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That's choosing an arbitrary finite point on an infinite spectrum. What is beyond the universe? What is beyond time? What IS the universe? We simply do not kn

That's choosing an arbitrary finite point on an infinite spectrum. What is beyond the universe? What is beyond time? What IS the universe? We simply do not know the answers to these questions. Hell, we barely understand what consciousness and sentience is. Maybe by the time we make it to the heat death of the universe, we will have answered these questions, and can reverse entropy. Maybe not. But the quest to get these answers and to overcome our elements is what gives us purpose. Everything we do in our mortal lives stuck on the rock of our birth, is in one way or another, in the quest to achieve that. Some people find that too overwhelming, and choose either religion or nihilism. I think there is a middle ground.

orbgirlgi98 6y ago
You don't need to fully understand something to know that it will die. I don't need to know what the billions of transistors in a MacBook CPU do in order to understand that the CPU will cease to compute if placed in an incinerator and burned to gas and ash. I don't need to understand how the human brain works in order to understand that it will no longer work when our star balloons to a red giant and incinerates the brain to gas and ash. You don't need to understand things in order to understand that they will end when physically destroyed. Everything in our universe will be physically destroyed at the Heat Death. Time, Space, Matter, and Energy will all end. There is no "middle ground". It will all end. If there is an eternal God who exists outside the universe and who will sustain the immortality of souls, as Plato thought 2400 years ago and all noteable Judeo-Christian philosophers have held, then something of humans will exist after the Heat Death. Otherwise, we know it will all die, and we don't need to know how it works to know that it will die.
- deanCommie 6y ago
  If there is an eternal god, why couldn't we become it?

orbgirlgi98 6y ago

You don't need to fully understand something to know that it will die. I don't need to know what the billions of transistors in a MacBook CPU do in order to understand that the CPU will cease to compute if placed in an incinerator and burned to gas and ash. I don't need to understand how the human brain works in order to understand that it will no longer work when our star balloons to a red giant and incinerates the brain to gas and ash. You don't need to understand things in order to understand that they will end when physically destroyed. Everything in our universe will be physically destroyed at the Heat Death. Time, Space, Matter, and Energy will all end. There is no "middle ground". It will all end. If there is an eternal God who exists outside the universe and who will sustain the immortality of souls, as Plato thought 2400 years ago and all noteable Judeo-Christian philosophers have held, then something of humans will exist after the Heat Death. Otherwise, we know it will all die, and we don't need to know how it works to know that it will die.

deanCommie 6y ago
If there is an eternal god, why couldn't we become it?