While in the popular mind, eternity (or foreverness) often simply means existence for a limitless amount of time, many have used it to refer to a timeless existence altogether outside time. By contrast, infinite temporal existence is then called sempiternity. Something eternal exists outside time; by contrast, something sempiternal exists throughout an infinite time. Sempiternity is also known as everlastingness.

There are a number of arguments for eternity, by which proponents of the concept, principally Aristotle, purported to prove that matter, motion, and time must have existed eternally.

Contents

• 1 The idea of eternity
• 2 God and eternity
• 3 Symbolism
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

The idea of eternity

The metaphysics of eternity might be summarized by the question: can anything be said to exist "outside of" or independent of Time/Space, and if so how and why? Some consequential metaphysical questions of some importance are then: can "information" be said to exist without, or independent of, the human mind, and, if so, what would be the content and "purpose" of such information?

Noun

eternity (plural eternities)

1. (uncountable) Existence without end, infinite time.
2. (uncountable) (philosophy) existence outside of time (compare sempiternity)
3. (countable) A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future.
4. (metaphysical) The remainder of time that elapses after death.
5. (informal, hyperbolic) A comparatively long time.

   It's been an eternity since we last saw each other.

Usage notes

• In the sense "a comparatively long time", eternity is always used with the indefinite article (an eternity).
• In philosophy, the common use of eternity to refer to an infinite time is considered incorrect, eternity referring to existence outside of time; existence within time but of an infinite temporal duration is called everlastingness or sempiternity

We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die. Who will riddle me the how and the why? ~ Alfred Tennyson

Eternity is a word often used to indicate notions of "limitless" or "endless" time, and also ideas of realms of Reality which are beyond those of Time and Space.

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Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness ...
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In the myth, Sisyphus is condemned for eternity to roll a rock up a hill, but when he reaches the summit, the rock will roll to the bottom again.
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