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Where does it start and where does it end? by raymonjohnstone

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Where does it start and where does it end?
<h1>Firstly I must preface that most of this will likely simply be nonsense, I however will not apologise for this.</h1>

I have long been fascinated with the ouroboros which is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon consuming its own tail, this imagery is often used to represent cyclical functions such as life and death and sometimes even the existence of the universe.
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I cannot fully describe why I am been so fascinated with this imagery, or should I say I haven not managed to fully grasp why. Likely it has to do with my own curiosities around life and death and what they mean, what their functions are. 

What is this things I am here experiencing?

Also what is this concept "I" that I so regularly use?

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<h1>Thank you for your time and attention.</h1>
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@dwinblood · 
I've mentioned it as well when I see people repeating the same historical cycles.  Ouroboros is one of the images that is in my mind in those cases.
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@heroic15397 · 
To me it's a symbol that represents the human experience as the way for the eternal to experience something out of nothing.

There is a Star Trek Voyager episode (Q2) which shares the idea of immortality as a boring state of (non-)being.

Here is the excerpt where Quinn (Q2) brings Tuvok (acting as his advocate) and Kathryn Janeway (acting as the judge) to the Q Continuum for his plead for asylum from being an immortal to becoming a mortal. He has enough of living forever but Q (Q1) and the others of his species had him confined for his own safety and that of the Q Continuum itself.

*Sorry for the bad quality, it's the only video I was able to find for the part I wanted to show.

https://youtu.be/JlBhJXYbpfc
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@timothyb · 
There is a series of videos on YouTube called the Thunderbolts Project which speak of the electric nature of the universe.  I believe one of them addresses the origin of the ouroboros.
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