Returning to hell. Forevermore.

Let's hope that the pattern of life is a straight line rather than circular. If it's straight, there's no turning back. We don't get to do things over and over again. If it's circular, we keep coming back. So-called eternal recurrence. In which case we make the same mistakes over and over again. That would be the definition of pure hell. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche imagined it. And maybe that's what drove him crazy. Unfortunately, I suspect that life was designed to be in circular motion. For instance, here in America we had eight horrid years of George Bush and rule by lunatic Republicans. That was followed by Barack Obama and the Democrats trying doggedly to bail us out of the horrific fiscal and political mess caused by Republicans. But now it's looking like Republicans may regain power after only two years of Obama and the Democrats. If that happens, we will have come full circle. Back where we started from. Stuck with Republicans bent on destruction of the USA. We'll be making the same mistakes. Instead of proceeding along a straight line and moving on to something new and enlightening. If life moved on a straight line, we might reach Paradise some day. But by going in a circle, we keep returning to hell. Forevermore. --Jim Broede