In stoicism Amor Fati means you are okay with having to relive all you’ve been through over and over. Nietzsche accepted the idea which confuses me. Why would Nietzsche accept such a horrible notion? I heard he had been sick and suffered terribly from physical illnesses so how could he accept it? Did he really not suffer that much? I’m confused because I know he had.
What are your thoughts on this stoic idea?
That’s my worst nightmare 
. Part of me thinks it’s a possibility too.
There are parts of my life I would hate to relive over and over, but now I’ve settled down and I am fairly content. I go on emotional binges, but they are temporary. I’m 65 years old, and I am fairly content.
Nonsense schizophrenic notion wrapped up as philosophy. He pulls eternal recurrence out of his butt.
Love of fate is unnecessarily deterministic
God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The Courage to change the things I can,
And the Wisdom to know the difference.
Yeah well I’ve now 53 and soon to be 54 and had some bloodwork recently which wasn’t too good. Still.
I’ve been a thinking and honestly I wouldn’t change any of it because I wasn’t that conscious to it’s impact through my life.
That is the thing. People used to say to me you think too much but I couldn’t change the way I thought without chemicals. That led to more problems till the antipsychs but I guess that is my point.
So ambivalent. I wouldn’t give up what I’ve lived through even with all the trauma because I’m happy who I am and I’ve had some great exeriences. As to whether the good or the bad I guess that is the question.
Nietzche was an interesting dude and smarter people than me have dealt with his stuff for sure but I don’t think we are stuck in an endless loop…thus predermination etc. Life is so random to me!
Ya, I sort of believe (follow) in eternal return and eternal recurrence and simulation theory. I mean I hope none of that is true, but my delusions are I am schizophrenic for eternity or develop it in every life – but I do believe history can change or is being altered by aliens. I moan and cry a lot and sometimes I think there are parallel universes with different 'me’s or ‘yous’ or ‘i’ but I cannot really access them except in my mind or memories and there is no cure for schizophrenia so it all sucks. It’s just non-provable schizo stuff, I guess. Maybe parallel universes don’t exist and my brain or mind makes all this crap up.
I even had delusions I escaped the sim and met the creators and tried being like one. It is stupid. It’s just more cringey than religious delusions and people view it as either conspiracy theory or made up with no proof to back it up.
I sometimes have ludicrous ideas of determinism, fixed loops, and no free will even. Like time is a mobius loop embedded on a torus or something I made up or heard on Avengers or something and read into it too much. It does feel like that.
The world seems fake or a stage and I do feel like I can time travel or everything is an illusion. At my worst, I was a solipsistic nihilist and experienced brain in a vat or boltzmann brain delusions due to my sensory disturbances and hallucinations.
At my worst, I think God is real but absent and like a Gnostic God that sometimes intervenes, but my religious beliefs are flimsy and I doubt I can be or am a devout Christian anymore. I have tried.
Some of us remember or think we remember our past lives or past.
I would go through everything again but not psychosis. It’s just a waste of time that doesn’t bring anything to the table.
My thoughts are that leisure is the mother of philosophy.
I got a little into stoicism and even believed in some of that stuff. Not anymore.
You know Marcus Aurelius and stuff meditations and I even liked The Prince. I tried being a reader a lot. I have gaps in my reading where I take 6 months to 1 year breaks. I even lost the ability to read before on Abilify or felt a block or no motivation even.
if I beat something the first time around I expect to do even better on round two with some experience under my belt.
Bring it.
You beat something a lot more than once from what I hear.
No but I have heard of Amon Amarth. Im not sure if theres any relation 
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