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Bliss is complete happiness

"Complete happiness"...?

Kind of like when my team wins the championship...but....forever?

The concept of eternity is complex.

In theology I would say that eternity is independent of time.

Time (as I use the term) refers to a measurement of the duration of or interval between events.

Eternity (as I use the term) refers to that which always was, is now and always will be. (no beginning and no end)

There are various definitions all (as I see it) acceptable. If we were to attempt to communicate ideas we would have to pick a definition for the terms and use them consistently.

My fellow sophists tend to argue definitions of terms.

We could go from top down and state a concept and then label it.

WE could go from bottom up. State a term and then define it. This seems backwards to me. (I suppose that particular to general works as well as general to particular)

Anyway my concept of eternity remains incunabulum.

Alas...

Even happier than that.

But first you will need salvation from the consequences of sin.

I have not come up with a definition for sin or a concept that could be labeled sin. So ...off to the university of Google to see what I can glean.

For me (and perhaps only me) eternity is simple. As a word it seems to be time...an infinite amount of it.....forever....never ending...infinite...

In spite of the fact that it is never endingly long, I find it very easy to grasp and imagine.( ❊ footnote)

Godel suggested convincingly, even to Einstein, that time doesn't actually exist. Perhaps then eternity is a word meant in part (theologically speaking) to describe something other than time, but for which humans have no ability to describe or define...sort of like god and god being outside of the universe or both in and outside the universe...or a state of being that is everlasting and yet a single moment at the same time. Sort of like becoming a particle of light that has merged with its source and the remains there in a state of Zen....a drop of water that has returned to the ocean... Or something like that....

Not at all a satisfying prospect in my estimation.


❊ Footnote: Because I can so easily imagine eternity, I find every description and every definition of things like heaven and eternal bliss (that I have ever heard or read) to be horrifying.

Yes. Those consequences, they are a bit of a conundrum.

But if I don't know what the consequences are...and the alternative (aka salvation ) is equally as nebulous...then how do I choose?

Religion makes it so much easier....

Behind Door #1 - Is damnation and a very very long bath in a lake of fire...an eternal bath.

Behind Door #2 - Is an eternity of singing praise to the King...blissfully singing no doubt...forever.

I'm afraid that coin, the one with the head & tail, might just have neither a head nor a tail on it.

I imagine eternal bliss would feel like an orgasm and a shot of heroin at the same time, but you know like forever.

If Jesus really loves me, then he'll even love my feet, just the way they are.

Are you gonna eat those cookies?

As enticing as that seems, and believe me I love my orgasms....

....and fun as drug induces euphoria is (I once had an IV of an opiate base pain killer described by the doctor as "sort of like the free-base of heroine" ...and I can assure you that was some very intense pleasure) ....

...still, even when you put them together, once you've spread them out over eternity I suspect they loose their appeal somewhere around the 100,000,000 millennium mark.

But I could be wrong.

Sorry Charlie....

There are a few medical cases of people who suddenly start experiencing frequent or even non-stop orgasms & they call it excruciating bordering on suicidal thought provoking. Seems like too much of a good thing is a really bad thing.

And THAT's......
the way it........
crumbles!