the sarcophagus of god

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Ah thank you!  I was thinking BGE.  But I think there's a place where he
mentions using churches, after all the crosswork is removed etc, for idle
contemplation.  Maybe GaySc.  Maybe I'm wrong althogether.

Being a little more, sober, today, as it were, I'm not sure I want to
divulge my Nieztzsche insights.  Or if I even agree with what I was
thinking yesterday.  Something having possibly to do with the architecture
of some churches though, especially the Gothic ones...

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Prashant Kumar
<p.kumar at physics.usyd.edu.au>wrote:

> It's in the second chapter and ff. of Beyond Good and Evil:
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> "Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is
> accustomed to stink. One should not go into churches if one wishes to
> breathe PURE air."
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> I'll bite. Why?
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> On 1 June 2012 03:23, Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> I was just wandering, what was that line, or where is it, I can't find
>> it, Nietzsche had about after clearing out the bad air of churches, we'd
>> keep them around as places to go to for contemplation.
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>> I'm curious whether anybody knows why he suggested that.  I do, I'm just
>> curious if anyone else on the planet knows it.
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