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Not that he wanted these to be read like this, but here are some perspectives from various sources:
1 Free Will was made up by Priests of religion and people in general as a way to make life interesting. This also makes life interesting to God. (Genealogy of Morals).
2 Free Will is like a garden (what we are free to do). We are free to grow our vegetables in a number of styles, like the French or Chinese style. In this way, Nietzsche makes a metaphor with our drives, habits, and passions. Nietzsche concludes that the most fun would be to let the drives-habits run wild. (from The Dawn)
3 Free Will is an academic argument, what Nietzsche calls the debate of the “Unfree Will”. Free Will proponents are terrified of losing their autonomy and other people losing their responsibility. Determinists are the original bleeding heart liberals: don’t blame me and, additionally, no one should be blamed for anything at all. (from Beyond Good and Evil).
4 Free Will is what Priests and other authorities use to punish you and make you responsible. More importantly Free Will is the tool Priests will use in order to order you around. Free Will means you have free will to obey religious authorities. (from Twilight of the Idols).
The differences between philosophy and humor are closer than the similarities. After all, I can tell a joke, but I can’t tell some philosophy. The process of philosophy makes it seem as though it needs to be esoteric, vague, and challenging; whereas humor always seems necessary. This fundamental difference elaborates a more divergent conflict: humor needs to be emotionally immediate (regardless of truth, yet not necessarily athwart truth), whereas philosophy seeks to illuminate the distant truth. Therefore, philosophy and humor overlap with a certain separate-parallel kinship with the truth.
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