ImOpen - I think you've got some good intentions but you have to remember where a lot of people are coming from on these forums - the intention manfiestation/subjective reality side.
I've read a little Nietzche (Thus spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil) and I read (or at least tried to read) Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
I can personally say that I don't reccomend these to anyone. Not because I don't think that these are intelligent men but becuase the work is in my opinion very depressing and Dostoyevsky was boring and trite.
It is my belief that focusing on philosophies and ideas that depress people or make us bored is ridiculous - we don't try and be smart just for the sake of intelligence, after all, humans are emotional creatures. Focusing on or beliving in something that does not put you into a happy, growing state is ridiculous.
Focusing on the pain and suffering of this world will bring us no good. Nietzche's main message is that man is lacking and his values are weak - not exactly positive or abundant thinking.
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