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Will We Meet Again? It’s All About Time
Is Time A Circle?
It’s a circle and we will meet again.
The concept of “eternal recurrence”, the idea that with infinite time and a finite number of events, events will recur again and again infinitely, is central to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. … Nietzsche sums up his thought most succinctly when he addresses the reader with: Everything has returned.
Eternal return (also known as eternal recurrence) is a theory that the universe and all existence and energy has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space. Wikipedia.
Eternal return is about the philosophy of predeterminism that people are predestined to continue repeating the same things again and again.
Also, Nietzsche’s philosophy is about freedom, action, and will.
The idea of eternal recurrence do not say that the idea is truth but question us what we would do if the idea were true.
“History repeats itself because no one was listening the first time.”
“We learn from history that we learn…
