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Nietzsche Market

Internet dating can spruce up your love life, but can it also save the truth of God on Earth?  Today's Wall Street Journal tells how the Zoroastrians, a waning religious movement with followers mostly in Iran and India, are replenishing their ranks by finding love online

Parsi men are waiting for YOU!                        Parsi women are waiting for YOU!

OK, so you've won heavenly rewards by signing up on theparsimatch.com and scoped out a Zoroastrian hottie who really fires up your inner light.  Is there any jewelry you can give or wear to show that you've got the moral fortitude to propagate the faith?

Gayomard necklace

Well, you could shoot the moon & give the 4th-6th century necklace pictured above, which sports an image of Gayomard, the first man.  But let's face it, that's a thousand bucks & that's a lot to drop on your first meeting with an internet crush.

Faravahar

If your soul is torn between the high price of fine jewelry and the desire for true love, you might instead play it a little safer and get a nice pendant of Faravahar, which represents the human spirit and its ascent toward God.

What's Nietzsche got to do with it?  Well, the source of the pun might become more clear if I note another way of saying the name of the prophet ZoroasterZarathustra!

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