I got super high a few weeks ago and woke up to this thought. I didn't take the time to write it down because it sounded stupid. I had a dream about it last night (I was not high). I think to get rid of it for good I have to write down.
When you consider eternity the closest description I have experienced is in Christian Doctrine.
Catholics believe that if you are baptized you have the opportunity to enter heaven and live an everlasting life with Christ, as long as you have no mortal sins upon your soul. Even if you lived to be 100 earth year. that would be fleeting second in the history of time. That fleeting second determines whether you will enjoy life everlasting. (A topic for another time).
Let's assume you have just entered eternal life. What are you going to be doing? Since the supreme being is all powerful and all knowing, and since you have joined his/her/it's is existence, there should be limitless opportunities. IMO, you should be able to travel to all places and all times. You have eternity. You have to fill it with something. If you spend eternity watching the fleeting seconds that are your life, you will get bored very quickly and suddenly eternal life will seem like a punishment.
But eternal life is not bestowed to punish anyone. By definition, there must be a limitless number of experiences for you to enjoy.
99.999999999% of the time/place pairs you could visit, you possess no context. In order for these experiences to have meaning, you must be bestowed with an incredible amount of information upon which you can apply to what you experience.
Seconds before your first, eternal-life experience. You pause. Why act? It doesn't matter if you act now, in 20 minutes, in 20 million earth years or longer. You have eternity to act, so your wait time is irrelevant. It's meaningless in the landscape of eternity.
You think, eventually, you will get around to seeing all the sites you want to see. In fact the number of opportunities is infinite and the time to explore them is infinite. If these were your constraints while partaking of an earth vacation, you would pause a little longer before making the transition from one experience to the next. And why not? You know you have the time.
So, if time has no meaning, and the pace at which you move through time has no meaning, then time and space have no meaning, which means eternity has no meaning and hence does not exist.
You can have eternal life, you're just not allowed to sin. That means no sex outside of marriage (one person), that means no unclean thoughts, no making fun of anyone/anything. No masturbation. You cannot do anything that brings glory to yourself that doesn't also bring glory to God.
So, if time has no meaning, and the pace at which you move through time has no meaning, then time and space have no meaning, which means eternity has no meaning and hence does not exist.
Make sense?
I think so. Basically time is relative too. Like an insect that lives three days, every second is much more meaningful to it than it is to a redwood tree.
You can have eternal life, you're just not allowed to sin. That means no sex outside of marriage (one person), that means no unclean thoughts, no making fun of anyone/anything. No masturbation. You cannot do anything that brings glory to yourself that doesn't also bring glory to God.
So, if time has no meaning, and the pace at which you move through time has no meaning, then time and space have no meaning, which means eternity has no meaning and hence does not exist.
Make sense?
I think so. Basically time is relative too. Like an insect that lives three days, every second is much more meaningful to it than it is to a redwood tree.
For Catholics, you can do all that as long as you have confessed and repented before you die
I want to get drunk and smoke a joint with Ron ITT.
Mushrooms would be more like it if you want to understand.
Hey Ron does the universe go on forever? If you believe in that then you must believe in eternity right?
The one time I did mushrooms I was at a party in college and got freaked out by a girl’s accent (she was from Texas). Then I saw her turn into a dragon. Then later I saw E.T. in the bathtub. But it was the version of E.T. when they find him by the river and he was all sick and white. Never again with that shit, lol.
I remember my math teacher in 7th grade led us through this thought exercise. Suppose there were a frog sitting at one end of a desk. When it hops, it goes half the distance that it currently is from the other edge of the desk.
What happens? Well, the frog never gets to the end of the desk.
Which is to say, eternity doesn't necessarily have to be something extraordinarily large, whether you're taking about space or time.
Mushrooms would be more like it if you want to understand.
Hey Ron does the universe go on forever? If you believe in that then you must believe in eternity right?
The one time I did mushrooms I was at a party in college and got freaked out by a girl’s accent (she was from Texas). Then I saw her turn into a dragon. Then later I saw E.T. in the bathtub. But it was the version of E.T. when they find him by the river and he was all sick and white. Never again with that shit, lol.
You probably had them out of a baggy that someone had put LSD or something in. I had them in Hawaii straight out of the cow patties. They were awesome. But your story is much better and made me smile and laugh.
Last Edit: Nov 17, 2021 22:00:48 GMT -8 by Craig440
I remember my math teacher in 7th grade led us through this thought exercise. Suppose there were a frog sitting at one end of a desk. When it hops, it goes half the distance that it currently is from the other edge of the desk.
What happens? Well, the frog never gets to the end of the desk.
Which is to say, eternity doesn't necessarily have to be something extraordinarily large, whether you're taking about space or time.
The one time I did mushrooms I was at a party in college and got freaked out by a girl’s accent (she was from Texas). Then I saw her turn into a dragon. Then later I saw E.T. in the bathtub. But it was the version of E.T. when they find him by the river and he was all sick and white. Never again with that shit, lol.
You probably had them out of a baggy that someone had put LSD or something in. I had them in Hawaii straight out of the cow patties. They were awesome. But your story is much better and made me smile and laugh.
Probably. This happened in Pittsburgh 20 years ago and I got them from a Russian guy who also tried to sell me a gun. So it’s doubtful that they came from a pure place. Lol
I remember my math teacher in 7th grade led us through this thought exercise. Suppose there were a frog sitting at one end of a desk. When it hops, it goes half the distance that it currently is from the other edge of the desk.
What happens? Well, the frog never gets to the end of the desk.
Which is to say, eternity doesn't necessarily have to be something extraordinarily large, whether you're taking about space or time.
#deep
Lol this reminds me of something Alan Watts once said. ‘Tomorrow’ is only a concept. It doesn’t exist. It never can. All that ever exists is the present.
You probably had them out of a baggy that someone had put LSD or something in. I had them in Hawaii straight out of the cow patties. They were awesome. But your story is much better and made me smile and laugh.
Probably. This happened in Pittsburgh 20 years ago and I got them from a Russian guy who also tried to sell me a gun. So it’s doubtful that they came from a pure place. Lol
This story just gets better and better. So a Russian guy drugged you to the point of seeing a girl turn into a dragon and ET in the bath tub and tried to sell you a gun. Please go on. Was the white knight talking backwards and your mind was moving wooooooh. Did the men on the chess board get up and tell you where to gooooooo?
Last Edit: Nov 17, 2021 22:51:52 GMT -8 by Craig440
Probably. This happened in Pittsburgh 20 years ago and I got them from a Russian guy who also tried to sell me a gun. So it’s doubtful that they came from a pure place. Lol
This story just gets better and better. So a Russian guy drugged you to the point of seeing a girl turn into a dragon and ET in the bath tub and tried to sell you a gun. Please go on. Was the white knight talking backwards and your mind was moving wooooooh.
No, that was pretty much it. I passed out soon afterwards. A few of my buddies ate them also and apparently went for a walk in the middle of the night and ended up rolling around in the grass or something, but I didn’t go with them. I heard that one of them started using a pumice stone on his feet for like an hour to get rid of the dead skin.
Probably. This happened in Pittsburgh 20 years ago and I got them from a Russian guy who also tried to sell me a gun. So it’s doubtful that they came from a pure place. Lol
This story just gets better and better. So a Russian guy drugged you to the point of seeing a girl turn into a dragon and ET in the bath tub and tried to sell you a gun. Please go on. Was the white knight talking backwards and your mind was moving wooooooh. Did the men on the chess board get up and tell you where to gooooooo?
Just love that song and Gracie Slick. Loved that boob shot she posted. Just thought she was soooo hot.
This reminds of some dumb show I was scrolling through the other day where a teacher was telling a kid he might have multiple universes in one of his fingernails. Suppose such thought might keep him too occupied to spank the monkey ALL of the time.
I want to get drunk and smoke a joint with Ron ITT.
Mushrooms would be more like it if you want to understand.
Hey Ron does the universe go on forever? If you believe in that then you must believe in eternity right?
That's a great question Craig. The answer is "no". As you travel closer to the edge of the universe both you and the universe shrink in size. This creates the illusion of an infinite universe.
You can have eternal life, you're just not allowed to sin. That means no sex outside of marriage (one person), that means no unclean thoughts, no making fun of anyone/anything. No masturbation. You cannot do anything that brings glory to yourself that doesn't also bring glory to God.
I think so. Basically time is relative too. Like an insect that lives three days, every second is much more meaningful to it than it is to a redwood tree.
For Catholics, you can do all that as long as you have confessed and repented before you die
Mushrooms would be more like it if you want to understand.
Hey Ron does the universe go on forever? If you believe in that then you must believe in eternity right?
The one time I did mushrooms I was at a party in college and got freaked out by a girl’s accent (she was from Texas). Then I saw her turn into a dragon. Then later I saw E.T. in the bathtub. But it was the version of E.T. when they find him by the river and he was all sick and white. Never again with that shit, lol.