Have you ever googled Zarathustra?

[Deleted]

And wondered how ironical it is that the very first images shown are "thumbs up"? Philosophical but - you can do it

[Mihalik]

And wondered how ironical it is that the very first images shown are "thumbs up"? Philosophical but - you can do it

I'm confused. What are you trying to say here?

Yes, I know who Zoroaster (proto Jesus), but I'm not getting your whole thumb thing.

[Mistame]

Sounds like robotic tentacle hentai. I'll pass.

[Wildtree]

And wondered how ironical it is that the very first images shown are "thumbs up"? Philosophical but - you can do it

Not for me..

First image shown is that on the result page, right side

The prophet's image basically.

[Kalis]

I emailed him once and he told me that God is dead.

[Wildtree]

Thus spoke Zarathustra...

[Puri]

Yes, I have googled it often. Actually the first row of images is from "2001: A space odyssey", probably from my sci-fi searches. I wasn't aware he was considered to be a real person.

[patriothammer]

And wondered how ironical it is that the very first images shown are "thumbs up"? Philosophical but - you can do it

why do you want us to google that word?

[Celista]

Nietzsche's work is philosophical masturbation. An academic version of smelling one's own farts.

[ranzino]

Thus spoke Zarathustra...

I know that without Google. To be honest: everybody knows it; even without Stanley Kubrick movies, i guess

So let him speak....

[Puupi]

Gott ist tot! Also sprach Zarathrustra.

[ranzino]

Gott ist tot! Also sprach Zarathrustra.

oh, you know german ? AFAIK a difficult language to foreigners.

[Puupi]

oh, you know german ? AFAIK a difficult language to foreigners.

Of course I know German. I definitely am not fluent in it, but can hold a basic conversation, at least on a written level. Understanding spoken language is a bit hard. Studied it for a couple of years in high school about an eternity ago.

All Germanic languages are so similar that if you know one, you know them all... at least on a basic level. I have never taken a Dutch lesson or been to the Netherlands, yet I don't really have problems reading basic Dutch at all.

[ranzino]

Of course I know German. I definitely am not fluent in it, but can hold a basic conversation, at least on a written level. Understanding spoken language is a bit hard. Studied it for a couple of years in high school about an eternity ago.

All Germanic languages are so similar that if you know one, you know them all... at least on a basic level. I have never taken a Dutch lesson or been to the Netherlands, yet I don't really have problems reading basic Dutch at all.

Voluntary for fun and giggles or sort of mandatory in terms of "Thou shalt learn a foreign languages besides english" ?

To be honest: i applaud everybody who takes lessons in german and succeeds. even native germans fail in german grammar and orthography more often than not.

[Yvaelle]

Nietzsche's work is philosophical masturbation. An academic version of smelling one's own farts.

That's not really fair.

Yes, there is an oversized dose of ego and philosophical masturbation within Nietzsche's work, but it's also easily the most influential work of the last 150 years. Virtually all such philosophy of the modern era has basically been either agreement with - or rebuttal to - Nietzsche.

So it is philosophical masturbation absolutely, but it's also a lot more than that: whether you disagree or agree with him or his respondents.

It's influential masturbation

[Puupi]

Voluntary for fun and giggles or sort of mandatory in terms of "Thou shalt learn a foreign languages besides english" ?

To be honest: i applaud everybody who takes lessons in german and succeeds. even native germans fail in german grammar and orthography more often than not.

The mandatory languages you need to learn in Finland are Finnish, Swedish and one free of choice (usually the option is English, German and French), aka most take English. You can then learn additional languages. So I studied Finnish, Swedish, English - then I took Russian when I was in 8th grade (14 years old) and German in high school, took a couple of courses in Latin, too...just for shits n giggles though.

I'm interested in learning Chinese, I might get to that some day.

That's not really fair.

Yes, there is an oversized dose of ego and philosophical masturbation within Nietzsche's work, but it's also easily the most influential work of the last 150 years. Virtually all such philosophy of the modern era has basically been either agreement with - or rebuttal to - Nietzsche.

So it is philosophical masturbation absolutely, but it's also a lot more than that: whether you disagree or agree with him or his respondents.

It's influential masturbation

They had Nietzsche, we have Trump and his tweets.

[ranzino]

The mandatory languages you need to learn in Finland are Finnish, Swedish and one free of choice (usually the option is English, German and French), aka most take English. You can then learn additional languages. So I studied Finnish, Swedish, English - then I took Russian when I was in 8th grade (14 years old) and German in high school, took a couple of courses in Latin, too...just for shits n giggles though.

I'm interested in learning Chinese, I might get to that some day.

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Uuuh, that's why you beat us in PISA studies every time: your education is extraordinary good.