Why do we need a ethic?
There is always enough room for the mystical I think. We can’t explain everything.
Well I see it as the eternal reoccurence of the same so I can’t answer your question.
Makes sense to me. I appreciate your intelligent interpretation of this.
Yes and no, Smears.
If eternal return is true then what happens is you die causing your entire being and form to go into a sort of suspended animation in which once the finite circle comes around again the very individual pattern essence that is you becomes reborn where you are forever cursed to live the same life over and over again filled with the exact replica of all the expiriences having already expirienced prior from cradle to grave.
This is my interpretation of eternal return. Think of it as a exact copy within a repetition of a much greater copy that is the universe.
It’s like the sequence or events of earthly history eternally repeating in the same exact manner over and over again unchanging.
In the end we really do live forever as eternal echoes of cyclical time in the fabric that is the universe only in this dimension there is no heaven but only earthly pleasures and sufferings.
Who knows how many countless billions of times we have lived this same exact weary life? How many births and deaths we have already expirienced?
It sounds supernatural but it’s not. There is no “God” involved in this. There is only the cyclical nature of the universe in eternal repeating patterns.
If existence is a single eternal stream with time being the same that has no beginning or end then the chances of the same exact patterns reoccuring are increased infinitely.
The universe for sure eventually dies like everything else but in it’s death comes the creation of a multitude of infinite other universes. This is the eternal creation, destruction, and death that repeats itself. In death there is never static but only the transformation into somthing else.