To Exist Forever Is HELL
To be alive for eternity without death is Hell. This is because there is no end to existence if you were to stay alive for all time.
Visualise becoming a member of a society in our universe that has developed the means to transcend death itself. As time passes - moment by moment, year by year, millennia by millennia more and more of what was has gone and there is less left in the universe (by definition from the thermodynamic arrow of time. Then in some finite but indeterminable point in the future, nothing else alive but the immortal - alone and without purpose. Forever is a time too long and being alive beyond endurance becomes not just a living Hell. It is the Hell of loneliness.
This applies to anyone and anything who reaches a point where death cannot be found through choice and which is bound by the four dimensions of space-time in a universe without end. This will also apply within universes and groups of universes where life is bound within multiple dimensions of space and time where time moves forward and there is no end to increasing chaos.
If the Devil granted a wish to become immortal it would be this kind of immortality that he/she/it would grant. It would be great at first but over time this boon would become more and more unbearable until eventually you would be screaming for it to end. Also, to be alive and conscious of everything everywhere instantaneously would still be Hell if there is no get out clause to die and no ability to forget oneself during existence.
It remains unclear to the human mind whether existing without any constraint is also Hell since the wish and act of dying would be available. Yet there is the possibility of reliving the same and/or different lives again and again regardless of the level of existence - human, Godlike or through Enlightenment. This may be the case where time in higher dimensions is non-linear or does not behave in the way it does in this universe. An ignorance of past life existence asks another question - do we cease to exist when we die?
Visualise becoming a member of a society in our universe that has developed the means to transcend death itself. As time passes - moment by moment, year by year, millennia by millennia more and more of what was has gone and there is less left in the universe (by definition from the thermodynamic arrow of time. Then in some finite but indeterminable point in the future, nothing else alive but the immortal - alone and without purpose. Forever is a time too long and being alive beyond endurance becomes not just a living Hell. It is the Hell of loneliness.
This applies to anyone and anything who reaches a point where death cannot be found through choice and which is bound by the four dimensions of space-time in a universe without end. This will also apply within universes and groups of universes where life is bound within multiple dimensions of space and time where time moves forward and there is no end to increasing chaos.
If the Devil granted a wish to become immortal it would be this kind of immortality that he/she/it would grant. It would be great at first but over time this boon would become more and more unbearable until eventually you would be screaming for it to end. Also, to be alive and conscious of everything everywhere instantaneously would still be Hell if there is no get out clause to die and no ability to forget oneself during existence.
It remains unclear to the human mind whether existing without any constraint is also Hell since the wish and act of dying would be available. Yet there is the possibility of reliving the same and/or different lives again and again regardless of the level of existence - human, Godlike or through Enlightenment. This may be the case where time in higher dimensions is non-linear or does not behave in the way it does in this universe. An ignorance of past life existence asks another question - do we cease to exist when we die?
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