Posted by Brian Brown on November 07, 19101 at 21:38:20:

In Reply to: Re: eternal recurrance posted by tolous illatrek on June 16, 19101 at 06:22:37:

: brian: perhaps you can imagine that you yourself are standing, as zarathustra did with the dwarf, in 'the gateway moment'...NOW...with that long line 'eternity' behind you and that long line 'eternity' ahead of you, and that 'all things and all possible combination of all things' ('specs of dust;you and i and this spider and the moonlight',etc...) are 'displaced along that line', and given that you can affirm life rather than denying, as the dwarf himself did:saying that all that lies straight cannot possibly meet therefore, and thus life itself must inevitably also in time come to an eventual end? and that is his view, but not zarathustras philosophy on life;that all things recurr eternally in the same sequential order; with events wedded or knotted together as they are in life, then you might imagine that the ribbon of time or duration in which EVERY THING and its antithesis both large and small plays itself out upon life's stage...and perhaps time dances lemniscate upon itself too...and that now; this apparent moment of singular intensity and, perhaps, for one or some or possibly many, re-cognition of that hourgl moment when one's being is turned upside down in the awareness of both the terrible gravity and utter lightness of thinking the thought through...now becomes the tragicomic and fluid condition for the existance of the possibility and necessity for reconciliation or union (juinjin) between what is past and what is yet to be/come...the moment becomes a site for enactment of creative power to will or quicken ones' being and not live in resentment; to become the being one truly is...to imagine what is yet possible...and to act on it...joyously affirming and therefore improving life...dance lemniscate; the figure of eight...what do you think, brian?

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Does anybody know what eternal recurrence in German is? Thanks

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