(arguably) if LIFE is the opposite of DEATH, what is the opposite of "FOREVER"...?

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Answer 1

WOW. Here is my brain storm.
The opposite of life, is not death. The opposite of Death is Birth, but I think you asked that deliberately knowing.
Life and Forever are equivelent in many ways, as neither strictly have a perceivable beginning or end, therefore are except from the world of opposites.
However, if we were to assume Life ( being defined as the result of birth) has its opposite being Death. Then Forever (the result time first being perceived), has its opposite at ....armageddon.

Top question, because you don't simply ask what is the opposite of forever.

Answer 2

The opposite of forever is never, chaos, or the void, Ever began at naught and continues into forever. Existence is ripped out of nothingness. Forever to be the never was. There was darkness over the face of the deep, and the Spirit moved over the face of the waters, By the Word all came into being. Order out of Chaos. The Deep brooding before all time. And God said, "Let the there be Light, and there was Light, and God separated the Light from the Darkness." The Now is the dividing point, the razor edge of existence.

Answer 3

I candidly don't like to think in opposites! It seems so stifling to me--like linear thinking. Here's the beginning, & here's the end thing. Black & white are opposites, right? Hmm. Black is no colour, white is all colour. When mixed, we get an infinite range of greys. If we painted a CIRCLE, starting with one or the other "opposites," (it wouldn't matter). Let's start with no colour.
Here is absolutely no colour, black. Keep adding little by little, its "opposite," white. From charcoal to the most pale grey, & then we reach a point where the two combined are pure white, all colour. Add black little by little from pale grey back to absolute black. Just keep going! Use concentric circles, but you willl always have the two coming into harmony in vast ranges of grey. What happened to the opposites?
There aren't any. Two are one "forever."
So I'll be durned if I could ever imagine an opposite to forever.
As far as your "arguably" life is the opposite of death, instead, "Is living the opposite of non-living"? Then we'd all babble on about the subjective definitions of living, & non-living. Hey, you stinker, two very long days & my brain has gone lame!
Good morning, good day, good evening to you!

Answer 4

Perhaps we need to expect ideas to have more than one opposite, and one must specify an "axis of symmetry" of sorts which the idea is reflected by. Life's opposite could be non-life, but when a prisoner is pleading for mercy on death row, life's opposite is death.

Others have answered accordingly; but let me suggest that as death is the border that delimits life, and beyond which there is no life at all, then we need to choose something that similarly interacts with forever... perhaps 'never' or 'nevermore' is acceptable, but just to be different I'm gonna say "elsewhere".

Answer 5

Damn...."Da Duce" beat me to it. -_- This is what I get for not being a morning person.

THE END. That is the opposite of Forever, under your assumptions. I'd still say they are flawed though. You know, with *Birth* being the real opposite of Death, and Life being that which happens between Birth and Death.

Which yeah, would mean that under normal circumstances, you'd have *Never* (or the imaginary) at one end of the scale, and *Forever* (or the *eternally real*) at the other, with all the Temporary, *For Real For Now* stuff in between.

But by forcing the "Life/Death" split (and its error), you get to the meat of the issue. "The End" as concept (or "Armageddon" if you will) doesn't just seek to deny the future.

It seeks to deny, to some degree, the truth of reality itself, by virtue of making it *equivalent* to something *imaginary* that never happened. "The End" rather means that something is *done* and *no more*. "Done" as concept--much like extinction of a species--has a place in society, on the face of sentience.

I'm not sure "No More, Ever" does. That rather implies not just that things don't exist, but that they rather *can't* or *shouldn't*. Not just negation, but a value judgement on top of it. Meaning not just the *natural* version of "The End" but an actual "Armageddon" I guess.

So is the *value judgement* that turns "The End" into "Armageddon" the same thing, or the same value judgement that turns "Birth" into "Life" when dealing with opposites of "Death"? Is it the same value judgement (a bias favoring "life of the living"), or something closer to its opposite or antithesis?

Geez.....leave it to me to stumble on the Anti-Life Equation here. *lol* ^_^

Maybe I should leave "Da Duce" to his ten points...

Thanks for your time though....have a star. ^_^

Answer 6

I would say that the opposite of Forever is never, sometimes people use that word to make a point, like a couple in love, would say i will love you forever, but it is meaningless to say it because we are not eternal, so i guess you might mean, Now.

Answer 7

The reason your question is so slippery is because you've sneakily dropped in the concept of infinity. 'Forever' is synonymous with an 'infinte duration of time' the opposite of which is a 'finite amount of time'. The opposite of forever isn't 'now', nor is it 'never' - 'now' implies the ever-elusive instant moment, 'never' implies 'not ever', or 'not now or ever'. So, the answer to your question 'what is the opposite of forever' is simply 'sometime (but not forever)'.

Answer 8

Eternity is forever and extinction is opposite of that.

So many came before us that where totally wiped out for many reasons. Muhammed SAW begged Allah SWT to keep this Ummah the family of the world that belongs to Abraham alive. As you can see we have not been wiped out for a great reason!

Answer 9

Life is not the opposite of death. Life has it's own dimension and so does death. even though when you life you will ultimately die. These are not two sides of a coin, it's a process.

Answer 10

Forever is a time concept which cannot be fully understood, it is used by us to express the "long duration" extreme of time. On the opposite side, we have "Now."

Sound simple, but now is such a small amount of time, that by the time we think about it, it has passed.