Talk:Friedrich Nietzsche/@comment-3338975-20120711014828/@comment-3338975-20120711052732

It's not supposed to be thought of as reincarnation, in either Nietzche's thought nor the train of thought I was developing, because it involves the return of beings to the exact same bodies and the exact same universe, the only difference being the question of whether one would accept it is consciously asked at some point where it formerly had not been in said infinite cycle and then answered in the affirmative. Rather than being an indication of his advocacy of reincarnation, it is probably instead meant to be seen as a strenuous, mind-taxing thought experiment done to test whether one could define everything in one's past in terms of one's present will or not, and to insult one's own will if one couldn't in order to indirectly coerce it into presently becoming such a will instead of waiting for some distant redemptive future for that to take place from the outside. I hope that helped you understand the difference better.