What is eternity
What is eternity?
In a fiction, a man claimed that he is able to enter into eternity, where time doesn’t elapse. Someone asked him to perform the traveling, he said okay. After a blink of his eyes, he said he’d been there for a while and back, but as there had been no passing of time, normal people could not feel it.
Some people may say it’s ridiculous. But if we try to interpret this in another way, maybe it could be some clue:
Each moment can be sort of eternity, as long as we feel it. Like if you regard someone merely as part of the background of your life, then he is just part of the background, but if you want to get close to him, he will be salient and from that moment on, he becomes distinguished eternally.
People tend to like those who care about them. Similarly, the world tends to be nice to those who BELIEVE that the world is nice.
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What is eternity
What is eternity?In some fiction, a man claimed that he was able to enter into eternity, where time doesn’t move. Someone asked him to do it and he said okay. After the blink of an eye he said he’d been there for a while and back, but as there had been no passing of time, normal people could not notice it.
Some people may say it’s ridiculous. But if we try to interpret this in another way, maybe we can get some clue:
Each moment can be sort of eternity, as long as we feel it. Like if you regard someone merely as part of the background of your life, then he is just part of the background, but if you want to get close to him, he will be sensed and from that moment on, he becomes distinguished eternally.
People tend to like those who care about them. Similarly, the world tends to be nice to those who BELIEVE that the world is nice.
Very well written and philosophically interesting. It reminds me of Somethingbach's theory of eternal life (if I remember the name, anyway, I don't so I will explain it here. Just before we are about to die, we relive our life in our head, at the moment of death in this reliving, we relive our life in our head, at the moment ....
and so on...for all eternity. (eternity in an instant).
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Thank you Millie and Adrian for expanding the idea. As for me, I think some things can exist outside time; here is an example: 2+6+7-3 = 12, I think everyone would agree. But how do we get at it? We work out 2+6 first, then we work out 7-3, then we add them. But how soon after the 2+6 do we add 7-3? 3 seconds if we are fast, 2 seconds if we are faster, 0.0001 seconds if we are a computer. In fact, they are all done instantaneously; ie outside of time. So we find some truths that are outside of time. All mathematics and all logic should come under this head, I think (but I'm a platonist).
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I've just come back here and seen Millie's comment, which I endorse : perhaps eternity is a [philosophical] alternative to the temporal i.e. time as one of the dimensions of our physical world.
Even cosmology cannot escape time : it defines the age of the universe as being within time [except for Sir Fred Hoyle], which presumably banishes eternity from all objective 'scientific' propositions, and consigns it to the realm of the existential.
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Or perhaps, time is just a temporal thing that happens right in the midst of eternity - eternity being something so great it cannot even be related to time, seeing as it is utterly outside of time. To consciously access eternity then, would have less to do with time and more to do with a state of being - seeing as eternity is, it doesn't pass. What you believe, I suppose, would then define whether you step into that or whether you remain in the realm restricted by time. Faith is a powerful thing.
Such an interesting subject! Hope you don't mind me adding some food for thought!
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What is eternity ?
What is eternity?In a story/fictional account, a man claimed that he is able to enter into eternity, where time doesn’t elapse. Someone asked him to make/undertake/perform the journey/traveling, and he agreed/[he said okay]. [After]/In a blink of an eye/[his eyes], he said he’d been there* for a while and returned/come back, but as there had been no passing of time, normal people could not detect/sense/feel it.
Some people may say it’s ridiculous. But if we try to interpret this in another way, maybe it could be/offer a clue/some clues:
Each moment can be a sort of eternity, as long as we feel it, Like such as/for example, if you regard someone merely as part of the background of your life, then he is just part of the background, but if you want to get close to him, he will be/become a relevant/salient feature, and from that moment on, he becomes permanently/eternally distinctive/[distinguished] [eternally]. **
People tend to like those who care about them. Similarly, the world tends to be nice to those who BELIEVE that the world is nice.***
* 'he'd been there' - where had he been ? 'Journey' implies a change of location.
** we rarely give people permanent status as relevant, except those close to us through birth i.e. family
*** Isn't this last statement a self-fulfilling subjective assertion - how do you determine if the world has been nice to you?
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