week 8 blog 2

Talked about eternal recurrence today.  Really got me thinking about how we go through our lives.  How differently would we act if this concept is true?  If we really are stuck in a never-ending cycle, of living our life over and over again, how would we act?  Would we sit around and mope all day because life sucks and we’re doomed to redo it over and over again?  Or would stop and think, “You know what, if I get to do this an infinite number of times, why don’t I just try to have some fun with it?”  Because that’s how I view it.  If I have to do this over and over and over again, why not get out and see the world, experience everything I can, do things that make me happy to be alive?  If we are really stuck in this never-ending, godforsaken loop, why not try to live to the fullest?  I mean if you have to do it for an infinite number of times, use this life as a break from the mundane cycle of infinite lives.  But if you really get down into what Nietzsche is saying, even if it’s not actually that way, why shouldn’t we live like we have an infinite number of lives?  I’ll use video games for example.  Say you were playing Call of Duty, or some game like it.  There’s a few different modes you can play on, some let you do more things than others.  But there are two specific ones I want you to think about.  In one, you have one life.  That’s it. That is all you have.  You die you’re out till the next round.  But there is also a mode where you have infinite lives.  Think about how you would play each mode.  In the mode with one life, you’re obviously going to try and not die as long as possible, you’re going to sneak around focus on NOT DYING.  But in the other mode, you’re more likely going to try and gets kills, as that’s the point of the game.  But compare this to how we would live our lives.  If life was a giant multiplayer online game, where you have infinite lives, we would all just go around trying to have a good time, knowing that if we fuck up, theres always the next life.  I think this is where Nietzsche was going.  If we try to think of life as a never-ending loop with unlimited replays, we can enjoy this life a lot more because we can worry less about the hardships we have in this life.