wrote, which were subsequently found on a slip of paper in his study, throw more light upon the tragedy of his breakdown than all the learned medical treatises that have been written about his case. ‘I am taking narcotic after narcotic,’ he said, ‘in order to drown my anguish; but still I cannot sleep. To-day I will certainly take such a quantity as will drive me out of my mind.’
From that time to the day of his death (25th August 1900) he lingered a helpless and unconscious invalid, first in the care of his aged mother, and ultimately, when Elizabeth [Förster Nietzsche] returned a widow from Paraguay, as his sister’s beloved charge.
For an opinion of Nietzsche during his last phase I cannot do better than quote Professor Henri Lichtenberger of Nancy, who saw the invalid in 1898; and with this sympathetic Frenchman’s valuable observations, I shall draw this chapter to a close:—
‘In the gradual wane of this enthusiastic lover of life, of this apologist of energy, of this prophet of Superman there is something inexpressibly sad—inexpressibly beautiful and peaceful. His brow is still magnificent—his eyes, the light of which seems to be directed inwards, have an expression which is indefinably and profoundly moving. What is going on within his soul? Nobody can say. It is just possible that he may have preserved a dim recollection of his life as a thinker and a poet.’
nutildah owes Nietzsche an apology.
I just had to set the record straight about Nietzsche.
I have seen many ignorant fools dismiss Nietzsche’s philosophy on grounds that he was “crazy”, without knowing that he wasn’t crazy until
the drugs destroyed his brain. I have never before seen anybody so fantastically, psychotically stupid as to hold Nietzsche forth as an example of all the wondrous good that drugs have done.
I gave up on following WO sometime on Monday, as I became
increasingly preoccupied; and I will not waste my time untangling the illogic of nutildah’s brain-damaged transparent rationalizations, because:
I won’t deign seriously to argue with your druggie religion any more than I debate Christian evangelicals.
P.S., to avoid any whining about how I’m oh so much against freedom:
* I must emphasize another point here; for despite my
repeated statements of
my position (n.b. 2017 post), this red herring was thrown at me by WO’s local druggie crowd with their hallucinatory illogic:
Of course, I support and defend people’s right to harm themselves! Including by poisoning themselves with drugs. I just don’t fall for the false dichotomy that either you must support the tyranny of the War on Drugs, or you must pretend that drugs are a mostly harmless, and even beneficial recreation. Say what?
Freedom includes the freedom to commit suicide.Druggies, don’t whine. I am supporting your freedom to kill yourselves!
P.P.S., edit,
obiter dictum—from another author’s preface to the same book—to sum up why I despise democracy:
Nietzsche may have been right, therefore he may be unsuccessful. [...] ...the driving power behind democracy is not a political one, it is religious—it is Christianity.
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There [Napoleon] was another victim of democracy... The mighty sword in the beginning and the mighty pen at the end of the last century [1800s] were alike impotent against—Fate.
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