All I can say right now is I wouldn't want to relive this past tsunami of a week over and over. Hope it's okay with Nietzsche, but I'm turning the page and starting fresh.

Hi Sue,
Good post and good comments. I don't think we should put our
minds and bodys through the same thing more than once.
Sue, I am having trouble with my pc. I can get on the net
in the AM, then not the rest of the day. I think it's my modem,
but am not sure. So anyway, I will be on when I can.

You bet I would live my life over again with all the sorrow and all the pain and all the joy and love and pleasure. It has been great ride and I'm far from ready to leave this planet.

I also am a closet Nietzsche fan! His stance that the human and the human mind is the ultimate (and you and you alone are responsible for you) really impressed me at a the tender age of 14. I have wandered away from him, but now as I age, I find myself winding my way back home to him. Would I live my life over if I could, I sure would. I would have bought microsoft stock. To hell with not being able to do anything different, I would do everything very differently. The fact that you know it is the second rerun of your old life would make you change it in some way, some how. Ending up in the same place is okay if you have a chance to change how you got there. Think about it!! A Do-Over with your life, that rocks.

what's the point of living it over if you can't fix anything? remember in Our Town, the young woman who dies in childbirth gets to go back to earth and relive one day. She chooses her birthday but must move through the day exactly as she had the first time, not being able to hug her mother more or do any of the things that she ached to do. I've often been intrigued by time travel and wished I could go back and meet my loved ones even before I knew them.

The same thing has happened to many philosophers, e.g. Socrates... who was sentenced to death because he opened the minds of the youth of Athens.

Fred Nietzsche was a Mensch First Class! They committed him to an asylum in about 1890. I don't believe he was insane. I believe he was just so profoundly ahead of everyone they couldn't understand him anymore so they locked him away.