fried n the German philosopher who single-handedly killed God preached for the rise of the Uber Manch a race that is better than others the man who lived a life of luxury wealth and plenty of women no won't cut it fine the truth then fredr nich the Prussian philosopher who started as a man of God himself Vu wished and preached best to each and every individual person the man who lived a life of sadness delusions and death in our history it's not uncommon that someone has left misunderstood to the point where we killed them because you
know they just speak gibberish and we can't have that here you discover the elements bonium and radium yeah sure woman and I'm Santa Claus earth spin suround the Sun instead of the other way around enjoy prison for the rest of your life lunatic you cured your husb from his illness by using basic medicine say hello to the fishes witch okay that's really again listen you want to know the true story about fried N I get that really but it's not a nice story it's one if not the the sest life I have ever studied but
something is convincing me to tell you anyway so here we go this is the story of perhaps the most important and misunderstood philosopher yet with a a beautiful mustache historically facts part six Our Story begins in ricken a village in Prussia which is here in PR Germany where a small cry can be heard from The nich's Residency the firstborn son of Carl and francisa Nicha has entered the world now I don't know if creativity lacked in the family or if they just really love the king cuz they named this little adorable boy fried Wilhelm n
named after the King of Prussia who shared the same name the brand new family was a simple but religious one with Papa Carl being a Lutheran Pastor for the local church himself the love between Carl and francisa continued and 2 years later a little sister for the young philosopher was born Elizabeth and another sibling Ludwick a year after life was going great but that year tragedy struck the family The Family Man the cheerful loving religious death got diagnosed with a serious brain illness that caused him excruciating pain and r him unable to do even the
most basic tasks in life seeing his father degrade from the happy memories he had to this state must have been traumatizing for the 4-year-old boy and unfortunately that trauma wasn't going to get better anytime soon or ever actually because good old Carl dead just like that and his little adorable 2-year-old brother dead as well unexpected illness straight up this ain't the fairy tale son welcome to reality seeing his father and younger brother die within months scarred Fred massively and that wasn't only noticed in the history books at school he was often described as emotionless and
way too mature for his age which is to be expected from a traumatized child but hey at least he had his friends though oh there he goes off to live with his father's side of the family now don't worry little n life might have kicked you down in the mud and then some but even the deepest wounds can be tended to just not in this day in age where people simply tell you to suck it up even if Satan himself revealed the unbearable secrets of our existence to you luckily nowadays there are many options to
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sibling gone from their lives the family moved to nberg where they lived together with these sisters of Carl unless even after all of this that happened to n which most of it he didn't even understand he tried to stay positive in life and did his best in Primary School to make himself and his mom proud which he did he in Christian Theology and went to a Christian High School after where he also graduated though with a bit worse grades it started to look like n was going to follow his Father's Footsteps and even more so
when he decided to study theology at the University of Bon life there started all right but it quickly worsened the two leading professors there really didn't like n due to his personal fuse to the point where they had full on arguments with each other n's social life wasn't great either mind you he might be a lot older than when he got his traum but due to him being the only man in the house and having the responsibility of taking care of the family he never got to fully recover from his childhood ptsds which did make
n a bit of an outsider he tried for two semesters to get into the University's social life and even dabbled into composing music which he apparently really really sucked at but then he decided you know what I am genuinely not happy here and left the university it was at this point in his life where n started to doubt his Christianity when a person is continuously thrown into a pit and forced to crawl out of it again just to be kicked back down they start to wonder why what's the point of putting all this energy in
getting up there again if I keep getting knocked back down anyway the answer to this question differs from person to person a hopeless romantic would answer love an addict would say drugs and a devote Christian God but what if God is no longer an answer for the believer giving up and staying down here would be equal to giving up on life so that can't be an option the only choice they have is to start looking for something else to give them comfort and this is exactly where n is at right now in his life could
there be another another reason for everything he wasn't quite sure yet and when he asked his mother and sister for help and input they scolded him for leaving his prestigious study and questioning his faith this was coincidentally also the turning point in his life where his relationship of his family worsen dramatically but do remember his sister she would come back to H him very much later down the line and even after death but let's not get ahead of ourselves n was left even more mixed and confused than he already was but he did know that
he had to switch studies and get into a new fresher environment so he switched his study to philology and applied at the University of leig to study ancient languages there his life started to get better he made a couple friends and even got on some good terms with some of the professors but he didn't have luck with women even though he craved love his faith in Christianity dwindled as his years in University went on to the point where we can confidently say that he abandoned his love for God though it wasn't common for people to
abandon their faith in the 1800s it wasn't completely unique either after all the scientific re ution and the enlightenment had been going well on their way but still it was a very hard decision to make living in a very religious Germany okay little PP quiz what happens if you abandon all your norms and values that you've been told from birth are the truth and Solly the truth and when you have no luck with women that's right we are going to bruffle now I don't know if n had bad luck or maybe God took his aband
a little too personal because he attracted syphilis immediately after making him physically weak for the rest of his life at least we're protection bro nonetheless this didn't stop n from studying heart and with a passion for languages and many glasses of milk he excelled as the top of his class which lended him a job as a professor at yet another University though now in basil where he apparently really did well as a professor his classes were engaging and he valued a personal relationship with each and every one of his students during his pastime he even
volunteered at the local hospital what a great dude I'm sure he lived happily ever after you contracted the centry in theia by unprotected exposure to the sick you helped cure you will no longer be able to continue the job that you love and you will be plagued by unrecoverable health issues for the rest of your life bro I told you even though n tried hard and long to keep doing what he loved life yet again kicked him in the mud and forced him to retire teaching altogether at age 34 but hey what doesn't kill you
makes you stronger right God is dead if you are a Christian yourself you might be offended or even angry at this bold statement of n but let's talk about what he actually meant with the sentence the quote is from one of the first books he wrote named this spoke zarra it's a philosophical novel about a man called spoilers zaratustra who lived in a fantasy like Roman time the story starts with our main character who just finishes 10 Years of Solitude on top of a mountain where he spent his time studying humanity and its created Society
with 10 years gone and plenty of ideals to share with the rest of the world he decides to backck his things and to descend the mountain to spread this message he knows it won't be easy but no one ever said that the best way is the easy way he descends the mountain and stumbles into a local village where he finds men of God but also those who strain away from religion he crosses through the busy market and finds himself a Podium to stand on in an attempt to get everyone's attention originally he was only noticed
by a couple of people but just like a spreading fire more and more people waited in great patience for what the man had to say God is dead the words cut through the chat of the market like a hot knife and butter the usually bustling place for once silent as the crowd reacted with a mixture of shock disbelief and even anger some in the crowd gasped the faces twist in confusion and outrage others exchanged nervous glances unsure of how to process such a bold declaration a few individuals laugh nervously dismissing zarto stress words as the
ramblings of a Madman but amidst the confusion there were those who listened intently their eyes fixated on zarra with a newfound sense of curiosity and Intrigue they recognized something in his words something that resonated with their own doubts and uncertainties about the world around them God is dead God remains dead and we have killed him how shall we Comfort ourselves the murderer of all murderers once again having all eyes on him he starts to explain his bold statement for those disconnected from religion God truly is De and we have killed him ourselves his voice steady
despite the thick tension in the air we chose to sever the ties That bount us to Divine authority to question and challenge the beliefs that one shaped our understanding of the world in doing so we confront the dtic task of finding new meaning and purpose in our Godless lives he paused allowing his words to sink in before continuing with a sense of urgency but let us not despair in the face of this existential voice let us instead embrace the opportunity it presents to forge our own paths to create our own values and to become the
architects of our own Destinies and so my friends Zara trra proclaimed it is time to embrace your inner greatness it is time to cast off the change of convention and to charge your own course to the chaos of existence it is time to become an Uber MCH [Music] now if you chose this book for your book summary test don't take my summary as the truth those are not the exact words he said but it's how we interpret them today n had the great gift of saying things like an ancient Roman historian would while that definitely
makes him cool and stand out from all the average PLS it also made it kind of impossible for the average person to understand what he was preaching and more often than not causes books to be misunder stod for example the phrase God is death angered the religious community which mind you is an overwhelming majority of the people at the time this caused him to not only fail to become popular it also caused him to be called mad by many including his friends and family but that's just rude n would never turn mad at least not
yet one of the most remarkable things about n's life is that even though his life was well quite horrible to say the least he stayed positive and kept trying to better everyone else's life with more and more people abandoning their faith or as his fictional characters ARA would say facing the void of existence n felt like he needed to guide this movement of people in the right direction which made sense as for hundreds if not thousands of years we humans were raised and told that there are only absolute rights or absolute wrongs there was no
gray area between and on top of that we were taught that whatever the church or a politician said was to be blindly believed something that we couldn't think about doing in our current day and age without getting a cold shiver down your spine the people needed guidance in this new life and here n came up with seven recommendations to become an Uber mench one Embrace individualism people should strive to overcome norms and expectations that Society has pness to discover their true self two exercise self-overcoming to develop yourself as a person you need to continuously challenge
yourself with hardships and obstacles to grow and improve to become a better human three live with passion n argued that individuals should pursue their dreams and passions with all their might and that a life lived with passion and intensity was worth way more than one lived passively number four Embrace suffering and adversity ties in with that as well when like doesn't go your way embrace it and appreciate the suffering as it will make you more resilient and stronger as a person five create your own values n famously criticized the church and establish regimes for forcing
their values on their followers he argued that people should create their own values based on their unique experiences and perspectives on life he believed that true morality comes from within rather than being imposed by external authorities number six be true to yourself trust your own instincts and intuitions above anything else in the end it's you who is your best friend and also your worst enemy and finally the seventh recommendation embrace the Eternal recurrence fried n created the concept of Eternal recurrence arguing that a person should live their life exactly in a way that they would
want to relive that very same life that they have now for eternity basically emphasizing to live to be authentic and to enjoy every single moment that you have what is most surprising about those seven recommendations is that it contains genuine love and care for those who want to listen to it we went through n's life earlier and we can safely say that it hasn't been nice to him most people who would have gone through this would have hated or cursed everything around them for treating them so unfairly but n turned that hate and disgust in
love and appreciation instead just like he recommended others to do so as well unfortunately those recommendations only work on people when they listen and that was the last thing that the majority of the people ended up doing n was Outcast by society and wanting to get away from it all and recharge himself he went on a year-long vacation with two of his philosopher friends Lou Andrea salom and Paul re they rented a house together and started planning to create their own Society with only like-minded people but love got in the way both Po and N
fell for Lou and both of them even proposed to her and both of them got rejected n thought he finally found the love of his life and couldn't let her go he ended up proposing three times to her and every single time got rejected the Rivalry between PA and N caused the idea of a philosopher Utopia to fall apart and ended the vacation earlier than planned where then Lou revealed that she was only there to see if woman and man could live together without sexual desires basically saying she used n for her own studies additionally
randomly as well she married b anyway leaving n heartbroken and altogether even more broken than before every man woman or child has a breaking point a point where you just can't anymore and for n finally but way too late it had reached in 1899 only at 44 years old reality kicked in and overwhelmed the philosopher when walking down the streets in Italy he noticed a man beating up a horse with a whip and ren towards the animal flung around its neck to protect it from the Whip and cried I understand you I understand you he
then collapsed on the floor and his vision went black n never recovered from that day and the rest of his life was rendered unable to take care of himself and was unresponsive when spoken to he completely fell into madness he was forced to move in with his sister Elizabeth who he really despised and things took a turn for the worst when Elizabeth took the creative Li Liberty to GA the materials and writings of n that he couldn't finish and interpret them in her own ways completely changing what he argued for at the end of his
life causing him to be even more misunderstood n passed away a year later and go buried next to his father Carl who was also buried in his hometown at Ren his mystery didn't end there because Elizabeth continued to misinterpret his works with her own personal beliefs which just happened to be those of fistic nature this caused n's work to be praised and loved by the Nazis we used his own word Uber mench as a way to say that the pure German blooded race was better than others even a certain man called Adolf Hitler expressed his
love for n and even visited Elizabeth herself in the same house n lived in in his last years to express how great nche was the thing is n despised Fascism and anti-Semitism he praised individual ual ISM and didn't like authorities telling how people should live their lives so even though he was put in the Nazis classroom he didn't belong there in the slightest his name was cleared after the second world war and in the midst of the cold one people started to appreciate him and follow his teachings and in the day and age we live
today with atheism and individualism at its peak which can be argued could be for the better or for the worst we almost entirely live in the world that fried n tried to guide us to or maybe even warn us about but there are two things that we do know for certain firstly n was way ahead of his time and unfortunately whether you like it or not we are still human and the crushing weight of reality is too much for any man to handle or as n himself would put it whoever fights monsters should see to
it that an process he does not become a monster and if you gaze long enough into an abyss the this will gaze back into you [Music]
