World Wide Words: The St Cloud Times of Minnesota reported on 22 May: “A fire started by an old electrical chord caused smoke damage late Thursday to a mobile home in southeast St Cloud.” Sounds like an A Minor fire.
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Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 3.61: “There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live [...]
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Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 3.58: “Has it been observed to what extent outward idleness, or semi-idleness, is necessary to a real religious life (alike for its favourite microscopic labour of self-examination, and for its soft placidity called ‘prayer,’ the state of perpetual readiness for the ‘coming of God’), I mean the idleness with a [...]
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BBC NEWS: “And the problem is on the increase, according to the Low Frequency Noise Sufferers’ Association. Two thousand people have so far contacted its helpline, and it says it receives two or three new cases every week. They are generally over 50 and are mostly female.”
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Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 3: “Perhaps the most solemn conceptions that have caused the most fighting and suffering, the conceptions ‘God’ and ‘sin,’ will one day seem to us of no more importance than a child’s plaything or a child’s pain seems to an old man;— and perhaps another plaything and another pain will [...]
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