I once said to a friend that my worst fear was when I die I’d be reincarnated back in time to live my life over again. And he said that he hopes that would be the case for him as his life had been so good.
ah, Nietzsche’s theory of eternal recurrence. i really don’t want to sit through Amelie again 
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I heard once when you die, you keep doing the same thing you were doing for all eternity, gawd it would be awful working that long
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I would never want to relive my life either, I try to make my life as happy as possible now. Try to find moments of happiness every day, and don’t worry or feel sad about the things you cannot change.
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Ive had those thoughts before. They were implated i my head by my imaginary friend when I first got sick. It wont be a proven fact that we will know until we actually die, which in your case better be when your old and grey, and those thoughts were taken out of my head years ago
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I love Nietzsche, but I think he was slightly wrong when it comes to eternal recurrence. I don’t think infinity is as simple as one sequence eternally repeating itself. I think it is infinite both in span and in complexity (if that makes any sense) and that that means reincarnation, if real, would result in a never-ending stream of different kinds of existences from the previous ones. I also think this hypothesis is more beautiful and balanced than eternal recurrence. I do agree with Nietzsche when he says that the universe is countable (finite), but I think that is reconcilable with an infinitely complex eternity of different universes.
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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.
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our universe has got to be finite… expansion outward from a 1 central point would mean there is an edge… but does the nothing surrounding our universe contain similar big bang events too far out to even fathom or is there truly nothing beyond our universes expansion going on… and how far does the neither stretch… is the space outside of the expansion of our universe part of the universe…if the nothing stretches infinitely in all directions the multiverse could be contained within that huge space with each universe so far apart we would never know about each other… I just made my own head explode…
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Lovig this topic, I love coversatios like this 
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I’ve been under the impression that I’ve lived not just this life of mine now over and over, but included are the family linking me to this life I have now, Which kinda ‘explains’ why I’m stuck with folks who are family, and more, but ac not so.
Combine that with all these lives going on at once, same time.
Well, it explains all these phrases that I’ve been familiar with since little, and no one knows where or what they meant.
As I get older, all these seemingly random pieces of the puzzle start fitting together one by one, and it makes for proper sense what I’ve understood all along.
Hard to explain without going into detail I wont on a public forum, because it’s the only way I can ‘prove’ that this belief is true, is if my life unfolds the way I know it will, and only me as the one holding the key.
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I also believe that “God” is Collective Consciousness. All the thoughts, memories, knowledge and skills of all people who have ever lived and are living. We are “God”. The difference between the living and the dead is supreme logic and maturity. We are freed of our pettiness and competition when we die and we truly love each other because we are ‘one’. When we are alive we don’t feel connected and so respectful of each other. We think God is something separate from ourselves. A Deity of sorts.
I believe in Telepathy or the ability to connect with “God” and access others thoughts. I also believe in ‘mediums’ for the same reason. The ability to access “God”, including individual consciousness’ like Martin Luther King Jr., for example.
I have no proof. I only believe it.
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Dudddddddddddde. It’s exactly the same life on repeat I assure you. I keep going through the same things wondering why people don’t realise that the obly thing we do is share the same life together for eternity. It’s basically what happens. Your brains meant to refresh when you die to forget what happens but because everything’s the same all the time you remember things. It’s usually things you don’t like rather than things you like because your brain so badly wants to come back to life that it holds on to the things it loved last time and tryst to find them again the next time to cover up how bad death is.
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Dudddddddddddde your post made me feel like theres a normal person in the world:)
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I don’t believe in reincarnation. I’ve never seen good enough proof that it is real. I am going to live my life I have now to the best of my ability and not bank on a better or worse life when this one is over.
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I don’t believe in reincarnation, but for a while I believed I was in one of many hells that are like alternate dimensions.
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I made my head explode again… I booby trapped my self from a month and ten days ago… good job me… that will show us…
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I think this whole questioning our life, eternity and stuff comes from being mentally ill =(
If I ask my friends if they have regrets or wanna change their life or think about a purpose in their life, they say ‘what, are you crazy? I only think about tomorrow, what I will eat and chores, and my kids’ health.
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Why shouldn’t it be seen that it is them who are crazy? They’re the ones who are so deaf to the wisdom of their souls of the lives of others that they only think of living for the deadness of what they call “enjoyment”.
Truth is if they try to make them sit in a moment of reflection of these things they run away like cowards and retreat back to their spiritually dead world.
Can’t even speak about world issues affecting us because it is more important to talk about the latest movie, t.v. drama, or video game or whatever it is they like now. It’s all just mindless entertainment to keep them asleep because the pain of waking up is too much to bear.
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I guess I prefer to fit in =(
Yeah, I hear you on that.
Whenever I try to bring up any of these topics up you will almost always be met with indifference. I just kind of go with the flow now. Much less concern with being direct and forceful and just “being the change”. It is the more reasonable route it seems.
Can’t be faulted for thinking on these things and feeling left out and then possibly being driven mad by it.
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