Eternal Reccurence (Philosophical tiger is philosophizing, or at least attempting to X3 )

Mar 11, 2009 02:31

(Before I say anything here, just remember i'm no philosopher. XP Although it's a subject i've been wanting to read into for years, it's only very recently i've had chance/time to start reading anything even remotely philosophical, so I apologize if everything I write from here on is a load of rubbish XP )

Lately I've been reading the book "The ( Read more... )

eternal reccurence, mark rolands, philosophy, nietzsche

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_dartel_ March 11 2009, 06:12:53 UTC
Very thoughtfull, indeed!

What if the atoms mix up, half and half, of two persons in one similar past-life existance? This is all a very awesome and broad theme =3

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torque_tiger March 11 2009, 20:31:42 UTC
Heh, if time is infinite, as Rowlands suggests, then it's possible that it'll happen eventually, if not over and over again! :) It's just one of the insanely large number of possibilities that could, and probably would occur, given the time.

They'll probably have no idea though, they'll most likely never actually know that they're a combination of two past individuals, since like us, they'll probably never know about their past or future lives, only their current ones, so to them it'll just be normal at the time. :P

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