ud in word and attitude to the level of an art all this is not an accident due to the chance talents of an individual or to any violation of nature the thing responsible is race the whole of judaism appears in christianity as the art of concocting holy lies and there after many centuries of earnest jewish training and hard practice of jewish technique the business comes to the stage of mastery the christian that ultima ratio of lying is the jew all over again he is threefold the jew the underlying will to make use only of such concepts symbols and attitudes as fit into priestly practice the instinctive repudiation of every other mode of thought and every other method of estimating values and utilities this is not only tradition it is an inheritance only as an inheritance is it able to operate within the force of nature the whole of mankind even the best minds of the best ages with one exception perhaps hardly human have permitted themselves to be deceived the gospels have been read as a book of innocence surely no small indication of the high skill with which the trick has been done of course if we could actually see these astounding bigots and bogus saints even for an instant the farce would come to an end and it is precisely because I cannot read a word of theirs without seeing their attitudinizing that I have made an end of them I simply cannot endure the way they have of rolling up their eyes for the majority happily enough books are mere literature let us not be let astray they say judge not and yet they condemn to hell whoever stands in their way in letting God sit in judgment they judge themselves in glorifying God they glorify themselves in demanding that everyone show the virtues which they themselves happen to be capable of still more which they must have in order to remain on top they assume the grand air of men struggling for virtue of men engaging in a war that virtue may prevail we live we die we sacrifice ourselves for the good the truth the light the kingdom of God in point of fact they simply do what they cannot help doing forced like hypocrites to be sneaky to hide in corners to slink along in shadows they convert their necessity into a duty it is on grounds of duty that they account for their lives of humility and that humility becomes merely one more proof of their piety ah that humble chaste charitable brand of fraud virtue itself shall bear witness for us one may read the gospels as books of moral seduction these petty folks fasten themselves to morality they know the uses of morality morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose the fact is that the conscious conceit of the chosen here disguises itself as modesty it is in this way that they the community the good and just range themselves once and for always on one side the side of the truth and the rest of mankind the world on the other in that we observe the most fatal sort of megalomania that the earth has ever seen little abortions of bigots and liars begin to claim exclusive rights in the concepts of God the truth, the light, the spirit love, wisdom and life as if these things were synonyms of themselves and thereby they sought to fence themselves off from the world little super-jews ripe for some sort of madhouse turned values upside down in order to meet their notions just as if the Christian were the meaning, the salt, the standard and even the last judgment of all the rest the whole disaster was only made possible by the fact that there already existed in the world a similar megalomania allied to this one in race to wit, the Jewish once a chasm had begun to yawn between Jews and Judeo-Christians the latter had no choice but to employ the self-preservative measures that the Jewish instinct had devised even against the Jews themselves whereas the Jews had employed them only against non-Jews this one is simply a Jew of the reformed confession 45 I offer a few examples of the sort of thing these petty people have got into their heads what they have put into the mouth of the master the unalloyed creed of beautiful souls and whosoever shall not receive you nor hear you when you depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them verily I say unto you it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city Mark 611 how evangelical and whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me it is better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea Mark 942 how evangelical and if thine eye offend thee pluck it out it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into hellfire where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched Mark 947-48 it is not exactly the eye that is meant verily I say unto you that there be some of them that stand here which shall not taste of death till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power well lied lion whosoever will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me 4 Mark 834 judge not that ye be not judged with what measure ye meet it shall be measured to you again Matthew 7 1 and 2 what a notion of justice of a just judge for if you love them which love you what reward have ye do not even the publicans the same and if you salute your brethren only what do you more than ever do if you love them which love you and if you love your brethren only what do you more than others do not even the publicans so Matthew 5 46-47 principle of Christian love it insists on being well paid in the end but if you forgive not men their trespasses neither will your father forgive your trespasses Matthew 6 15 very compromising for the said father but seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you Matthew 6 33 all these things namely food clothing all the necessities of a life an error to put it mildly a bit before this God appears as a tailor at least in certain cases rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy for behold your reward is great in heaven for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets Luke 6 23 impudent rabble it compares itself to the prophets know ye not that you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you if any man defile the temple of God him shall God destroy for the temple of God is holy which temple you are Paul 1 Corinthians 3 16 and 17 for that sort of thing one cannot have enough contempt do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world and if the world shall be judged by you are you unworthy to judge the world are you judged by you are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters Paul 1 Corinthians 6 2 unfortunately not merely the speech of a lunatic this frightful imposter then precedes know ye not that you shall judge angels how much more things that pertain to this life have not God made foolish the wisdom of this world for after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe not many wise men after the flesh not men mighty not many noble are called but God have chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God have chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and base things of the world and things which are despised have God chosen ye and things which are not to bring to not things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence Paul 1 Corinthians 1 20-29 in order to understand this passage a first rate example of the psychology underlying every chandelier morality one should read the first part of my genealogy of morals there for the first time the antagonism between a noble morality and a morality born of resentment and impotent vengefulness is exhibited Paul was the greatest of all apostles of revenge 46 what follows then that one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament the presence of so much filth makes it very advisable one would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews not that one needs seek out an objection to them, neither has a pleasant smell I have searched the New Testament in vain for a single sympathetic touch nothing is there that is free open-hearted or upright in it humanity does not even make the first step upward the instinct for cleanliness is lacking only evil instincts are there and there is not even the courage of these evil instincts it is all cowardice it is all a shutting of the eyes a self-deception every other book becomes clean once one has read the New Testament for example after reading Paul I took up with delight that most charming and wanton of scoffers Petronius of whom one may say what Domenico Boccaccio wrote of Cesar Borgia to the Duke of Parma etutofesto immortally healthy immortally cheerful and sound these petty bigots make a capital miscalculation whoever is attacked by an early Christian is surely not befouled on the contrary it is an honor to have an early Christian as an opponent one cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the wisdom of this world which an impudent windbag tries to dispose of by the foolishness of preaching even the scribes and Pharisees are benefited by such opposition they must certainly have been worth something to have been hated in such an indecent manner hypocrisy as if this were a charge that the early Christians dared to make for all they were the privileged and that was enough the hatred of the chandala needed no other excuse the early Christian and also I fear the last Christian whom I may perhaps live to see is a rebel against all privilege by profound instinct he lives and makes more forever for equal rights strictly speaking he has no alternative when a man proposes to represent in his own person the chosen of God the temple of God or a judge of the angels then every other criterion whether based upon honesty upon intellect, upon manliness and pride or upon beauty and freedom of the heart becomes simply worldly evil in itself moral every word that comes from the lips of an early Christian is a lie and his every act is instinctively dishonest all his values all his aims are noxious whoever he hates whatever he hates has real value the Christian and particularly the Christian priest is thus a criterion of values must I add that in the whole New Testament there appears but a solitary figure worthy of honor Pilate the Roman Visoroi to regard a Jewish embryo seriously that was quite beyond him one Jew more or less what did it matter the noble scorn of a Roman before whom the word truth was shamelessly mishandled enriched the New Testament with the only saying that has any value and that is at once its criticism and its destruction what is truth 47 the thing that sets us apart is not that we are unable to find God either in history or in nature or behind nature but that we regard what has been honored as God not as divine but as pitiable as absurd as injurious not as a mere error but as a crime against life we deny that God is God if anyone were to show us this Christian God we'd be still less inclined to believe in him in a formula deus qualum paulus creavit dei negazio such a religion is Christianity which does not touch reality at a single point and which goes to pieces the moment reality asserts its rights at any point must be inevitably the deadly enemy of the wisdom of this world which is to say of science and it will give the name of good to whatever means served to poison columniate and cry down all intellectual discipline all lucidity and strictness in matters of intellectual conscience and all noble coolness and freedom of the mind faith as an imperative vetoes science in proxy lying at any price Paul well knew that lying that faith was necessary later on the church borrowed the fact from Paul the God that Paul invented for himself a God who reduced to absurdity the wisdom of this world especially the two great enemies of superstition philology and medicine is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself to give one's own will the name of God, Thora that is essentially Jewish Paul wants to dispose of the wisdom of this world his enemies are the good philologians and the physicians of the Alexandrine school on them he makes his war as a matter of fact no man can be a philologian or a physician without being also antichrist that is to say as a philologian a man sees behind the holy books and as a physician he sees behind the physiological degeneration of the typical Christian the physician says incurable the philologian says fraud end of sections 43 through 47 this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer visit LibriVox.org recorded by Kirsten Ferrari the Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche sections 48 through 53 48 has anyone ever clearly understood the celebrated story at the beginning of the Bible of God's mortal terror of science no one in fact has understood it this priest book par excellence opens as he's fitting with the great inner difficulty of the priest he faces only one great danger ergo God faces only one great danger the old God holy spirit holy the high priest holy perfect is promenading his garden he is bored and trying to kill time against boredom even God struggling vain what does he do? he creates man man is entertaining but then he notices that man is also bored God's pity for the only form of distress that invades all paradises knows no bounds so he forthwith creates other animals God's first mistake to man these other animals were not entertaining he sought dominion over them he did not want to be an animal himself God created woman in the act he brought boredom to an end and also many other things woman was the second mistake of God woman at bottom is a serpent heva every priest knows that from woman comes every evil in the world every priest knows that too ergo she also is to blame for science it was through woman that man learned to taste of the tree of knowledge what happened? the old God was seized by mortal terror man himself had been his greatest blunder he had created a rival to himself science makes men God-like it is all up with priests and gods when man becomes scientific moral science is the forbidden per se it alone is forbidden science is the first of sins the germ of all sins the original sin the reality thou shalt not know the rest follows from that God's mortal terror however did not hinder him from being shrewd how is one to protect oneself against science for a long while this was the capital problem answer out of paradise with man happiness, leisure, foster thought and all thoughts are bad thoughts man must not think and so the priest invents death, the mortal dangers of childbirth all sorts of misery old age, decrepitude above all sickness nothing but devices for making war on science the troubles of man don't allow him to think nevertheless, how terrible the edifice of knowledge begins to tower aloft invading heaven, shadowing the gods what is to be done? the old God invents war he separates the peoples and destroying one another the priests have always had need of war war among other things a great disturber of science incredible knowledge, deliverance from the priests prospers in spite of war so the old God comes to his final resolution man has become scientific there is no help for it he must be drowned 49 I have been understood at the opening of the bible there is the whole psychology of the priest the priest knows of only one great danger that is science the sound comprehension of cause and effect but science flourishes on the whole only under favorable conditions a man must have time he must have an overflowing intellect in order to know therefore man must be made unhappy this has been in all ages the logic of the priest it is easy to see just what by this logic was the first thing to come into the world sin the concept of guilt and punishment the whole moral order of the world was set up against science against the deliverance of man from priests man must not look outward he must look inward he must not look at things shrewdly and cautiously to learn about them he must not look at all he must suffer and he must suffer so much that he is always in need of the priest away with physicians what is needed is a saviour the concept of guilt and punishment including the doctrines of grace of salvation of forgiveness lies through and through and absolutely without psychological reality were devised to destroy man's sense of causality they are an attack upon the concept of cause and effect and not an attack with the fist with the knife with honesty and hate and love one inspired by the most cowardly the most crafty the most ignoble of instincts an attack of priests an attack of parasites the vampirism of pale subterranean leeches when the natural consequences of an act are no longer natural but are regarded as produced by the ghostly creations of superstition by God by spirits by souls and reckoned as merely moral consequences as rewards, as punishments as hints, as lessons then the whole groundwork of knowledge is destroyed then the greatest of crimes against humanity has been perpetrated I repeat that sin man's self desecration par excellence was invented in order to make peace, culture and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible the priest rules through the invention of sin fifty in this place I can't permit myself to omit a psychology of belief of the believer for the special benefit of believers if there remain any today who do not yet know how indecent it is to be believing or how much a sign of decadence of a broken will to live well enough tomorrow my voice reaches even the deaf it appears unless I have been incorrectly informed that there prevails among Christians a sort of criterion of truth that is called proof by power faith makes blessed therefore it is true it might be objected right here that blessedness is not demonstrated it is merely promised it hangs upon faith as a condition one shall be blessed because one believes but what of the thing that the priest promises to the believer the holy transcendental beyond how is that to be demonstrated the proof by power thus assumed is actually no more at bottom than a belief that the effects which faith promises will not fail to appear in a formula I believe that faith makes for blessedness therefore it is true but this is as far as we may go this therefore would be absurdum itself as a criterion of truth but let us admit for the sake of politeness that blessedness by faith may be demonstrated not merely hoped for and not merely promised by the suspicious lips of a priest even so could blessedness in a technical term pleasure ever be a proof of truth so little is this truth that it is almost a proof against truth when sensations of pleasure influence the answer to the question what is true or at all events it is enough to make that truth highly suspicious the proof by pleasure is a proof of pleasure nothing more why in the world should it be assumed that true judgments give more pleasure than false ones and that in conformity to some pre-established harmony they necessarily bring agreeable feelings in their train the experience of all disciplined and profound minds teaches the contrary man has had to fight for every atom of the truth and has had to pay for it almost everything that the heart that human love that human trust cling to greatness of soul is needed for this business the service of truth is the hardest of all services what then is the meaning of integrity in things intellectual it means that a man must be severe with his own heart he must scorn beautiful feelings and that he makes every yay and nay a matter of conscience faith makes blessed therefore it lies the fact that faith under certain circumstances may work for blessedness but that this blessedness is produced by an idea fixé by no means makes the idea itself true and the fact that faith actually moves no mountains but instead raises them up where there were none before all this is made sufficiently clear by a walk through a lunatic asylum not of course to a priest for his instincts prompt him to the lie that sickness is not sickness and lunatic asylums not lunatic asylums Christianity finds sickness necessary just as the Greek spirit had need of a super abundance of health the actual ulterior motive of the whole system of salvation of the church is to make people ill and the church itself doesn't it set up a catholic lunatic asylum as the ultimate ideal the whole earth as a madhouse the sort of religious man that the church wants is a typical decadent the moment at which a religious crisis dominates a people is always marked by epidemics of nervous disorder the inner world of the religious man is so much like the inner world is so much like the inner world of the over strung and exhausted that it is difficult to distinguish between them the highest states of mind held up before mankind by Christianity as of supreme worth are actually epileptoid in form the church has granted the name of holy only to lunatics or to gigantic frauds in majorum de honorum once I've entered to designate the whole Christian system of training in penance and salvation as a method of producing a foley circular upon a soil already prepared for it which is to say a soil thoroughly unhealthy not everyone may be a Christian one is not converted to Christianity one must first be sick enough for it we others who have the courage for health and likewise for contempt we may well despise a religion that teaches misunderstanding of the body that refuses to rid itself of the superstition about the soul that makes a virtue of insufficient nourishment that combats health as a sort of enemy devil temptation that persuades itself that it is possible to carry about a perfect soul in a cadaver of a body and that to this end had to devise for itself a new concept of perfection a pale sickly idiotically ecstatic state of existence so called holiness a holiness that is itself merely a series of symptoms of an impoverished innervated and incurably disordered body the Christian movement as a European movement was from the start no more than a general uprising of all sorts of outcast and refuse elements who now under cover of Christianity aspire to power it does not represent the decay of a race it represents on the contrary an aberration of decadence products from all direction crowding together and seeking one another out it was not as has been thought the corruption of antiquity of noble antiquity which made Christianity possible one cannot too sharply challenge the learned imbecility which today maintains that theory at the time when the sick and rotten Chandala classes in the whole Imperium were Christianized the contrary type of imbecility reached its finest and ripest development the majority became master democracy with its Christian instincts triumphed Christianity was not national it was not based on race it applied to all the varieties of men disinherited by life it had its allies everywhere Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core the instinct against the healthy against health everything that is well constituted proud, gallant and above all beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes again I remind you of Paul's priceless saying and God have chosen the weak things of the world the foolish things of the world the base things of the world and things which are despised 1 Corinthians 1 27-28 this was the formula in hawk signal 1 Corinthians triumphed God on the cross is man always to miss the frightful inner significance of this symbol everything that suffers everything that hangs on the cross is divine we all hang on the cross consequently we are divine we alone are divine Christianity was thus a victory a nobler attitude of mind was destroyed by it Christianity remains its fortune of humanity 52 Christianity also stands in opposition to all intellectual well being sick reasoning is the only sort that it can use as Christian reasoning it takes the side of everything that is idiotic it pronounces a curse upon intellect upon the suburbia of the healthy intellect since sickness is inherent in Christianity it follows that the typically Christian state must be a form of sickness too and that all straight straightforward and scientific paths to knowledge must be banned by the church as forbidden ways doubt is thus a sin from the start the complete lack of psychological cleanliness in the priest revealed by a glance at him is a phenomenon resulting from decadence one may observe in hysterical women and in recitic children how regularly the falsification of instincts delight in lying for the mere sake of lying and incapacity for looking straight and walking straight are symptoms of decadence faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true the pietist the priest of either sex is a fraud because he is sick his instinct demands that the truth shall never be allowed its rights on any point whatever makes for illness is good whatever issues from abundance from super abundance from power is evil so argues the believer the impulse to lie it is by this that I recognize every four ordained theologian another characteristic of the theologian is his unfitness for philology what I mean here by philology is in a general sense the art of reading with profit the capacity for absorbing facts without interpreting them falsely and without losing caution and subtlety in the effort to understand them philology as effectis that is skepticism in interpretation whether one be dealing with books with newspaper reports with the most fateful events or with weather statistics not to mention the salvation of the soul the way in which a theologian whether in Berlin or in Rome is ready to explain say a passage of scripture or an experience of the national army by turning upon it the high illumination of the Psalms of David is always so daring that it is enough to make a philologian run up a wall but what shall he do when pietists and other such cows from Suebia use the finger of God to convert their miserably commonplace and hugger mugger existence into a miracle of grace a providence and an experience of salvation the most modest exercise of the intellect should certainly be enough to convince these interpreters of the perfect childishness and unworthiness of such a misuse of the divine digital dexterity however small our piety if we ever encountered a God who always cured us of a cold in the head just at the right time or got us into our carriage at the very instant heavy rain began to fall he would seem so absurd a God that he'd have to be abolished even if he existed even as a domestic servant as a letter carrier as an almanac man at bottom he is a mere name for the stupidest sort of chance divine providence which every third man in educated Germany still believes in is so strong an argument against God that it would be impossible to think of a stronger and in any case it is an argument against Germans 53 it is so little true that martyrs have any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all in the very tone in which a martyr flings what he fancies to be true at the head of the world there appears so low a grade of intellectual honesty and such insensibility to the problem of truth that it is never necessary to refute him truth is not something that one man has and another man has not at best only peasants or peasant apostles like Luther can think of truth in any such way one may rest assured that the greater the degree of a man's intellectual conscience the greater will be his modesty his discretion on this point to know in five cases and to refuse with delicacy to know anything further truth as the word is understood by every prophet every sectarian every free thinker every socialist and every churchman is simply a complete proof that not even a beginning has been made in the intellectual discipline and self-control that are necessary to the unearthing of even the smallest truth the deaths of the martyrs it may be said in passing have been the misfortunes of history they have misled the conclusion that all idiots women and plebeians come to that there must be something in a cause for which anyone goes to his death or which as under primitive Christianity sets off epidemics of death seeking this conclusion has been an unspeakable drag upon the testing of facts upon the whole spirit of inquiry and investigation the martyrs have damaged the truth even to this day the crude fact of persecution is enough to give an honorable name to the most empty sort of sectarianism but why? the birth of a cause altered by the fact that someone had laid down his life for it an error that becomes honorable is simply an error that has acquired one seductive charm more do you suppose, Mr. Theologians that we shall give you the chance to be martyred for your lies one best disposes of a cause by respectfully putting it on ice that is also the best way to dispose of Theologians this was precisely the world historical stupidity of all the persecutors that they gave the appearance of honor to the cause they opposed that they made it a present of the fascination of martyrdom women are still on their knees before an error because they have been told that someone died on the cross for it is the cross then an argument? but about all these things there is one and one only who has said what has been needed for thousands of years Zarathustra it signs in blood along the way that they went and their folly taught them that the truth is proved by blood but blood is the worst of all testimonies to the truth blood poisoneth even the purest teaching and turneth it into madness and hatred in the heart and when one goes through fire for his teaching what does that prove? verily it is more when one's teaching cometh out of one's own burning end of sections 48 through 53 this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are on the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche sections 54 through 62 54 do not let yourself be deceived great intellects are skeptical Zarathustra is a skeptic the strength the freedom which proceed from intellectual power from a superabundance of intellectual power manifest themselves as skepticism man of fixed convictions do not count when it comes to determining what is fundamental in values and lack of values men of convictions are prisoners they do not see far enough they do not see what is below them whereas a man who would talk to any purpose about value and non-value must be able to see 500 convictions beneath him and behind him a mind that aspires to great things and that wills the means there too is necessarily skeptical freedom from any sort of conviction belongs to strength and to an independent point of view that grand passion is once the foundation and the power of a skeptic's existence and is both more enlightened and more despotic than he is himself drafts the whole of his intellect into its service it makes him unscrupulous it gives him courage to employ unholy means under certain circumstances it does not begrudge him even convictions conviction as a means one may achieve a good deal by means of a conviction a grand passion makes use of and uses up convictions it does not yield to them it knows itself to be sovereign on the contrary the need of faith of something unconditioned by yay or nay of carliolism if I may be allowed the word is a need of weakness the man of faith the believer of any sort is necessarily a dependent man such a man cannot visit himself as a goal nor can he find goals within himself the believer does not belong to himself he can only be a means to an end he must be used up he needs someone to use him up his instinct gives the highest honors to an ethic of self-effacement he is prompted to embrace it by everything his prudence vanity every sort of faith is in itself an evidence of self-effacement of self-estrangement when one reflects how necessary it is to the great majority that there be regulations to restrain them from without and hold them fast and to what extent control or in a higher sense slavery is the one and only condition which makes for the well-being of the weak-willed man then one at once understands conviction and faith to the man with convictions they are his backbone to avoid seeing many things to be impartial about nothing to be a party man through and through to estimate all values strictly and infallibly these are the conditions necessary to the existence of such a man but by the same token they are antagonists of the truthful man of the truth the believer is not free to answer the question true or not true according to the dictates of his own conscience integrity on this point would work his instant downfall the pathological limitations of his vision turn the man of convictions into a fanatic Savonarola, Luther, Rousseau Robespierre, Saint-Simon these types stand in opposition to the strong emancipated spirit but the grandiose attitudes of these sick intellects these intellectual epileptics are of influence upon the great masses fanatics are picturesque and mankind prefers observing poses to listening to reasons 55 one step further in the psychology of conviction it is now a good while since I first proposed for consideration the question whether convictions are not even more dangerous enemies to truth than lies paren human all too human one aphorism 483 translators footnote 27 the aphorism which is headed the enemies of truth makes the direct statement convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies and footnote and paren this time I desire to put the question definitively is there any actual difference between a lie and a conviction all the world believes that there is but what is not believed by all the world every conviction has a history its primitive forms its stage of tenetiveness and error it becomes a conviction only after having been for a long time not one even for an even longer time hardly one what if falsehood be also one of these embryonic forms of conviction sometimes all that is needed is a change in persons what was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son I call it lying to refuse to see what one sees or to refuse to see it as it is whether the lie be uttered before witnesses is of no consequence the most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself the deception of others is a relatively rare offense now this will not to see what one sees this will not to see it as it is is almost the first requisite for all who belong to a party of whatever sort the party man becomes inevitably a liar for example the german historians are convinced that one was synonymous with despotism and that the germanic peoples brought the spirit of liberty into the world what is the difference between this conviction and a lie is it to be wondered at that all partisans including the german historians instinctively roll the fine phrases of morality upon their tongues that morality almost owes its very survival to the fact that the party man of every sort has need of it every moment this is our conviction to the whole world we live and die for it let us respect all who have convictions I've actually heard such sentiments from the mouths of anti-semites on the contrary gentlemen an anti-semite surely does not become more respectable because he lies on principle the priests who have more finesse in such matters and who well understand the objection that lies against the notion of a conviction which is to say of a falsehood that becomes a matter of principle that serves a purpose have borrowed from the jews the shrewd device of sneaking in the concepts God, the will of God and the revelation of God at this place Kant too, with his categorical imperative was on the same road this was his practical reason translators footnote 28 a reference of course to Kant's critique of practical reason paren critique of practical reason and paren and footnote there are questions regarding the truth or untruth of which it is not for man to decide all the capital questions all the capital questions evaluation are beyond human reason to know the limits of reason that alone is genuine philosophy why did God make a revelation to man would God have done anything superfluous superfluous man could not find out for himself what was good and what was evil so God taught him his will moral the priest does not lie the question true or untrue has nothing to do with such things as the priest discusses it is impossible to lie about these things in order to lie here it would be necessary to know what is true but this is more than man can know the priest is simply the mouthpiece of God such a priestly syllogism is by no means merely Jewish and Christian the right to lie and the shrewd dodge of revelation belong to the general priestly type to the priest of the Decadence as well as to the priest of pagan times pagans are all those who say yes to life and to whom God is a word signifying acquiescence in all things the law the will of God the holy book and inspiration are merely words for the conditions under which the priest comes to power and with which he maintains his power these concepts are to be found at the bottom of all priestly organizations and of all priestly or priestly philosophical schemes of governments the holy lie common alike to Confucius to the code of Manu to Muhammad and to the Christian church is not even wanting in Plato truth is here this means no matter where it's heard or speaks in the last analysis it comes to this what is the end of lying the fact that in Christianity holy ends are not visible is my objection to the means it deploys only bad ends appear the poisoning the calumniation the denial of life the despising of the body the degradation and self-contamination of man by the concept of sin therefore its means I have a contrary feeling when I read the code of Manu an incomparably more intellectual and superior work which it would be sin against the intelligence to so much as name in the same breath as the Bible it is easy to see why there's a genuine philosophy behind it in it not merely an evil smelling mess of Jewish rabbinism and superstition it gives even the most fastidious psychologist something to sink his teeth into not to forget what is most important it differs fundamentally from every kind of Bible by means of it the nobles, the philosophers and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority it is full of noble evaluations it shows a feeling of perfection an acceptance of life and a triumphant feeling towards self in the life the sun shines upon the whole book all the things on which Christianity vents its fathomless vulgarity for example, procreation and marriage are here handled earnestly with reverence and with love and confidence how can anyone really put into the hands of children and ladies a book which contains such vile things as this to avoid fornication let every man have his own life and let every woman have her own husband it is better to marry than to burn translators footnote number 29 1 Corinthians 7 2 9 and footnote and it is possible to be a Christian so long as the origin of man is Christianized which is to say be fouled by the doctrine of the Immaculata Conceptio I know of no book in which so many delicate and kindly things are said of women as in the Code of Manu these old gray beards and saints have a way of being gallant to women that it would be impossible perhaps to surpass the mouth of a woman it says in one place the breath of a maiden the prayer of a child and the smoke of sacrifice are always pure in another place there is nothing purer than the light of the sun the shadow cast by a cow air water fire and the breath of a maiden finally in still another place perhaps this is also a holy lie all the orifices of the body above the navel are pure and all below are impure only in the maiden is the whole body pure 57 one catches the unholiness of Christian means inflagranti by the simple process of putting the ends sought by Christianity beside the ends sought by the Code of Manu by putting these enormously antithetical ends under a strong light the critic of Christianity cannot evade the necessity of making Christianity contemptible a book of laws such as the Code of Manu has the same origin as every other good law book it epitomizes the experience the sagacity and the ethical experimentation of long centuries it brings things to a conclusion it no longer creates the prerequisite to a codification of this sort the recognition of the fact that the means which establish the authority of a slowly and painfully attained truth are fundamentally different from those which one would make use of to prove it a law book never recites the utility the grounds the casuistical antecedents of a law for if it did so it would lose the imperative tone that thou shall on which obedience is based the problem lies exactly here at a certain point in the evolution of a people the class within it of the greatest insight which is to say the greatest hindsight and foresight declares that the series of experiences determining how all shall live or can live has come to an end the object now is to reap as rich and as complete a harvest as possible from the days of experiment and hard experience in consequence the thing that is to be avoided above everything is further experimentation the continuation of the state in which values are fluent and are tested chosen and criticized ad infinitum against this a double wall is set up on the one hand revelation which is the assumption that the reasons lying behind the laws are not of human origin that they were not sought out and found by a slow process and after many errors but that they are of divine ancestry and came into being complete perfect without a history as a free gift a miracle and on the other hand tradition which is the assumption that the law has stood unchanged from time immemorial and that it is impious and a crime against one's forefathers to bring it into question the authority of the law is thus grounded on the thesis God gave it and the fathers lived it the higher motive of such procedure lies in the design to distract consciousness step by step from its concern with notions of right living that is to say those that have been proved to be right by wide and carefully considered experience so that instinct attains to a perfect automatism a primary necessary to every sort of mastery to every sort of perfection in the art of life to draw up such a law book as Manu's means to lay before a people the possibility of future mastery of attainable perfection it permits them to aspire to the highest reaches of the art of life to that end the thing must be made unconscious that is the aim of every holy lie the order of casts the highest the dominating law is merely the ratification of an order of nature of a natural law of the first rank over which no arbitrary fiat no modern idea can exert any influence in every healthy society there are three physiological types gravitating towards differentiation but mutually conditioning one another and each of these has its own hygiene its own sphere of work its own special mastery and feeling of perfection it is not Manu but nature that sets off in one class those who are chiefly intellectual in another those who are marked by muscular strength and temperament and in a third those who are distinguished in neither one way or the other but show only mediocrity the last named represents the great majority and the first two the select the superior cast I call it the fewest has, as the most perfect the privileges of the few it stands for happiness for beauty for everything good upon earth only the most intellectual of men have any right to beauty to the beautiful only in them can goodness escape being weakness hominom translators footnote 30 few men are noble and footnote goodness is a privilege nothing could be more unbecoming to them than uncouth manners or a pessimistic look or an eye that sees ugliness or indignation against the general aspect of things indignation is the privilege of the chandala so is pessimism the world is perfect so prompts the instinct of the intellectual the instinct of the man who says yes to life imperfection whatever is inferior to us distance the pathos of distance even the chandala themselves are parts of this perfection the most intelligent men like the strongest find their happiness where others would find only disaster in the labyrinth in being hard with themselves with others in effort their delight is in self mastery in them asceticism becomes second nature a necessity an instinct they regard a difficult task as a privilege it is to them a recreation to play with burdens that would crush all others knowledge a form of asceticism they are the most honorable kind of men but that does not prevent them being the most cheerful amiable they rule not because they want to but because they are they are not at liberty to play second the second cast to this belong the guardians of the law the keepers of order and security the more noble warriors above all the king has the highest form of warrior judge and preserver of the law the second in rank constitute the executive arm of the intellectuals the next to them in rank is a law that is rough in the business of ruling their followers their right hand, their most apt disciples in all this I repeat there is nothing arbitrary, nothing made up whatever is to the contrary is made up by it nature is brought to shame the order of cast the order of rank simply formulates the supreme law of life itself the separation of the three types is necessary to the maintenance of society and to the evolution of higher types and the highest types is essential to the existence of any rights at all a right is a privilege everyone enjoys the privileges that accord with his state of existence let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre life is always harder as one mounts the heights the cold increases responsibility increases a high civilization is a pyramid it can stand only on a broad base its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity the handicrafts commerce agriculture, science the greater part of art the whole range of occupational activities are compatible only with mediocrity and aspiration such callings would be out of place for exceptional men the instincts which belong to them are opposed to aristocracy as to anarchism the fact that a man is publicly useful that he is a wheel a function is evidence of a natural predisposition it is not society but the only sort of happiness that the majority are capable of that makes them intelligent machines to the mediocre mediocrity is a form of happiness they have a natural instinct for mastering one thing it would be altogether unworthy of a profound intellect to see anything objectionable in mediocrity in itself it is in fact the first prerequisite to the appearance of the exceptional it is a necessary condition to a high degree of civilization when the exceptional man handles the mediocre man with more delicate fingers than he applies to himself or to his equals this is not merely kindness of heart it is simply his duty whom do I hate most heartily among the rables of today the rabble of socialists the apostles to the chandala who undermine the working man's instincts his pleasures his feeling of contentment with his petty existence who make him envious and teach him revenge wrong never lies in unequal rights it lies in the assertion of equal rights what is bad but I've already answered all that proceeds from weakness from envy from revenge the anarchist and the Christian have the same ancestry 58 in point of fact the end for which one lies makes a great difference whether one preserves thereby or destroys there is a perfect likeness between Christian and anarchist their object, their instinct points only toward destruction one need only turn to history for proof of this there it appears with appalling distinctness we have just studied a code of religious legislation whose object it was to convert the conditions which cause life to flourish into an eternal social organization Christianity found its mission in putting an end to such an organization because life flourished under it there the benefits that reason had produced during long ages of experiment and insecurity were applied to the most remote uses and an effort was made to bring in a harvest that should be as large, as rich and as complete as possible here, on the contrary the harvest is blighted overnight that which stood there Ere Perennis the Imperium Romanum the most magnificent form of organization under difficult conditions that has ever been achieved to which everything before it and after it appears as patchwork bungly de la tanteism those holy anarchists made it a matter of piety to destroy the world which is to say, the Imperium Romanum so that in the end not a stone stood upon another and even Germans and other such louts were able to become its masters the Christian and the anarchist both are decadent no both are incapable of any act that is not disintegrating poisonous, degenerating blood-sucking both have an instinct of mortal hatred of everything that stands up and is great and has durability and promises life of future Christianity was the vampire of the Imperium Romanum overnight it destroyed the vast achievement of the Romans the conquest of the soil and its time can it be that this fact is not yet understood? the Imperium Romanum that we know and that the history of the Roman provinces teaches us to know better and better this, most admirable of all works of art in the grand manner was merely the beginning and the structure to follow was not to prove its worth for thousands of years to this day nothing on a like scale subspecie attorney to being or even dreamed of this organization was strong enough to withstand bad emperors the accident of personality has nothing to do with such things the first principle of all genuinely great architecture but it was not strong enough to stand up against the corruptist of all forms of corruption against Christians these stealthy worms which under the cover of night mist and duplicity in every individual sucking him dry of all earnest interest in real things of all instinct for reality this cowardly effeminate and sugar coated gang gradually alienated all souls step by step from that colossal edifice turning against it all the meritorious manly and noble natures that had found in the cause of Rome their own cause their own serious purpose their own pride the sneakishness of hypocrisy inventical concepts as black as hell such as the sacrifice of the innocent the uniomistica in the drinking of blood above all the slowly rekindled fire of revenge of chandala revenge all that sort of thing became master of Rome the same kind of religion which in a pre-existent form Epicurus had combated one has but to read Lucretius to know what Epicurus made war upon not paganism but Christianity which is to say the corruption of souls by means of the concept of guilt, punishment and immortality he combated the subterranean cults the whole of latent Christianity to deny immortality was already a form of genuine salvation Epicurus had triumphed and every respectable intellect in Rome was Epicurian when Paul appeared the chandala hatred of Rome of the world in the flesh and inspired by genius the Jew the eternal Jew par excellence what he saw was how with the aid of the small sectarian Christian movement that stood apart from Judaism a world conflagration might be kindled how with the symbol of God on the cross all secret seditions all the fruits of anarchistic intrigues within the empire might be amalgamated into one immense power salvation is of the Jews Christianity is the formula for exceeding and summing up the subterranean cults of all varieties that of Osiris, that of the great mother that of Mithras for instance in his discernment of this fact the genius of Paul showed itself his instinct was here so sure that with reckless violence to the truth he put the idea which lent fascination to every sort of chandala religion into the mouth of the savior as his own inventions and not only into the mouth he made out of him something that even a priest of Mithras could understand this was his revelation at Damascus he grasped the fact that he needed the belief in immortality in order to rob the world of its value that the concept of hell in master Rome that the notion of a beyond is the death of life nihilists and Christian they rhyme in German and they do more than rhyme 59 the whole labor of the ancient world gone for naught I have no word to describe the feelings that such an enormity arouses in me and considering the fact that its labor was merely preparatory that with adamantine self-consciousness it laid only the foundations for a work to go on for thousands of years the whole meaning of antiquity disappears to what end the Greeks to what end the Romans all the prerequisites to a learned culture all the methods of science were already there men had already perfected the great and incomparable art of reading profitably that first necessity to the tradition of culture the unity of the sciences the natural sciences in alliance with mathematics and mechanics were on the right road the sense of fact the last and most valuable of all the senses had its schools and its traditions were already centuries old is all this properly understood every essential to the beginning of the work was ready and the most essential it cannot be said too often are methods and also the most difficult to develop and the longest opposed by habit and laziness what we have today reconquered with unspeakable self-discipline for ourselves for certain bad instincts, certain Christian instincts still lurk in our bodies that is to say the keen eye for reality the cautious hand patience and seriousness in the smallest things the whole integrity of knowledge all these things were already there and had been there for 2,000 years more refined and excellent tact and taste not as mere brain drilling not as German culture with its lautish manners but as body as bearing, as instinct in short, as reality all gone for naught overnight it became merely a memory the Greeks, the Romans instinctive nobility, taste, methodical inquiry genius for organization and administration faith in to secure the future of man a great yes to everything entering into the Imperium Romanum and palpable to all the senses a grand style that was beyond mere art but it become reality truth, life all overwhelmed in a night but not by a convulsion of nature not trampled to death by two-tons and others of heavy hoof but brought to shame by crafty, sneaking invisible, anemic vampires not conquered, only sucked dry hidden vengefulness, petty envy became master everything wretched intrinsically ailing and invaded by bad feelings the whole ghetto world of the soul was once on top one needs but read any of the Christian agitators for example, Saint Augustine in order to realize in order to smell what filthy fellows came to the top it would be an error however there was any lack of understanding in the leaders of the Christian movement but they were clever, clever to the point of holiness, these fathers of the church what they lacked was something quite different nature neglected perhaps forgot to give them even the most modest endowment of respectable of upright of cleanly instincts between ourselves they are not even men if Islam despises Christianity it has a thousand fold right to do so Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men 60 Christianity destroyed for us the whole harvest of ancient civilization and later it also destroyed for us the whole harvest of Mohammedan civilization the wonderful culture of the Moors in Spain which was fundamentally nearer to us and appealed more to our senses in taste than that of Roman Greek was trampled down I do not say by what sort of feet why? because it had to thank noble and manly instincts for its origin because it said yes to life even to the rare and refined luxuriousness of Moorish life the Crusaders later made war on something before which it would have been more fitting for them to have groveled in the dust a civilization beside which even that of our 19th century seems very poor and very senile what they wanted of course was booty the Orient was rich let us put aside our prejudices the Crusades were a higher form of piracy nothing more the German nobility which is fundamentally a Viking nobility was in its element there the church knew only too well how the German nobility was to be won the German noble always the Swiss guard of the church always in the service of every bad instinct of the church but well paid the fact that it is precisely the aid of German swords and German blood and valor that has enabled the church to carry through its war to the death upon everything noble on earth at this point a host of painful questions suggest themselves the German ability stands outside the history of the higher civilization the reason is obvious Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption intrinsically there should be no more choice between Islam and Christianity than there is between an Arab and a Jew the decision is already reached nobody remains at liberty to choose here either a man is a Chandala or he is not war to the knife with Rome peace and friendship with Islam this was the feeling this was the act of that great free spirit that genius among German emperors Frederick the second what must a German first be a genius or he can feel decently I can't make out how a German could ever feel Christian 61 here it becomes necessary to call up a memory that must be a hundred times more painful to Germans the Germans have destroyed for Europe the last great harvest of civilization that Europe was ever to reap the Renaissance is it understood at last will it ever be understood what the Renaissance was the transvaluation of Christian values an attempt with all available means all instincts and all the resources genius to bring about a triumph of the opposite values the more noble values this has been the one great war of the past there has never been a more critical question than that of the Renaissance it is my question too there has never been a form of attack more fundamental more direct or more violently delivered by a whole front on the center of the enemy to attack at the critical place at the very seat of Christianity and their enthrone the more noble values that is to say to insinuate them into the instincts into the most fundamental needs and appetites of those sitting there I see before me the possibility of a perfectly heavenly enchantment and spectacle it seems to me to scintillate with all the vibrations of a fine and pure beauty and within it there is not so divine so infernally divine that one might search in vain for thousands of years for another such possibility I see a spectacle so rich in significance at the same time so wonderfully full of paradox that it should arouse all the gods on Olympus to immortal laughter Caesar Borgia as Pope am I understood well then that would have been a sort of triumph I alone am longing for today but yet Christianity would have been swept away what happened? a German monk Luther came to Rome this monk with all the vengeful instincts of an unsuccessful priest in him raised a rebellion against the renaissance in Rome instead of grasping with profound thanksgiving the miracle that had taken place the conquest of Christianity at its capital instead of this his hatred was stimulated by this spectacle a religious man thinks only of himself Luther saw only the depravity of the papacy at the very moment when the opposite was becoming apparent the old corruption the Picatum originale of Christianity itself no longer occupied the papal chair instead there was life instead there was the triumph of life instead there was a great yay to all lofty beautiful and daring things and Luther restored the church he attacked it the renaissance an event without meaning a great futility ah these Germans what they have not cost us futility that has always been the work of the Germans the reformation Leibniz Kant and so called German philosophy the war of liberation the empire every time a futile substitute for something that once existed for something irrecoverable these Germans I confess I despise all their uncleanliness and concept and valuation their cowardice before every honest yay and nay for nearly a thousand years they have tangled and confused everything their fingers have touched they have run the conscience all the halfway measures all the three eighths way measures that Europe is sick of they also have in their conscience the uncleanest variety of Christianity that exists and the most incurable and indestructible Protestantism if mankind never manages to get rid of Christianity the Germans will be to blame 62 with this I come to a conclusion and pronounce my judgment I condemn Christianity I bring against the Christian church the most terrible of all the accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth it is to me the greatest of all imaginable corruptions it seeks to work the ultimate corruption the worst possible corruption the Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity it has turned every value into worthlessness and every truth into a lie and every integrity into baseness of soul let anyone dare to speak to me of its humanitarian blessings its deepest necessities range it against the effort to abolish distress it lives by distress it creates distress to make itself immortal for example the worm of sin it was the church that first enriched mankind with this misery the equality of souls before God this fraud this pretext for the wrong cune of the base minded this explosive concept ending in revolution the modern era and the notion of the whole social order this is christian dynamite the humanitarian blessings of christianity forsooth to breed out of humanitas a self-contradiction an art of self pollution a will to lie at any price an aversion and contempt for all the good and honest instincts all this to me is the humanitarianism of christianity parasitism as the only practice of the church with its anemic and holy ideals sucking all the blood all the love all the hope out of life the beyond as the will to deny all reality the cross as the distinguishing mark of the most subterranean conspiracy ever heard of against health beauty well-being intellect kindness of soul against life itself this eternal accusation against christianity I shall write upon all walls wherever walls are to be found I have letters that even the blind will be able to see I call christianity the one great curse the one great intrinsic depravity the one great instinct of a revenge for which no means are venomous enough or secret, subterranean and small enough I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race and mankind reckons time from the decimifastus when this fatality befell from the first day of christianity why not rather from its last from today the transvaluation of all values and the antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche this recording is in the public domain


When the topic of Palestine and Israel's action hit the mainstream, some supposedly civilized folks conclude that Israel is in targeting Islam but the reality is quite the opposite. It has always been undermining people's religious devotion and making them more submissive. That's Zionist policy. Those stirring up trouble in the Palestinian region see Islam as a primary obstacle to their plans for them. Islam provides a spark of hope that keeps a desire for freedom alive because Islam means freedom. Asalaamu Alaikum guys, welcome to another episode of the open-minded thinker show focusing specifically on Palestine and Islam. Please give us a like, show with your family and friends and hit that subscription button and also the bell icon if you can so you don't miss anything. After attempting to erode the morale and hope of the Palestinian people, Israel seemed to have turned its attention to targeting, you know, mosques in the densely populated Gaza Strip. Some of these mosques, as we know, serve as shelter for refugees whose hopes have been shattered by airstrikes or caught up in Israeli offensives. This video from one of the western mainstream media platforms, I want to call it, but anyway, we're doing the so-called BBC done for sometimes downplaying issues in the Gaza Strip will surely shock you. This might be a must where Israel thinks Hamas gathers for prayers, right? Yet, as you can see from the video, there are no militants there or people brandishing AK47s. This is just a regular civilian mass situated within residential areas where local Muslims come to pray. Whether or not Hamas uses it for prayer is not the main concern here. What is the matter here is that this is a sacred place that should be spurred. You can destroy people's home and go after the worship place mate. That could amount actually to war crimes, frankly. The Torah itself condemns the destruction of places of worship while it may not be explicitly stated. The wording in Talmud Shabbat 31a where it says what is hateful to you do not do to another. This is the whole Torah seems to imply that if Israel opposes the destruction of other places of worship, this principle should apply to the Palestinian people too. Now let's take a look at this video from Ukraine. A cathedral in Odessa was hit by what the claimed at the time was a Russian miser, right? I'm now in the heart of Odessa. It's cathedral, Spasa Priyabrashensky Cathedral, the biggest Orthodox cathedral of Odessa city. And you can see what remained from it. This night Russia made a new missile attack against our city. And this time one of the missiles hit directly Orthodox cathedral, directly Orthodox cathedral in the night on Sunday when this morning here should be a mess. Politicians were quick to promise its reconstruction and even the Italian government allocated a substantial sum for its restoration. But why aren't we seeing the same concern for the destruction of people's spiritual heritage in Ghazami? I would like to wrap up by quoting these verses from the Quran specifically from Surah Al-Haj verses 40. Had it not been for God restraining some men by means of others, monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques, wearing the name of God is mentioned would assuredly have been destroyed. These verse are the scores Islam's commitment to protect and religious diversity and the places of worship during times of expansion. It highlights the Quran's core for tolerance, respect and peaceful coexistence among different faith reflecting the historical approach of Muslim leaders in preserving religious artifacts and the places of worship of diverse communities. Please like and share this video and if you haven't already, please subscribe so we can see you next time. As-salamu alaikum.


The video is coming very soon but before we get into that April 6 is the last day for you guys to fill out a Sephora Squad testimonial for me if you want. If you don't know what it is, Sephora Squad is basically an opportunity for a long-term partnership with Sephora and the first step to getting to be a part of that is having those who think I would be a good fit write me a testimonial. So I'm gonna leave the link down below and all you have to do is write why you think I would be a great member of Sephora Squad. Make sure you tag me. I would love to read them if you feel comfortable with that but just wanted to give you that reminder if you haven't done that yet. Yeah I have another Sephora haul and this one is rather large as I am looking at it on my table. So you guys know I love Sephora. I feature most of their brands on my channel so I take this opportunity during the Sephora VIP event to pick up just a bunch of stuff as much as I can so that I can review and test and do videos on it over the next few months and I did not disappoint you guys. We got a lot of stuff today. This is my second haul. I have a recommendations video already up. I have a haul already up. Both of those were sponsored by Sephora which I'm so grateful for. This video however is not sponsored by Sephora. These were my own Sephora runs out of my own pocket and I'm so excited. Some of this I did order online and then some of it I purchased in store which I don't do very often but it hit different this time. I went to Sephora and had a literal heyday. It didn't hurt as much because I had a few items to return so it like took off $100 but yeah being in Sephora hit different this time. Let's get into it. I'm pretty much wearing all of the items that I picked up as well and I have to say my face, my makeup, everything. I am loving it. Maybe a little heavy for me. I mean that's saying a lot but it was heavier than the look I was originally going for but everything looks really good. So we're going to start off with the first item which is the Rare Beauty Positive Light Tinted Moisturizer. I've somehow ended up with three of these. So one was sent in PR to my house in Maryland so I couldn't have that. So I was like whatever I'll just buy it. I want to try it. So then I ordered online because it said it wasn't in my local Sephora and then I went to my local Sephora and they had it and so I was looking at the shades and the shade that I ordered online was terrible. I find Rare Beauty's colors to be all over the place. So the shade that I ended up with that is a great shade for me. If your shade match for me is 24N. The model I feel like looked quite dark online so I was certain this wasn't my color and I've had items in the past for Rare Beauty that run dark but 24N is my shade. So I have to return the one that I bought in a shade way too light for me but I am using it today. It had a little bit more coverage than I was expecting. It still is like a light to medium coverage here but I think it looks really nice when I first applied it. It did look as though it was sitting on top of my skin which I didn't love but now that I have powder, concealer, bronzer, blush, the whole get up and it's had a chance to kind of settle into the skin. I think it looks really good. I like the finish on it. It looks quite smooth. There are some areas where I think it looks a little heavier than others and I do want to continue testing this because I am wearing it with a new concealer and a new powder so that also plays a role but first impressions I think I really do like this. So we will see lots of the skincare natural light coverage foundations have gone around. I haven't really been in love with any of them but I think that this one is really nice but I will continue to keep you guys updated on that. The next item that I got was a repurchase. In a Sephora haul I did about a month ago. I picked up a one size to ramp the base powder foundation because I love powder foundations and I just think they're so great living in such a humid climate and shade I got was so terrible. It was so so dark so I actually ended up picking up a shade that will work for me light to end. This is the shade of the concealer that I wear. I liked the powder foundation the first time I used it but it just wasn't in the right shade so I think it's going to be a whole new world when I get to use this in my shade. I used it today to set my face. That's just different. I need to try it as a foundation. It's a powder foundation so I'm excited. I'm pretty sure I like this. I'm just I'm excited to have it in my own shade. This was one of those things where it hit different shopping in Sephora. This item online never appealed to me but seeing it in front of me I grabbed it so quick so I picked up. This is a brand I've never tried before. The Psy Sun Melt Natural Cream Bronzer in the shade Light Bronze. I used it today. I really like it. I have a thing for cream blush and bronzers right now but I love a bronzer that comes in a pot like this. I just feel like because you can get your whole sponge in here or your whole brush that your bronzer applies so evenly and it looks so natural with that type of application and I like this. It's not too pigmented. It is a bit of a slightly warmer shade but it looks so even and healthy on my skin. I think I really do like this so far. I mean I've only been wearing it for like 30 minutes but I'm happy I picked this up. It kind of reminds me of the Chanel. The Chanel is definitely a little bit more cream to powder. This one isn't that powdery kind of finish. No it just reminded me of it so I'm excited about that one. I like that one a lot. Now I need to go back to Sephora and look at what else they have from this brand. Kind of an impulse purchase. I don't know exactly how excited I was about this but that in store hit different and I saw Fenty Beauty had their Sun Stalker Face and Eye Bronze or Highlight Palettes. I have some thoughts on this for sure. It is the snap packaging so I think you can connect it to the other palettes that they have which I don't even like those. I think it's interesting that they decided to come out with this because who really needs this right? It seems you know only makeup artists could use this but I was so curious. I believe these are all new shades. Editing me is going to punch me in the face if I'm wrong about that but these don't sound familiar to me. Anyways you have five different bronzers and two highlights in here and it's just like somebody using this for personal use you just don't need these many shades. Today I use the second Private Island Bronzer and it's nice. It's good quality. Fenty has a great bronzer formula. I also use the highlight underneath my blush. Again really pretty highlight. Kind of small though. I had trouble getting my fan brush in here. Other than a makeup artist I don't really see functionally. I don't really see why they advertise this as such. I think it would be different if they added like light matte highlights and something more so to like sculpt and shape the face as opposed to just being a straight bronzer palette and two highlights. I think that would have made it a little bit more versatile or to offer two different shades at the very least but yeah I don't know. I normally am attracted to palettes like these and I am attracted to this. That's why I picked it up but in theory was it great? A great idea? No but you can also use this for the eyes. I actually think if you like brown eyeshadow this is going to be great to use on the eyes. So there's some versatility here. I don't dislike it. I think it's good quality. I just don't love the concept but I can certainly make it work. You know what I'm trying to say? I like it but I don't. But I do like it anyways. I did pick it up anyways. I'm a sucker and I really want to try that on the eyes.  Just think about it. You could get such a pretty brown and neutral bronzy look with this. That's going to be beautiful this summer. So I'm not knocking it yet but I do need to chime in that it doesn't make that much sense to me. And then I picked up one powder blush. I always talk about these. I always recommend them and I always pick up at least one shade during the sale. So I got the Larimer CA blush color infusion in the shade ginger this time. I don't know if I should wait for the next sale to get more colors but I saw it in person. I saw all their colors and I was like I just need to buy the whole range at this point other than like one to two colors at a time. What a pretty neutrally color. This shade has been on my list for such a long time. My look would probably look better with a rosy blush but I just I love this formula. It applies so silky. It's just a great solid formula with the best everyday wearable color selection. Super underrated. So I always get a new shade of this and there's some rose shades that I am eyeing that I want to pick up. Highly recommend their blushes. Like you cannot go wrong with them. They aren't a trendy formulation or anything. They will be amazing formulations forever. Okay let's move on to the eyes. We'll start off with my eyebrows. I had the raffae brow sculpt on my wish list and I saw it in store so I picked it up but then I saw right next to it they had the whole raffae eyebrow system in a kit and I've never tried anything from raffae so I picked it up and this was the last thing that I needed. So there are three different shades like a light medium and dark. I got the medium so in it it comes with the sculpt the pomade and the pencil. I used the whole system in my brows today. I think there was a bit of user error. I need to use this again. It's that sculpt that kind of set the stage where I like mess things up. My eyebrows are thin. I struggle with the feather brow kind of look. Like I have a lot of spatial area of hair but there's some balding spots. Anyways so I did it in the order that they recommended which is totally not the order that I do it so I'm very out of my element with my brows today. So I started off with the sculpt and this is super interesting. So it has like a couple of different brush heads and then you have the sculpt product which is quite thick and gooey and you put it in your brows and that kind of sets the shape for them and the direction that they go in for the day and they are quite like gooey. It's not hard. It doesn't harden the brows or make them crunchy. I could totally continue to manipulate these if I wanted to but they do stay where you put them. So I started off with that and then I went to the pomade. The pomade I was a little messy with. I don't really like that style of packaging where it's like a tiny little vessel of product and then you have to use the brush that they have. I don't love this product. The pomade though didn't overwhelm the brows. It's a very lightweight product which I didn't know so I stabbed the brush in there and made a huge mess. So just go in lightly but it did actually do a good job of adding color to my brow. It wasn't too intense like the ABH at all so I like the formula but I don't like the packaging of it really but it did a good job of like just overall adding color to the brow and then I finished off with the pencil which is super fine. I love this pencil for those hairlight strokes. I think going in I would probably need to use my pencil beforehand just to get the bald spots on my eyebrows beforehand. I didn't like really using it last last but I did love the pencil itself but overall a little out of my element with this using it in the way that they recommend but I had so much fun. I feel really excited to use this again. I'm excited I picked it up.  I've never even seen this kit before which I don't know I love it. I really do. It's out of my comfort zone but I love it. And then from Makeup Forever I picked up another artist's color pencil. I didn't realize that they just like got rid of all of these. They used to have so many colors and I remember when they marketed it and they were like you can use it wherever whatever and then now it's just like a line of neutral tones and I think they started trending on tiktok so I wonder if they'll end up expanding because once upon a time it was a huge line but I picked up the shade boundless bisque which is the lightest skin tone shade just so I can sculpt my eyebrows and make everything look cleaner and brighter. You can also use this in the waterline as well. I do really like these pencils. Anywhere Caffeine is one of my all-time favorites for what I use lip liner but you can use these for whatever you want and yeah I just wanted a new shade so got that. I picked up two eyeshadow palettes. I'm really excited because I feel like the eyeshadow market I haven't been as into it so we'll start off with the one that I'm wearing on my eyes which I think you guys have already seen the review on. This is the Patrick Tom major dimension two rose palette. I ordered this one online because I didn't have it in store unfortunately mine came broken because Sephora just like throws palettes in an empty box puts one piece of paper in the box to go all set a day so the shade in the corner came all messed up. I pressed it down but I'm going to contact Sephora because it just made a mess. It made a huge mess and I need a new palette. I don't like that that one is broken but anyways love this palette. It's stunning. Is it the most unique palette you will have in your collection? No but if you like rose tones you like Patrick Tom the aesthetic the way makeup makes you feel the shimmers are incredible. I think you will really really really like this. I love it. Basic B Morgan loves this palette okay. I love it. The other palette that I picked up impulse purchase this is also online but NARS. NARS gets me. Their palettes are so boring and repeat themselves every single time but I buy them every single time. So I got the summer unrated. I even didn't buy this when it first came out okay. I was showing restraint. I was like no NARS launches that same ish over and over and over again. Sephora sales comes out to garbage. It's so pretty though. Is it unique? No and does it look like the Patrick Tom also kind of it's a rose palette with neutral browns and I'm kind of nervous though because this shade kind of started popping out but you get so many colors. I like it. I don't care. I got it so I'm excited to use it. I swatched it. Swatched really beautiful. I mean NARS does have a good eyeshadow formula even if they're all the same recycle shades so I will enjoy playing with that one. It looks fun and then the last item that I got for my eyes was a new Tom Ford eye defining pen. This is like my all-time favorite liquid liner. I do not know what happened to the first one that I had which is a shame because this is a $60 eyeliner. I have a theory. I think my mom stole it. I think she wanted to try it out and kept it. Maybe that's not the case. I don't know. I lost it in the move so I had to get a new one. This is like the best eyeliner ever but it's also the most expensive liner ever so I had to get that discount. So this is amazing because there are two sides a smaller side. Look how tiny, tiny, tiny this is and then a longer side. I don't know what it is about this eyeliner but it is magical. I feel like I can get a wing with my eyes closed. Something about this, the brush, the formulation, I don't know makes creating a wing so quick and easy for me. The only thing is today's the first time it let me down. It did not go well over the Patrick Tosh Shimmers. I had to do a few layers to get it as black as I wanted so that's the first time I've been like didn't like Patrick Tosh Shimmers but the shape that I can get with this, the ease that I can get the wing in. It's magical so I needed to get a new one. I could not live without it. So yeah, it's up a couple of things for lips that I'm really excited about. So I want to see this something from Dior. So I got the Lip Glow Color Reviver Balm. I've never had this product before. It's an older product but I thought the packaging was so pretty. This is like a purse lip balm. You know, you just want to keep it in your purse and pull it out and feel bougie. And I got the shade Rose Gold because I thought it just sounded really pretty. You don't get too much color from this. Honestly, I was expecting it to be more of like a lip shine product. I thought I was going to get more. I didn't get much with this with application. It does add a pretty rose, slight glimmer, nothing extremely special if I'm being honest. I didn't need this but am I mad I got it? No. It's an extra purchase but she cute and I'm gonna put her in my purse. And then I did not know Gucci was coming out with these. Well, I did but then I forgot because I wasn't interested. Then I saw the display in store and I was like, you're coming home with me. So I got the Gucci matte liquid lipstick. The color range very, very drastic, very deep. I got the most natural shade, which is like still quite right. So I got the shade Cornelia Pink. The packaging of this, you guys, the gold top. The Gucci aesthetic is what I want in my dream home, my beauty room. If I ever have the opportunity to have a beauty room and get an interior designer because I couldn't do myself, I will show them a picture of Gucci and Gucci's makeup line and the Gucci store. I would be like, I want that in my room, like make it happen. I got like they made a liquid lipstick look so beautiful. Anyways, very interesting formula, super duper thin. It honestly reminded me of kind of like a lip blur. It looks really pretty. It doesn't fully set down. I think you get a slight bit of transfer but I think it's really pretty. It's not an intense liquid lipstick. It feels very, very comfortable. So I like it. You do have to layer a couple of times, but if I need to layer a couple of times to not get some crackly lips, I'm okay with that. So I do like this. I think this would benefit from a lip liner. I'm not wearing a lip liner today, but I love this shade as well. I think if I had a bare eye right now, like just a mascara, my lips will be popping and it would be so pretty. And I got one last thing.  So I turned around, made a Yui and walked to the end cap and I was like, I want a fragrance. So I'm just going to find a rollerball because it's a lot cheaper. So I ended up with the Nest Seveal Orange. This is a perfume oil and oh my gosh, it smells so good. I really like this. It's quite citrusy, very, very sweet. I normally don't like that orangey. That's a lie. I do like the orangey smell. I think I don't like the orangey smell, but every time I smell oranges, I like it. So I like orangey smells, very, very fruity. And I think this is nice. I love Nest Scents. I don't own any. I like their candles. Apparently, no, I like their perfume oils. I'm going to start looking at any perfume sets that they have. Like, you know, the sample ones, those are my ish, okay? I'm not paying $200, $300 for a bottle of perfume unless I love it, love it, love it. So the perfume sample sets, they have a Nest one. I'm going to go look after this because me gusta that. Okay. All right, you guys. Oh, look at this. This is lovely. I have a nail appointment tomorrow. So this gel manicure, though, has lasted me two weeks, which is what they're supposed to last you, but normally they don't on me. So I am like impressed. Okay, you guys, there we have it. That was my Sephora haul. Will it be my last? I don't know, but I feel super satisfied with the items that I got. I feel really inspired. Like these products, I'm going to have so much fun testing. I'm definitely going to do an updates video with this at my previous haul as well. I have a lot of items from there that I'm testing also. So keep an eye out. And I also, you know, I plan on doing separate reviews of the Rare Beauty, the Fenty Beauty Palette. They're just, I don't know, some other stuff. Anyway, let me know what you guys picked up from the sale. I will have the links down below if you would like to shop through my links and support my channel. And I will cut you guys in the next one. If I guess have a good one.


If you're looking head down to Vikings training camp this summer, make sure you head to the right place. The Vikings have left Mankato and will be hosting their practices at their new practice facility in Egan. There will be 18 practices open to the public this year as opposed to 14 last year. The rookies practice for the first time on Wednesday, July 25th. First full team practice, that's on the 28th. The first full pads practice, well that's on Monday, July 30th. The annual night practice, you can mark your calendars. For Saturday, August 4th and the Jacksonville Jaguars, they're coming to town for two days of joint practices. That'll end training camp on August 15th and the 16th. You have to have a ticket if you want to get to training camp. All tickets are free except for some reserved seats for those Jaguars practices. If you're a season ticket holder, you can get your tickets on Thursday. Everyone else, those are open to the public on Monday.


Hello friends. I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you the use of hash error pre-processor directive in C programming. Before starting, you can note how you can search my YouTube channel. You can type my name Sanjay Gupta in YouTube. My channel will be available there. You can watch various programming related videos here. Now I am going to demonstrate you the use of hash error pre-processor directive. First of all, I am going to include a header file that is a stdio.h. Now I am going to define main function. Inside main, I am using a pre-processor directive that is hash if def, which checks whether a particular macro is defined or not. So the macro PI is not defined and I am checking hash if def PI. So if it is defined, then this condition will become true. So I am going to print the value of PI if this condition is true. Otherwise hash else will be executed. Here I am going to use hash error pre-processor directive, which will display the message value of PI is not defined and then hash and def. So this way I have used hash error pre-processor directive at line number 8. So this time the line number 5 condition will be false because PI macro is not defined. So control will be transferred to line number 7, that is hash else. At line number 7, line number 8 is defined. That is hash error. So this hash error will show this message value of PI is not defined in form of compilation error. So while I will be compiling this code, this value of PI is not defined. This arrow will be shown in compilation log. So right now I am going to compile this code. You can see the compilation results. Here you are seeing an error message that is hash error value of PI is not defined. So if you want to show a compilation error with a particular message, then you can prefer hash error pre-processor directive in the program. Otherwise you have to use printf that will display the output on output screen. So whenever you want to show an error message at the time of compilation, then only you can prefer hash error pre-processor directive. Now if you want to ignore this error, you have to define this macro that is PI. So now I have defined this macro. Let's see what happens now. I am again compiling this code. You can see it is showing no errors and no warnings. It means it is now compiled successfully. Now I can execute this code. You can see the output. It is showing value of PI equals to 3.14. So this way you can use hash error pre-processor directive in your program whenever you want to show a particular message as compilation error. I hope you have understood how we can prefer this hash error pre-processor directive in our code. If you want to watch more programming related videos, you can watch my name Sanjay Bhukta in YouTube. My channel will be available there. You can also download my programming app that is TechMS which is available on Google Play. Thank you for watching this video.