Joseph Smith through Nietzsche's Eyes & The Will to Power: The Rough Stone Rolling & the Dynamite Satyr (Blog Series)

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The Banner above is a Side by Side Comparative Visual of Nietzsche’s Joyful Warrior Philosophy (and Balance of the Apollonian and Dionysian) & Joseph’s Cheerful Muscular Christianity (and Balance of Thriving Families & the Zion Ideal)

• Introduction

• A "Nietzschean Lens" of Valuing Mormonism

• Joseph Smith through Nietzschean Eyes

•  Joseph Smith as Artistic Creator of New Values

• Nietzsche's Will to Power in the Theological Language of the LDS Supreme Power of Lecture #2 & Elect Mormons Growing from Exaltation to Exaltation

• Nietzsche's Will to Power and Joseph's Spirit of Intelligence

• Joseph's God as Hiearchical Will to Power

• The LDS Will to Glory

• The Will to Knowledge as Power & Life Affirmation: Excerpts from "Toward a Mormon Metaphysics" by Andrew Miles

•  Religion as Will to Power: How Competition for Territory, Status & Strength as a Tribe caused the Mormon People to Flourish

• Mormonism as a Pragmatic Remedy to Nihilism 

• Emergent LDS Equation: more good = Mormon = beautiful = happy = loved by God

•  A Nietzschean Trajectory: Examining Cultural "Energies" & Individual Physiologies

• Interpreting Mormon Scripture through the Lens of the Question: Is it Empowering or Disempowering?

• Nietzsche verses Joseph Smith on the Poor and Unfortunate

•  Nauvoo Polygamy as Nietzschean-like Selective Breeding of Supercouples toward Creating a separate "Nicer/Civilized" People (Peoplehood as The Kingdom of God)

•  Birthing the Mormon People through Plural Marriage by Selecting for Elect Men to Bear Noble Preexistent Spirits

•  The LDS "Good" as Life-Affirming & Species Preserving: Jacob 5 on Ripe-Fruit Bearing "Seeds" in Good Cultural Soil to Grow a Healthy Peoplehood

•  Zion vs. Secular Equity: Make-Believing in "Forced Equality of Outcome" and Equality of the Sexes compared with Nietzsche's Honest Atheistic Religion to Heal Humanity & Align with Reality