Amor fati
Been there done that got the T-Shirt.
The importance of ourselves to ourselves is self-evident to this self.
Am I thinking or dreaming? But full stop. That’s an old question.
The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati was co written by David Duchovny. He was heavily inspired by Kazantzakis’s The Last Temptation of Christ. Duchovny had a strong desire to play something different. In The Last Temptation of Christ Jesus has a period of doubt about his destiny and is freed of his demons. Satan appears in disguise, claiming to be from God (CSM) and tries to convince him to live a normal life. In the story Jesus is tempted with the life of an ordinary man (Mulder’s dream) marriage, sex and family. The dream sequence with Diana was based on the story of when Jesus had sex with a prostitute Mary Magdalene.
Nietzschean affirmation (German: Bejahung) is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. An exemplary formulation of this kind of affirmation can be sought in Nietzsche’s Nachlass:
If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.
—Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Will to Power. (Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale translators) New York: Random House, 1967. (pages 532-533)
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“I have had more than my share of wonderous moments of affirmation and for this I am eternally grateful. To every question the ans is yes, yes there is life on earth, yes there are more points between points than can be counted, yes I am special, but so are you … I just wish you weren’t so certain …”
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