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The Will To Power (via Dung)

April 1st, 2008 No Comments

Nietzsche (him again) wrote about the will to power and he was thinking about the brain.
But what if he had thought about the other end of the body? Now they’re saying you can turn horse shit into electricity.
The stables SUNY Cobleskill (a university in New York state) produce 20 tons of cow and horse shit [...]

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Nihilism - What’s The Point

March 27th, 2008 No Comments

Mister Poo sincerely asks. Nietzsche says nihilism is a “will to nothingness” and should be opposed. He calls it the poisoning of the human soul.

What do you think he meant?
Could he not face a world full of nothing, as Depeche Mode put it. Nietzsche always urged man to higher things but where is he now?
Dead, [...]

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Toilet Und Ubertoilet

March 26th, 2008 No Comments

“The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.”
This is what Friedrich Nietzsche said and this is a picture of a sewage treatment plant:

Being the kind of dude he was, Nietzsche probably wasn’t thinking of sewage treatment plants when he wrote that but who [...]

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Existentialism - What The Fuck?

March 22nd, 2008 No Comments

Some people say to me: “Mister Poo - what is existentialism really?”
I can only answer in vagueries for that is what it was all about. If Descartes (a Rationalist) said “I poo therefore I am”, Nietzsche (an Existentialist) said “This poo is only any good because I made it”.

Later on, Albert Camus (a Frenchman) said [...]

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