Resurrection & Samsara

Resurrection & Samsara
2006.03.11 10:41

Until recently I never thought our society is religious. But actually it was. In Buddhist teaching, our life never ceases but changes into another form of life - a cat, a dog, a cattle, whatever. This is called samsara -reincarnation.
In Christianity, resurrection is the counterpart -but this is an individual human to the same individual human.
I must say Western thought has more emphasis on the importance of each individuals.
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by weierstrass (669421) on 2006.03.11 11:50 (#14896196) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.03.10 5:32)
what do you think about 'eternal recurrence'?
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by Le Marteau (206396) on 2006.03.11 15:18 (#14896833) (Last Journal: 2006.04.29 14:04)
I look forward to what Mercedo has to say about eternal recurrance.I think Nietzsche's concept of eternal recurrance was a though exercise. I don't think he actually believed it exactly as he wrote it, but put it forth as a concept and as an intellectual exercise. It also served to magnify the importance of individual action, and how one should behave as if the concequences of what you do will live on forever. Because the result of one's actions DO resonate forever, just not as simply as Nietzsche's 'eternal recurrance' exercise would have it.
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by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.12 0:20 (#14898135) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Just one time the description of eternal reccurence appears in his writing -which is Thus Spoke Zarathustra. According to the passage- I still clearly remember what Nietzcshe described, he didn't describe eternal recurrence as pessimistic as I did. -
'Oh this was a life, so I'll do it once again'-Nietzsche ; Zarathustra
He took the realisation of eternal recurrence in his life more a oppotunity to encourage doing it once again positively rather than giving up pursuing something valuable in his life again. He left interesting word on the existence of God. -
'If God exists, I can't put up with my not being God.' -Nietzsche
Remember he was not good at math. His theoretical leap makes his writings more interesting ones.
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by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.11 23:15 (#14897896) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Eternal recurrence is the ultimate form of nihilism. It might not be certified in mathematical method, although theoretically speaking it is possible. Nietzsche had many oppotunities to think what the concept of eternity implies through Bible study, in Bible God is the being beyond the concept of time - God is the beginning and the end, God is eternity, etc. And also God in Bible is a impersonified existence. Nieztsche was human all too human, so he tried to grasp the notion of God within the limitation of human wisdom. His theoretical consequence was eternal recurrence after tens of thousands of pondering about what eternity, eternal life, the existence of God are.
Though God is almighty, God exists beyond the limitation of time, but still he tried to comprehend the notion of almighty, eternity through human wisdom -limited, sometimes false belief, idea, preoccupied biased criteria. So eternal reccurence was a poor conclusion he reached through his narrow Weltanschauung.
Then he tried to overcome the ultimate form of nihilism through the intuitive, transcendental another impersonified form other than God -which was Overman. He was still thousands miles away to realise Overman is another form of God. According to his world view, Gott ist tod. Yet he merely replaced it in another notion of Overman.
First of all, it is irrational to try to grasp the notion of God through our limited human wisdom. I must say God exists regardless of whether we believe or not.
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