The Myth of Eternal Recurrence is a simple little video. I say simple simply because its only purpose is to propose a hypothetical situation. How you feel about that situation, though, should reveal something about yourself. This films principal quality lies in its ability to demonstrate how each of us views our own lives. Personal opinion can be a thing of beauty, especially when people don't confuse their opinions with facts. I suppose one of the other things that this film demonstrates so well is that regardless of how you truly feel about this idea of eternal recurrence the truth is that it doesn't matter. Any such notion of unprovable faith doesn't change the ultimate truth of the universe (whatever it happens to be), all it serves to do is show how you view life. Maybe that's why it's called a myth, because the only truth it possess is personal.
As for myself, I'm not too sure of how I would feel about my own eternally recurring life. I suppose I wouldn't care. If I had to live my life again and again exactly as it was then I wouldn't even be aware that any of these other lifetimes existed. You couldn't be aware of them, or these lifetimes wouldn't be the same. Unless our lives are all biologically determined and our thoughts on any particular situation don't mean a thing. Maybe this question is more complex than I had originally given it credit for. Either way though, one life is all anyone would be stuck with. It still forces you to make the correct decisions here and now; living it all again isn't the same thing as a do-over.
“You are a God and never did I hear anything more divine.”
That is probably my favorite line from this short film. It shows the power that a few words of knowledge can give to an individual. It demonstrates well the concept that to know God's will is to become God himself. The ultimate truth is the only thing that really matters, the rest is just “dust of dust.”
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