Comments on: Yay, Discussion http://ballandchain.greyduck.net/journal/270 Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:32:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: BtFR http://ballandchain.greyduck.net/journal/270/comment-page-1#comment-215 BtFR Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ballandchain.greyduck.net/?p=270#comment-215 Okay since I am the poster of the second comment, I want to clarify something. This is a subject that interests me both entymologicaly and "spiritually" (my definition and probably not yours). <br>Eterinty, as a concept of time, is always something that has interested me as soon as I started studying religion (read ordainment in the Aaronic preisthood for those members who read this or 12 for non-members) <br>Websters defines eternity as, "time without begining or end" or "a timeless state following death" thus Webster's and Wendy seem to agree and maybe President Snow as well. But then, as both a benefit and bane to my religious studies, I also picked up a beleif in Physics especially those physics of time. <br>Physics defines time as a process from a state of order to a state of entropy (disorder) so therefore if there is a state where things are ultimately ordered (Big Bang or Creation) or a time when there is "nothing" to be disordered, then eternity must not apply, at least the first definition. <br>As for me, I do beleive in eternity as an existence after death, I just choose not to define that existence as anything but "an existence" it could be as energy which as we know, can never be created not destroyed but only transformed. Or is could be as spirit or "soul". <br>This, of course, is why I no longer consider myself a Mormon, I was raised that good mormons don't question such things, but I still find the question interesting. <br> <br>BtFR Okay since I am the poster of the second comment, I want to clarify something. This is a subject that interests me both entymologicaly and “spiritually” (my definition and probably not yours).

Eterinty, as a concept of time, is always something that has interested me as soon as I started studying religion (read ordainment in the Aaronic preisthood for those members who read this or 12 for non-members)

Websters defines eternity as, “time without begining or end” or “a timeless state following death” thus Webster’s and Wendy seem to agree and maybe President Snow as well. But then, as both a benefit and bane to my religious studies, I also picked up a beleif in Physics especially those physics of time.

Physics defines time as a process from a state of order to a state of entropy (disorder) so therefore if there is a state where things are ultimately ordered (Big Bang or Creation) or a time when there is “nothing” to be disordered, then eternity must not apply, at least the first definition.

As for me, I do beleive in eternity as an existence after death, I just choose not to define that existence as anything but “an existence” it could be as energy which as we know, can never be created not destroyed but only transformed. Or is could be as spirit or “soul”.

This, of course, is why I no longer consider myself a Mormon, I was raised that good mormons don’t question such things, but I still find the question interesting.

BtFR

]]> By: BtFR http://ballandchain.greyduck.net/journal/270/comment-page-1#comment-216 BtFR Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ballandchain.greyduck.net/?p=270#comment-216 BTW, yes I do realize I think about trivial things way too much :-) BTW, yes I do realize I think about trivial things way too much :-)

]]> By: Wendi http://ballandchain.greyduck.net/journal/270/comment-page-1#comment-217 Wendi Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ballandchain.greyduck.net/?p=270#comment-217 You too? ;-D You too? ;-D

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