So here's a thought experiment in realizing how long eternity is. Imagine you have a nice durable spoon, and enough time to eat your house, one bite at a time.
Then, you spoon up your state. All that wonderful chewy soil and rock, one bite at a time.
You move on to the earth, spooning up one tastey morsel after another for untold billions of years until you're done. Then you move on to the sun, for a real meal.
This hasn't taken up much of eternity, so you turn your spoon against the galaxy, and then the rest of the universe. One bite at a time, you digest everything that exists.
Congratulations, you still have as much time left as you started with.
Now don't you think at some point between here and Andromeda, you'd think, "wow, this whole eternity thing sucks, I wish I didn't exist?"
You know the phrase "be careful what you wish for?" You better hope that you're wrong about God. I'd hate to be forced to exist forever. It'd get awful dull after a while.
2007-07-16
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