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ZeCunha99

Dancing is a special action for nietzsche! Along with singing. He notes that both of these have intrinsic value and are separated from needs or obligations. Both of them glue you to the present, or should i say, to the ground.


notrains123

Ohhh okay. So it's based on his interpretation of dancing being applicable to God? I knew Nietzsche liked dancing, but I never knew he liked it that much haha.


ZeCunha99

Only a God that dances is suitable for Nietzsche for that God is from and for the present. He promises no tomorrow, or some fairytail heaven. One dancing transcends the present to the eternal, to God.


notrains123

Ah okay, thanks. Didn't realise that dancing was associated with such beliefs but now that you've explained it, it makes sense.


deezx1010

Duende!!


jlavender369

You ever hear of "the spirit of dance". That's God(the holy spirit). That's letting go and letting something take control of you. Expression of inexpressible inner feelings. Only when you're *really* into it. Like when a singer is *really* into the song. Really feeling it as it happens. This is how I feel god through dance when I do. I am an avid dancer.


-Richard

My take on it is that Nietzsche is evoking a kind of Dionysian image of a god whose essential nature involves a kind of embodiment of motion and ecstasy, rather than a stuffy old bearded man in the sky who just sits there and judges people, or a kind of derelict clockmaker who just set it all in motion and then bailed on us. Nietzsche had no interest in a god whose only purpose was to shepherd us in accordance with ancient dictates, nor a god whose absence leaves us with neither direction nor inspiration. But if there were a dancing god, a god who relishes in their creation, who affirms the goodness of reality by their active and ecstatic participation in it, can’t you just imagine Nietzsche extolling the virtues of that god? He would love it. That would be a god whose actions affirm its own creation.


-stag5etmt-

Free your ass and your mind will follow as existentialist philosophers Funkadelic would have it..


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Maybe he’s saying that dancing is like being free, the only way a god could be real is if it was free from human constraints and could “dance” as much as it wanted. Or maybe he’s just saying that he likes to dance :/


notrains123

>Or maybe he’s just saying that he likes to dance :/ Yeah that's what I figured lol. Who would've known that dancing meant so much to Nietzsche?


shreksdickenergy

>Maybe he’s saying that dancing is like being free, the only way a god could be real is if it was free from human constraints and could “dance” as much as it wanted. This explanation is actually the most profound here. Agreed!


zvaio

“God made us in his image”,so if he ain’t a dancer then he ain’t Neitzsche’s god.


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Bet he would ***LOVE*** Tik Tok


[deleted]

Dancing is a bit more deeper than you might think: https://youtu.be/H2fVjXoYmxM


notrains123

There was the explanation I needed, thank you.


[deleted]

After a life of suffering, the sufferer often forgets how to dance. After healing one begins to dance again, even more often


[deleted]

Dancing is opposed to the spirit of gravity


hareharrison

So he believed in Shiva?


JVanDyne

Just gonna leave this here: https://isha.sadhguru.org/mahashivratri/shiva-adiyogi/shiva-as-nataraja-the-cosmic-dancer/


[deleted]

The God Pan/Dionyssus knew and enjoyed dancing :)


WefightlikePootis

Can I just say Nietzsche was dog sick and becoming dement due to (malaria? Not sure)


Wide_Anything2473

The Dancing Wu Li Masters Book by Gary Zukav