Give the amount of context this requires, this question will probably only make sense to those who have experienced the literary and philosophical wonders of Friedrich Nietzsche and/or Milan Kundera, specifically The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
here goes: do you subscribe to the idea of eternal recurrence? why or why not? and if so, does your idea of eternal recurrence create a weightiness (akin to the difficult resolution, "es muss sein," if you will) in human action?
curious to hear your thoughts, everyone. :)
Update:haha, thanks for your input, Megaman. More specifically, the "es muss sein" comes from a Beethoven piece. He called it the difficult resolution and it basically means "it must be." You could call it some kind of fatalism, I suppose. I love Neitzsche too-- I read my first Neitzsche when I was 13 and I haven't looked back. :P
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I don't believe in eternal return (recurrence) unless it involves NO time (which it doesn't). Nietzche is incredible though, I love that guy. I only just now looked up what "es muss sein" is and am not entirely sure I got it right, something about going insane when you are too smart. If that's what it means then no I don't believe it because madness is in the eye of the beholder. Eternal return from what I gather means time is cyclical. I don't really know how to explain my view except that everything I say is bullshit. I don't believe anything is more true than anything else EVER, which is what I thought Nietzche believed, but oh well I was wrong about Tolle too.
If time were to exist I guess it would most likely allow for eternal return, but I just don't like to prop up time. Time is the idea that holds me back the most. I'm assuming everything I say, just like every other day.