About eternity.....?

Question

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher

What are your thoughts on this?

Answer 1

"In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by just a little. That doesn't mean anything. For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent." - Albert Einstein in a letter to the widow of a friend

Einstein seemed to be saying that in the future the living are dead, and in the past the dead are alive.

Answer 2

"Death is not an event in life":
'Death' is the opposite to 'life'. thus, 'death' is not 'life' nor any of the parts of 'life' is 'death'.and the same thing goes around. that's true.

"we do not live to experience death":
we exist to live. we might suffer. everything that we go through will only benefit after an action. For example, you lied, and the result is you get extra money from your boss. but, we will experience death at the end of our life. Thus, 'death' is useless to 'life'. unless we consider about the 'after life'.

"if we take eternity to be timelessness, but not infinite temporal duration":
timelessness, is the concept of no time. Though there is time (considered un exist)

"eternal life belongs to those who live in the present"
if all the conditions i stated is followed. there is nothing wrong with this philosophy. but it doesn't mean anything that much. it just like you take away the time (which is imaginary by itself, defined by human after some research) from the reality. with this no one will care about time. and it will be timeless. Thus, it will become eternity. however aging wont stop

Time stop, but particle is moving

its just a normal world without definition of time...

Answer 3

Eternity is something we cannot understand because our whole life depends on the little time that we have.You cannot imagine a life without time it is impossible for us.A friend told me the story below:
once a sphere asked a two dimensional man to draw a semi-circle witch's curve is on the right then to turn it so it becomes on the left like that: ) ->| -> (. but to turn it the man has to use the third dimension lifting up so that it is standing outside of the 2 dimension plan but he doesn't know what is the third dimension so how will he understand what did the sphere mean.
The same example can be applied for eternity we will never understand what eternity is,there might not be something called eternity it might be just a word that Man invented.
Man knows "time" he invented it's opposite,eternity:timelessness
without knowing what it really means

Answer 4

Philosophers live in their minds. Not in the practical world. That's wyhy their thinking and talking is so ethereal. Death is an event in the life span of a human being. It is the culmination of life itself. Physical part of human life. Afterlife is entirely different. We don't live on the same plane. Not on the physical plane but we live on in a spirit form. Now this spirit has to live forever as there is no end to it. So God has made provision for the spirit to spend eternity either in heaven or in hell according to the deeds done on the human plane. These are my thoughts according to the Bible.

Answer 5

who knows?maybe death might lead to some much better world

Answer 6

death is the whole point

Answer 7

Death is it. Nothing else.

Answer 8

good poem can i use it by looking at this you are agreeing