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That said, today's episode is part five of our series on Shield of Lose.

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So we ended last episode with a passage from Nietzsche and I kind of want to

reread it for anybody that may not be listening to parts four and five back to back.

Nietzsche asks us to consider how we might view our lives differently if this was the case.

Quote, what if someday or night a demon were to steal after you in your lonely

is loneliness and say to you, this life as you now live it and have lived it,

you will have to live once more and innumerable times more.

And there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every

thought and sigh and everything unutterably smaller great in your life will have to return to you.

All in the same succession and sequence, even this spider and this moonlight

between the trees and even this moment and I myself, the eternal hourglass of

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