...huh? A house divided falls, well, if the Universe is "the house" then being divided between good and evil would cause it fall, correct? Wouldn't this support that God and Satan, Good and Evil, are, in essence, the same?

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Not huffy at all, I should have used a smiley, sorry. I meant to convey that religion was man made and has nothing to do with God, God does not teach through religious dogma or books he teaches directly into the heart so no need for religion.

Not in the slightest, there are two opposing forces and one has won, once its the proper time there will be a seperation so that the bad apples dont spoil the bunch. God cannot seperate himself from himself, can you?

Okay, fair enough, however do you think there are evil people and good people? Do you think that there are people out there devoid of any good, and need to be seperated? Or does Good live beside Evil in everyone?

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Yes, the little green fist up there is a symbol of Earth First! No, I'm not an eco-terrorist, nor do I agree with eco-terrorism...I just thought it looked cool.

I've already explained my POV that answers all these questions in post #3, there really isn’t much more to say, Good and Evil is a simple concept IMO and I feel I have no misunderstanding of exactly how and why it needs to be this way.

You seem to misunderstand me. Man created Evil indeed, but he did so out of resentment to the Übermensch. And religion (and the whole idea of God) is a way to fight the Übermensch. He decided that the Übermensch was the "Evil", and thus, everything opposite of the Übermensch was "Good".

It's a master-slave morality really. The slave creates evil as a way to fight the master, and do this by standing together, and all agree that the master is Evil. Thus it is a reactionary morality, that was invented just to despise the Übermensch. Their concept of "Good" is just the opposite, or whatever is best for the "slaves".

Think about the Roman and Judean type, as Nietzsche said it. The Romans honoured the "Übermensch", and most of them were almost Übermensch themselves. The Judean type is the one you now bow to when you're in Rome; namely, the weak. You bow to Jesus Christ the Carpenter, Paul the carpet-maker and Peter the fisherman. What happened to the strong? Augustus, Cæsar, the great poets, the great sculpturers, the great musicians, the great writers, not to mention the great philosophers?

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[I]It is dangerous to be right in matters where the established society is wrong.[/I]

[I]God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.[/I]
- Henry Louis Mencken

Very good point, but would it be called Evil? In my interpretation of the word, "Evil" must be justified by something higher. I don't really see how one could do that prior to the idea of God. However, when people have justified Evil by God, I think it is possible to create evil without God posterior to that, as Evil is now already invented. Nietzsche said "God is dead", and in my opinion, Evil outlasted him.

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[I]It is dangerous to be right in matters where the established society is wrong.[/I]

[I]God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.[/I]
- Henry Louis Mencken

I don't see why evil should only be rooted in a feeling of inferiority or exploitation. Or even in a more or less real position of same. IMHO, evil would simply be a matter of perceiving anything deliberately harmful, including but not limited to anything involuntarily suppressive. The latter is most certainly a source of the perception of evil and, in that regard, Nietzsche was right.

*edited: the word "involuntarily" referring to the suppressed, of course - not the suppressor

Something higher than what? If you mean higher than the individual perceiving an act or intention of evil then I'd say you're sort of right. Evil is always justified in something higher but it needn't be of a religious nature. Something higher to the individual is family (and other close social ties), morals, society and ideology. All higher ideals being the source of altruism and therefore higher than any value the individual puts on his own life (including the case where his own life is part of a higher ideal). "Sort of right" because all higher ideals can't really be separated from the individual (no individual, no ideals) but that's an almost irrelevant issue.

No. Only one particular and notable definition there of.

Nietzsche is not beyond religion or morality. Nietzsche only predicates that upon the death of God, the proper locus of religion/morality is the self.

Ergo, any "evil" that was hitherto a component of religion (as you or others assert) changes nothing with Nietzsche since Nietzsche posits morality in the subjective individual (the Übermensch).

Apparently, 'evil' cannot be created nor destroyed - only changed in form.

"us & them" is a product of war, not the cause.

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No I think I understand your POV in this thread very well, you want to talk about what Nietzsche said and thought and I happen to think he is an idiot on this particular idea. Man did not create anything, ever, man only chooses what is available and Good and Evil are entities at opposite ends of the spectrum, one against the other. No yin yang BS, they do not peacefully co-exist and Good was before Evil and will be no matter if there is Evil or not. Man’s animal side is inherently selfish and thus Evil, he must learn control of his emotions and desires to be at peace with himself and others, if we were strictly animals without a soul we would only do what the laws of natures survival would require and there would be no choosing between Good and Evil, in fact there would be no choosing at all.

If you wish to quote philosophy then why not “ the only true knowledge man has is that he knows nothing”, that’s one of the few that rings true, most of Nietzsche’s writhing I have read are crap and have no truth in them and knowledge without truth is worthless mental masturbation. You seem to be one of those that thinks knowledge comes from reading books, I perfer to discuss what you think, personally I dont give a crap what Nietzsche thought or said.