Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: October 21, 2021 11:11AM
Zoner Wrote:
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> If you read his book you will see that he is,
> among other things, presenting a more feminist
> friendly (woman's empowerment) view of early
> Mormon women so that the women were not merely
> unthinking victims/blind-followers, but thought
> about things and contributed to the formation of
> Mormonism in various degrees, like writing poems
> and hymns, and yes flirted with power and godhood.
> How does that make anyone a bitch?
You are gone so perhaps I'm writing this to no one.
Flirting with power?
bitch · a malicious, unpleasant, selfish person, especially a woman. · a lewd woman.
Like Zina used her status as a desired woman to flirt with power?
But of course "writing poems and hymns" was what the empowered through polygamist connections to powerful men was flirting with power?
The problem I see with you Zoner is your opinions come through much much louder than your supporting information. I know what you think more than what you are trying to use Nietzsche's words to say for you. It makes things confusing. Your thesis isn't strong but more a cobbled together conglomeration of other people's words.
Ayn Rand explains it better.
"[y]our only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation—or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind’s wings should have grown."
https://fs.blog/2019/10/ayn-rand-philosophy-matters/And to be honest, currently my personal philosophy is no better so I'm not a zealous advocate of it for anyone but myself, and I fail to live up to my own expectations.