A few weeks before going completely insane, and even in seeming premonition of that occurrence, Friedrich Nietzsche completed the final revisions to what would be his last original book, Ecce Homo, a brilliant retrospective of his life and work, completed in 1888 but not published for another ten years. He signed it, “Dionysus versus the Crucified,” thus affirming the centrality of the Dionysian to his life’s work, a notion that appeared in his first book and which would recur in some form in everything he ever wrote.
Month: August 2019
The Book of Job, pt. 2
Part 1 of this series covered much of the background of the Book of Job, some matters of translation, and the first two chapters, which cover much of the story of the book as it is commonly told. From here we’ll proceed through the parts of the story that have remained largely untold.
The Book of Job, pt. 1
The Book of Job, which relates the story of a devout and wealthy man from the land of Uz whose devotion to God is tested by profound suffering, is easily the most fascinating and enigmatic book of the Old Testament. In looking into it, I found that, once again, what is said of the text and what the text actually says are two very different things.
A Satanist Makes a Podcast
As you may already know if you’ve been following this blog, I’ve turned A Satanist Reads the Bible into a podcast.
Pluralism in the Qur’an
I think that Samuel Huntington is right and that the West and the Islamic world are in the midst of a clash of civilizations. But I don’t think that’s what Islam really is. I don’t think that that’s what the Qur’an says that Islam is, and that’s the source I take to be most authoritative in this matter.
Belief and Identity
My partner and I recently watched the movie Behind the Curve, a documentary about modern flat Earth societies. What has remained with me most strongly was that the flat Earth hypothesis is not only what the various flat-Earthers documented in the film believe, but also a core component of their identities as persons.