Talk:Friedrich Nietzsche/@comment-3338975-20120711014828

"Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept which posits that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space." - This need not be "horrifying and paralyzing", though it certainly has the potential to be, and I disagree with Nietzche that it's the heaviest weight imaginable for one to pyschologically bear up under. Imagine that the universe recurs in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time and space, but with the addendum that the self-similar form itself is understood as necessarily unstable ground which one's own body must be co-identified with. The eternal return of the universe's perpetual drive towards self-cessation is all the more difficult to bear up under than the solidity of Nietzche's concept of eternal return taken in itself, and the embrace of it would not so much be a tragedian's love of fate (which one could at least claim as a personal distinction) as it would be a humbling reassociation of one's very being with the basic conditions which gave life its potential in the first place.