Afterlife Yay or Neigh

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I think Bipolar Bear makes sense

Reincarnation, but living the same life over and over

When I went psychotic, that was one of the primary ideas that I was obsessing about, “eternal return”. Oddly enough at that point in my life I had never read about it from Nietzsche, unless I had read it and forgotten that I had read it. It seemed to me as if heaven and hell was experienced in this life and that you’d have to relive all of our regrets over and over again for all eternity. It was horrifying. It’s interesting that Nietzsche ended up going psychotic. Also I believed “God” was the collective sum of human consciousness. Similar to how individual cells make up an organ or grains of dirt make a mountain.

As also expressed, or similarly, by the ending monologue of the movie American Beauty

American Beauty - End Scene (HQ)

So, it is important to live right now.