Thought 44: Thinking the Eternal Recurrence

That power is met

with power means

that it must pass

through a quantifiable

amount of combinations

which forever determine

the sequence to infinity

and infinite amount

of times, including 

this statement

and your reading

it : the eternal

recurrence of 

the same.

Addendum:

Predestination

If eternal recurrence is the case, 

predestination is in effect.

Thought 43: A Note on the Oscars

Three oscar winners for best picture in the last four years that are films to do with film:

• Argo: a made-up movie project devised to save US hostages in Iran.
• The Artist: the world of silent movies taken over by talkies and an actor who struggles with the transition.
• Birdman: an ex-actor in the Hollywood comic book superhero genre tries to make good a career in theatre production.

This is hardly surprising when one considers that members of the Academy have had careers in the film industry and their viewpoint is determined by that world.

These motion pictures must have spoken to them as a result. 

Thought 42: Life Mission

To be a fool.

Thought 41: Notes on The Odyssey

• Homecoming: νόστος
• Guest-friendship: ξενια
• Odysseus kills the suitors but also hangs the maids of his who consorted with the suitors.
• ἀναγκη, necessity, and μοῖρα, fate, seem to be the result of negotiations and agreements among the gods as to what should happen to whom, bearing in mind that 'As the highest of the gods, Zeus is cosmic destiny.' (—Martin Heidegger, Early Greek Thinking—The Dawn of Western Philosophy, Logos (Heraclitus, Fragment B 50).
• brutality in evidence in the epic: mutilation of genitals, noses, and ears; cut and thrust of stabbing objects such as bows and arrows, knives, swords, spears.
• role of direct divine intervention as Pallas Athena dons mortal appearance to guide father (Odysseus) and son (Telemachus).
• political correctness v patriarchal savagery
• recognition scenes, e.g. between Odysseus and his blind father.