Reality versus Eternity

[cacian]

Is reality the same as infinity?

And if both were a number or a ratio which would you quote them with?

[JuniperWoolf]

Infinity does have a numerical symbol. It looks like an 8 on it's side.

[Alexander III]

I have heard credible sources tell me that comparing reality and eternity on online forums with a khaki background might cause the universe to implode.

[cacian]

I have heard credible sources tell me that comparing reality and eternity on online forums with a khaki background might cause the universe to implode.

Not if you wore pink glasses
''la vie en rose'' is what it is all about.

[Delta40]

Infinity does have a numerical symbol. It looks like an 8 on it's side.

:hurray: I so want to tell clients that it will be an infinity before I get back to them.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I don't understand the question.

[stlukesguild]

I have heard credible sources tell me that comparing reality and eternity on online forums with a khaki background might cause the universe to implode.

:smilielol5:

I don't understand the question.

Somehow a post like this next to an image of Peter Griffin makes total sense.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oaVN0PXwHo

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

hehe

In the past ten minutes, I gave this a lot of thought.
"Is reality the same as infinity?"

Answer: Yes

A ring is reality without a beginning and therefore no end.
Consider the reality of the hoola hoop, the ring on your finger, Johnny’s Ring of Fire.
Archimedes left in a ring in the tub when he suddenly leapt out during his eureka moment.

It is best expressed mathematically by 2∏r
Pi is infinite but so real it will blow your mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H20cKjz-bjw


On the way to work, I was listening to Tex Ritter on disc 1, btw-discs 2 and 3 are Jimmy Hendrix and the Psychedelic Furs respectively.
When I heard Tex singing The Riddle I thought long and hard about reality versus infinity, particularly when he gets to the part about the ring.

"I gave my love a cherry that has no stone
I gave my love a chicken that has no bone
I gave my love ring that has no end
I gave my love a baby with no cryin

How can there be a cherry that has no stone?
How can there be a chicken that has no bone?
How can there be a ring that has no end?
How can there be a baby with no cryin?

A cherry when it’s bloomin it has no stone
A chicken when its peep’n it has no bone
A ring when it’s rollin it has no end
A baby when its sleep’n there’s no cryin"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zml3PxTGOYI


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[cacian]

:hurray: I so want to tell clients that it will be an infinity before I get back to them.

Hi Delta any reasons why you should?:p

[Delta40]

Hi Delta any reasons why you should?:p

only that I have to give them a specific timeframe when I place them on hold. I can't say 'I'll be several minutes' because it's too ambiguous but to be honest, as a customer I'd get angry if somebody told me they will be 8 minutes rather than several minutes because it would seem much longer when a precise number is used. The idea that I could tell them it will take me an infinite amount of time and would they mind holding is sooooo appealing!

[Lokasenna]

To wade in with the armaments of the pedant...

Can we please have a definition of the terms 'infinity', 'eternity' and 'reality'? I contend these are obscure terms.

The second law of thermodynamics tells us the entire universe will eventually break down to a mass of basic particles tending towards absolute zero. Is that eternity? Is that infinite? If time is the change from one instant to the next, will such a thing exist when there is no change? Could it even be described as reality?

[papayahed]

Eternity is my Mom's favorite perfume. I go for more of the fruity and beachy scents myself.

[cacian]

Eternity is my Mom's favorite perfume. I go for more of the fruity and beachy scents myself.

Could that possibily be Fruictosity ? beachy can be quite lycheey actually. :p


To wade in with the armaments of the pedant...

Can we please have a definition of the terms 'infinity', 'eternity' and 'reality'? I contend these are obscure terms.

The second law of thermodynamics tells us the entire universe will eventually break down to a mass of basic particles tending towards absolute zero. Is that eternity? Is that infinite? If time is the change from one instant to the next, will such a thing exist when there is no change? Could it even be described as reality?

Indeed. One might start by defining eternity as uninterrupted assertive constant and without a break.
Reality however in contrast has gears breakage slowness and eventually stopage for refreshements or refuelement purposes.

[richardshelton]

Reality, eternity, very different things, not even in the same classed/categories.

Reality is what we are, what is around us, what we can discover about our environment (of which we are a part)>

Eternity is a concept of timelessness, forever. (and maybe only something longer than us, because we would never know).

The closest I can come to relating the two is to assume reality is infinite and therefore potentially eternal in our quest to learn about it.

[cacian]

Reality, eternity, very different things, not even in the same classed/categories.

Reality is what we are, what is around us, what we can discover about our environment (of which we are a part)>

Eternity is a concept of timelessness, forever. (and maybe only something longer than us, because we would never know).

The closest I can come to relating the two is to assume reality is infinite and therefore potentially eternal in our quest to learn about it.

Would you say that reality is definable and eternity is oingoing until further notice?

For example
Someone's idea is an eternal entity that is on hold until its procedure to be creat or form an idealism or materialism.
Once the idea has materialised then it has become reality thus this eternity has ceased.
Eternity is a concept not rather then a physical truth and can only be measured against time/reality.
Eternity is wheel of time that once reaches spefics/details it stops to project and reproduct.
In other word eternity is never lasting because of reality.

[Shalot]

Time is an illusion, and eternity is reality.

[cacian]

Time is an illusion
Hi shalot am I right to assume that time and illusion are one?
if so is magic an illusion too?


and eternity is reality.
I agree with this.
Eternity is not without reality.
Would you say destiny is reality?

[Leda]

Infinity is not real, as it can not be defined.

[Alexander III]

Infinity is not real, as it can not be defined.

It can be defined in a basic and ambivalent way:

Infinite - everything your imagination can conceive, the most implausible amongst the highest orders of implausibility; it shall happen, eventually but surely it shall occur. And that is merely what one's imagination can conceive -

"Horatio, there is more in heaven and earth than your philosophies can dream of. But that which all your philosophies have dreamt, if time is truly infinite, shall occur with as much reality as myself and you."

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Infinity is not real, as it can not be defined.

Ah, yes, if the human mind can't understand it, it just doesn't exist. :rolleyes5:

[Shalot]

Hi shalot am I right to assume that time and illusion are one?
if so is magic an illusion too?


I agree with this.
Eternity is not without reality.
Would you say destiny is reality?


According to Led Zeppelin, all is one and one is all. :p


If you accept that time is an illusion, then you have to consider the hows and whens of the occurrence of magic. If magic occurs within the constraints of time, then magic must also be an illusion.

Time is an attempt to break eternity into measurable parts I guess.

If I occur within the constraints of time, then I must be an illusion also.

And then the last part of your post contained the question, "Would you say destiny is reality?"

If you place destiny within the constraints of time, then I would say, that no, destiny is not reality. The person I am now, in this body that I inhabit, exists within the constraints of time, and any destiny assigned to that concept of existence would be an illusion if you accept that the concept of time is an illusion.

[Leda]

Ah, yes, if the human mind can't understand it, it just doesn't exist. :rolleyes5:

exactly.. hence our limitations


@Alexander
Spinoza's philosophy comes to mind

[cacian]

exactly.. hence our limitations


@Alexander
Spinoza's philosophy comes to mind

How do you mean by spinoza's philosophy?
Do you mean which of that has no physical substance has no existence?
Because spinoza was all about a god and not infinity/eternity as such.