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Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two)

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The First Ling Is Always Sacrificed

"Zarathustrus does not consider himself the overman, which might have been something you thought. But no, we're first lings," he writes. "How could we fail to attract old idol priests, even in ourselves? The old idol priest still lives,. who roasts what is best for us in his feast alas, my brothers, how could firstlings fail to be sacrifices?"

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