THE EVIL HOUR

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- One of the figures identifies himself only as A; the other identifies himself only as N. "The vile creature before you is called S," A explains. "You are well-trained in the power of Verse," N adds. "By choosing your words carefully, you may yet break this daemon's spell before its poisonous words give way to waking poison at the break of day. But mark that careless answers will save you nothing!" N and A each present Z with a book that might be help him overcome S. Time passes... >[[Further reading->Poetry comment]] >[[Examine N's book->Meet N]] >[[Examine A's book->Meet A]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "You do not know me," N continues, "but I am well acquainted with you. I am a child of tomorrow building on today, but tonight I meet you yesterday." Consider the verses in Friedrich Nietzsche's work The Joyful Wisdom, and recite them at a time when you stand in most need of influence over such nefarious spirits as the one before you. Time passes... [if !trail.includes('Meet A')] >[[Meet A<-Examine A's book]] [else] >[[examineBooks<-Choose a book]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "Lies abound from your enemies," A explains, "and from the enemies of all that is good. For your own sake, read True Religion by Augustine of Hippo, and keep its verses close, that you may recite from memory some glimpses of the truth when the father of lies hurls accusations at you in your evil hour. Time passes... [if !trail.includes('Meet N')] >[[Meet N<-Examine N's book]] [else] >[[examineBooks<-Choose a book]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- Considering the brief introductions of his newly found allies, Z contemplates which of the books he will choose to assist him in defense against the mysterious spirit before him. Does he listen to A, and take True Religion by someone called Augustine of Hippo? Or does Z listen rather to N, taking The Joyful Wisdom written by a Friedrich Nietzsche? Time passes... >[[Choose A's book->chooseTrueReligion]] >[[Choose N's book->chooseGayScience]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- Z takes and opens True Religion. However, he only leafs through a few pages of the book before a haunting song echoes out of the void before him: "What does it matter if you choose one or the other?" the bird taunts. "What difference could you possibly make?" Time passes... >[[Hear the bird's complaint->S Accusation 1]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- Z takes and opens The Joyful Wisdom. However, he only leafs through a few pages of the book before a haunting song echoes out of the void before him: "What does it matter if you choose one or the other?" the bird taunts. "What difference could you possibly make?" Time passes... >[[Hear the bird's complaint->S Accusation 1]]

config.footer.center: "" -- With S's last cry of defeat still ringing in your ears, husband and wife exchange weary looks with each other, silently wishing that fortune was not demanding such an imminent departure. Unknowing of what the dawn may bring, you see Z out of your humble abode, that he might escape the hemlock reserved for heretics by the Council. You embrace, and Z begins his solitary trek into the security of obscurity... <a href="./resources/references.html">-----FIN-----</a>

time (time === 0): "None" time: time - wakeIncrement -- You open your eyes to find yourself laying next to your husband, who remains as unconscious as he was when you went to bed. As you reflect upon the meaning of such a vivid dream, Z's sweat and tremors bespeak a terrible nightmare of his own. No matter how forcefully you shake him, he does not wake! His seems to be no ordinary dream... As a skilled priestess, you have mastered the power of Re-Verse, which enables you to divine the content of his vision. You elect to use this power. Time passes... [if trail.includes('chooseGayScience')] >[[Enter Z's dream->chooseTrueReligion]] [else] >[[Enter Z's dream->chooseGayScience]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "Well chosen, Z," A responds. "The neighbor is always with us; it is only by making God and the neighbor as such into the objects of our love that our love can overcome and outlast the trials of the world. This is certainly one aspect of the blessed state toward which we aim, however dimly we may understand it in the present moment." Time passes... >[[Listen to N's response->Nietzsche Response 4]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S retreats ever so slightly, and the great bird's stature becomes just a hint less foreboding. "A suitable choice, Z," N adds. "It is indeed true that many teachers of various ideals have come and gone, only for their messages to be washed away among the sands of carelessness. But the priests' method of salvation through proliferation of heavy burdens is not the only path available to our kind." Time passes... >[[Listen to A's response->Augustine Response 1]]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "Indeed," A responds, "a lighthearted approach would prove itself in greater concordance with the Truth! Jesus tells us in the Gospels that his burden is light (Matthew 11:30). Such a burden is more promising than heavy idols fashioned from eroding stone, and even priests need not always restrict themselves to the latter." Time passes... >[[Further reading->Augustine Reflection 1]] >[[Let the dialogue continue->S Accusation 2]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S retreats ever so slightly, and the great bird's stature becomes just a hint less foreboding. "A suitable passage!" A affirms. "Jesus' teaching can succeed where other ideals have failed, making noble ideals accessible to many whose receptivity for Platonic wisdom might otherwise prove scarce. Such ideals can and do make a difference!" Time passes... >[[Listen to N's response->Nietzsche Response 1]]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "It may be," N adds, "that commoners could be capable of grasping such ideals just as well as the priests and philosophers who have hitherto been their most insistent advocates. But rather than dragging everyone into contemplation of the imaginary, why not rather find nobility in an ordinary freedom from such otherworldly obsessions?" Time passes... >[[Further reading->Nietzsche Reflection 1]] >[[Let the dialogue continue->S Accusation 2]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S winces in frustration. "Well said, Z," N replies. "This bird rightly observes that we do not reach the ideals at which we gaze. However, it omits an important detail in its dire assessment of our dear species, namely that it is the very distance of such ideals which make them so apparently worthy of our devotion! If we were to achieve them, they would immediately reveal themselves as less than we had imagined. It is to our credit that we fall short of losing ourselves to such idols!" Time passes... >[[Listen to A's response->Augustine Response 2]]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "We humans," A adds, "do have a habit of making good things bad for us, when we accord created things the love that is properly reserved for the Creator. However, such mistakes do not negate the goodness proper to those things, nor do false gods discount the authority of the true God! N is right to rebuke S, but I would not go so far as to discount all ideals as idols alike." Time passes... >[[Further reading->Augustine Reflection 2]] >[[Let the dialogue continue->S Accusation 3]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S winces in frustration. "You have chosen your words well," A responds. This awful creature acts as if the shortfalls of our kind are something substantial, when in reality, evil is only an absence or lack of the good. Evil only occurs as parasitic upon the good; we humans may sin, but we would not exist had we not been among God's good creations!" Time passes... >[[Listen to N's response->Nietzsche Response 2]]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "It is true that evil is insubstantial," N answers A, "but consider whether goodness and evil alike might find their standard in the eye of their beholders, rather than the creator of whom you speak. It is we who beautify nature and ourselves, as an artist beautifies a landscape! Such beautification can be advantageous, as we find when facing such predators as the beastly bird before us." Time passes... >[[Further reading->Nietzsche Reflection 2]] >[[Let the dialogue continue->S Accusation 3]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S glares at Z. "A verse well chosen, Z," N responds. "The illusions which have been held up as ideals have hitherto held our species in subjection, but the time has come for these idols to be put to the test. We know not what the result of this trial will be, but free spirits such as ourselves may yet free themselves from our species' habitual fixation on the otherworldly. This is a most curious path we find before us." Time passes... >[[Listen to A's response->Augustine Response 3]]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "Take caution," A warns Z. "N may be testing our ideals in search of truth, but he ought to keep this in mind should he ever venture to put truth itself to that test. Without truth, there is neither error nor experimentation as such. In casting off errors, then, N would be wise not to cast off the standard of truth itself." Time passes... >[[Further reading->Augustine Reflection 3]] >[[Let the dialogue continue->S Accusation 4]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S glares at Z. "You have chosen your response well, Z," A responds. "By moving away from the love of particular creatures and approaching closer toward a proper love of God, we can make a step in the right direction, away from the bondage which springs from an idolatrous love of created things." Time passes... >[[Listen to N's response->Nietzsche Response 3]]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "What differentiates A's god," N inquires, "as any less man-made than the parade of idols preceding it? One's idea of "God" is ever itself a part of creation; it is but a passing breeze which will fade out of existence with passing theological trends. Z, you would do well to overcome the idol of A's religion as surely as you overcome its less fashionable rivals in their various attempts to subdue your spirit." Time passes... >[[Further reading->Nietzsche Reflection 3]] >[[Let the dialogue continue->S Accusation 4]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "You have chosen your response well," N responds. "The one who would overcome even this winged creature before us, overcomes the world through a love of fate. The state toward which we aim is characterized by an affirmation of the actual above all idols and ideals, come what may." Time passes... >[[Listen to A's response->Augustine Response 4]]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "You are striking near to the truth, N," A adds. "Proper love would dictate that we embrace all of creation as an expression of the Creator, just as we might appreciate the entirety of a song as an expression of its composer! To fixate on one note to the exclusion of all the others, as to fixate upon one idol to the exclusion of the rest of Creation, is one bad habit which would surely be remedied in the improved state for which we strive." Time passes... >[[Further reading->Augustine Reflection 4]] [if trail.includes('Listen to Sophia') && time !== "None"] >[[Defeat S and awaken->Win]] [continue] [if trail.includes('Listen to Sophia') && time === "None"] >[[Defeat S and awaken->Lose]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Listen to Sophia')] >[[Let the dialogue continue->S Defeated 4]] [continue]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "If you are simply to love everything," S scoffs, "then does it not follow that you are to love me? Do you truly think you can overcome me with such an absurd tactic?" "Our encounter has taught me much," Z answers. "I thank you for your service, regardless of your mixed motivations." "AAAAArrrrghhhh!" S cries, dissolving into the dreamscape's twilit horizon. Time passes... >[[Further reading->Stoic comment]] >[[Wake up->Listen to Sophia]]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "You approach wisdom here," N answers A, "as the destination of our transformation is characterized by an ability to affirm the multiplicity of one's lifelong encounters even in an eternal recurrence! A spirit in such a state can will the infinite repetition of the entire cosmic order, loving and even willing it never the less. Such a love need not be of 'God and neighbor,' but is truly of life itself." Time passes... >[[Further reading->Nietzsche Reflection 4]] [if trail.includes('Listen to Sophia') && time !== "None"] >[[Defeat S and awaken->Win]] [continue] [if trail.includes('Listen to Sophia') && time === "None"] >[[Defeat S and awaken->Lose]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Listen to Sophia')] >[[Let the dialogue continue->S Defeated 4]] [continue]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "You tried to teach the people and the youth against the Council's wishes, did you?" S begins. "Do you think yourself capable of building an impossible bridge between sheep and shepherds? What could you matter, given the irrelevance of your manifold predecessors in their vain attempts to draw your species' attention up above the earth?" Time passes... >[[Further reading->History comment]] [if (trail.includes('chooseGayScience') && (!trail.includes('Listen to Sophia') || trail.includes('chooseTrueReligion')))] >[[Respond to the bird->Nietzsche Options 1]] [else] >[[Respond to the bird->Augustine Options 1]] [continue]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "You have certainly exerted yourself," S muses, "in order to muster some hope that your pitiable species might after all bridge that gulf between those who know and those who merely opine. Even if such a division within humanity can be bridged, however, will there not remain a deeper gulf between humanity and the good? What could you and your ideals matter if your species is perpetually forced away from them by the enduring obstacle of its own wretched bodily nature?" Time passes... >[[Further reading->Dualism comment]] [if (trail.includes('chooseGayScience') && (!trail.includes('Listen to Sophia') || trail.includes('chooseTrueReligion')))] >[[Answer the beast's accusation->Nietzsche Options 2]] [else] >[[Answer the beast's accusation->Augustine Options 2]] [continue]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "Suppose you and your friends are right," S continues, "and your kind's enduring folly is something less than an insurmountable obstacle. If you recognize that transformation is necessary, then what is the direction in which your wretched species must turn to correct its course? What do you matter without any compass indicating the right direction or path to pursue?" Time passes... >[[Further reading->Troubadour comment]] [if (trail.includes('chooseGayScience') && (!trail.includes('Listen to Sophia') || trail.includes('chooseTrueReligion')))] >[[Answer the bird->Nietzsche Options 3]] [else] >[[Answer the bird->Augustine Options 3]] [continue]

time (time === 0): "None" config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- "The three of you," S continues, "seem to have put some thought into the direction which might lead to the transformation you seek. Yet, even if it be true that you do have a direction, what could you possibly matter if you lack access to knowledge of your destination? Have you considered whether such knowledge might lie hidden beyond this life?" Time passes... >[[Further reading->Meno comment]] [if (trail.includes('chooseGayScience') && (!trail.includes('Listen to Sophia') || trail.includes('chooseTrueReligion')))] >[[Respond to S->Nietzsche Options 4]] [else] >[[Respond to S->Augustine Options 4]] [continue]

<audio src="./resources/EvilHourOpening.mp3" autoplay></audio> THE EVIL HOUR Written by Benny Mattis >[[Begin->crisis]]

config.footer.center: "Moments remaining until dawn: {time}" -- Having returned home early after the longest day of his career, Z lays himself down for what he thinks will be a brief rest—but a mysterious bird appears before him in the midst of his twilight. The winged creature resembles a swan, but its face bears an uncanny human likeness. As it locks eyes with Z, the dim colors behind it disappear into an abyssal expanse. Heeding the beast's wordless invitation, Z approaches step by step as it retreats further into the beyond. Suddenly, Z's shoulders are grabbed on either side by what feel like human hands! His attention is wrenched the swan's hypnotic gaze to the concerned faces of the two figures holding him back. One is called N; the other is called A. Time passes... >[[Further reading->Socrates comment]] >[[Attend to the figures->Enter N and A]]

Z recalls the passages he leafed through in True Religion. Which verse does Z recite in response to the accusation that he is no different from the countless ineffective priests and philosophers who preceded him? >[[Recall section 4,6->Augustine Verse 1A]] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 1B')] >[[Recall section 20,38-20,39->Augustine Verse 1B]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 1C')] >[[Recall section 39,72-39,73->Augustine Verse 1C]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 1D')] >[[Recall section 22,42-43->Augustine Verse 1D]] [continue]

Z recalls the passages he leafed through in The Joyful Wisdom. Which verse does Z recite in response to the accusation that he is no different from the countless ineffective priests and philosophers who preceded him? >[[Section 56->Nietzsche Verse 1A]] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 1B')] >[[Section 79->Nietzsche Verse 1B]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 1C')] >[[Section 110->Nietzsche Verse 1C]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 1D')] >[[Section 276->Nietzsche Verse 1D]] [continue]

Z recalls the passages he leafed through in The Joyful Wisdom. Which verse does Z recite in order to answer the accusation that an unbridgeable gap and immovable obstacle blocks his species from overcoming its imperfection? [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 2A')] >[[Section 56->Nietzsche Verse 2A]] [continue] >[[Section 79->Nietzsche Verse 2B]] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 2C')] >[[Section 110->Nietzsche Verse 2C]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 2D')] >[[Section 276->Nietzsche Verse 2D]] [continue]

Z recalls the passages he leafed through in The Joyful Wisdom. Which verse does Z recite in order to answer S's accusation of directionlessness? [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 3A')] >[[Section 56->Nietzsche Verse 3A]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 3B')] >[[Section 79->Nietzsche Verse 3B]] [continue] >[[Section 110->Nietzsche Verse 3C]] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 3D')] >[[Section 276->Nietzsche Verse 3D]] [continue]

Z recalls the passages he leafed through in The Joyful Wisdom. Which verse does Z recite in order to answer the accusation that he has no idea of what goodness might look like? [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 4A')] >[[Section 56->Nietzsche Verse 4A]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 4B')] >[[Section 79->Nietzsche Verse 4B]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 4C')] >[[Section 110->Nietzsche Verse 4C]] [continue] >[[Section 276->Nietzsche Verse 4D]]

Z recalls the passages he leafed through in True Religion. Which verse does Z recite in order to answer the accusation that an unbridgeable gap and immovable obstacle blocks his species from overcoming its imperfection? [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 2A')] >[[Recall section 4,6->Augustine Verse 2A]] [continue] >[[Recall section 20,38-20,39->Augustine Verse 2B]] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 2C')] >[[Recall section 39,72-39,73->Augustine Verse 2C]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 2D')] >[[Recall section 22,42-43->Augustine Verse 2D]] [continue]

Z recalls the passages he leafed through in True Religion. Which verse does Z recite in order to answer S's accusation of directionlessness? [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 3A')] >[[Recall section 4,6->Augustine Verse 3A]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 3B')] >[[Recall section 20,38-20,39->Augustine Verse 3B]] [continue] >[[Recall section 39,72-39,73->Augustine Verse 3C]] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 3D')] >[[Recall section 22,42-43->Augustine Verse 3D]] [continue]

Z recalls the passages he leafed through in True Religion. Which verse does Z recite in order to answer the accusation that he has no idea of what goodness might look like? [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 4A')] >[[Recall section 4,6->Augustine Verse 4A]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 4B')] >[[Recall section 20,38-20,39->Augustine Verse 4B]] [continue] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 4C')] >[[Recall section 39,72-39,73->Augustine Verse 4C]] [continue] >[[Recall section 22,42-43->Augustine Verse 4D]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "At the time when rhythm was introduced into speech … people wanted to have the advantage of the elementary conquest which man experiences in himself when he hears music: rhythm is a constraint; it produces an unconquerable desire to yield, to join in; not only the step of the foot, but also the soul itself follows the measure … They attempted, therefore, to constrain the Gods by rhythm and to exercise a power over them." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 84 >[[Back->Enter N and A]]

config.footer.center: "" -- "I believe that as [swans] belong to Apollo, they are prophetic, have knowledge of the future and sing blessings of the underworld, sing and rejoice [when they realize that they must die] beyond what they did before." -Socrates, in Plato’s Phaedo 85a-b >[[Back->crisis]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "We should distinguish two manners of ‘being opposed to something’: the first consists in negating the other’s opinion, the second in affirming something else. For this first type of opposition, the distinction entails a limitation of the other’s opinion or argument; the attempt ‘to restrict’ — exactly what Socrates does when he opposes a Sophist — limits the latter’s adverse argumentation in order to introduce his own thesis. Socrates reacts against other points of view. The second approach, on the contrary, is active and assertive: its difference from the other argument becomes the object of jouissance and affirmation. Following Nietzsche, I will term the first type a reactive force and the second an active force." -L’Hermitte, "The Troubadours Through the Eyes of Nietzsche," p. 115 >[[Back->S Accusation 3]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "What would it be for love to overcome the sickness that Nietzsche sees in Western civilization: its obssession with escaping suffering and loss and the whole religion of comfortableness? This is a challenge posed by Nietzsche to the modern world that he did so much to bring into being — a challenge that has yet to be seriously addressed." -May, Love: A History, p. 198 >[[Back->S Defeated 4]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "Either we can never attain knowledge or we can do so after death. Then and not before, the soul is by itself apart from the body." -Socrates, in Plato's Phaedo 67a >[[Back->S Accusation 4]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "Both [Augustine and Nietzsche's Zarathustra] speak in riddles and refrains and in song, and both self-consciously address a public—Nietzsche with his book for all and none and Augustine with his attention to the watching eyes of both his audience and his God … and both are messianic, apocalyptic, and prophetic. Finally, Zarathustra and Augustine both seek and question things of the earth while also seeking to climb higher than the earth." -Kennel, "Periodization and Providence," p. 105 >[[Back->S Accusation 1]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "Implicit in the Platonic ideal of truth ... is a conception of the body as a contamination, which the soul must control and ultimately transcend in order to attain the purity of thought necessary for true knowledge." -Schott, Cognition and Eros, p. 4 >[[Back->S Accusation 2]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "Places offer us things to love, times snatch away the things we do love and leave behind in the soul a crowd of jostling fancies to stir up its greed for one thing after another. In this way the spirit is made restless and wretched, as it longs to hold the things it is held by. It is being summoned, accordingly, to stillness, that is, not to set its heart on things which you cannot set your heart on without hard labor … My yoke, he says, is light (Mt. 11:30)." -Augustine, True Religion 35,65 >[[Back->Augustine Response 1]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "Falsehood does not arise from things themselves’ being deceptive, since all they show the senses is their proper looks … Nor does it arise from the senses themselves’ being deceptive … But it is sins that deceive souls, when they go seeking what is true after forsaking and neglecting Truth." -Augustine, True Religion 36,67 >[[Back->Augustine Response 2]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "Everyone who understands that he has doubts is understanding something true, and he is certain about this thing that he understands. He is certain therefore about something true. So then, everyone who has doubts about whether there is such a thing as truth has something true in himself about which he cannot have any doubts, and there cannot be anything true except with truth. And so, one who has been able to have doubts about anything has no business to have doubts about truth." -Augustine, True Religion 39,73 >[[Back->Augustine Response 3]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "Just as some people perversely love the verse more than the art itself by which the verse is composed...in the same way many prefer time-bound things, while they give no thought to the divine providence which establishes and governs times, and in their preference for things of time they are unwilling to go beyond what they love and are in fact behaving as absurdly as if someone in the recitation of some well-known poem wanted to listen to just one single syllable all the time." -Augustine, True Religion 22,42 >[[Back->Augustine Response 4]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "What then makes a person ‘noble?’ … It has been the rare in man, and the unconsciousness of this rareness, that has made men noble. Here, however, let us consider that everything ordinary, immediate, and indispensable, in short, what has been most preservative of the species, and generally the rule in mankind hitherto, has been judged unreasonable and calumniated in its entirety by this standard, in favour of the exceptions. To become the advocate of the rule—that may perhaps be the ultimate form and refinement on which nobility of character will reveal itself on earth." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 55 >[[Back->Nietzsche Response 1]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "We do not always restrain our eyes from rounding off and perfecting in imagination: and then it is no longer the eternal imperfection that we carry over the river of Becoming—for we think we carry a goddess, and are proud and artless in rendering this service. As an æsthetic phenomenon existence is still endurable to us; and by Art, eye and hand and above all the good conscience are given to us, to be able to make such a phenomenon out of ourselves." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 107 >[[Back->Nietzsche Response 2]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "Christianity also has made a great contribution to enlightenment, and has taught moral scepticism in a very impressive and effective manner—accusing and embittering, but with untiring patience and subtlety … We have applied the same scepticism to all religious states and processes, such as sin, repentance, grace, sanctification, &c." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 122 >[[Back->Nietzsche Response 3]]

config.footer.center: "" time (time !== "None"): time + 1 -- "What if a demon crept after thee into thy loneliest loneliness some day or night, and said to thee: 'This life, as thou livest it at present, and hast lived it, thou must live it once more, and also innumerable times' … How wouldst thou have to become favourably inclined to thyself and to life, so as to long for nothing more ardently than for this last eternal sanctioning and sealing?" -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 341 >[[Back->Nietzsche Response 4]]

"If those men had been able to live this life again with us, they would have seen immediately to whose authority people could more easily turn for such advice, and, with a few changes here and there in their words and assertions, they would have become Christians, as indeed several Platonists have done in recent times and in our own days." -Augustine, True Religion 4,7 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Claim 1]] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 1B') || !trail.includes('Augustine Error 1C') || !trail.includes('Augustine Error 1D')] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 1]]

"The fault of the soul … is what it has done, and the distress ensuing from the fault is the punishment it suffers. And that is the sum total of evil. Now, doing and suffering are not subsistent realities, and for this reason evil is not a subsistent reality either … The evil lies in the superstition which has the creature being served instead of the creator. This evil will quite simply cease to be when the soul on acknowledging the creator submits itself to him, the one God" -Augustine, True Religion 20,39 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Error 1B]] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 1]]

"Because we have come down to the things of time and are being restrained by loving them from reaching the things of eternity … We have to try and make use of the flesh-bound shapes, by which we are being held back, to come to a knowledge of those which the flesh does not present us with. The ones, I mean, which I am calling flesh-bound are those which can be perceived through the flesh, that is through the eyes, the ears and the rest of the body’s senses." -Augustine, True Religion 24,45 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Error 1C]] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 1]]

"You are only overcome when what you love is snatched from your hand by your opponent. So, if you only love what cannot be snatched out of its lover’s hand, you undoubtedly remain unbeaten … What you are loving is God with your whole heart and your whole soul and your whole mind, and your neighbor as yourself." -Augustine, True Religion 46,86 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Error 1D]] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 1]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "Pontificate however you'd like as to the nature of evil," S responds, "but what makes you think it will make any more of a difference than any of the priests and philosophers who came before you?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 1]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "Your curriculum may cover all the bases," S responds, "but how could it matter if your students are truant?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 1]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "What difference can one unbeaten winner make," S responds, "if they are misunderstood by their fellows and summarily erased by the sands of time in the wake of their passing?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 1]]

"If those men had been able to live this life again with us, they would have seen immediately to whose authority people could more easily turn for such advice, and, with a few changes here and there in their words and assertions, they would have become Christians, as indeed several Platonists have done in recent times and in our own days." -Augustine, True Religion 4,7 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Error 2A]] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 2]]

"The fault of the soul … is what it has done, and the distress ensuing from the fault is the punishment it suffers. And that is the sum total of evil. Now, doing and suffering are not subsistent realities, and for this reason evil is not a subsistent reality either … The evil lies in the superstition which has the creature being served instead of the creator. This evil will quite simply cease to be when the soul on acknowledging the creator submits itself to him, the one God" -Augustine, True Religion 20,39 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Claim 2]] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 2A') || !trail.includes('Augustine Error 2C') || !trail.includes('Augustine Error 2D')] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 2]]

"Because we have come down to the things of time and are being restrained by loving them from reaching the things of eternity … We have to try and make use of the flesh-bound shapes, by which we are being held back, to come to a knowledge of those which the flesh does not present us with. The ones, I mean, which I am calling flesh-bound are those which can be perceived through the flesh, that is through the eyes, the ears and the rest of the body’s senses." -Augustine, True Religion 24,45 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Error 2C]] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 2]]

"You are only overcome when what you love is snatched from your hand by your opponent. So, if you only love what cannot be snatched out of its lover’s hand, you undoubtedly remain unbeaten … What you are loving is God with your whole heart and your whole soul and your whole mind, and your neighbor as yourself." -Augustine, True Religion 46,86 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Error 2D]] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 2]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "The Church may have greater success than Plato yet," S responds, "but are they not both human entities, shot through with the corruption of the flesh? How could either make a difference in the nature on which they depend?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 2]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "Good luck trying to climb into heaven while being weighed down by your body," S responds. "How could your spirit possibly contemplate the heavenly while it is chained down by the corruption of your body?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 2]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "Such a love may be nice to think about," S responds, "as long as the flesh imagines itself to be its recipient. But what can such an ideal matter if your species is so trapped in wickedness?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 2]]

"If those men had been able to live this life again with us, they would have seen immediately to whose authority people could more easily turn for such advice, and, with a few changes here and there in their words and assertions, they would have become Christians, as indeed several Platonists have done in recent times and in our own days." -Augustine, True Religion 4,7 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Error 3A]] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 3]]

"The fault of the soul … is what it has done, and the distress ensuing from the fault is the punishment it suffers. And that is the sum total of evil. Now, doing and suffering are not subsistent realities, and for this reason evil is not a subsistent reality either … The evil lies in the superstition which has the creature being served instead of the creator. This evil will quite simply cease to be when the soul on acknowledging the creator submits itself to him, the one God" -Augustine, True Religion 20,39 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Error 3B]] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 3]]

"Because we have come down to the things of time and are being restrained by loving them from reaching the things of eternity … We have to try and make use of the flesh-bound shapes, by which we are being held back, to come to a knowledge of those which the flesh does not present us with. The ones, I mean, which I am calling flesh-bound are those which can be perceived through the flesh, that is through the eyes, the ears and the rest of the body’s senses." -Augustine, True Religion 24,45 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Claim 3]] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 3A') || !trail.includes('Augustine Error 3B') || !trail.includes('Augustine Error 3D')] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 3]]

"You are only overcome when what you love is snatched from your hand by your opponent. So, if you only love what cannot be snatched out of its lover’s hand, you undoubtedly remain unbeaten … What you are loving is God with your whole heart and your whole soul and your whole mind, and your neighbor as yourself." -Augustine, True Religion 46,86 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Error 3D]] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 3]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "How can such an indiscriminate love be of any help," S responds, "in discriminating among the possible paths one might take?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 3]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "You again bring up the insubstantiality of evil," S responds, "But would such obstacles even matter if your species is incapable of distinguishing left from right?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 3]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "It is very nice that groups of people can gather together under a common crest," S responds, "but what do such congregations matter if their members lack any sense of direction?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 3]]

"If those men had been able to live this life again with us, they would have seen immediately to whose authority people could more easily turn for such advice, and, with a few changes here and there in their words and assertions, they would have become Christians, as indeed several Platonists have done in recent times and in our own days." -Augustine, True Religion 4,7 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Error 4A]] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 4]]

"The fault of the soul … is what it has done, and the distress ensuing from the fault is the punishment it suffers. And that is the sum total of evil. Now, doing and suffering are not subsistent realities, and for this reason evil is not a subsistent reality either … The evil lies in the superstition which has the creature being served instead of the creator. This evil will quite simply cease to be when the soul on acknowledging the creator submits itself to him, the one God" -Augustine, True Religion 20,39 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Error 4B]] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 4]]

"Because we have come down to the things of time and are being restrained by loving them from reaching the things of eternity … We have to try and make use of the flesh-bound shapes, by which we are being held back, to come to a knowledge of those which the flesh does not present us with. The ones, I mean, which I am calling flesh-bound are those which can be perceived through the flesh, that is through the eyes, the ears and the rest of the body’s senses." -Augustine, True Religion 24,45 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Error 4C]] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 4]]

"You are only overcome when what you love is snatched from your hand by your opponent. So, if you only love what cannot be snatched out of its lover’s hand, you undoubtedly remain unbeaten … What you are loving is God with your whole heart and your whole soul and your whole mind, and your neighbor as yourself." -Augustine, True Religion 46,86 >[[Recite this section->Augustine Claim 4]] [if !trail.includes('Augustine Error 4A') || !trail.includes('Augustine Error 4B') || !trail.includes('Augustine Error 4C')] >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 4]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "Even if the church might prove better than Plato at rounding up a caravan," S responds, "how could it matter if it knows not where it is going?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 4]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "You may claim evil to be insubstantial," S responds, "but how could you know that without any idea of what blessedness could look like?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 4]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "The flesh may function as a means to some spiritual end," S responds, "But how can such be possible if the spirit know not its end in the first place?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Augustine Options 4]]

"Distress is necessary! hence the cry of the politicians, hence the many false, trumped-up, exaggerated ‘states of distress’ of all possible kinds … They do not know what to make of themselves—and so they paint the misfortune of others on the wall; they always need others! And always again other others!—Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 56 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Claim 1]] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 1B') || !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 1C') || !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 1D')] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 1]] [continue]

"I see here a poet, who, like so many men, exercises a higher charm by his imperfections than by all that is rounded off and takes perfect shape under his hands … He raises those who listen to him above his work and above all 'works,' and gives them wings to reach higher than hearers have ever risen before, thus making them poets and seers themselves; they then show an admiration for the originator of their happiness ... as if he has reached his goal, and had actually seen and communicated his vision. It is to the advantage of his reputation that he has not really arrived at his goal." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 79 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Error 1B]] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 1]]

"Throughout immense stretches of time the intellect has produced nothing but errors; some of them proved to be useful and preservative of the species: he who fell in with them, or inherited them, waged the battle for himself and his offspring with greater success … In comparison with the importance of this conflict everything else is indifferent; the final question concerning the conditions of life is here raised, and the first attempt is here made to answer it by experiment. How far is truth susceptible of embodiment?—that is the question, that is the experiment." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 110 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Error 1C]] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 1]]

"I want more and more to perceive the necessary characters in things as the beautiful:—I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. Amor fati: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse the accusers. Looking aside, let that be my sole negation! And all in all, to sum up: I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!" -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 276 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Error 1D]] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 1]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "The poet you speak of," S responds, "is a celebrity among the people. If he were to teach them, they might listen, but you and your club of priests have failed to do so, as have all philosophers before you. How could you think yourself capable of making a difference in any way comparable to that made by the poet?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 1]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "Yes," S responds, "Quite an experiment indeed...At the least, I'm glad to see that you are learning from that book that it is biology, rather than philosophy, which has instilled beliefs in your species from time immemorial!" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 1]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "Yes," S replies, "And you ought very well to say 'yea' to me, and admit that you will never make a difference this side of the netherworld. Come with me, and leave these fools behind!" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 1]]

"Distress is necessary! hence the cry of the politicians, hence the many false, trumped-up, exaggerated ‘states of distress’ of all possible kinds … They do not know what to make of themselves—and so they paint the misfortune of others on the wall; they always need others! And always again other others!—Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 56 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Error 2A]] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 2]]

"I see here a poet, who, like so many men, exercises a higher charm by his imperfections than by all that is rounded off and takes perfect shape under his hands … He raises those who listen to him above his work and above all 'works,' and gives them wings to reach higher than hearers have ever risen before, thus making them poets and seers themselves; they then show an admiration for the originator of their happiness ... as if he has reached his goal, and had actually seen and communicated his vision. It is to the advantage of his reputation that he has not really arrived at his goal." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 79 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Claim 2]] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 2A') || !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 2C') || !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 2D')] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 2]]

"Throughout immense stretches of time the intellect has produced nothing but errors; some of them proved to be useful and preservative of the species: he who fell in with them, or inherited them, waged the battle for himself and his offspring with greater success … In comparison with the importance of this conflict everything else is indifferent; the final question concerning the conditions of life is here raised, and the first attempt is here made to answer it by experiment. How far is truth susceptible of embodiment?—that is the question, that is the experiment." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 110 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Error 2C]] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 2]]

"I want more and more to perceive the necessary characters in things as the beautiful:—I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. Amor fati: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse the accusers. Looking aside, let that be my sole negation! And all in all, to sum up: I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!" -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 276 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Error 2D]] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 2]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "Paint away, my friend," S responds, "but it will not bring you any closer to perfection. As long as the hand in which your brush is held remains that of fallen flesh, will not your happiness remain a vice?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 2]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "You may find powers and wisdom beyond your greatest dreams," S responds, "but what appears to you as a rise out of delusion is in actuality only a fall into deeper depravity." Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 2]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "It takes little for an ugly creature to embrace its own imperfection," S responds. "If you were a perfect creature, then such a 'yea-saying' might actually mean something, but how can it mean something coming from a flawed body such as yourself?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 2]]

"Distress is necessary! hence the cry of the politicians, hence the many false, trumped-up, exaggerated ‘states of distress’ of all possible kinds … They do not know what to make of themselves—and so they paint the misfortune of others on the wall; they always need others! And always again other others!—Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 56 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Error 3A]] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 3]]

"I see here a poet, who, like so many men, exercises a higher charm by his imperfections than by all that is rounded off and takes perfect shape under his hands … He raises those who listen to him above his work and above all 'works,' and gives them wings to reach higher than hearers have ever risen before, thus making them poets and seers themselves; they then show an admiration for the originator of their happiness ... as if he has reached his goal, and had actually seen and communicated his vision. It is to the advantage of his reputation that he has not really arrived at his goal." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 79 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Error 3B]] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 3]]

"Throughout immense stretches of time the intellect has produced nothing but errors; some of them proved to be useful and preservative of the species: he who fell in with them, or inherited them, waged the battle for himself and his offspring with greater success … In comparison with the importance of this conflict everything else is indifferent; the final question concerning the conditions of life is here raised, and the first attempt is here made to answer it by experiment. How far is truth susceptible of embodiment?—that is the question, that is the experiment." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 110 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Claim 3]] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 3A') || !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 3B') || !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 3D')] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 3]]

"I want more and more to perceive the necessary characters in things as the beautiful:—I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. Amor fati: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse the accusers. Looking aside, let that be my sole negation! And all in all, to sum up: I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!" -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 276 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Error 3D]] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 3]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "To move from one place to another," S responds, "Is to say 'yea' to one thing and 'nay' to another. To affirm every direction is only to stay in the same place, not moving an inch one way or the other, is it not?!" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 3]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "Your poet sounds like a real artist," S responds, "But if you do not even know which ideal to chase, then what does it matter whether or not you even get close to arriving at it?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 3]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "So you will follow a lighthearted path," S responds. "Good for you. But what makes you think you have any idea of how you might reach that happiness?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 3]]

"Distress is necessary! hence the cry of the politicians, hence the many false, trumped-up, exaggerated ‘states of distress’ of all possible kinds … They do not know what to make of themselves—and so they paint the misfortune of others on the wall; they always need others! And always again other others!—Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 56 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Error 4A]] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 4]]

"I see here a poet, who, like so many men, exercises a higher charm by his imperfections than by all that is rounded off and takes perfect shape under his hands … He raises those who listen to him above his work and above all 'works,' and gives them wings to reach higher than hearers have ever risen before, thus making them poets and seers themselves; they then show an admiration for the originator of their happiness ... as if he has reached his goal, and had actually seen and communicated his vision. It is to the advantage of his reputation that he has not really arrived at his goal." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 79 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Error 4B]] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 4]]

"Throughout immense stretches of time the intellect has produced nothing but errors; some of them proved to be useful and preservative of the species: he who fell in with them, or inherited them, waged the battle for himself and his offspring with greater success … In comparison with the importance of this conflict everything else is indifferent; the final question concerning the conditions of life is here raised, and the first attempt is here made to answer it by experiment. How far is truth susceptible of embodiment?—that is the question, that is the experiment." -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 110 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Error 4C]] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 4]]

"I want more and more to perceive the necessary characters in things as the beautiful:—I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. Amor fati: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse the accusers. Looking aside, let that be my sole negation! And all in all, to sum up: I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!" -Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 276 >[[Recite this section->Nietzsche Claim 4]] [if !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 4A') || !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 4B') || !trail.includes('Nietzsche Error 4C')] >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 4]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "Such an ideal is a shallow conception of the goal at which you would aim," S responds. "Is not a desire for happiness and laughter simply the starting point, rather than the destination?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 4]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "You may see through the tyranny of perfectionism," S responds, "but without a goal, you will lose all control of yourself, will you not?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 4]]

time (time === 0): "None" time (time !== "None"): time - increment -- S laughs at Z's reply. "Experimentations are amusing," S responds, "As are the destructions of various idols. But are not such amusements mere means to the end of something ultimate? Is not destruction only meaningful if its object was an obstacle in the way of some achievement?" Time passes... >[[Recall another section->Nietzsche Options 4]]

time: 60 increment: 1 wakeIncrement: 20 config.style.page.color: "gray-5" config.style.page.link.color: "teal-8" config.style.page.link.lineColor: "black" config.style.page.link.active.color: "yellow-8" -- "There has perhaps been an evil hour for every philosopher, in which he thought: What do I matter, if people should not believe my poor arguments!—And then some malicious bird has flown past him and twittered: 'What do you matter? What do you matter?'" -Friedrich Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom 332 >[[README->Read License]]

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As dusk sets in, the Priestly Council retires, each of the clerical authorities back to their own houses. As Z tightens his sandals for the journey home, his friend pulls him aside. "You have made a grave error, brother," Samuel warns Z. "As you know, hemlock is prescribed to heretics as a matter of Council policy, administered at dawn on the day following the offense. As your friend and brother in the Council, I implore you to bid your family a proper farewell as soon as the opportunity arises. I am truly sorry..." >[[Continue->Title]]

config.footer.center: "" -- With S's last cry of defeat still ringing in your ears, husband and wife exchange weary looks with each other, silently wishing that fortune was not demanding such an imminent departure. Unknowing of what the approaching hours may bring, you move to see Z out of your humble abode, that he might escape the hemlock reserved for heretics by the Council. However, a loud knock at the door signifies that the house is surrounded; Z has no escape from a direct confrontation with the Council guards... <a href="./resources/references.html">-----FIN-----</a>