Chaos
Time and eternity cannot both exist.
Eternity, by its very definition, suggests no beginning and no end. It is essentially a torpid languid state in which nothing can happen.
Time demands the very opposite. It is a state in which something must happen. (Shit happens only within the context of Time, not Eternity.)
So which is it?
If there was a beginning in Time, then something happened within the field of Eternity (a place, remember, where nothing can happen) that permitted such an occurrence.
If this is true, then Eternity is not what we think it is.
We must revise its definition.
But if we could do that it means that it never existed at all.
It was something we merely imagined.
If Eternity is timeless, motionless and changless, then nothing can ever happen—not ever.
But something did happen. Didn't it? (It sure as hell feels as if something is happening.)
And if something did indeed happen, then we must bid farewell to Eternity, completely erase it from our minds.
Yes, I'm afraid it has to be this way. We must say good-bye to Eternity. It will be sorely missed.
And it cannot come back.
How could it? It was never here, except as a poetic fantasy.
But ... its absence leaves a void in the deepest regions of our restive souls. With what shall we replace it?
Chaos?
Maybe.
Yes. I think Chaos just might work.
Instead of an endless Nothing, it is an endless Something, ever moving and changing, in a manner that is purely random.
Time is simply one of those movements. There is no meaning within it, or without it. It is what it is.
April 21, 2010