Cyclical view of time
31Chronology, Community, and Freedom
3 Aug 2020
7:15¶ 28
“That’s exactly what’s going on here. The old pagan world had its chaos festivals. As history cycles through never-ending cycles, it would plunge down…”
7:58¶ 29
“It was considered a function of the way the universe worked, because of course the pagan world didn’t like the idea of linear time.…”
3Chaos, Order, and Origins
19 Jan 2020
1:54¶ 4
“The common philosophy of the ancient world is that having gotten from there to here, we may find ourselves cycling back to there eventually.…”
19:17¶ 50
“We don’t know, but they did certainly have a positive hope. The gods die, and yes, the gods can be reborn. But again, this…”
19:36¶ 51
“We may have lived this life and had this conversation a billion, billion times, and we’ll never know it and never remember it. Isn’t…”