In Nietzsche’s “Beyond Good and Evil”, he questions our curiosity, saying that we rarely question the value of truth. He has a belief that he calls “faith in opposite values”, which is the belief that the world is divided into opposites, starting with the opposition of truth and false. Often our truths come from our influence and bias, and from our will to deceive; which is born from our falsehoods. Usually conscious thinking isn’t connected to instinct, Nietzsche however argues that most conscious thinking tends to be informed precisely by instinct.
In Nietzsche “The Death of God”, he is famously known for the stating that we have “murdered” God. I my essay, I will be using Nietzsche’s thoughts about truth to relate to his statement of God’s
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Everyone’s anatomical unconscious is more or less doing the same thing. We’re all doing the same thing, dreaming the same dream, we are one. However, this is something many people are too oblivious to see. God put us here on Earth for a purpose. The world runs based off of violence and it always has between humans, completely destroying all that God has made for us. In the words of Belinda Carlisle, who said “Heaven is a place on earth,” which she might’ve meant that the concept of a divine realm is not in the hereafter, but present now as a realm of being, achieved when we look beyond our material parameters and individualistic desires.
We are destroying everything God has created for us, why? Because we’re blind, and arrogant? All we want is more, never appreciating what we have- and all the beautiful nature! All the things we do to change the way we feel, the way the world looks and tastes, it’s got to go. So courage is necessary, to change yourself; the one thing you can change. God, however you conceptualize him- with your human mind, your individual brain, made up of instinctive responses- however you conceptualize a power, that’s beyond you and the decisions you’ve made so far. Your conception will be extremely