Eternity (660 hits)
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Submitted by Dalai Queso (View user info) at 2006-09-10 21:36:08 EDT
Eternity. You know the meaning, yet you can't comprehend the concept. Everything humanity knows has a beginning and an end. We exist within time. What is it to be outside of time? What is it like to have several novemdecillion (10 to the sixtieth power) years be not even be a factor in your lifespan? It is impossible to know, for the organic mind cannot grasp it.
I heard a pretty good example of eternity; imagine a giant, 500 ton copper ball. Imagine that this ball is touched by one thing, and one thing only. No weather, no people, no elements, it stands alone. The one thing that touches it is a pigeons wing. If once per week, this pigeon flew over and brushed it's wing on the ball, by the time the entire copper ball was ground to dust, eternity would barely have started.
Just think about it. Eternity is a long time. What do you think happens after you die?
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Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-09-12 13:36:07 EDT (#)
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Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2006-09-12 07:24:28 EDT (#)
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I'm sorry I hurt your feelings with my mean comment.
I just thought this was a bunch of rambling philosophical nonsense with no real point. Reading it again further cements my initial conclusion.
Submitted by youarsoghey (user info) at 2006-09-11 22:57:09 EDT (#)
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I'd rather not listen to your stupid ass music.
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2006-09-11 17:41:30 EDT (#)
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No shit ass-wipe. It's a song. Go look it up.
Submitted by youarsoghey (user info) at 2006-09-11 17:29:07 EDT (#)
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Whoever this Randy fucker is has stolen a famous quote and dickinized it for himself. Hendrik Willem van Loon made it somewhat popular...I think it's some Viking saying. Go look it up.
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2006-09-11 13:08:05 EDT (#)
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every thousand years
this metal sphere
ten times the size of Jupiter
floats just a few yards past the earth
you climb on your roof
and take a swipe at it
with a single feather
hit it once every thousand years
`til you've worn it down
to the size of a pea
yeah I'd say that's a long time
--Randy Describes Eternity
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2006-09-11 12:48:40 EDT (#)
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I think we come back and back and back...
Submitted by Saeki (user info) at 2006-09-11 10:00:23 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-09-11 07:53:47 (#)
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Just think about it. Eternity is a long time. What do you think happens after you die?
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What happened before you were born? That is what it is like... you have been dead once before.
In other news.....
Is Saeki an alter?
did I miss something? He arrive two weeks ago blabbing shite English and now speaks/types better than wot I do.
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I'll admit I was lazy when I typed that first post. It takes a tremendous amount of effort for me to write like this, its really hassle.
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2006-09-11 08:32:53 EDT (#)
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Eternity is what most people think , what seperates them from .... (please fill in your favourite worshipsubject).
Einstein once said : time doesn't count itself , only the observer does .
So eternity doesn't exist , for time doesn't exist . we only made it up , and
now we try to find an explanation for the unexplainable . poor suckers , who needs an
explanation for everything . How would you define another infinte thing : space ?
the only way to explain that , for instance , is by quantifying it by means of time .
So eternity(time) can also only be defined by space , and reverse .
And we are neither . So stop trying ...
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2006-09-11 08:24:04 EDT (#)
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Fucking miserable.
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2006-09-11 08:09:45 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:37:46 (#)
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K, I'm done.
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whats the matter with you? Jeez...
ANYWAY
As for the question.... well I think it's safe to say that from that question you will have only a few differing replies (possibly depending on whether the individual is religious or not). Or whether they are studying a science degree (like myself for example).
I also think that there are many that don't care what happens when they die, there are many who waste their time when alive... and that maybe we shouldn't have dragged ourselves out of the water in the first place.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-09-11 07:53:47 EDT (#)
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Just think about it. Eternity is a long time. What do you think happens after you die?
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What happened before you were born? That is what it is like... you have been dead once before.
In other news.....
Is Saeki an alter?
did I miss something? He arrive two weeks ago blabbing shite English and now speaks/types better than wot I do.
Submitted by ooQueso (user info) at 2006-09-11 07:44:55 EDT (#)
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Denial is a powerful, powerful thing.
Submitted by The_Mighty_Badger (user info) at 2006-09-11 05:33:55 EDT (#)
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I like drugs too.
Submitted by laika (user info) at 2006-09-11 02:59:57 EDT (#)
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Heres a good way to bring home the concept of eternity. Imagine that everyday
you could only read ubersite, not being able to skip any posts or reviews.
Just think of how much quicker you would intuitively grasp the concept of true
endlessness.
Submitted by whiskey_jack (user info) at 2006-09-11 01:38:20 EDT (#)
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That copper ball happens to be the tumor off my prostate so leave it alone, and this is a question more for Tom Cruise than Ubersite.
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2006-09-11 00:06:20 EDT (#)
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bleh
Submitted by RandomJose (user info) at 2006-09-10 23:57:06 EDT (#)
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blah blah blah
Submitted by Impassive-Digressive (user info) at 2006-09-10 23:56:17 EDT (#)
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Maybe you just wake up.
Submitted by ooQueso (user info) at 2006-09-10 23:08:07 EDT (#)
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Thanks, Maltese :)
Submitted by ooQueso (user info) at 2006-09-10 23:07:26 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Saeki (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:20:40 (#)
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Its hard to believe your name was once "homeboy diggy dog whack yo punk" when you post things like this.
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I found a faith, and I will readily admit I'm far from perfect.
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Submitted by Coyote (user info) at 2006-09-10 23:01:50 (#)
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I can't really give this a +2 because technically that pigeon would die way before it even got halfway through that copper ball.
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A life substantiated by technical faults is a sad life indeed.
Submitted by Coyote (user info) at 2006-09-10 23:01:50 EDT (#)
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I can't really give this a +2 because technically that pigeon would die way before it even got halfway through that copper ball.
Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:37:46 EDT (#)
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K, I'm done.
Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:37:40 EDT (#)
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Best post ever. 10
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Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:30:55 EDT (#)
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I prefer to contemplate my own navel... as it is infinitely more enjoyable than contemplating eternity.
Contemplation should never get in the way of enjoying life. You strike me as someone who could probably use a little more of that action.
Just a hunch.
Submitted by Saeki (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:30:08 EDT (#)
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By the way, I think of eternity as an endless ocean with no shores, a dynamic process. The way most people speak about makes it sound like eternity is something static with a start and finish.
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:24:05 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Saeki (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:12:50 (#)
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I stated I'm an agnostic
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*clap clap clap clap*
Submitted by Saeki (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:20:40 EDT (#)
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Its hard to believe your name was once "homeboy diggy dog whack yo punk" when you post things like this.
Submitted by Saeki (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:12:50 EDT (#)
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I stated I'm an agnostic, but I believe that whatever happens after death is up to you; its entirely dependent on faith.
Submitted by maiorano84 (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:12:28 EDT (#)
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Interesting, but I just tend to not think about things that make me want to kill babies.
Submitted by ooQueso (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:06:09 EDT (#)
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I have yet to meet an individual with no faith. Faith is a core component of humanity. Everyone must act on beliefs in what they cannot know. Without moving through the unknown, a person would be stagnant until death.
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-09-10 21:58:58 EDT (#)
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What sucks is when we get mired down in thinking that if we DON'T have faith in any particular thing/event/phenomenon (i.e. Jesus Christ, the big bang, evolution) that we'll be eternally punished or that something equally absurd will happen.
Submitted by ooQueso (user info) at 2006-09-10 21:52:57 EDT (#)
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Everyone has faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot verify. Some have faith that the world was initiated by a giant explosion billions of years ago. Some have faith that man is the result of a primordial ooze adapting complexity over time. Some have faith in different prophets and saviors.
It is impossible to know some things. That is what faith is for. Where you put your faith determines what kind of person you are. The strength of your faith determines how you act.
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-09-10 21:49:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by STIXS (user info) at 2006-09-10 21:47:13 (#)
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Think about this one: if our universe is infinte, and yet confined in the space outside of what there was before the Big Bang, aka NOTHING, then our Universe resides in Nothing, meaning that we don't exist.
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*ahem*
non sequitur above
*ahem*
Submitted by STIXS (user info) at 2006-09-10 21:47:13 EDT (#)
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Think about this one: if our universe is infinte, and yet confined in the space outside of what there was before the Big Bang, aka NOTHING, then our Universe resides in Nothing, meaning that we don't exist.
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-09-10 21:44:16 EDT (#)
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Dalai consider for a moment the possibility that the experience of time requires an active consciousness which (most would agree with me here) ceases to exist at death.
How can we know a spirit or afterlife even exists in time? Many worldviews would offer that life after death is extra-temporal, or 'beyond time'. I'd agree. Eternity in this case then, would be a misnomer.
Submitted by Cracked_out_cali (user info) at 2006-09-10 21:42:38 EDT (#)
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I spent the last hour or so reading Exit Mundi off of B@W... and thinking the same exact stuff.
It will drive you insane if you think about it too long... kinda like you wanna go blow your brains out, just to 'see what happens'.
Maybe thats a little extreme...
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2006-09-10 21:38:11 EDT (#)
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Nothing. The reason I want to believe in Christianity or any religion is because the alternative is too horrible to think about.