Arizonax19
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Lately, I find myself trying to wrap my mind around the concept of "forever" - in a literal sense.
Imagine that you had a bucket containing 1,000,000,000 grains of sand and each grain represents 1,000,000,000 years. That's one billion-billion years 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. On a linear time scale with no end, where one inch = eternity, how big a blip does 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 make? Is it even visible?
I am wondering that if there is something more beyond the realm, is time still linear and if so what would one do for all of "eternity"?
No this isn't a trick question or asked to spark heated debate where people disparage that with which they cannot accept. I am just conflicted between the comfortable doubt of agnosticism and an uncomfortable acceptance of some type of afterlife, and I wonder how many others have a similar question regardless of whether they would claim to be atheistic, agnostic, or deistic in some manner.
If anyone cares to respond via PM - you have my word that it will be kept confidential.
Tommy
Imagine that you had a bucket containing 1,000,000,000 grains of sand and each grain represents 1,000,000,000 years. That's one billion-billion years 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. On a linear time scale with no end, where one inch = eternity, how big a blip does 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 make? Is it even visible?
I am wondering that if there is something more beyond the realm, is time still linear and if so what would one do for all of "eternity"?
No this isn't a trick question or asked to spark heated debate where people disparage that with which they cannot accept. I am just conflicted between the comfortable doubt of agnosticism and an uncomfortable acceptance of some type of afterlife, and I wonder how many others have a similar question regardless of whether they would claim to be atheistic, agnostic, or deistic in some manner.
If anyone cares to respond via PM - you have my word that it will be kept confidential.
Tommy