Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, That all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, That all novelty is but oblivion.
-Sir Francis Bacon
Hey, you said something along the lines of not believing in forever or nothing. I don't have good arguments for either, but you've got to believe in at least one; which, I don't know. If the universe isn't forever, then that means there must one day be nothing. If existence loops or continues, then there's forever; if existence ends, then there's nothing. I think. I haven't been there.
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Everyone else is wrong, and there's something wrong with me.
About weird people who think too much.
Or, why you should read Notes From Underground.
https://misanthropology.neocities.org/Wrong
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I haven't thought about it like that. In my religion, there is no such thing as nothing and no such thing as forever. I think the best answer is the middle ground of there are things that exist (such as your own consciousness) and how infinity, at least to me, is just a concept since it cannot be seen nor experienced. So to me there isn't an exact answer. I don't know, that's how I think of it.
Hmmm. Is there an objective moral standard? If so, is it at least partially unvarying from age to age? And might not the judgement it gives remain forever? If I murder someone, all evidence of my existence or that of my victim may one day disappear, but it seems odd to say that the murder has ceased to exist, that the murder has ceased to be attributable to me, or that I am automatically no longer guilty.
Of course, from Inside Time/Repetition, we'd never be able to tell. But the Outside, if there is one, is where it matters. And all this relies on a very specific idea of *what* morality is, I suppose. And while I cannot experience infinity, I can't experience someone else's experiences either; but of course, I think you may have pointed out something like that.