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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: jttmab who wrote (65685)5/15/2006 5:30:56 PM
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Will time have an end? Who knows?

We can speculate with confidence that our unique individual experiences in time will end since we observe that condition in all creatures. Will time as a phenomenon in general end? Since all evidence in temporal existence is of beginnings and endings we could speculate that time is no different and/or apply the same rational that I used previously.

What about eternal life for any one specific being? Well, it would have to be in other than a material sense which is, of course, corruptible and conditional. And what sort of "life" would not be? It likely would have no substance; therefore no thoughts arising from neuronal activity.

However, if there is experience beyond what we have observed in temporal life, there may be unique qualities that we wont be able to fathom until in or of that realm. As with a rain drop, you would have to look outside the limitations of a tree to see how moisture is not dependent on its enmeshment within the tree. Since we cannot see outside our temporal experience until we have left its limitations, we are bound by patience and hope or nothing at all.

There is also the multiple universe theory of eternity but lets not do that right now.
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