What if soemone told you that everything you've evr done has been doen already an infinite number of times? The spider you see on your wall, the papers you agonized over in school. You're just living in a world of infinite madness and nothing you do is ever different than what you've already done.
2007-01-06 19:26:10 · 6 answers · asked by Rachel Green 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
By done already I mean by you, your life is an infinite repitition through time. You think you're making a conscious decision everytime you eat a bowl of cereal but really you've gone through that act an infinite # of times and really have no ay of breaking the cyle...Come on where are my atheist existentialists?
2007-01-06 19:38:42 · update #1
Most of you don't seem to "get" Neitzsche, it's not that no one else has looked at the spider on the wall but that you have man many times before,i guress its over soem people's heads
2007-01-06 20:10:29 · update #2
Nietzsche wasn't the first philosopher to make these statements. I personally cannot figure out his works- they're outdated and very open to debate. He wrote in metaphors that are easily misconstrued.
2007-01-06 19:40:31 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being "adversarial to the belief of God/faith" isn't the comparable as being an atheist. yet, confident, there have been philosophers that are atheists. a number of them comprise Voltaire, Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre. Jeremy: it is BERTRAND Russel, no longer Bertram. (have you ever even ever examine something via him?) additionally, Alisdair MacIntyre is a examine professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, and between the main outstanding human beings interior the sphere interior the international on the instant. he's a non secular believer in God. And Alvin Plantinga, and quite a few different others. And the record is going on and on. Harry: The questioner asked for any "philosophers" that did no longer have faith in God. Richard Dawkins isn't a fact seeker, he's an evolutionary biologist and ethologist. He has no expert historic past in philosophy in any respect.
2016-10-06 13:43:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nietzsche was a philosopher who also suffered serious mental problems--depression, I think. The one sure way to disprove that "nothing you do is ever different than what you've already done", is to try something new, hopefully something enjoyable and challenging.
People who are original in their thinking disprove the first part of your statement: ". . .everything you've ever done has been done already an infinite number of times". Inventors and scientists come up with new things every day.
The spider you see on your wall may never have been seen by anyone else in the world. You may be the first person to gaze at that spider. The papers you agonized over in school were yours, splattered with your own fingerprints, which are unique. And your approach to those papers, the thoughts you put in to them, were uniquely yours.
A depressed person could say we are living in a world of madness, particularly if you look at what's going on in the world today. But it's not a world of INFINITE madness. If it were, everything and everybody would be insanely irrational, and your own experience has to have shown you already that there are large areas of order and peace and happiness in anyone's life.
We get what we choose in life, either consciously or unconsciously. Abraham Lincoln was asked one day by a close friend how he could stand living with his wife, Mary, who was, to put it gently, not quite all-together mentally, and she frequently had screaming fits at Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln simply replied, "Most folks are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
That one sentence makes more sense to me than anything else. We get out of life what we expect. The choice is ours. Choose wisely.
2007-01-06 19:45:24 · answer #3 · answered by Marion111 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that may or may not be true in any case our brain then would be as a goldfish with no memory... and if there is no recall of the event, it doesn't matter... In the case that you are aware of this repetion of unchanging events, that would make you the superman and ergo you would be given the option of just not do and break the cycle... if you are not aware, as I said it doesnt matter... you are just a theologist... lol
2007-01-06 20:31:31 · answer #4 · answered by ustase 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People do things that are new to them all the time, but there's not very many new things that haven't been done by no one at all.
2007-01-06 19:29:44 · answer #5 · answered by Docta Jones 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say: Prove it!
2007-01-06 19:45:53 · answer #6 · answered by Vango 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋