Alright GD, I return with a question/proposal.
Let’s assume religion, afterlife, nothing after death was certain…
If you had the actual option to choose between eternal return (meaning you repeat your life EXACTLY as it is now forever without you knowing) and oblivion.
Which would you choose?
Why are those the only choices?
Oblivion. I’d take playing ES: Oblivion over a direct repeat any day.
Seriously though, what’s the difference really? Do the exact same thing with no changes or nothing. Neither have any impact on anything, and neither let me choose what I can do. So it doesn’t really matter which happens.
Why choose when there’s no choice?
If you’re reborn and relive your life without knowing, does it really matter to you which you choose?
I get bored doing the same thing over and over.
If you have to travel avoid the main roads… It’s a daedra.
Because I’m saying those are the only two options you’re given. If you’re offered chocolate or vanilla ice cream as that’s the only flavors you have you can’t exactly have raspberry, can you?
Let’s say there is.
Let’s say you know and get to pick.
Do none of you know how hypotheticals/thought exercises work?
If I get oblivion, I wouldn’t even know.
But either way, the you who is picking receives oblivion.
Either you choose oblivion or you choose a new life, but the current you, who will be reborn, wont remember that you had already lived. So it’s essentially the same outcome either way.
The current you, the one who chooses, will cease to be in either choice.
non-existance is preferable. Existance suck and entropy is unstoppable. Universe will die eventually
Give me oblivion.
All of the time, all of the days.
Good question. if I were to repeat the same pain over and over it would be oblivion. If by chance it isn’t, eternity.But all that is a matter of faith,if by belief in a afterlife it would eternity,though I didn’t believe in life repeats the same way over again.
But does this choice really matters, if you’re going to lose the consciousness and awareness that you have now if you choose Eternal Return?
But well, if I had a really terrible life, I’d choose Oblivion. Wouldn’t want to repeat that, even if I started with no memories.
Otherwise, I’d say Eternal Return, but just for the possibility of this “system” going faulty and I actually, at some point in life, acquire awareness of what happened and be able to change an outcome.
Not necessarily. Maybe you could think of it as a memory wipe, but you as the individual and you conscious cognitive self would still repeat it infinitely.
How edgy, but where’s the Jojo meme?
You wouldn’t even know if you got eternal return.
Oblivion is preferable to the infinite purgatory of living the same life over and over.
But if you dont realize you’re in an infinite loop, it doesn’t really mean much to you personally.
Hell, we could all be experiencing this right now without ever knowing it.
I still stand by both option are the same for the person who chooses.