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This would be so much better if it wasn't cheapened by the a.i. voice

Thanks for these videos. I've been fortunate enough to use them to introduce a few people to Stoicism, and they've been a hit! Seriously, it's definitely time for Discourses, and Letters. - Thanks again

Big shoutout to @voxylegend for their incredible work! Translating 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' into modern English is no small feat, and your thoughtful commentary truly elevates the experience. You've brought Nietzsche's wisdom into the 21st century in a way that's both engaging and enlightening. Hats off to you for making philosophy accessible to all! 🙌🎉

@voxylegend, your work on translating 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' into contemporary English is incredibly valuable. The added commentary brings even more depth and understanding to this classic. Thank you for making philosophy more accessible and engaging!❤❤❤😊

Thank you so much, @VoxLegend! Your translation of 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' into modern English, along with your insightful commentary, is truly amazing. Your work makes this classic accessible and engaging for everyone. Keep up the fantastic work!❤❤

Wow

What happened to the meditations by marcus? i cant find it anywhere

Also watch 3rdPOV

Thank you! I am 91 yo and love solitude... a time to process and knead tons of experiences in my past. Many people of all kinds influenced my life .... and molded me for good and bad...That is life...the cards I was delt and that, a I take responsibily for how I played them. Thanks for your wonderful video.... I loved the graphics, comments, your voice is perfect for the task. P.S. I am a Mexican-American, baptized Catholic, but came to appreciate many other " things"... Paz❤❤❤

I am finally getting thru this amazing book! I have it in print and your commentary is extremely useful to understand the more complex passages. Are you planning to do thereby Nietzsche? Would you also consider Dostoyevsky?

The color's subtitle need change

Great video i love your channel please bring back meditations by Marcus Aurelius you had the best video on it

I read THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA in my teenage years. Reaquainting myself with it now, startles me to realize how prophetically accurate it is with our present state in time.

Fantastic presentation.

Thank you - I have had the book on my shelf for 50 years and not got into it

No commentary, thanks!

Too many commercials some value in the works here but I am fatigued by the constant irritation of ads

dang. I can't do this AI slop, sry you spent time on it but while the images are annoying, the fake human voice is just gross for something like this, just learn to read it aloud, a good skill to develop

What's the source of this translation, please. If it's mentioned, I missed it.

the voice sounded like an AI. yikes

Starts @1:35

Childish

Philosophy is intellectual masturbation so Nietzsche and his ilk are just wankers all the way back to Socrates.

"Friedrich Nietzsche loved the teachings of Zarasthustra, and wrote the book THUS SPAKE ZARATUSTRA to bring Zarathustra and his teachings in light. He wrote the book to appreciate life and the love for life. He could not find any other master so life-affirmative as Zarathustra; a man who begins his life with laughter, whose whole life is a laughter. There is no pessimism, not even a strain of pessimism in him. Living for ten years in the mountains, Zarathustra attained the ecstasy of being alone, the purity of being alone, the independence of being alone - and this is where he is unique amongst other awakened people: When they discovered, they remained in their heights. Zarathustra starts “down-going,” going back to the crowd. He has to deliver the message to humanity that you are suffering unnecessarily; you are being dependent unnecessarily; you are creating all kinds of imprisonments for yourself - just to feel safe and secure. But the only security and the only safety is in knowing yourself, because then even death is impotent. It cannot destroy you. Zarathustra, amongst all the religious founders, is the only one who is life-affirmative, who is not against life, whose religion is a religion of celebration, of gratefulness to existence. He is not against the pleasures of life, and he is not in favor of renouncing the world. On the contrary, he is in absolute support of rejoicing in the world, because except for this life and this world, all are hypothetical ideologies. God, heaven and hell, they are all projections of the human mind, not authentic experiences; they are not realities. Zarathustra was born at a time, twenty five centuries ago, when all over the world, there was a great renaissance: In India, Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, Goshalak, Sanjay Bilethiputta, Ajit Keshkambal, and others, had reached to the same peak of awakening; in China, Confucius, Mencius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu and many others; in Greece, Socrates, Pythagoras, Plotinus, Heraclitus; and in Iran, Zarathustra. It is a strange coincidence that suddenly, all over the world, there came a flood of consciousness and many people became awakened. Perhaps enlightenment is also a chain reaction - when there are enlightened people they provoke the same revolution in others. It is everybody’s potential. One just needs a provocation, a challenge; and when you see so many people reaching to such beautiful heights of grace, you cannot remain where you are. Suddenly a great urge arises in you: “Something has to be done. I am wasting my life while others have reached the very destiny, have known all that is worth knowing, have experienced the greatest blissfulness and ecstasy… and what am I doing? - collecting seashells on the beach.” Out of all these people, Zarathustra is unique. He is the only one who is not against life, who is for life; whose god is not somewhere else; whose god is nothing but another name for life itself. And to live totally, to live joyously and to live intensely, is all that religion is based on. I feel a deep empathy, affinity, with Zarathustra. But perhaps because he was life-affirmative and not life-negative, he could not gather many followers. It is one of the strange things about human beings: anything that is easy, they cannot accept as worthy of being the goal - the goal has to be very difficult and arduous. Behind it is the psychology of the ego. The ego always wants something impossible, because only with the impossible can it exist. You will never be able to fulfill desire, and the ego will go on pushing you towards more and more - more greed, more power, more money, more austerities, more spirituality, more discipline. Wherever you find “more”, remember, that is the language of the ego. And there is no way to satisfy the ego; it is always asking for more. Zarathustra’s whole approach is exactly the same as Chuang Tzu: “Easy is right. Right is easy.” And when you are utterly relaxed, at ease, at home, so relaxed that you have even forgotten that you are at ease; that you have forgotten that you are right - you have become so utterly innocent like a child, you have arrived. But ego has no interest in this. This whole process is something like the suicide of the ego; hence, religions which have been giving the ego difficult tasks, arduous paths, unnatural ideals, impossible goals - they have attracted millions of people. Zarathustra’s followers can be counted on the fingers. Nobody has bothered about Zarathustra, until, after almost twenty-four centuries, Nietzsche suddenly picked up on him. Nietzsche was against Jesus Christ, and he was against Gautam Buddha - but he was for Zarathustra. It is something very significant to understand. The man who was against Jesus Christ, against Gautam Buddha…. Why should he be for Zarathustra? - because Nietzsche also has the same attitude and approach towards life. He has seen all these religions, great religions, creating more and more guilt in humanity; creating more and more misery, wars, burning people alive; talking all kinds of nonsense for which no proof at all exists, for which they don’t have any evidence at all; keeping the whole of humanity in darkness, in blindness, because their teachings are based on belief - and belief means blindness. There is no belief which is not blind. A man with eyes does not believe in light, he knows it - there is no need to believe. Only the blind man believes in light because he does not know it. Belief exists in ignorance, and all the religions - with a few exceptions like Zarathustra and Chuang Tzu who have not been able to create great followings or great traditions - are all for belief. In other words, they are all for blindness. Nietzsche was against them - symbolically. As far as the East is concerned, he chose Gautam Buddha as the symbol and as far as the West is concerned he chose Jesus Christ as the symbol. He was against these people for the simple reason that they were against life; they were against people enjoying the simple things; people living playfully, laughingly; people having a sense of humor, not seriousness; people loving songs and music; and people capable of dance and love. Nietzsche was attracted to Zarathustra because he could see that this man alone, out of the whole past, was not against life, was not against love, was not against laughter. In these fragments, you will see tremendously meaningful statements which can become the foundation of a life-affirmative religion. I am all for life. There is nothing for which life can be sacrificed. Everything can be sacrificed for life. Everything can be a means towards life, but life is an end unto itself."

Greetings. Thank you for this channel. I understand that Nietzsche's main character in this work is based on Zarathustra, a priest and prophet in Persia(Now Iran) from 600 BCE. Later his name was changed by Greeks writers to Zoroaster. I mention this fact due to your script saying that Nietzsche's Zarathustra was a fictional character based on Zoroaster. Would you please care to clear this out?

Friedrich would be a big Trump supporter if alive today. Biden and company are the epitome of weak, lame, virtue signaling people that are destroying mankind.

That was great, man ! Keep up the great work

Great work but why did you delete the Meditations video please bring it back

Ai crap

Thank you for putting this out for the world

More audibooks on literature please!

Thank you for your hard work

Why you removed meditations

Some pictures are hilarious

Thank you

What translation is this?

Thank you very much!

Wooooo!

Your reading is one dimensional, to fast and agressive. Not nice to listen to. Or are you AI?

Which software you use sir for this types editing....,,?

We want Marcus Aurelius’ meditations back!

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Yesss! Thank you!

Looks like Nietzsche did a little too much LDS in the 60ies

The images of Zoroaster are completely wrong. He was a pre-Islamic prophet, no need for the Arabic calligraphy and Islamic architecture to illustrate the video. I gave up after seeing a turban.

You're the GOAT! I love the original text AND the commentary. I started with your 2nd letter to Lucillius from Seneca. Brilliant. Oh, and great voice to listen to , and very clear. Thanks so much. From Johannesburg, South Africa.

Very touching - Thank you so much! But I don't agree with the meaning of women.

Amazing video work. Holy moly.