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Thread #109595   Message #2293889
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
20-Mar-08 - 03:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: How Long Is Eternity
Subject: RE: BS: How Long Is Eternity
Both "eternity" and "infinity" are essentially concepts without referents. The concepts can be useful in mathematical terms, or I suppose philosophical terms, but the moment one tries to visualize them, or compare them with anything in real existence, the result is nonsensical. They are meaningless except in mathematical or theoretical philosophical terms.

Put another way, "eternity" is not a time or a length of time, and "infinity" is neither a place, a direction, nor a measurement.

All of which means that we are wasting our time, which is sort of real, discussing some "things" which are not things. No thing. Nothing.

Dave Oesterreich