In Berserk, every 216 years an Eclipse results in the creation of a new member of the God Hand. And the protagonists are fighting to prevent that cycle from repeating itself. A crucial plot point in ∀ Gundam in the form of the Dark History aka all the previous Gundam series, which highlights the seemingly endless cycle of bloodshed and conflict between Earth and Spacenoids.Has to happen at least twice (and the more, the better) - if The End of the World as We Know It only happens just once then it doesn't form a loop. This may cause a Medieval Stasis for some worlds.Īlso compare "Groundhog Day" Loop, History Repeats and the Vicious Cycle. It's also to prevent Nietzschean philosophical concepts, such as the Übermensch, from becoming overly-idealistic. A person capable of this degree of engagement with the world demonstrates mastery of amor fati and the 'self-affirming Yes'. For example, a truly virtuous, life-loving person would be able to endure reliving his entire life's experience (both triumphs and mistakes) over and over, with neither bitterness nor regret. The term Eternal Recurrence was itself coined by Friedrich Nietzsche, who (while never suggesting this theory was true) adopted it as a thought experiment to test one's willpower. Of course, a more Theme Park Version-esque view on these traditions boils down to " History Repeats." The Yuga system, for example, shows the world evolve and devolve within each cycle (see Götterdämmerung). Many such systems divide these periods of existence into 'Ages'. This is also known as " eternal return ". A similar idea, likely developed in parallel (and responsible for the infamous 2012 apocalypse prediction), appears in Southwestern Native American mythologies note ranging at least from the Hopi and Navajo to the Aztecs and Maya, where the world is conceived as having been reborn four or five (depending on the culture) times already, and presumably would be again. Buddhism has a similar notion of Kalachakra ("wheel of time"). In Hinduism, there is the Maha Yuga concept where the universe is destroyed and recreated by Brahma every 4.32 million years. The idea goes back to Hindu and Buddhist traditions and ancient Greek philosophy, especially Stoicism. It is not the "end" in linear sense, but rather several cycles of endless Reincarnation-or a Reset Button for the entire universe pressed over and over again. Multiple characters, Battlestar Galactica (2003) source is Peter PanĪ major and catastrophic event (normally, The End of the World as We Know It) happens not once but on regular basis.
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