Im not religious in any way. but i found this post and it freaked me out.
Does anyone agree with me that the religious concept of ETERNITY is a totally bizarre and unpalatable idea?
Irrespective of whether it's about heaven or hell I find either scenario grotesque. We all know about what an unappealing place hell is meant to be, but am I alone in finding the prospect of an eternity spent in heaven just as disturbing?
It's easy to use the word Eternity without considering its full implications, because we are so familiar with the term. However, to me, the almost incomprehensible thought of a literally never-ending state, however pleasant for the first 600 trillion years, is as scary as it gets.
We humans aren't programmed to last forever, even in the Natural World, which changes by the day - mercifully - so how can we hope to get our minds around, let alone want to experience a perfectly static eternity? No future to look forward to, only more of the same - ad nauseam - in fact, NOTHING NEW to distract us in any way.
Even BLISS would start to pall through its sheer monotony. We need the stimulation of challenges to keep our minds working, but there won't be any challenges in heaven - all that will be behind us. We would soon start to pine for our imperfect earthly existence, I'm quite sure. Because, with nothing to contrast with perfect happiness, such happiness would become meaningless, just as light depends on darkness to give it any validity.
Please don't tell me that God will be all we need to keep us sane and stimulated - I suspect god himself would eventually be driven mad in such a situation, and would probably die of boredom, if only he could.
What agony.