The Problems with Eternity

[Learner]

From a limited perspective (not ever having that experience):

Q1: You have infinite capacity for acquiring information and retaining it?

A: We'd be much closer than we are now to 'how Jesus sees things - or be like angels', so to speak.

and...

Q2: You have most of your memories lost in the endless progression of eternity?

A: There'd certainly be no bordem... like for example, rediscovering again as if for the first time, anew.

(Not that there'd be suggestions to any "bordem" at all, in the answer to question 1. - e.g., being like angels)

 

[Learner]

You could I suppose add concepts of theoretical science, without tangible substance ... to your list.

Tee hee. Yeah, my post overreaches. Here's where it doesn't:
Cosmogony, quantum fields, etc., didn't arise from the crazed imagination of some 1st Century ancestor of Carl Sagan.

Just as I would see it didn't for the theology, as highlighted in bold.

All sciences are subject to peer review, and where observations contradict an assumption, the scalpels come out straightaway.

No problem with the method and your POV, although the peer review crew, has accepted quite a few various theories to get through, more or less in one go (for lack of better wording)! That's several theories currently on the table! Which one is true?

Although not quite the same (depending how one sees it) ... you could say, to be fair, reminds me of theism having different interpretations resulting in various denominations.

The National Academy of Sciences doesn't say I'm going to hell if I disbelieve in muons.

Fairpoint on that one.

 

[Learner]

Is it Possible to Love Anyone Forever?

Not sure if this is the same major probelm today. But I (vaguely) remember 10 years or so ago. A survey or study showed that a lot of couples split or divorced mainly because of financial issues. Quite a few issues in fact, being affected by their repsected environments. (Certainly characteristic of worldy things)

 

[ideologyhunter]

My friends' parents, toward the end of their lives, insisted on being placed in separate nursing facilities. As the wife put it, "I've lived with him long enough." Assuming they lived placidly for their remaining years, perhaps attended group chapel events, kept orthodox beliefs, then went to heaven...can you imagine their reunion? Wife: 'Son of a bitch! I know there's sacrifice in being holy, but I have to be with you again?'

 

[excreationist]

I was starting a thread with an almost identical title ("Problems with eternity") - maybe I had this thread's title in my subconscious....

Anyway I don't have any major problems with eternal bliss if my mind was set up in the right way (no strong displeasure with boredom, etc). I think I'd rather live in Heaven forever than life my life on earth for a few decades.

Though in general an eternity could turn into torture that can't be escaped.

Also it seems absurd - a googolplex to the power of a googolplex is not even close to a part of an eternity.

I think I'm probably in a simulation and I think that in a simulation it is impossible to last for an eternity.... otherwise it would also last for an eternity in the universe the simulation exists in....