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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Mostly, Nietzches work dwells on creation and on ones


self development. Zarathustra was introduced as a man who left
his own home and set out into the wilderness. Having ten years
of being enlightened he decided to comeback to proclaim to
civilization what he learned, that there is a better way to
live. Zarathustra believe that knowledge is not only for him,
that is why he wanted to share it to people. As for me, I
believe that Nietzche is trying to say that it is important to
share our knowledge. It is like whenever we learn something,
we should not be satisfied by just keeping it to ourselves. It
is just part of the journey, the destination should be the
learning of the individual that we shared our knowledge to.
In here, it was also said that God is not dead. Hearing
that was not very pleasing at first, because I believe in God.
But as we tackle it, I had a deeper understanding in it. From
what I learned, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, our existence
depends mainly on our relationship with God. But as of the
moment, this thought had died from the hearts and soul of men.
We became exposed to mass media and to all the superficial
pleasures that we later on set as our gods. Nietzsche is
saying that the things we idolize are being the gods of us. It
then limits our potentialities in getting our hearts desire.
Because of this, we fail. And this is the problem that
Nietzsche wants to resolve. He wants to take us back by
eliminating our own ideas of god and be just response of
ourselves. Not depending on anything that hinders us from
having the best in us. Nietzsche also wants us to realize that
being an overman or superman to be our end goal. Being a
superman does not mean just having great strength, rather a
man who is independent. Independent in the sense that he does
not need anyone, he puts his faith in himself and relies to no
one. And that is very different from the people nowadays, I
admit even I myself relies on a lot of things. To the
tightrope walker who is above nothingness, Zarathustra said
that he should weigh himself down to be stable. This again in
Nietzsches emphasis that on going down to earth, we can reach
superman. We should live our lives on pressure points, points
where we are close to death because through these points that
a new world is open up. Nietzsche demands us to do all these
things to bring us back to this idea of being or existing
without the shrouds of predetermined roles that the society
has imposed on us. He wants us to live fully and create
something great from nothingness.
On the chapter of the three metamorphoses, Zarathustra
spoke about the three transformations of the spirit. As
defined in the dictionary, metamorphosis is the processs of
transformation, an act of change, from an immature form to an
adult form. And I believe that this transformation describes
the stages we need to be in to, in order to eliminate the
ideas of gods that we have right now. According to

Zarathustra, a persons spiritual journey starts from a camel,


then transforms into a lion, then become an innocent child.
Hardship, it is what I picture when I think of a camel. I
think that Zarathustra is trying to compare us to a camel,
being burdened by the society. Just obeying and accepting what
the society gives us. Not learning to say no and not even
questioning. This is because we are already blinded by the
rules and we just wanted to fulfill the predetermined roles
that the society imposed on us.
So there, the second metamorphosis begins when people
starts to ask questions. Learning why we do things, wanting to
know things. And being in that doubtful stage would lead us to
some certain point in life which I may say is dark, we can not
say, most probably it would not be good. And that would change
us from being the camel that just obeys, to a lion who seeks
for freedom who felt chained from a very long while. There was
also a dragon that was mentioned, and I believe that is
represents the gods we have right now. It is like the lion
needs to kill the god in order to be response for himself, for
him to be independent. Having the dragon killed would mean
that there would be no rules, laws or obligation left for the
lion. And for creation to take place another transformation is
needed, something that has nothing and can create, which is
the child.
The terminal metamorphosis is a child which represents
purity. Who is eager to learn, seeking for truth, gaining
something real and not just imposed by the society.
Every moment is an act of creation. We need tuth to be
able to create. In order for us to have this transformation,
we need to see the real light, not just the blinding light.

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