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Ep 42 - Siddharta (Hermann Hesse)

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The Idea of Eternal Recurrence

Natu said on eternal recurrence, and indeed he said many things in the gay science. He believed that free will was a human artifice created to ordain punishment and the right to kill. And man indeed does not have free will. Can you see how we get into a bit of a paradox with this thinking? It almost doesn't make sense. But what need you say ing is one moment can make the eternal recurrence worth it. The idea of eternal recurrence. Everything eternally recurring for ever.

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