the thought is disturbing. it is the theory that our life is repeated forever like a tape. we re-experience this life over and over down to the tiniest little detail. and it stays that way for all of eternity.
2007-02-28 15:34:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
have you seen "groundhog day"?
2007-02-28 18:32:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is some truth in what you say. But think about this. Don't you know children who came from parents who were not very nice people but the children turned out to be nice people and grew up to become accomplished?
O'Hare Airport in Chicago is named after a fighter pilot who died fighting off a Japanese attack on his ship. The funny thing was nobody on the ship knew about an attack was about to happen. O'Hare just happened to blunder into it. It wasn't until the Navy recovered the film from O'Hare's plane's gun camera that O'Hares task force found out how many bombers and torpedo planes he shot down by himself and that he gave up his life to protect others. Because of the number and type of planes that were making the attack, the Navy determined that if it was not for O'Hare, the attack likely would have killed a lot of his shipmates and\or resulted in the loss of some of the ships in the task force.
O'Hare was the son of a member of Al Capone's gang. I'd say he was one apple that fell pretty far from the tree. He literally sacrificed himself. He didn't quit and run even though he was heavily out numbered, but he stayed and fought so his shipmates would live.
2007-02-28 23:59:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is one constant thing in the universe, it is Change. I think if our life goes on forever, it goes on forever and never repeats, at least not exactly. Quantum science, which relies on probability to even be functional, shows it to be quite unlikely that existence is an replicating endless loop. Now recursion, on the other hand...
2007-02-28 23:44:33 · answer #3 · answered by neuralzen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if the universe is finite, which is questionable, there is no necessity that there be a finite amount of permuatations. As an example: any natural language has a finite number of words, but the limits of sentence construction are boundless.
2007-03-01 01:15:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
recursion, yes. Repetition, no. I believe it would be more like reincarnation that the repetition of a tape.
2007-02-28 23:53:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋