Ah yes makes sense. Stupid doctors thought it was neurosyphilis.
One might consider that Nietzche’s mental break seemed to occur after witnessing an animal being beaten. Certainly can’t just claim he was without ideas of right and wrong.
That still suffices to why he went insane. An STD kinda spells out the underlying theme of nihilism. An absence of morals. There’s no meaning. No objective right or wrong. No moral ill. So it still works and applies to his fate.
But for a Christian, he or she can change. Choose not to do it. Seek the ever loving mercy and embrace of Christ. It’s not easy. Of course nothing is easy. Even that is seen through the struggle in molecular biology. However, we know that a human being needs love. Animals need something like love to a certain degree/extent. But human beings need it more. And actual love. That intimate message which is so endearing on the Cross. The man, who we call Jesus of Nazareth. He was not just a man, but God’s only begotten Son. Now, a nihilist may not believe in God. And no sense to reason that Jesus was the Son of God. Yet, He didn’t just claim it. He lived it. No human being could or ever did. Much of the lore/legend of ancient Greece, and Mesopotamian beliefs beforehand. And then their intertwined fate into Roman culture. But, Christ was claimed to have risen from the dead. The martyrs and Christian’s willing to die upon that. Not a nihilist absence, but a true and real entity. For even the one called doubting Thomas had to touch the wounds, to see and to believe. Which he said, “My Lord, and my God.”
It’s not easy. It’s a hard and difficult path. The world is full of dark alleys and stairways. Even the allegory of Plato’s cave is still a most difficult path for anyone to follow. But all it takes, at least as first steps in the right direction, is faith.
I try to pray and ask before the Blessed Sacrament a gift from Jesus. To know He is there. To love Him, to Adore, and to Believe. So my heart might be content. it’s not easy. And I certainly don’t have the burden that most people more awful circumstances have. I ask for certain miracles, but I am also not going to put my faith in a miracle, but in God, in Christ, and in His Church. Tempered with right reason.
Nietzche was one individual who had his share of hard breaks and a cross to bear in life. But none of them even compared to the suffering and treatment of the people’s who are called Jewish. Their suffering during the Nazi Holocaust occupation, Nietzche’s suffering could not compare. And yet his beliefs stirred the pot, so-to-speak, in the German public. And that philosophical view was something Hitler adhered to - the nihilistic basis.
The root of Nietzche’s problems, just as Three Shepherd children relayed to the rest of the world from an Apparition (whether you take this to be true, or are skeptical.) The fact and matter of the element of truth, nonehteless which still stood. That the nihilistic doctrine - the errors of Russia - did spread. And that was Neitzche’s.
