Posts by DeusMauzzim

i'd say an average of 50 posters are logged on jwd right now....and probably an additional 100 more that aren't members that are reading here right now.. what's your guess?.

Why Are You Looking Forward to Armageddon?

by Honesty in

armegeddon has finally happened.i am sitting in my dorm room at bethel watching the total destruction of new york city.

the skyline of manhattan is in flames, here in brooklyn, not a building is standing.

hundreds of corpses lie about the street.

DeusMauzzim

Why Am I Looking Forward to Armageddon?

Because soon, very soon, I shall see the apostates crawling on the streets amidst the burning ruins of the old system of things, clinging to their miserable godless lives, while the birds of heaven slice open their bellies and start picking at their intestines. Then, the pioneer militias armed with crude swords will approach slowly. I will be one of them. We will stand around the apostate who is begging us to end his existence for ever. After saying a prayer to our mercyful and true God, I will end his suffering, and to the lake of fire he goes!

The meek shall inherit the earth!

- Deus Mauzzim

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Secular theology

by DeusMauzzim in

modernity - nietzsche's prophetic age of nihilism:.

we have come to know that the bible can not be taken literally anymore.

we have come to know that the unity of the bible is a myth.

DeusMauzzim

@SandraC:

Could you give a reference for that etymology? Never heard of it...

Regards,

Deus Mauzzim

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Secular theology

by DeusMauzzim in

modernity - nietzsche's prophetic age of nihilism:.

we have come to know that the bible can not be taken literally anymore.

we have come to know that the unity of the bible is a myth.

DeusMauzzim

@quitetlyleaving

Yes there is definately a connection. Nietzsche had much sympathy for Jesus and saw him as 'a failed attempt for a European buddhism' (because of the mess Paul made after him theologically :) He also said that 'the last christian died on the cross'

Regards,

Deus Mauzzim

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Secular theology

by DeusMauzzim in

modernity - nietzsche's prophetic age of nihilism:.

we have come to know that the bible can not be taken literally anymore.

we have come to know that the unity of the bible is a myth.

DeusMauzzim

@ Quitetlyleaving

I can't do better than quote the first lines of the wikipedia article on Nihilism for "what it is, anyway":

Nihilism (from the Latinnihil, nothing) is a philosophical position which argues that the world, especially past and current human existence, is without objective meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value. Nihilists generally assert some or all of the following: there is no reasonable proof of the existence of a higher ruler or creator, a "true morality" does not exist, and secular ethics are impossible; therefore, life has no truth, and no action can be preferable to any other.

Yes, a very depressive position. No wonder people like Nietzsche went mad

Nietzsche used the term "nihilism" to describe the time after the famous "death of God". By the way Nietzsche, did not mean this litterally, but as the shattering of the cultural concept of God in the 19th century, by the "knives" of science. God had been the "greatest thing ever made by mankind", the focal point for all values, truth and purpose in life. With the death of God, these three have also disappeared. But wait, people didn't go mad globally after the 19th century! That is (according to Nietzsche) because people live as if God and with Him values, truth and purpose are still all there, they just call it differently (nationalism, positivism, ideologies in general). These are the shadows of God. Those are still around even today.

Heidegger's basic critique on western philosophy and science was that in all it's modification of being (Sein) for technological improvement, it has forgotten to ask what being itself is, it just skipped that question conveniently (Seinsvergessenheit). In this sense, western metaphysics is nihilistic: it has always forgotten to ask what being is in itself. Heidegger's philosophy is one great attempt to find the answer to this question (cf Heideggers analysis of truth (greek aletheia) which is a-letheia 'un-forgetting' (think of the river Lethe) : Remembering that which is forgotten, which is being itself)

Kind Regards,

Deus Mauzzim

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I have fallen in love with Eclipse...

by DeusMauzzim in

jw
friends

...or at least... her avatar .

she will post here in 3 secs so you can admire it :).

- deus mauzzim.

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...or at least... her Avatar

She will post here in 3 secs so you can admire it :)

- Deus Mauzzim

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Literal Death of God... what do you think?

by DeusMauzzim in

anyone here ever did some research on the "death of god" theological movement in the sixties, connected with names as altizer and van buren?.

summary: the central idea is that god existed once, but literally died for us, emptying himself in the creation of the world, and later completely on the stauros.

as he gave himself without holding anything back, there has been no resurrection as in mainstream theology (radical kenoma).

DeusMauzzim

@ Sarah Smiles:

Well! I still believe that there is only one true Almighty God and his son Jesus Christ and all the past poetic, mystical, kabala, and evolution writings can not compare to the bible and GOD Almighty words. As a matter of fact, I do not even think mystical writings are as good as daily comic strips.

Assertions, no reasoning. By the way what "mystical writings" do you mean? All books except the bible?

Your fooling yourself by trying to convince yourself the writings are equal or better than the bible! I just laugh about it! I hooohumm them and shrug my shoulders and go right back to a good bible topic! I think mystical writings are not even as good as well the Harry Potter series. The bible on the other, you can read it over and over and still learn something new.

Ad hominem argument, superiority argument, assertions, no reasoning.

Literal Death of God...Almighty God lives forever...false gods,mystical writings, are just sticks and stones and I do not care about them.

Then why do you post on this topic?

shocking, it is a choice. Most of these people have never read the bible! One does need to read the bible to make some sort of conclusions regarding God after all that is where he is known all those other books are false.

That's why "these people" hold university positions etc: they just never read the bible! (for your convenience: this is irony) As for me, I read it in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. Sorry if this sounds arrogant but this sort of sweeping statements really piss me off, thank you. By the way, do you even know what the documentary hypothesis is? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis)

I can not understand people who walk away from churches and from God Almighty? When someone reads mystical writings to find God it is just silly! Your only fooling yourself.

Perhaps you should READ more then. Again assertions, ad hominem arguments.

I think mystical writings falls under turning against the holy spirit.

Interesting hermeneutics

Dear Sarah Smiles: Did you leave the Witnesses only recently? You still sound like one of them: crude, judgemental, illogical, simplistic. Just because you don't "understand people" who have thought and read more than you doesn't mean you are free to judge them.

Kind Regards,

Deus Mauzzim

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Secular theology

by DeusMauzzim in

modernity - nietzsche's prophetic age of nihilism:.

we have come to know that the bible can not be taken literally anymore.

we have come to know that the unity of the bible is a myth.

DeusMauzzim

Modernity - Nietzsche's prophetic age of Nihilism:

We have come to know that the bible can not be taken literally anymore

We have come to know that the unity of the bible is a myth

We have come to know that we arose through the process of evolution.

We have come to know that in all likelyhood we do not live on after we die.

There will probably come a time that, like every species, the human race must go extinct.

Science gave us these answers that we cannot ignore. Science knows of no sacred things. Our universe has become radically profane.

The traditional language about God has quite literally become meaningless to us. We even suspect He is not there at all.

We live in the light of already extinguished stars (Nietzsche, fragments)

And in all this existential angst , even atheistic nihilists like myself look up to the image of Jesus on the stauros, his arms stretched out to embrace all of humanity, even in his hour of suffering.

Can there be a theology without God?

Can one stand before God in unbelief?

What of those who want to believe, but cannot? (Antonius Block in The Seventh Seal)

- Deus Mauzzim

de profundis clamavi ad te domine / domine exaude vocem meam