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You: yo
Stranger: wazap
You: not much, how are you?
Stranger: just biding my time
You: cool
You: wanna hear a neat religous belief I made up?
Stranger: yessir
You: we live the exact same life repeatedly because the universe endlessley recreates itself the exact same way because nothing can alter its course, its all one
You: so this is our only life
You: but we get it over and over again, its just we never can know that its the only one
You: because in between, the universe ends and begins again
Stranger: you just totally blew my mind
You: nice
You: it had the same effect on me
You: i think it makes some sense
You: you?
Stranger: i am still trying to understand what you just said
You: ask me any question you want about it
Stranger: so we constantly re-live our lives, because the universe is...
You: a loop
Stranger: ah
Stranger: so i am living the same life i lived a long long time ago?
You: the only perpetual motion machine that will ever exist
You: well yeah, but if this is true then there is no such thing as time
Stranger: whoah
You: its all just one thing, a cycle
You: and because its an endless self-similar loop, the recreations are identical, and indiscernible
You: there wouldnt be any such thing as motion either
Stranger: wow
You: its just all displacement, because nothing can be created or destroyed
You: yin and yang and whatnot
Stranger: like energy
You: yeah
You: but not even that, lol
You: just "it"
You: and we're all in it
You: but yeah, i think you get the idea though
Stranger: yeah
Stranger: i have never heard of a theory like this
You: neitzche had a version that was slightly difference
You: different
You: his said that given infinite time and infinite chance, everything will happen again
You: eventually
Stranger: interesting
You: the pythagoreans thought we lived the same life repeatedly too
You: but im not sure how close their theory was to mine
You: im on the fence as to whether I should make this idea more public to try to replace religion with this idea, because its much more sensible to me
Stranger: wait pythagoreans as in pythagorean therum?
You: yeah
You: lead by pythagoras
Stranger: wow dude if you go public i will endorse you
Stranger: this is just so cool
You: heh, thanks
You: i've told a lot of people
You: you should too
You: its no ones idea
Stranger: so essentially not yours?
You: i'd be a hyppocrite to guard it from everyone, being that if it were true there is no "me" to be worried about credit
You: it would just be a result of what happened
You: i just ended up coming up with it, but im not important, the idea is
Stranger: you sir, are a gentleman and a scholar
You: it might make people live this life in such a way that they would want to do their best, because it would be their only
You: thanks man
You: it would also stop all suicides
You: because suicide would be no escape
Stranger: wow
Stranger: but, if like you say that life is just one loop, then in their previous loop they would have committed suicide also?
You: yep
Stranger: so there would actually be no stop to it
You: well, they wouldnt know about the last time
You: and technically since the last time is indiscernible from this one, there wouldn't really be multple times
You: because it would be impossible to tell the difference between the loops
You: it would basically just be one loop
Stranger: what?
You: theres a philosopher named leibniz who thought of this law called the identiy of indiscernibles, it basically means that if there are absolutely no differences between two things, there aren't actually two things, just one
Stranger: understandable
You: yeah, i think so
You: thats not the most important element
You: but it follows from the idea
You: to be honest, I thought of this while tripping and when I did I layed down in my bed and cried to god that I had ended up thinking of this idea, because i felt like an enormous weight had been put on my shoulders to spread the world
You: i dont believe in god though, unless "everything" counts as god
Stranger: wow
You: so who are you? what do you do?
You: im a college student from PA
Stranger: i am just a high school student
You: thats cool
Stranger: yeah but seriously you are brilliant
You: never was much a fan of HS
You: don't say that, its not true
Stranger: and why not?
You: because if I am right, then all I am is a part of somthing greater than myself, I cant take credit because there is no me
You: i wouldnt even have free will
You: well, thats a hard thing to explain with this
You: because the more you consider that everything is determined, the more free you become, or at least it seems that way
You: but then again, some people never consider that idea at all, and they get by just fine
You: ultimately, I think fate is a real thing because there is only one past, but we can develop the appearance that we influence our fate
Stranger: holy crap i think my brain just exploded
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