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[quote=Anonymous]“Hell is other people," wrote Jean Paul Sartre.  Hell is not a special place some people imagine.  Nietzsche thought hell is something else entirely different.  Imagine time on this planet is eternal - not finite. It's a simple thought experiment Nietzsche thought provides answers to many of our existential questions.  It is a concept that whatever happens to your daily life has happened up to now and will happen for eternity in the future.  Nietzsche says more eloquently: “What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”

The philosopher Robert Solomon once was a medical student listening to a miserble medical lecture when his professor told students of Nietzsche's concept of eternal recurrence.  Solomon could not imagine a world in which he must repeat for eternity the life of an MD.  This was his answer to his question whether to stay or to walk away from a life of an medical doctor.

OP - imagine you must repeat your daily work with nothing new in it, except repeating the minute details in exact same sequence - forever.  If you can thank God for a job you can look forward to every morning, go ahead and stay the course.  If, on the other hand, you are thinking, "Just take me out to the backyard and shoot me," make plans to put things behind you.  [/quote]

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