Eternal Return (1 Viewer)

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Anybody familiar with the concept? - In simple terms- I think the theory is that you live the same life over and over- exactly the same - in every detail.

I’ve read a few different variations of this. Some where the world destroys itself and is “reborn”.

Is there a similar theory where history repeats itself - albeit it slightly differently over and over?

I can’t help but feel like we’re just reliving the late 60s. Same issues, same problems, eerily similar.

 

[Joe Schmo]

God I hope not, this life sucks azz. Although getting to drink beer again and again and again for eternity does have it's appeal.

 

[Joe Schmo]

Also, that is the basic setup of many fantasy novels such as the Wheel of Time, it goes round and round.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

This is one of those ideas that could probably (I haven't tried to work it out) be seen as an offshoot of the B-theory of time. If I understand this correctly, I'm still living each and every moment of the past and future just as much as I'm living the current moment. I could see how you get to "you live the same life over and over" from there.

 

[jamny]

Kinda like the thinking that there is no time. Everything is happening at all points all the time. Everything has already happened, past, present and future.