How come?
2007-01-07 11:50:23 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
we live at an intersection of infinite space and time.
what an opportunity!
2007-01-07 11:55:17 · answer #1 · answered by Marmalade P. Vestibule III 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every time I killed a fly when I was a child I used to think to myself: That fly was thinking something just before I killed it, where has that gone now?
Can consciousness be destroyed? Matter/energy cannot. Nor created. Even science came to this conclusion. Before those billions of years, the universe existed as super-dense matter/energy; it wasn't nothing, it wasn"t nowhere. What about consciousness - was it nothing, nowhere, non-existent before 80 years, the period of time for which you say we "live"". Most of us remember nothing of time before those "80" years, so we take this as "proof" that we did not exist before. If the ability to remember were the only criterion to determine whether I existed or not, then I could say that I never was a baby, never in the womb, because I don" t remember anything about all that at all. But the fact that I am a man now means that I must have been a baby, and in the womb before that, whether I remember or not.
Since I exist now I must have existed before and will exist eternally.
Everything whatsoever is for ever.
2007-01-07 21:44:44 · answer #2 · answered by shades of Bruno 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We would get very bored of this world if we lived billions of years and knew everything. Now given the choice would I choice to take a pill that said I would live forever in this universe I dont know if I would take that pill. I cant know what the universe we live in is gona look like in a billion years so I cant really take the pill knowing that...
2007-01-07 22:19:06 · answer #3 · answered by magpiesmn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How come what? That we live so short, or that the universe exists for so long?
2007-01-08 16:20:57 · answer #4 · answered by Phil Knight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's our place. Some people live for a lot longer than 80, so that assumption seems a bit unnerving.
2007-01-08 15:15:20 · answer #5 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are one day flies, or less.
Yet, whereas most animals live between 600 Million and one Billion heartbeats, the human animal lives for 3.5 Billion.
And I know why. Do you?
2007-01-07 20:07:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have always existed and will always exist. We will all always have are stories written into the universe, effecting both the past and future. We are all "infinitely" old, in body, mind, and spirit.
2007-01-07 20:37:40 · answer #7 · answered by weism 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe it's a challenge from whoever/whatever created the universe- to try and make a difference here in the limited time we have.
2007-01-07 19:58:21 · answer #8 · answered by Elle B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Becuase we are insignificant and there is no relationship whatsoever between lifespan of humans and of the universe.
2007-01-07 20:24:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
aren't you glad you made it this far...earth is 4.5 billion years old by the way
2007-01-07 20:46:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋