Nietzsche's Deepest Idea Explained

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28 күн бұрын

Nietzsche's eternal recurrence (or eternal return) is a life-changing idea. It is the idea your whole life - past, present, and future - repeats exactly as it is, forever. On the face of it, this is an abstract notion, totally irrelevant to lived experience. But should you dare to take it seriously, should you dare to assume it could be true, the eternal return reveals its terrifying depth. It reveals, also, its potential to change your life forever.
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📚 Recommended Reading
▶ Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra
▶ Friedrich Nietzsche: Ecce Homo
▶ Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
▶ Karl Löwith: Nietzsche’s Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence
▶ Rose Pfeffer: Eternal Recurrence in Nietzsche's Philosophy
▶ Philip J. Kain: Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Horror of Existence
▶ Walter Kaufmann: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
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05:10 Recurrence as Being & Becoming
13:20 Recurrence as a Challenge
18:03 Recurrence as the Will to Power
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@seeker2seeker 26 күн бұрын
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@IndiaNice2MeetU
@IndiaNice2MeetU 25 күн бұрын
Thank you for allowing me to be part of everything you do! ❤️
@benpetty9603
@benpetty9603 26 күн бұрын
Ah man another great video. Your synthesis of Buddhist/Nietzschean ideas is always impressive. And the way you present and format these videos is digestible and entertaining. Thanks for all the impressive work you do!
@ricky_fitbless
@ricky_fitbless 25 күн бұрын
May you get in abundance what you are trying to give to the community, keep progressing 🌸
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 25 күн бұрын
Thank you for the kind words, my friend - may we all flourish!
@malice4422
@malice4422 16 күн бұрын
22:00 your description of time here is excellent
@crosstolerance
@crosstolerance 18 күн бұрын
"Life is the will actualizing itself." Such a profound statement to which leaves me questioning its deeper meaning.
@AquariusGate
@AquariusGate 4 күн бұрын
From my reading and thoughts on Nietzsche, along with other sources. I convert the idea of will to desire. Not the want or need in desire but the raw emoting power. Jung and Nietzsche were constrained by scientific materialism and the academic reception of such vagaries of spirits and desires. An overinflated sense of the power of thought sees us wrestling with ideas. We don't sensibly avoid that struggle to put things together in motion. Information is not plucked from the surface details of an 'object', it emerges from the energetic connection of perception and bodies of curiosity. How do we look, scrunching up out eyes, seeking more power of magnification, in concern, or confusion, they will all form nuanced viewpoints. I obviously call this creative stress, the pressures, tensions, and frictions that transmute matter in our real world. This is the quantum effect of being no different to everything in sensory range. Sorry to ramble, I hope this seems valid in your outlook and approach to Nietzsche.
@fabiocataldo716
@fabiocataldo716 25 күн бұрын
Such a good video and beautiful video! Thank you a lot!!
@Nitephall
@Nitephall 24 күн бұрын
Fascinating video. Thank you for the work you put into this.
@echoshadow1490
@echoshadow1490 26 күн бұрын
One night, I was dreaming. For what I remember, I was doing all the most normal and everyday things, until in a moment a doubt struck me: what if I could excape reality? And then, something deep from the dark awakened: a girl turned her head, and in its back there was a face, a black smile, with pointing eyes. He said: "WE ARE REALITY!!". And it was so strong, and it was so intense. It felt real, as if you were awake, thinking about it was the "real" world, when all of a sudden the maker of it makes himself manifest, and he says you and him are the same thing, and the world trembles: it was all a dream, and I couldn't excape, bc it was my own creation. His voice was so strong I woke up belching the air I had in my lungs. That experience changed profondly the way I see myself and the world. The best way I can explain it is through this idea of Nietzche of the eternal recurrence, and the "amor fati". I can say I feel represented by them.
@AquariusGate
@AquariusGate 4 күн бұрын
The voice seems true. We ourselves ARE reality, an informational singularity.
@echoshadow1490
@echoshadow1490 4 күн бұрын
@@AquariusGate Yes, but I have to notice that hearing your own head say it in a burst of sheer willpower while you are waking up from a dream feels different from having only the mere notion of "we are reality". If it's only a thought, you can believe it or not. After all, where is the proof? But experiences like this force you to admit it with truth, to live it.
@AquariusGate
@AquariusGate 4 күн бұрын
@@echoshadow1490 yes that is a very good point. What do you suspect is different from 'the mere notion'? Must we also accept the notion can become a powerful, consuming belief or meditation? For me, consistent with my own view, is that the power of difference you raise, speaks of emotion in a heart-surfing sense of the awareness.
@echoshadow1490
@echoshadow1490 4 күн бұрын
@@AquariusGate Yeah bro. The thing is that that mf won't stop. I see him in dreams, and every time I have the feeling he's God or something like that. He is obsessed with visions of apocalypse. Yesterday in a dream I was chasing a guy who stole me something, and when I stop him I have the feeling he is a very bad person, like a raper or something, and that he's done that in the name of Allah, the god of the muslims. Next Allah appears and starts a discourse in latin. I read it and it kinda says that it's not a good thing to think one is following him trough a code, a law or something like that. The one who does that doesn't understand his will. The one who does, it's because he listen to his heart, and has a personal bond with Him. And then he destroys the whole fking planet with a dark fume that evaporates all life, expecially plants such trees, and leaves. Bro is disappointed. He keeps sending me this shit. What I am supposed to do with this information? I am just a random boy. I'm not even muslim, I was raised in a christian background. To discover the thruth, or to have an awakening, is also a ticket for insanity, without the guarantee that you will return.
@AquariusGate
@AquariusGate 4 күн бұрын
@@echoshadow1490 well.....that's a bit more profound than i was expecting! I embraced the insanity, not exactly embraced but I reconciled myself to it, if that's what learning the truth required. Almost, but it is just another fear in the spaces between expression. I'm assuming you have some control, a loosely lucid dream? Let it happen, in the destruction some pattern of meaning may arise. It is possible to divine the purpose of this mind that visits your dreams? Finding some intuition of what you are being shown? I can't remember who in the Bible was asked to sacrifice his firstborn but we do get asked on these flights of fancy to learn our own persuasions and flaws of logic. After a complete nervous breakdown in my early 30's, I've found I am stretched to the limit of my comfort at times but I have learnt to cool my spirits and find the path of least resistance. Any step is a beginning, if you are in the mind that you can only make corrections. I hope you sleep easy sometime soon bro.
@eos6984
@eos6984 25 күн бұрын
What a wonderful video. Thank you for your excellent work.
@The06201980
@The06201980 25 күн бұрын
This was most excellent! I can honestly say that with your video here is the first time I feel that truly groked Nietzsche’s Eternal Return…thank you!
@skepsswag
@skepsswag 26 күн бұрын
I can’t even understand nietzsche when someone is trying to explain his philosophy to me, let alone when I read it my self.
@SUCH_A_SAI
@SUCH_A_SAI 14 күн бұрын
Gotta be on a certain wave length my friend or have a higher state of consciousness for better understanding ngl
@rightplaceeverything464
@rightplaceeverything464 25 күн бұрын
Very thought provoking video. Thank you.
@tstecksuan
@tstecksuan 26 күн бұрын
So profoundly presented, grateful. Had to watch repeatedly to catch a glimpse of understanding.🤣🙏
@bernardofitzpatrick5403
@bernardofitzpatrick5403 24 күн бұрын
Awesome video and great voice 🎉
@ciscojablonski2071
@ciscojablonski2071 15 күн бұрын
This video is so thought-provoking and well presented. I have always had a knack for discomfort with a positive attitude. Perhaps as a result of a difficult early life. But perhaps too that I have always felt like one simply cannot remove positive experiences from negative ones. Amor Fati... I wish a love supreme for all of us!
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 14 күн бұрын
Thank you for the beautiful comment, my friend, and for your support! As the great stories tell, that which we need the most usually resides where we want to go the least. Difficulty and discomfort are essential to the flourishing of life.
@Kamabushi999
@Kamabushi999 22 күн бұрын
This is so very interesting and it helps to make sleep but The commercials are insufferable
@1commentking
@1commentking 25 күн бұрын
This video is way to long. Cliffs. Dont take Nietzsche literally. Eternal recurrence is not an idea that Nietzsche thinks is "true" in the most mundane sense of that word, its an idea that he thinks is most useful to live by. If you can live fully immersed in the idea that every moment repeats you will then attempt to make the most of your life etc etc, and thus this idea is Nietzsche' s solution to the inherent nihilism in god is dead, there is no meaning etc, which is the hunchback on his back he refers to carrying in Thus Spake Zarathustra. Its a classic existentialist idea, but its not an idea based in making a sincere attempt to describe reality, its an idea based on the assumption that there is no way to do that, so we might as well come up with most useful explanations/narratives for living to our maximum, and the idea that everything repeats is the apotheosis of that idea, e.g. as useful as an idea or explanation can be in terms of how it will effect how one lives.
@project-unifiedfreepeoples
@project-unifiedfreepeoples 26 күн бұрын
Beautiful concepts, a great understanding, yet it is very difficult for my existence to understand that a life of suffering is solid and can not be changed. I see so much corruption in this life that flourish in abundance. I see so much suffering that would give a complete stranger the very clothing off their back. How can this existence allow such a folly. I can see the rebirth for the suffering be plentiful, and vice versa for the corrupt. Yet i am but a blink of an eye in comparison of existence. I can say perhaps i dont want to know the unknowable, i just want to be and be without suffering. Blessed be your days my friend.
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 26 күн бұрын
Blessed be your days too, my friend!
@IndiaNice2MeetU
@IndiaNice2MeetU 25 күн бұрын
One of the videos that had such a profound emotional effect on me! I would rewatch it again and again, just like I would relive my life, and you know why ❤
@sammiller2617
@sammiller2617 24 күн бұрын
Another superb video synthesising these truths…
@waika3684
@waika3684 17 күн бұрын
best channel on this platform!
@anassamouche1922
@anassamouche1922 9 күн бұрын
If eternity exists, it's not necessarily the case of an endless return. I mean there may be endless universes and each one with different laws of physics or some weird realities.
@waxon2
@waxon2 24 күн бұрын
I love the "cheap facsimile of Love ... for a deep relationship/Life insight at 15:22. Thank you for such a great presentation. The imagery and music are amazing as well as the content.
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 24 күн бұрын
Thank you for the kind comment!
@starwalker3488
@starwalker3488 8 күн бұрын
Another fascinating vide. His idea reminds me of the cyclic universe theory; that the expanding universe will reach a stage where it will begin contracting again (often referred to as the 'big crunch'), to then potentially bounce back as a big bang again. The ultimate return.
@ronin7786
@ronin7786 24 күн бұрын
“once you awaken, you shall remain awake eternaly” nietzsche
@mirrorimage5423
@mirrorimage5423 25 күн бұрын
All is permanent as well as all is impermanent work as the eternal koan expressing all encompassing paradox through thought creation energies, called existence. Thank you for posting. Powerful content.
@gaskoart-tm5bv
@gaskoart-tm5bv 23 күн бұрын
So brilliant, thank you
@romeldiaz2614
@romeldiaz2614 23 күн бұрын
Thanks seeker to seeker🎉🎉🎉
@waxon2
@waxon2 24 күн бұрын
Thank you for explaining our will to power and the world's will to power. I love the quote " we do not inhabit the world any more than waves inhabit the sea." I am the world. Brilliant.
@11fireflower
@11fireflower 11 күн бұрын
Awesome!!!!!
@michaelpage1030
@michaelpage1030 21 күн бұрын
Must've been that resin laden, sticky Hawaiian purple bud skunk that accompanied him into the abyss.
@RobbyFindlay-uq2dy
@RobbyFindlay-uq2dy 24 күн бұрын
Would I live my life over again? No, for it would be too much excitement twice in a row.Great stuff👍Thanks ❤
@Liza-ur4ep
@Liza-ur4ep 24 күн бұрын
Tip to explore : Gaudapada - (6th century CE Hindu philosopher) and his work on Mandukya upanishad called "Gaudapada Mandukya Karika", best explained at You Tube by Swami Sarvapriyananda.
@losangthubten2008
@losangthubten2008 24 күн бұрын
Dankeschön für das Bereitstellen des Videos. Ich habe eine Frage: Gibt es dazu Texte, die man lesen kann?😍
@andreaszmavridisz3592
@andreaszmavridisz3592 21 күн бұрын
Is this a re-upload? De ja vu. Feels like i ve heard it infinate times.
@Guys_Love_Each_Other
@Guys_Love_Each_Other 25 күн бұрын
00:11 Eternal recurrence is a transformational idea. 03:52 Eternal recurrence of all events in life. 07:56 Nietzsche criticizes the invention of an ideal world and its impact on reality. 11:32 Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence challenges us to evaluate our lives from an eternal perspective. 15:25 Embracing eternal recurrence requires full acceptance of life. 19:02 The will to power as a human drive 22:46 Nietzsche's view on the personal will and necessity 26:09 Embrace eternal return through absolute love. 29:52 Gratitude for support and encouragement Eternal recurrence is a transformational idea. - Nietzsche's idea is meant to cast light over every shadow and bend even the loneliest suffering towards joy. - It is a concept that asserts that everything in life - past, present, and future - repeats exactly as it is, forever. Eternal recurrence of all events in life. - Rejects the idea of a transcendent realm of existence and views faith in an ideal world as an escape. - Engages in the ancient debate of Being vs Becoming, advocating for acceptance of impermanence and relativity. Nietzsche criticizes the invention of an ideal world and its impact on reality. - He discusses the concepts of 'God,' 'beyond,' and 'soul' as inventions to devalue the only existing world. - Nietzsche explores the contrast between the philosophies of Becoming and Being and their implications on life and existence. Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence challenges us to evaluate our lives from an eternal perspective. - Nietzsche presents the concept of the eternal return as a way to view life from a cosmic perspective, questioning whether one's life could be lived over and over for eternity. - The eternal return is not about pursuing only pleasure and achievement, but rather about embracing life in its entirety, including both positive and negative experiences, in order to attain a deeper understanding. Embracing eternal recurrence requires full acceptance of life. - Acknowledge and love every aspect of existence, including suffering. - Approach eternal recurrence as a Zen koan to spark psychological change and surrender to experience. The will to power as a human drive - The will to power is a relentless drive for self-expression and self-overcoming, encountering resistance and necessity. - Necessity, including all life circumstances like genetics, nationality, and time, acts as a limit on the will, denying it absolute power. Nietzsche's view on the personal will and necessity - Nietzsche believes that we must subsume the impersonal world of necessity under the personal will - He sees the individual will as part of the cosmic flow of energy and not separate from the forces of life in the world Embrace eternal return through absolute love. - The will to power involves recognizing limitations and flourishing in struggles. - The eternal return symbolizes the cyclical nature of existence and the unity of opposites. Gratitude for support and encouragement - Acknowledgment of patrons and members - Appreciation for all viewers who engage with the channel
@SeiroosFardipour-wf4bi
@SeiroosFardipour-wf4bi 23 күн бұрын
Thanks Mark
@dr.christopherdiaz4473
@dr.christopherdiaz4473 25 күн бұрын
I can still remember when I was in K3 or K4, so 3 or 4 years old, how me and some kids sat around one day and started discussing birthdays. We then started to wonder what would happen since we were all heading towards another year. We all agreed that the most logical thing we could think of was that when you get to 100, you start back over at 0. This made so much sense to me, but when I told my parents about this idea, they laughed it off and explained some Catholic dogma to me as a replacement.
@1stFloorSessions
@1stFloorSessions 11 күн бұрын
Questions on his perspective: - how literally would repetition be, can one life differ from a next? - would “love” change the repetition? - what decides the fictive person named you has this repetition? - what decides that “others” might have different content of this repetition? - are there others? - since beginning and ending is an intellectual thing and doesnt exist on the deepest, why would there be repetition of something. - if this life had no meaning or purpose why would love be it; would that not make life a school to learn how to love? - How would this match the countless NDE’s and medical herb experiences?
@youtubebane7036
@youtubebane7036 25 күн бұрын
I don't think he meant that every life would be exactly the same. I think it was something more along the lines how they say history doesn't repeat it just rhymes meaning that each cycle you are going to be in an existence that is exactly one step higher in the hierarchy of existence as each existence is the particles and singularities that populate increase the universe that they fill with and then that Universe would be a particle in the next Higher One. In prison words that is why everything's always expanding because in the end it Loops back around like a feedback to where the largest thing becomes the smallest as gravity does curved Universe back into itself it's not back into its own self back into its exact replica that is one step above it one step below
@AnimaMea1111
@AnimaMea1111 13 күн бұрын
Contemplation feels freeing
@mr.L0023
@mr.L0023 26 күн бұрын
thats what the buddha gautama said "there's no begining and end".
@tomaszpoonski7585
@tomaszpoonski7585 25 күн бұрын
For me Nietzsche himself was not a deep thinker at all - but your reflections upon his ideas are deep and profound. Only one thing I must resist - I think it is common and sort of habitual, yet totally misleading to put Heraclitus and Parmenides in radical oposition. I am deeply convinced Heraclitean Logos and Parmenidean absolute Entity (Eon, On) are but one and the same. Both these ancient thinkers consider sensory world of becoming as dream-like illusion.
@davidcunningham2074
@davidcunningham2074 25 күн бұрын
mind blowing, life changing.
@astrologystrategist
@astrologystrategist 21 күн бұрын
In Astrology, the Arabic part of Necessity speaks of this.
@blueskies1237
@blueskies1237 26 күн бұрын
Or is all this just an analogy to peak my interest right now? To wake up right this moment because time is short.
@BorisBergman-sb5dn
@BorisBergman-sb5dn 26 күн бұрын
Yes : you are 100 % correct. Thats (only) what it is. God Bless you.
@user-zz2dx3qf7u
@user-zz2dx3qf7u 25 күн бұрын
Yes.
@spiritofMongan
@spiritofMongan 24 күн бұрын
Wow! That was powerful. I've only just recently come to hear about Nietzsche, your channel has given me much information To aid my understanding about this great mans teachings. Does anyone recommend any books that give more like this video shows concerning Nietzsche?
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 20 күн бұрын
Thank you! You can have a look at the video description for reading recommendations :) For a fantastic introduction into Nietzsche's philosophy, have a look at Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter Kaufmann
@spiritofMongan
@spiritofMongan 20 күн бұрын
@@seeker2seeker 💜
@HT-mi8nr
@HT-mi8nr 18 күн бұрын
Cảm ơn bạn!
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 17 күн бұрын
Thank you for the support!
@markkrawchuk5862
@markkrawchuk5862 7 күн бұрын
BRILLIANT. FANTASTIC.
@cosmoshiva4643
@cosmoshiva4643 21 күн бұрын
Awesome. Just awesome. I've read tidbits of this all my life thru one wayward circumstance or another. Why me? is a classic question. Well, why not me? is an answer I learn to accept. As far as concepts like forever, always, and eternity, those are terms that I'm still trying to understand. We have illustrations, but do we really know eternity? For everyone who put this video together, Thank You.
@aymenmejri5238
@aymenmejri5238 25 күн бұрын
شكرا .
@Matthew_Eitzman
@Matthew_Eitzman 8 күн бұрын
Reality that is not focused, will become someone else’s falsehood. If eternal peace is sought, only endless possibilities can exist.
@waxon2
@waxon2 24 күн бұрын
I love the Nietzsche quote at 16:40. Yes, to look life in the face a love it joyously in all its wondrous grandeur and horror. That is the work. But I wonder, can't we love everything as it is and yet still work to mitigate harm? Practice ahimsa? Advocate for peace in a time of war-for-profit and the exploitation of everything/everyone for money? Advocating from a place of joyous acceptance and compassionate love instead of resistance, vengeance and anger. That is the work.
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 24 күн бұрын
That is the work, indeed. For all his genius and talent, Nietzsche lacked an appreciation for the collective and social aspects of human experience. If we were all mountain-dwelling hermits, as he was, his philosophy would give us all we need. But we're not mountain-dwelling hermits.
@waika3684
@waika3684 17 күн бұрын
true answer for everything
@AquariusGate
@AquariusGate 15 күн бұрын
If we take this to its deepest inflection to our own lives, as you say, our lives bring us round in an eternal existence of the same repetition. Maybe, but all through the lens of feminine eyes, then a return to masculine? This isn't explained clearly. What if we go a bit quantum to imagine we reform into the same entanglements we just left? Even then, is it a return or reoccurrence, or does familiarity hide all the subtle differences carried through time and in thoughts with more or less gravitas than attractions in my last experience? Maybe time seems to stand still in our reincarnation cycle because we are in denial about our nature, dislocated from her by ideas and feelings that corrupt our true sense of things. What if we knew the nature of nature, the purpose we are here to serve toward the destiny our potential carries us toward? Thanks for returning to one of the greatest minds I ever found in the written word.
@neil6477
@neil6477 25 күн бұрын
I think this is one of the problems associated with the idea of eternity in heaven. People never really take on board the idea of the implications of 'eternity'. they will make glib statements such as, 'We'll be together for always in heaven', etc., BUT do they stop to think about the implications of this? OK, so for the first few hundred thousand 'years' you wander around meeting lost relatives, animals, loved ones, etc.. Then what? After a billion years this might get a bit tiresome. After a trillion, trillion, trillion. . . . . . . years even the most loyal of partners might get a bit bored. Everything is perfect (it is heaven), so what condition are people in when you meet them again? How old? What personality do they have? Do they stay like that forever? If not, can you cope with what they, and you, will change into? We are what we are because, in part at least, we undergo suffering and we are mortal. Take away that suffering, add immortality, and you are not the same person. Then there are huge implications in the idea of finding out that you have survived death, and it is no longer an issue - this would have massive psychology impact on everyone. It would completely change how existence is perceived. Humans are humans because of what we deal with on Earth. Unless there is a fundamental change in what we become (in which case the idea of meeting all your relatives and loved ones is nonsense) heaven, in the way that it is normally thought about, would end up being hell!
@echoshadow1490
@echoshadow1490 25 күн бұрын
I mean, if you take away Becoming, you eliminate what makes us human. We can't imagine to feel happy doing and being always the same thing forever. Neither we can fathom this "forever". The way we live is determined by change, so that depiction of heaven doesn't really work.
@neil6477
@neil6477 25 күн бұрын
@@echoshadow1490 That's what I said.
@echoshadow1490
@echoshadow1490 25 күн бұрын
@@neil6477 In other words, I agree with you
@neil6477
@neil6477 25 күн бұрын
@@echoshadow1490 Ah. I thought you did but wasn’t entirely sure. Sorry for the confusion. 👍
@blueskies1237
@blueskies1237 26 күн бұрын
If I have to relive everything in the same sequence, how can I wake up at an earlier point in life than this life?
@BorisBergman-sb5dn
@BorisBergman-sb5dn 26 күн бұрын
You cant,....... Because, it were those others, who relieved,.........
@Ac90854
@Ac90854 5 күн бұрын
If I have to resuffer everything in the same sequence, how can I wake up at an earlier point in suffering than this suffering? Life is suffering, ideas like this one aren't helpful unless you understand that meta truth.
@Nikky9s
@Nikky9s 24 күн бұрын
I wonder to what extent cosmic love (agape) is what Nietzsche was after in his thought-experiment regarding eternal recurrence?
@skyhuntermcgurrell6636
@skyhuntermcgurrell6636 17 күн бұрын
Sixth sense tells us of our unity with all things
@retrogore420
@retrogore420 24 күн бұрын
Beautifully done. Very synchronistic to what I’ve been reading and thinking as well. One thought being the ocean BECOMES the wave to understand the essence of what it means to BE the water.
@Shubham18nov
@Shubham18nov 6 күн бұрын
I feel so related to Nietzsche ❤
@Med1na2012
@Med1na2012 23 күн бұрын
24:18 fatum or to aftum is to blossom, become whole complete
@aWolffromElsewhere
@aWolffromElsewhere 26 күн бұрын
I say yes to the eternal return, for my life, having its sufferings, has also had its great joys, for drawing pictures and sitting in the sun with wolves - to have known Waka, Patches, Tahoe, Tikani - to have watched my skill at drawing improve from sheer determination and effort, a destiny like a flower blooming once it had found its sun. To have come to understand the source of love and to see my dreams come true, that is worth repeating for eternity. A child reaching across a nightmare to touch a monster, only to see that the monster was a wolf who only wanted a friend, yes. I will walk with the wolves forever in a loop that never ends.
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 26 күн бұрын
Beautiful.
@christopherchilton-smith6482
@christopherchilton-smith6482 26 күн бұрын
I am not sure that there is any escape from this, if time is "born" with the universe and destined to end with it then one must say that since the universe can arise it *will* arise, outside of time all things that can happen *must* happen. This doesn't even change if time is "there" before and after the universe because all things that can happen *will* happen over infinite time.
@KenoshaKicker
@KenoshaKicker 25 күн бұрын
Ah, yes. The bone chilling terror or Love.
@LiamCantArt
@LiamCantArt 25 күн бұрын
Is the love of suffering and all that we perceive in life not also a form of resistance against it? Or is it implied that we should simply try to integrate this knowledge of amor fati within us so that to love everything is not a conscious decision?
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 25 күн бұрын
Great question!
@wingit7335
@wingit7335 25 күн бұрын
Knowing the minds of men are falible why do they go on to make philosophical conclusions? I too have considered this existence may be a recurring set of events, or one event of course. But to assert it as a belief is immature in my opinion. Thanks for introducing me to Neitzsche. Subscribed. Excellent.
@NewDelhiKid
@NewDelhiKid 26 күн бұрын
Great video as always! Is it possible you could to a video on Ambedkarite Buddhism, it would be greatly appreciated by us Ambedkarite Buddhists. Jai Bhim Namo Buddhaya, may the triple gems bless you!
@ManofKef
@ManofKef 23 күн бұрын
The little something is the Whole which is everything but still evergrowing and expanding always feeding on itself
@IronJazz99
@IronJazz99 14 күн бұрын
What I did with my life and my children,I would do again and again. I'm a blessed Agnostic! 🙂
@jasonuf08
@jasonuf08 23 күн бұрын
Thank you 🙏 I'm waiting for your graduation to Arthur Schopenhauer.
@waxon2
@waxon2 24 күн бұрын
A Love Supreme. What a magnificent ending. Coltrane would have concurred, surely. Bravo S2S. Bravo.
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 24 күн бұрын
Thank you! It brings me joy to see someone caught on to the reference :)
@brunovleals
@brunovleals 15 күн бұрын
Do not thinking about this video on shrooms
@jimc.goodfellas226
@jimc.goodfellas226 11 күн бұрын
That's probably good advice
@paulcoin3171
@paulcoin3171 14 күн бұрын
I like this idea better when Rustin Cohle said it in True Detective, also because it was espoused by a tested and brittle mind and I couldn't accept it totally...still don't, but maybe a good exercise for growth
@bookzdotmedia
@bookzdotmedia 22 күн бұрын
Everything is deja vu, otherwise you could not function.
@wahnano
@wahnano 25 күн бұрын
Conjecture is no substitute for the truth.
@TashiDelek1
@TashiDelek1 18 күн бұрын
It is depressing to know that how little people know about things. The concept of “cyclic existence” is taught by Buddha almost 2600 years ago. In fact one of the goal in Buddhism is to break this cycle.
@user-px8ol7zi9h
@user-px8ol7zi9h 17 күн бұрын
Groundhog Day lol
@TimBitts649
@TimBitts649 24 күн бұрын
True true true......
@devinbradshaw9756
@devinbradshaw9756 22 күн бұрын
Love your fate, that is your life
@LoSGatoS-pe9hk
@LoSGatoS-pe9hk 25 күн бұрын
A love supreme...
@huntertony56
@huntertony56 23 күн бұрын
Nietzeche believed in an "after" though
@PrescottValley
@PrescottValley 25 күн бұрын
Nah, according to science and the conservation of information, information can not be destroyed. The information that we are gathering in the lifetime has to go somewhere. Considering 99% of our decision-making process is made up of our subconscious. It would be a good bet that the information from the previous lifetime is helping guide our decisions. Just as the information we are gathering in this lifetime will be used in the next. We are coming back. But our decisions change depending on what we have learned in this lifetime.
@echoshadow1490
@echoshadow1490 25 күн бұрын
I can argue that "information", being a form of energy, is not bound only to a particular version of it. It can change, and memories and desires of past experiences can transform to a new type of energy, like heat, radiation, cynetic force. This if there are the necessary vessels to support that tranformation. So no, what we have learned will not be conserved into our next "lifetimes" in that way. They will be conserved bc they are, first of all, a particular set of energy that, given that energy never destroys itself but can only change, has the opportunity to exist again in the future, time being without end. The information is conserved only bc it belongs to a simpler thing, that is eternal, but is not eternal, that information, in itself.
@PrescottValley
@PrescottValley 21 күн бұрын
@echoshadow1490 Information is neither a form of energy nor matter, and it can not be measured in energy units. It is just as fundamental as energy and matter, though. So the entire premise to your argument is dead wrong.
@echoshadow1490
@echoshadow1490 21 күн бұрын
@@PrescottValley If "information" is not energy, what can possibly be the support for that information? Nothing? It has to be energy, bc energy is the only kind of substance that the universe has. The universe is made out of energy, so if something endures change inside of it, it has to be made of energy, bc it's inside the universe. There is no other option.
@PrescottValley
@PrescottValley 21 күн бұрын
@echoshadow1490 argue with science, not me. Science has decidedly stated that information is not energy nor is it measured in energy units. Entropy is how information is measured.
@echoshadow1490
@echoshadow1490 21 күн бұрын
@@PrescottValley Do you realize that entropy is just a concept that describes how energy behaves is physical systems? Look at the second principle of thermodinamics. Given a system, only a fraction of the energy it has can be used as "work", as energy to make things, while another fraction represents the energy that gets dissipated. Entropy is just the moviment between one state of energy and another. Hence, it can't have sense if those states don't exist. Furthermore, your belief on the fact that information gets conserved like that is against entropy. One fraction of "information", which is just a word to say "state of energy", always gets lost.
@sam3d
@sam3d 24 күн бұрын
This is reincarnation basically
@blueskies1237
@blueskies1237 26 күн бұрын
I think it’s the ladder
@user-cc6mu6jf2x
@user-cc6mu6jf2x 26 күн бұрын
Or the stairs?
@BorisBergman-sb5dn
@BorisBergman-sb5dn 26 күн бұрын
Both, and the sidepoles with it, ..... Together : 3 as (in) )1 One.
@BailelaVida
@BailelaVida 6 күн бұрын
Nice, I lied it. Thanks!
@animefurry3508
@animefurry3508 25 күн бұрын
Do you know the works of Deleuze, its very good you should check it out! ... In the battle of Philosophy of Being vs Becoming, I lean on the side of becoming! But really go for a middle approach with Hegelian dielectics! Substance is Subject! How does one say Yes, one says No to No. Negation of Negation! Samsara is my play ground!
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 24 күн бұрын
I don't know anything about Deleuze... Do you have any suggestions for how best to introduce myself to his ideas?
@jjlovesyouall
@jjlovesyouall 8 күн бұрын
He is right, its a hatred of life to be religious
@uncleurda8101
@uncleurda8101 Күн бұрын
I don't know, man. Those Buddhists seem to have it figured out.
@urbantrolls9706
@urbantrolls9706 24 күн бұрын
Rebellion is basic of masculine divine ✨️ 😍 🙌 💖
@rduse4125
@rduse4125 25 күн бұрын
12:52 - Ecclesiastes 3 - says the preacher….
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 24 күн бұрын
I didn't know of this... thank you! Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. (Ecclesiastes 3:15)
@fifa_edits77
@fifa_edits77 24 күн бұрын
Dear brother, Translate your vedeo in hindi also. Hindi subscriber waiting for this
@anthonytoney6607
@anthonytoney6607 15 күн бұрын
What if you remember?
@teaadvice4996
@teaadvice4996 10 күн бұрын
Eternal suffering sounds horrible
@user-nr5jq9vc1u
@user-nr5jq9vc1u 24 күн бұрын
There was no big bang. The universe is eternal
@francisdebriey3609
@francisdebriey3609 25 күн бұрын
When I see the beauty of life, I believe Nietsche lost sight of his own existence. Even without a God, our existence finds his meaning in the role it plays in the unfolding of the life, and by life i don't mean life on Earth only, but the life as life of the whole universe.
@simplicity4904
@simplicity4904 23 күн бұрын
I unsubscribed from this channel because I thought originally it was devoted to Buddhism, but when it started talking about Nietzsche and comparing him to the Buddha, I regarded the channel as intellectual nonsense. Nietzsche was a self-absorbed, egotistical man (“look at me”, “look how smart I am”, “no one compares to me”, and then died insane) and the Buddha was a man without a “self” (revealed “anicca”, “dukkha” and “anatta”, taught the four noble truths, eightfold path and compassion, and died a peaceful death). There’s just no comparison.
@cookiman4225
@cookiman4225 22 күн бұрын
Bruh who cares about who either of those people were. Tf are you on about
@tomjoad8939
@tomjoad8939 24 күн бұрын
I wonder if the eternal recurrence is similar to Jung's idea of the collective unconscious? a repeatable "human being" in the collective sense.
@seeker2seeker
@seeker2seeker 24 күн бұрын
I think there is a way to connect the two, in terms of the archetypal patterns of a human life repeating again and again... This is an old idea. What makes Nietzsche's idea so striking is that he insists on the literal repetition of life (that of the individual and that of the Cosmos) exactly as it is.
@jinchoung
@jinchoung 6 күн бұрын
interesting idea. but for one who rejects notions of the supernatural, he ends up with an essentially supernatural idea. kind of like a conspiracy theorist who desperately seeks meaning so that they invent an ultimate cause ridiculing the religious. "lots of artists say they want to live on in their work. i'd like to live on in my apartment."
@curiosorealidad8265
@curiosorealidad8265 23 күн бұрын
The weak minded look for a answer in dogmatic religious myths, this if for hard opened minded
@cookiman4225
@cookiman4225 22 күн бұрын
The weak minded worry about the silly things you commented
@curiosorealidad8265
@curiosorealidad8265 4 күн бұрын
@@cookiman4225 like you
@katczar
@katczar 25 күн бұрын
Very nice approach. But why did you go about it with the zest of an entire orange grove?
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