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Would you be able to do your life infinitely many times over again?

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Would you be able to do your life infinitely many times over again? Every step, every choice, no regrets, every pain, every pleasure, every shame, every glory, every bad thing, every good thing, all your character flaws, all your character strengths. Are you able to embrace it ALL?


Personally, I don't think I'm strong enough to be up for it. Only a person who's able to embrace it all has truly lived and has accomplished the highest spiritual freedom imaginable.
 
Hell no-- I'm already tired as it is-- and I've (presumably) got about 60 more years of this shit.
 
How would you be aware of it? Given the awareness, why would you want to do it? Just to prove you're "strong enough" and reached the height of "spiritual freedom"? To whom are you proving this?

I'm guessing yourself (/God, same thing IMO), in which case you would be choosing to waste a lot of lifetimes you could be spending in new bodies, with different experiences to embrace.

Or, why not embrace death?
 
if my memory was whiped clean before every time
fuck yea id chose my life

theres so many things ive done that was a one and done thing, and i would never do it again
but you can appreciate it when youre done
 
If I had no awareness of it, who says this life is not Eternal?... going on and on?
It's not that I haven't experienced points where I embrace everything, even my suffering... but if I had the choice I would never do it again. My goal is obviously for my life to END. I just want to make it through the bullshit (constant machining and testing) and be done with it right. The reason I haven't killed myself yet is synonymous with not wanting to finish in a way not justified a piece of art... sort of. It needs to be perfect. One day I might say fuck it, though.
 
^Art is never perfected, only abandoned.

As for the question, hmmm if I die at 21 then no I probably wouldn't. If I have some kind of redemption later on, perhaps, depending on the redemption.
 
^depending???
what kind of luxury is that..!

im doing it right now,
in the phone booth by the wishing well with out a dime to spare .

its a real nightmare everyday.

BUT
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so far so good -
shall we..?
);-X
 
I think this is basically Nietszche's Eternal Return -- live your life as if you had to relive it this exact same way over and over. In other words, a life worth living is one where being forced to relive it the exact same way would not be sheer torture.

OP, I think there's a lot in common between your idea, and the notion that time is a construct of the human mind (rather than a property of the external world), and in the greater world, all points in time always exist, and have always existed, simultaneously. In this model, we progress through life like a train on a set of tracks. The tracks are moments in time, which stay there even after we've traversed them, and we could just as easily traverse them again.
 
Absolutely not.

Sure, there are things I'd want to do differently if I could do them over, but not only do I think that living life as if it's a playbook is a mistake, you have no guarantee that any other decision you might have made would in fact be a better or more ennobling one. I've done things I deeply regretted at the time but later found out were for the best, and vice versa. And if I *didn't* know that I was in fact reliving my life, then there is zero benefit in doing so.

I'm reminded of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where Picard is killed when he's shot in the heart, causing its artificial replacement to fail. He meets Q in some nameless region, who invites him to relive his life in the Academy so that a fight in which he got stabbed in the heart (which led to its replacement) never happened, ultimately saving his life as captain of the Enterprise. He does so, and is returned to his own time alive and on the Enterprise, but only as a second-rate crew member. He finds out that the ballsiness it took to get in that fight is the same quality that enabled him to succeed in becoming captain, and that avoiding it only led him into milquetoast mediocrity.

So, to use a family quote that may mean little to those outside of it, I'd rather wait for the movie.
 
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Belisarius-Right, be more ballsy. I think that's definitely the point. Well, part of the point anyway. It's not pure ballsiness that leads to a life well lived, but it plays a big part.

What do you mean by "living life as if it's a playbook?" I don't think there is one right answer, or that the OP is suggesting there is. Living life to the fullest comes in a multitude of different flavors.
 
I agree for the most part; perhaps if you relived your life you could stumble on some aspect you never knew you'd enjoy, or a new love, or a new talent. For most people, though, I think the temptation would be great to "improve" on your previous life, to water it down to truth tables instead of making it one day at a time. The very act of mentally holding one's knowledge of their old life (or lives, for that matter) would be a burden; you'd avoid past mistakes and enemies, but also older opportunities and friends. I think it would drive most people crazy, to be honest.

But--to use Dennis Miller's line--that's just my opinion; I could be wrong.
 
Hell no, I hate my life lmao.

But in a sense I would because I've learned so much about life that I think would take other people years to realize. A lot of it comes from growing up too fast, and using a lot of psychedelics.

In the essence, no. I love to experience new things at least once so I would love to live in another body and experience new situations, positive and negative. Why would I want to live the same life over and over when there is so many people and places I would never get to meet/visit because I'm stuck in a never ending loop?

To me that just seems extremely tedious and I think I would kill my self in the process.
 
yeah sometimes i think its possible that time is on a never ending loop and we are all destined to live our same lives over and over for eternity. imagine that.
 
I couldn't. it must be a breakthrough feeling to truly be able to embrace all the pain, all the flaws, and want to go another round. i can't though - my body chemistry and mentality are no good. It would be like getting on a roller coaster that I didn't want to ride and being sick the whole time. Oh wait, it's already like that.
 
imagine that you will have to live everybody life infinite times and everybody else has to live your life infinite times. that would be cool. actually no, because youd have to live the life of every starving child or torture victim.
 
Looking back over my first response, I feel it was a bit needlessly combative. The crux of my answer is no, I wouldn't, because I think it would be much more fun and healthy for my soul to experience lives in other bodies rather than repeat this one over and over again. Has nothing to do with what I've done in this life, to be honest.
 
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