Eternity is? This is my way of thinking about it: A bird takes one grain of sand, flies for a kazillion years to bring it to heaven, flies another kazillion years back to get another grain to bring to heaven again, over, and over and over again until there are no more grains of sand left on the earth. Stupid question, but I just wanted to know how other people could translate Eternity for me.
2006-12-05 12:08:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Not a stupid question at all -- in fact a very interesting one. Since eternity is, in fact, an infinite expanse of time, there is no way to really express it in any unit of time, even a construction as clever as yours.
An interesting variation on the question is "What would it be like to EXPERIENCE eternity?" I suppose it would be like waking up each day and having no yesterdays to regret and no tomorrows to worry about - just experiencing the moment, over and over again. In the Judeo-Christain theistic world view, this would involve immense joy in worshipping God (heaven), or immense pain in feeling separated from God (hell).
2006-12-05 12:26:45 · answer #1 · answered by Ted S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eternity for some is difficult to fathom , but eternity you can look at it as the number 8 or a circle it has no beginning and no end , another way to look at it is : lets say your room is the universe and the walls is the end of it , but the walls even though are solid ,is some thing, there is some thing behind it that keeps on going and going , you put another wall and that proses repeats again , and again ,so it doesn't mater if is empty or solid it has to continue ,there is just no stop and that goes with time also ,so time and space are related ... on and on .
2006-12-05 20:23:38 · answer #2 · answered by young old man 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eternal means everlasting, however, the way you described it may put it to you in a new light. Try to think of it not as bird brings stone comes back gets a nother over a long period of time, think of it as if you are the receiver of the gift(stone). It sounds really weird cause i'm not a philiosopher or anything but its kinda like You bring a stone, you receive stones everlasting.
2006-12-05 20:17:21 · answer #3 · answered by Preposterous 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Explaining eternity is like explaining nothingness. Neither exist in our lives thus there is no real way for us to understand it. We use both words quite often, but with no real meaning. We are ourselves finite, and thus eternity is the end of the last one of us who remember it. :)
Grasping it, to me, is like grasping the expanse of space... we can't really grasp the size of our planet, so trying to do that seems rather out of the point.
2006-12-05 20:16:50 · answer #4 · answered by DNA-Groove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just onandonadonandon, take a mirror. go to your bathroom mirror and look at your self. I just goes on.
2006-12-05 20:23:38 · answer #5 · answered by jj2000 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋