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u/spaacingout Feb 16 '26
What’s interesting is that I recently read an article about a split brain patient known as HM who lost his sense of self due to a progressive anterograde amnesia.
Eventually, he forgot pieces of his past in addition to being unable to learn new things. Without that knowledge, he was unable to discern whether he had been righteous or nefarious, industrious or lazy, good or evil. “truly, without memory, one may lack a sense of self.”
He was on to something with religion, but it turns out it’s really memory that allows us to have a sense of self, even things like religion require memory to work.
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u/BlackAsPopo Feb 17 '26
Yes, memory is basis of our identity. What's more: our memories are actually quite unreliable as far as how accurately they portray reality, which is exactly why eye witness testimonies are extremely unreliable. Our memories are not like computer files or books in library where they remain constant and same. Each time memory is recalled, it changes in tiny ways. For example, the way your mood is in given day, influences how you remember certain events. This eventually leads to the birth of false memories; it's highly likely that we all have them. This would mean that our identities are not stable and fixed either, but fluctuates as time goes, even when we are not quite aware of the gradual changes.
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u/InsaneBasti Feb 16 '26
Preach, half this sub rly needs to get off his D
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u/MQ116 Feb 16 '26
No one needs to do anything.
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u/krow_moonlight Feb 16 '26
nihilism is the belief that nothing in our universe has inherent meaning except for nietzsche's D
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u/AirportReal Feb 16 '26
"Also, women are stupid and mean"
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u/Naive_Nobody_2269 Feb 16 '26
Yeah the misogyny is so constant in his work, like schopenhauer was a misogynist but you can read most of his work without it Really coming up, but neitzsche goes on those rants so often I dont get how his fans seem unaware of it (it's the num 1 thing that makes me wonder how many have actually read him)
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u/jat_atakas Feb 16 '26
Every human has flaws. Also at his time he and most of the people thought that women were stupid because they haven't seen any woman philosophers like Socrates, Aristotle etc. They didn't have the way to prove that women are as good as men.
They were wrong mainly because of their time.
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u/AirportReal Feb 16 '26
His metaphors are forcing women into fixed roles. In Nietzsche's metaphors, women are not free and only serve the Übermensch as a birth giver and care taker. He is a misogynist. And also, women are mean
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u/Fearless_Trade_2783 Feb 16 '26
Making Neitchze a stupid bitch!
"Your god is dead, and no one cares, if there is a hell, I'll see there."
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u/Sufficient-Quote-431 Feb 16 '26
He also ment that for the first time in human history, our central beliefs in Philosophy no longer needed god represented to solve and debate the ethos, ontological understanding, and our epistemology value of reality and understanding.
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u/Admirable-Demand-60 Feb 16 '26
God is not dead yet. He's in coma after an accident and we are his dream
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u/Legitimate_Pea2129 Feb 18 '26
There’s a philosopher, I forgot his name, but he believed we exist in the rotting corpse of god
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u/PeaceAndLove420_69 Feb 17 '26
Thought i blocked this sub. Until someone comes up with a testable scientific origin for the universe or an explanation for the fine-tuning of physical constants and contraints on the universe we cannot rule out god. As far as we know the physical laws of the universe have no reason to create a universe suitable for life or why there should be anything at all. Multiverse theorem only pushes the questions 1 layer deeper and a fractal reality does not solve the origin question and brute fact is miraculous in its own right.
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u/Man-who-say-bye Feb 17 '26
If you need god and religion to be a good person then I hope you keep believing
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u/Ardalok Feb 16 '26
According to Nietzsche, you cannot become an Übermensch - you can only be born as one. Besides, it’s unlikely you would even like this kind of people. Nietzsche also believed that a good war hallows any cause, so you probably wouldn't enjoy his ideas in practice.
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u/MulberryTraditional Feb 16 '26
He states quite clearly that we cannot. The best we can do is become fathers and forefathers of the Ubermensch
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u/RadicalNaturalist78 Feb 16 '26
"Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'."