Just had a thought. What if after we die, and we're put back in the cycle, instead of being put in another position (whether that be another body or line of consciousness) we have to relive the same life that we played out again.I know some ideologies say that when we pass through the firmament, our memory is wiped as we come back to Earth. So perhaps, it's groundhog Day rules but for a whole lifetime, so you get to play the game again and perhaps you try and rack up the highest score or maybe It's to make a certain set of decisions to reach a certain karmic balance? Or perhaps even, our spirits just like playing the game, so we boot it up again to relieve the experience?Captcha: GASSNV(Are the feds going to gas me? I live in NV)
>>41381056Only if you want to do a re-run, but there's no point. It makes more sense to try something new since you'll lose your memories anyway.
chill out satan
>>41381070But if I lost my memory then I wouldn't remember this playthrough, so I might do it again. At the very least, throw some mods on lol
>>41381056>when we die we have to relive the same life that we played out again.It’s called eternal recurrence. The philosopher Nietzsche wrote a whole thing about it. You should check it out.
>>41381197>ask gpt about "eternal recurrence. The philosopher Nietzsche wrote"<Eternal recurrence is a central concept in Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, particularly outlined in his work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and later in "The Gay Science." This idea posits that the universe and all events within it are infinitely recurring in a cyclical manner.Oh, you.
>>41381229lol. I forgot the book was called that..
Look up simulation17. Came across on reddit. Its a medium post. Decent premise of repeats.
>>41381056Don't you get the movie?Bill Murray is an assholeHe has to constantly relive Groundhog Day/His life until he genuinely becomes a better person and ascends or whatever, doesn't have to be reincarnatedAll the times he pretended to be a good person as an act didn't workIt's some Hindu influenced shitBut reincarnation in Hinduism is all over the place (I studied it in college)
>>41381229He also was the originator of the concept of the Übermensch (Superman) that you’ve likely heard was used by the Nazi party.
>>41381264Not the only thing the nazis fucked up.Idk yo. Makes sense to me. Given infinity there's only so many stable configurations. The past is known but the future is not. If it happened once, it'll probably happen again. The question is, is it (You) experiencing it or someone else who happens to do all the same things based on their free will?
>>41381307Well if eternal recurrence is a thing, like that’s actually what happens, then it’s paradoxical to suggest free will. I think it probably fits with eternalism (block time) which is a popular interpretation of how time works with general relativity. I don’t believe in determinism though and I think block time is contradictory and has too many problems Personally I think consciousness is something that happens moment by moment and you are just a single moment remembering all the other moments which makes it coherent. If it works like that, then everything you experience in eternal recurrence is compilation of new you’s. So that would be my answer.
I don’t believe in eternal recurrence. I believe in the butterfly effect that any small thing like seeing a bug on the wall and turning your head or choosing not to shave one morning DOES change your whole future. But that doesn’t mean I think time is necessarily linear or that deja vu isn’t real.
>>41381056I apparently as a favor from God got to do this but otherwise it's not the norm.
>>41381341I kind of wonder if we are stuck in a time loop then what if each lifetime is a little bit different because of quantum mechanics changing the outcome of small little things like a coin flip or a split decision. You wouldn't necessarily lose free will and your "destiny" wouldn't be an absolute or at the very least ones destiny would change. Then there's cases where people have premonitions and either act on them or don't like that guy who dreamed of plane a plane crash in great detail and called up the FAA about it.
>>41381197Thanks for the direction, I'll definitely do some reading. Been meaning to get to Nietzsche for awhile now>>41381247Simulation 17 sounds like a cool name, I'm eager to look this one up >>41381251I'll be honest I never actually saw the movie. I just know that it's about Bill Murray going back in time over and over again to relive the same day, and that he uses the collective days to learn how to play piano at one point >>41381405How'd you swing that? Was it an offer or did you rack up enough points to redeem a free respin?
>>41381410Honestly of all the potential afterlife theories, my preference would be to relive my life start to finish with a little extra intuition each time so your idea would be cool. However I think it might still fall into determinism. What you’re suggesting sounds like block time with many worlds. If the eternal recurrence is infinite with subtle differences each time, AND you’re forced to go through each and every single one of them, then that still feels like determinism to me.
>>41381056My gut says we are probably in a timeloop.
>>41381056There's nothing about life that's "a game", this world is hell and I'm forced to exist against my will be a retarded sadistic tranny God so he can abuse me through other people, he doesn't ever intend to stop and nothing good will ever come from being force-reincarnated/forced to repeat my life against my will.
>>41383192'God', which is actually a tentacle demon, is a retard tyrant that rapes my mind into experiencing a false reality so he can flavor and suck my blood. He also makes me a 30 something man in here, even though I clearly know that I am a schoolgirl in base reality. He also generates scenarios in this matrix that forces me to only consume the lowest quality niggslop, even tho he could spawn in food so enjoyable that it would literally make me orgasm. Another thing 'God' does is only allow me to be surrounded by rat ogre tier broads, even though I am straight and he could generate men that would make me flood a room just by being in their general presence. The funniest, most sinister thing 'God' does is force me to say and believe he is actually God, even though he is an extremely black, vampiric, demonic tentacle demon from the Abyss and nowhere near God. He even has me write longwinded schizo rants about how bad God is, even though I should be writing about the tentacled basterd that has me in this situation.
