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I was listening to Public Radio International this am and heard a discussion about writings of philosopher and thinker Nietzsche. He wrote about eternal occurrences--the premise was if you had to live your life over and over (a la the movie Groundhog Day) would you want to, knowing it would return the same way?

Living the same life, over and over, eternally. Eternal repetition. Cyclic repetition. Could you live life--say yes to life--if everything you're against, all the tribulations and trials repeated over and over?

Personally, I would not want to. It's merciful that we walk a path through life not knowing what may happen the next hour. How awful it would be to know what lay ahead and have to live through it all again. susil

posted on Sept 7, 2008 9:42 AM ()

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All I can say right now is I wouldn't want to relive this past tsunami of a week over and over. Hope it's okay with Nietzsche, but I'm turning the page and starting fresh.

comment by marta on Sept 12, 2008 9:19 AM ()

marta, what on earth is going on? Send me a message.

reply by susil on Sept 13, 2008 7:12 AM ()

Hi Sue,
Good post and good comments. I don't think we should put our
minds and bodys through the same thing more than once.
Sue, I am having trouble with my pc. I can get on the net
in the AM, then not the rest of the day. I think it's my modem,
but am not sure. So anyway, I will be on when I can.

comment by larryb on Sept 10, 2008 9:42 AM ()

larry, my pc is the same way--it's the oldest computer in the world
plus I have dial up, so at times I cn't get on or do anything with it.
Hope you are well.

reply by susil on Sept 13, 2008 7:15 AM ()

You bet I would live my life over again with all the sorrow and all the pain and all the joy and love and pleasure. It has been great ride and I'm far from ready to leave this planet.

comment by elderjane on Sept 9, 2008 6:12 AM ()

You are a truly blessed human being!

reply by susil on Sept 13, 2008 7:17 AM ()

I also am a closet Nietzsche fan! His stance that the human and the human mind is the ultimate (and you and you alone are responsible for you) really impressed me at a the tender age of 14. I have wandered away from him, but now as I age, I find myself winding my way back home to him. Would I live my life over if I could, I sure would. I would have bought microsoft stock. To hell with not being able to do anything different, I would do everything very differently. The fact that you know it is the second rerun of your old life would make you change it in some way, some how. Ending up in the same place is okay if you have a chance to change how you got there. Think about it!! A Do-Over with your life, that rocks.

comment by lizbeth on Sept 7, 2008 11:00 PM ()

Hi liz; a Do Over of life would be great--I'm with you--I'd
change practically everything! But the idea proposed by Nietzsche
of having to live the same life over and over, and not to be able to
change anything is so abhorrent..Actually, I think we are reincarnated
and have to keep living one life after another until we get it right
and build up enough good karma to get out of the cycle of life.

reply by susil on Sept 8, 2008 10:38 AM ()

what's the point of living it over if you can't fix anything? remember in Our Town, the young woman who dies in childbirth gets to go back to earth and relive one day. She chooses her birthday but must move through the day exactly as she had the first time, not being able to hug her mother more or do any of the things that she ached to do. I've often been intrigued by time travel and wished I could go back and meet my loved ones even before I knew them.

comment by tealstar on Sept 7, 2008 1:15 PM ()

Hi teal; Time travel is an intriguing idea for sure.
If I could go back and live my life over and be able to make changes
yes, that'd be fine; I know exactly what I'd change. But to have to
live this same life over and over--that would be hell.

reply by susil on Sept 8, 2008 10:30 AM ()

The same thing has happened to many philosophers, e.g. Socrates... who was sentenced to death because he opened the minds of the youth of Athens.

comment by jondude on Sept 7, 2008 9:47 AM ()

How dare anyone try to open the minds of youths? You put yourself
in peril doing that.

reply by susil on Sept 7, 2008 10:45 AM ()

Fred Nietzsche was a Mensch First Class! They committed him to an asylum in about 1890. I don't believe he was insane. I believe he was just so profoundly ahead of everyone they couldn't understand him anymore so they locked him away.

comment by jondude on Sept 7, 2008 9:46 AM ()

I couldn't agree with you more. He was a philosopher light years
ahead of his time. He is the thinker who said "Is God dead?" I'm
sure that didn't endear him to the public at large.

reply by susil on Sept 7, 2008 10:42 AM ()

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