Eternal Recurrence == !Time

In the river twice

Premises:

A: Recurrence is eternal, i.e. infinite in at least how time progresses.

B: One relives qualitatively the same life every time he lives.

C: One can have retrospective memories of traumatic events of his previous life.

D: One can have prospective memories of traumatic events of his next life.

Deductions:

1 If (A, B, C) { the infiniteness of recurrences is finite both ways;

}

#There can be no initial life if that life has to be qualitatively identical to every other life, and that initial life cannot contain a memory referring to an event in a previous life, because if a life is initial, there can be no lives before it.

2 If (A, B, D) { there is no difference between retrospective and prospective memories;

}

#If every life one lives is exactly the same as a previous one, then the event of having a prospective memory about a life after is an event that has already occurred in a life before. Also, if the event the memory is about is bound to happen in a life to come — a life identical to the one one lives in the present — that event is bound to happen in this life as well.

Proposition: If (1, 2) {!time}

#In case there is no first and last life — the succession of lives are infinite both ways — the #succession of life must be and endless loop. If that is true, lives do not unfold on a linear timeline. If that is true, a life’s events also do not unfold on a linear timeline. If that is true, there is no past, present and future. Two things stem from this: there are no events that happened before and after the other, #and there are no lives that happened after the other. In such a case there is no causality, since events don’t occur in linear succession; they occur without time differences, all at #the same time. Thus, the infinite loop of time along which the events occur is one point #(since there are no preceding and succeeding points).

#A point does not have dimensions, no measures. If time is but a point, then time does not exist.

by Zoltan Tajti.