What If Everything Is Eternal?

Question

What if the whole of reality is everlasting. I'm not talking about rencarnation but in the same way as matter can not be created or destroyed, what if humanity is the same way. Perhaps we like to think of a beginning so we can picture an end, because each of us individually know that we will have one, but could it be that everything lasts forever? Could it be that there is no start to humanity but that we, as a race not individually, have always existed and therefore will never end. Our entire basis of history is only what is recorded and our entire basis of science is only what we can measure now and speculate in the future. Sure it looks like everything is slowly dying out but will it ever?

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Answer 1

Evolution says different. If you're not into that, then there is the fact that our Sun and the planet Earth had a beginning as well. The Sun formed from giant hydrogen clouds that were laced with some heavier elements that came from the remnants of dead stars. The Earth was also made at this time, it was some of the matter that didn't fall into the star, but flew toward it at just the right angle that it would continually miss the Sun, which we call an orbit.

Also, one day the Sun will die. Plus, even though all the energy in the universe is conserved, usable energy is not. Eventually the universe will suffer what is known as a heat death. Energy does work because different parts of the universe have many pockets of varying temperatures. Energy flows between these variations in temperature. However the universe is slowly reaching thermal equilibrium and is cooling down as well. Once it does, energy will cease to flow and all life will come to an end. There has been talk of creating a portal into another universe before this happens, but it is all extremely hypothetical right now.

For more on this, you may want to check out the multiverse or the many world interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Answer 2

Hi,
I believe everything is eternal.
The ancient Indian sages tell us that material existence can be divided in yugas or ages and that these form kalpa (a thousand cycles of yugas) and sankalpas and so on. Still, while the duration is in the trillions of ages, the material multiverses are not of themselves eternal.
These planes of material existence however are but dark clouds within the eternally bright sky of Reality where everything is eternity, bliss and knowledge.

The reason our histories only go back 5000 years is because this was the present yuga or age began. Prior to this present age there was another, and another...

Still, reincarnation or transmigration does fit into the equation because the "real" us, the jivas or souls, experience all of the ages.

Peace,
~John of AllFaith
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Answer 3

No where there is a beginning there is an end. No civilization
lasted forever. Reincarnation is not reality.It's something we imagine might be.Eternal life begins when we die.Nothing lasts forever. People live , people die . I know of no one to have lived forever. If things look like they are slowly dying then there will be something to follow. I relate to the idea that everything thats
naturual seems to be dying. But all things change

Answer 4

I doubt it. I don't think things were meant to last forever. We can see that all around us in everything do. It may be a cyclical birth and death cycle, but never eternal. However, that's an interesting concept. Let me know if you start a religion about it...I might be interested in the finer tidbits....

Answer 5

"Will it Go Round in Circles?" that is a song by Billy Preston, Play it sometime and you will get the answer.
Or Emerson Lake and Palmer, or Pink Floyd
ELP "the Works Album" Pink Floyd," Welcome to the Machine"
Like the Matrix

Answer 6

JUST STOP--LOOK AT AGE---AGED AND AGING...

NUFF SAID......

THINGS WASTE AWAY.............
AND DISAPPEAR....................