[kj] OT: Competition?

[The Exorcist]

Then he must've been a "Joker/Gatherer" at heart. There just wasn't a 
proper terminology for that
at his time. :)

At 06:04 AM 10/22/2008, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

>But jut 'cuz he says it's a saying from the militay school doesn't 

>mean he also doesn't think it shouldn't be applied generally. Many 

>people, or example, quote Sun Tzu for life philosophy-type mantras 

>that have nothing to do with their being a general on a battlefield. 

>Also, Carl Von Clausewitz wrote, "from the military school," the 

>famous saying, "War is politics conducted by other means." (from his 

>_Principals of War_)

>

>But it's debates like this, about what he REALLY meant, that make 

>Nietzsche who he is -- someone people still try to uncover what he 

>REALLY meant by such and such. Unlike philosophers like Bertrand 

>Russell, who wrote in such transparent, unambiguous language that 

>they just stated, explicirtly, what they really meant.

>

>Argue me, dammit, argue me!!!  :)  Neitzsche would love people doing 

>that over his stuff

>

>-Oliver

>

>Brendan wrote:

>>Nietzsche's quote, from memory, is prefixed with: "From the military school:"

>>

>>So it's not meant to be a truism about life. And yeah, I agree, he's

>>hugely contradictory at times, annoyingly so for someone who wrote so well

>>at his best.

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