http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return posted:

Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space. The concept is found in Indian philosophy and in ancient Egypt and was subsequently taken up by the Pythagoreans and Stoics. With the decline of antiquity and the spread of Christianity, the concept fell into disuse in the Western world, with the exception of Friedrich Nietzsche, who connected the thought to many of his other concepts, including amor fati.

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The thought of eternal recurrence appears in a few of his works, in particular §285 and §341 of The Gay Science and then in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The most complete treatment of the subject appears in the work entitled Notes on the Eternal Recurrence, a work which was recently published alongside Søren Kierkegaard's own version of eternal return, which he calls 'repetition'. Nietzsche sums up his thought most succinctly when he addresses the reader with: "Everything has returned. Sirius, and the spider, and thy thoughts at this moment, and this last thought of thine that all things will return". However, he also expresses his thought at greater length, and perhaps in its finest form, when he says to his reader:

"Whoever thou mayest be, beloved stranger, whom I meet here for the first time, avail thyself of this happy hour and of the stillness around us, and above us, and let me tell thee something of the thought which has suddenly risen before me like a star which would fain shed down its rays upon thee and every one, as befits the nature of light. - Fellow man! Your whole life, like a sandglass, will always be reversed and will ever run out again, - a long minute of time will elapse until all those conditions out of which you were evolved return in the wheel of the cosmic process. And then you will find every pain and every pleasure, every friend and every enemy, every hope and every error, every blade of grass and every ray of sunshine once more, and the whole fabric of things which make up your life. This ring in which you are but a grain will glitter afresh forever. And in every one of these cycles of human life there will be one hour where, for the first time one man, and then many, will perceive the mighty thought of the eternal recurrence of all things:- and for mankind this is always the hour of Noon".[8]

poty posted:

today the foundations of civilization are a steak.

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poty posted:

i hope everyone starts booing when they show the huge iphones

poty posted:

Silver Alicorn posted:

when is it

Silver Alicorn posted:

cool thanks I think I'm busy all day though

poty posted:

i hope everyone starts booing when they show the huge iphones

Puppy Galaxy posted:

we thought long and hard about big phones. and we realized, they're not bad. they're actually good.

qirex posted:

it would be funny if this was the keynote they finally announced the apple television

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'announcing the new iphone' *phil wheels a tv onto the stage*

Locker Room Zubaz posted:

i am not looking forward to a big phone please apple dont make them all big phones

Metrication posted:

give me the biggest phone you have tim, tv sized if you must. i'm ready to carry a 100kg mobile telephone around.

qirex posted:

it would be funny if this was the keynote they finally announced the apple television

qirex posted:

it would be funny if this was the keynote they finally announced the apple television

Kenny Logins posted:

ty for not using the abbreviation "tv" for television

duTrieux. posted:

i really hope that apple doesn't introduce a wearable device

duTrieux. posted:

or if they do that it's something completely unexpected and new

duTrieux. posted:

smartskulls, full-skull replacements