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Nathan Slake's avatar

How I love how this continues!

Also loved reading about Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence and the implications thereof.

You keep us hanging, Silvio, but I am glad and grateful to be on that cliff awaiting the next entry.

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Thank you so much! Your appreciation always means a lot, Nathan. We’ll see where this story takes me. :) (and I knew you would appreciate Nietzsche!)

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Susan Ross's avatar

Silvio this is cruel to leave me hanging.........

Great story telling as always.

I'm a Hypnotherapist and I practise 'Time Line Therapy' (which is a powerful therapy tool for removing the emotion attached to past traumatic events). When I ask a client to point to where their past is, and their future, most do this in a straight line (makes sense) but recently I've had 2 clients who, quite spontaneously have described a circle!

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Thank you so much, Susan, for sharing this. It’s quite unusual to think of time in that way spontaneously. Before reading Nietzsche, I couldn’t have come up with such a notion on my own, to be honest. But then, when you really think about it, because someone else prompts you to, it does make some sense.

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Anna Schott's avatar

Like a spooky Elves and the Shoemaker!

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Lol yes! Kind of. :)

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Boustan Hirji's avatar

Incredibly precise yet bringing into focus the meaning of time in life. Some Medieval Islamic philosophers write about Time being eternally elliptical. A spiral where we ascend in Time based on our decisions.

As always your writing is provocative.

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

This sounds super interesting, Boustan. Do you remember who that philosopher was? I’d love to read something about it. Thank you so much!

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Kimberly Warner's avatar

“A message, a destination, a loop.” Fascinating Silvio. Fascinating, provoking, penetrating. I had never heard of this Nietzsche theory but I like it. What if we all have only one story and it’s up to us to decide how to live it?

“A litmus test of an individual’s capacity to affirm life” - I mean, wow.

Thrilled about this mystery you’re unfolding.

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Thank you so much for these super kind words, Kimberly! I wrote about this Nietzsche’s idea way back in another piece. It’s fascinating, isn’t it. I don’t know how to link it here from the app (I’m so bad at these things), and I frankly don’t even remember the title (I know, don’t ask). But it includes the word “September”. So grateful for every comment of yours. :)

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Jill CampbellMason's avatar

And I/ Maybe not such an "I" but more like that series of never-ending recurrences of myself...the only thing is each time "I" recur, I'm older,...

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Who knows, maybe not necessarily. If time’s a circle, everything comes back as it was. Thank you, Jill!

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Jill CampbellMason's avatar

Maybe not necessarily...maybe not!

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Zinenataza's avatar

This description resonated so much, because it happens to me all the time. "I stayed in bed, supine, peacefully staring into the dark of the room, the details of the dream gracefully, unavoidably fading on the white of the ceiling like the finale of a movie right before the end credits." So frustrating trying to cling to the tendrils of a disappearing dream that feels like it has something profoundly important to communicate, but it's over already, like the movie you just watched that is already fading away.

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Yes, it’s such a bummer, isn’t it. And yet, you lie there at peace knowing that whatever comes back, comes back. Thank you so much!

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Rose Campbell's avatar

The mystery continues! The way you write is so engaging, and I look forward to further discoveries and disclosures about this very puzzling situation.

I rather like the idea of one’s existence being “A litmus test of an individual’s capacity to affirm life”; what an intriguing thought!

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Thank you, Rose! It does indeed! And I look forward to it as much as you do. :)

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