deadman_932
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| Quote | Thus I really tend to discount the atheist belief that consciousness is an accident, a one-time event, and when you check out, take the old dirt nap, you’re gone forever. That’s an irrational conclusion. The rational conclusion is that what happens once will, given enough time and opportunity, happen again.
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Compare and contrast Nietzsche's "Eternal Return" (or "recurrence"):
" This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything immeasurably small or great in your life must return to you-all in the same succession and sequence-even... this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over and over, and you with it, a grain of dust. " -Nietzsche, in "Thus Spake Zarathustra"
See also Ecclesiates and the Pythagoreans, etc.
Dave Tard the Nietzschean...what a shocker.
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AtBC Award for Thoroughness in the Face of Creationism
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