Groundhog Day vs Nietzsche: Reliving Your Life

Eternal recurrence and the meaning of life

It’s Groundhog Day, again! The popular film explored an idea that religion and philosophy had previously grappled with: What if time isn’t linear, but cyclical? What if we are condemned to relive our lives again and again, to eternity? Groundhog Day presents this possibility as a challenge but also an opportunity: to imagine what the best versions of ourselves could be, even if the world around us remained the same. Nietzsche, on the other hand, imagined an eternal recurrence in which nothing changed, every little detail of our lives was relived in exactly the same way, for eternity. He recognized the idea was terrifying, but he also saw it as an exercise in affirming our existence, even the most horrible aspects of it, writes Matt Bennett.

 

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amity jyotsna 11 February 2022

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peter Croudace 3 February 2022

You`ve just described a version of Hell in a very verbose way! Another of Nietzsche`s mates surmised life as "a bitch ,and then you die!" So full of hope and optimism ! That his ideas were so influenced by an inner unrest and the rise of existential thought in his era, he rejected Christ and his Gospel and famously quoted , "we have murdered God and his blood is on our hands!" Thus also stating that we have taken away anything that gives true meaning to existence!. And so existentialism is basically how you think ,what your mental processes are and your whole world view after rejection of God ! Or put another way existentialism is what you have to end up with if you reject God and become an atheist. There is really no alternative ! He knew he would be on a desperate journey as he attempted with all his might to embrace it and be the best he could be ....his "superman or ubermensch". The fruit of his journey was that he ended up desperately unhappy clinging to the neck of a horse and sobbing his heart out and ultimately to an insane asylum.
Our worldviews have a serious impact on our lives and it pays to give serious thought and consideration as to whether this is all there is in existence or that life has a far more transcendent meaning and that we should earnestly seek it . As one thought says "the flesh profits nothing ,it is the spirit that gives life !
Ultimately ,it is for our good !