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Aung Bhone Zaw

Chad Ellingsworth

English 7

4/20/20

Free Write

In "Of the Apostates," Zarathustra had a shocking discovery that many of his disciples are

against God. They find it more comfortable with having faith than actually doing something.

Zarathustra advised that when old gods perished, they were laughing at God because God said

there shouldn't be any other gods before him. In "The Return Home," Zarathustra went back to

his home in the mountains to live in solitude. He commented on how strange human beings are

that they talk, but nothing educational, and the people who are considered good are the most evil

ones. In "On the Three Evils," Zarathustra applauded the three great evils, the Christain

disapprove of; Sex, Hunger for Power, and Selfishness. Six is considered evil only to people with

self-hatred, but it can be full of such pleasures for others. The power hunger is the will-to-power.

It is the driving force that makes changes and improvements in the world, and it is only evil for

submissive people. Selfishness is more than taking pride in oneself. Only the coward people will

feel ashamed of themselves could find selfishness evil.

On the Spirit of Gravity, people take life very seriously. Attaching to concepts of good

and evil, we only forgave for our existence if we faithfully follow the good. This kind of

behavior is the"spirit of gravity," which sees life as a burden to bear. Zarathustra suggests we

learn to love ourselves and to see life not as a barrier but as happiness in which we create our

good and our evil. Such as finding our unique ways to live. In "On Old and New Tablets," there
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are 30 tablets. These so-called "tablets" under discussion are different moral codes. Zarathustra

urges us to break our old tablets if we find useless. Those who hate life would advise that they

know what is right and what is wrong since these standards are eternally fixed. The world is

changing. Those who preach by saying there is a fixed moral code is trying to reject the progress

of life. Zarathustra implies people to be creators like Jesus.