Talk:Friedrich Nietzsche/@comment-3338975-20120711014828/@comment-3338975-20120717210749

Perhaps if you explain to me exactly how reincarnation makes sense to you, I can help you make more sense of (though not necessarily make you believe) Nietzche's concept of "Eternal Return", Omar?

When thinking about and trying to make sense of the concept of eternal recurrence, it is beneficial to take into the fact that Nietzche considered himself a devotee of the Greek beast-god Dionysius, who of its own volition was eternally torn to pieces and then regenerated, only to be torn apart again and then regenerate again ad infinitum because of its sheer immortal untameability. To Nietzche, this particular mythos seems to have made the most implicit sense out of the cosmos stretched out before him (though he did not believe in the literal existence of the deity), and advocating that one embrace the concept of eternal return seems to be his way of indirectly pressuring others into accepting the mythos of the beast-god Dionysius. I say this, because it requires the passionate embrace of one's body's past flaws and misdeeds as if they were required by a love of fate, and thus in an esoteric sense requires the willing of one's tearing apart one's own ego-identity (according to Nietzche, an abstract self-understanding based in self-delusion) and its regeneration in the form of bodily self-affirmation (the ultimate source of ego-identity, according to Nietzche), therefore making one model one's life upon the story of Dionysius.