Timelooping..?

[vishnusavestheday]

I tried posting about this in the Spirituality thread but maybe it's a better fit here.

Nietzsche said,

The greatest weight.-- What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"
Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?

--The Gay Science

The sense of reliving this life forever is binding to the Self and trying on our impermanent self. Eternal Recurrence also has integrated insights into Solipsism in deeper degrees as well. Being this superposition of time FOREVER makes it greater than something in passing, and somehow our consciousness becomes something otherwise. Since we are reliving our pains forever, we can feel encouraged to make more sophisticated mistakes than living some dumb short-term memory lifestyle. On deeper levels, aren't we searching for more sophisticated moments of Deja Vu? Meeting the girl of your dreams *all before* perhaps?

This "greatest weight" compounds into compassion for other beings. I just killed a bug on my arm. And then that bug starts again.

Because that bug adds to the gospel doesn't it.

The pointlessness of this absurd paradox--death--is threatening to the survival of your existential dance. In spite of death, we perfect life into the perfect circle we want. 

In the end, we become the hungry laughing infant being fed with mom's spoon in front of us, screaming "Again! Again!" without knowing the language. All you can hear is "here comes the train." 

[RobertZ]

There is a similar passage about the eternal recurrence in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. There is an image of a dwarf weighing down Zarathustra’s final climb—guilt and shame. The image of the young man with the snake biting fast the inside of his throat can laugh as no one has ever laughed once he follows Zarathustra’s advice: “Bite! Bite!” ‘Change your values and case of guilt and shame before it is too late—then you can laugh at Eternal Recurrence.’