To: SteveMcKing
Your understanding of Nietzsche is woefully lacking. Eternal Recurrence had nothing to with what you propose. Nietzsche was this-wordly, and eternal recurrence was the greatest affirmation of this fact. Since this world, being the only existence, was a world without beginning or end, time was infinite; however, matter was not infinite, so the ways in which it could be arranged were finite, meaning that everything would occur again, and over an infinite period of time there would be repetition of everything that came before, all the pain, all the suffering, and all the joy. Your life would be relived an infinite number of times by an infinite number of yous. A weak man, when presented with this truth, would turn away from it. He would deny it, would invent for himself some escape, some other-world. Only the strong man, one on his way to becoming an overman, would so love this world and this life that he would continue to love this world even if there was no end to the suffering.
33 posted on
11/16/2005 8:30:37 PM PST by
Namyak
(Oderint dum metuant)
To: Namyak
Only the strong man, one on his way to becoming an overmanWhat the heck is an 'overman'?
83 posted on
11/17/2005 5:55:44 AM PST by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: Namyak
What a load of horse manure (Nietzsche's, if not yours).
85 posted on
11/17/2005 6:11:27 AM PST by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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