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I have no idea what he looks like, so I wouldn't know!
Yeah, his idea is "eternal recurrence," and I've seen it in at least two places; hold on, let me find the quotes for you (each is about a para: one he introduces it, the other he sort of explains it)
I think it's sort of a monstrous idea that explains everything, and you think is true, or at least very relevant, but you can't get to it by proofs, trying to build to it or anything...
The first thing that comes to my mind when I read is to doubt its validity. If everything that's happened is going to happen again, and infinite more times, then doesn't that mean only things that have happened now will happen again? Wouldn't this mean nothing new could happen? I had somewhere else to go with it, but forgot what it was.
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Actually that's how the Medium book thingy (by Allan Kardec) sort of explained it. That the unniverse goes on on a sort of spiral which is going to double out on itself and that's why we can, um, er, talk to ghosts.
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Yeah :) there's a book, a novel, called "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" that begins talking about Nietzsche's eternal return. It says if life happens only once, then it's very light, but if what we do happens over and over, then weight is added to our actions...I want to finish reading it sometime, I think it's a classic.
http://www.wpunj.edu/cohss/philosoph...TNET/RECUR.HTM here's where the two quotes I mentioned are. They're GS 341 and WP 1066 :)
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yeah, I'll read that when I wake up tomorrow. The only thing I can read right now it's webcomics.
Must. sleep.
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Haha hopefully I'll sleep when I go to bed, too! I will probably eat a little more raisins.
I think that's all there is to eternal return. For me it's not that there's nothing that can be done, but rather that there's everything that can be done. All dreams come true.
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I predict: Someone eating breakfast
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Forgot to predict, lol.
Yeah I am, about to.
Predict someone going to the mall today.
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Nope. I'm going to church.
Next is someone who has a blog.
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Yeah. It's Baka-Baki!
Next, someone who watches Family guy!
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Ahmm... not exactly.
Let's just say that the next poster, like me, has an undying desire to get to the top but just can't seem to reach it. Still, he/she's getting there and I guess that's where you'll find me soon. :)
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next is shurtugal?
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lol!!
but nope, it was me.
next is someone...who is hungry
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With a huge wad of chewing gum in my mouth... how could I be hungry? :p
Next one, if I'm not mistaken, is any of the Cape girls...
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what's a cape girl?
next is somewhore who loves ranting. like moi!
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Sometimes, don't we all? :D
Next is somebody who likes Wittgenstein...
