Philosophising on infinity
So that is quite the abstract thought immediately straight out the gate. How can someone fathom what infinity is, and therefore be able to reason about it? I will detour into two sections, one religious and one pseudo scientific. In a future post I will tackle a more spiritual one.
Heaven === Hell
So that is quite the bold statement, feathers are being ruffled and heels are being dug in. The churning in your inner sanctum begins and you feel uneasy. Ok now that that is out of the way. Breathe in and out couple of times and continue on reading. Please?
Let us assume there is a heaven and a hell. Let us also assume they are not bound to a religion but rather they symbolise the states you will be in after you die. In the first you are eternally blissful and the second eternally tormented. Also eternally is equivalent to infinity.
What does it mean to be in any state for eternity? Let us call heaven +Infinity and hell -Infinity or because I am lazy +I and -I. Another question based on +I or -I could be directional. Would it matter if you walked forever left or right inside empty space? Or not empty space, right has a never ending corridor that is purple and left has a never ending golden corridor. Would it matter if you were surrounded by purple for the rest of time or does everything lose its meaning because of infinity? The same applies for heaven and hell. Right now you know probably pain and hopefully happiness. If you had to choose knowing both exist you choose for happiness quite easily. This keeping in mind that you have retained your sanity as determined by a non partisan third party system that is objectively fair and just. If you only know pain and happiness does not exist it loses its meaning. Especially over the course of eternity. I hope you can still follow.
Basically any action repeated ad infinitum loses meaning. Also anything that loses the dichotomy it currently is in becomes meaningless. It holds meaning because the outcome should matter. Which takes me into the next segment.
Multiverse
In actual science there exists the multiverse and in pseudo science there exists the notion that there are infinitily many versions of yourself doing all the possible actions and decisions and you are only experiencing one specific path.
This means life just became meaningless. Whatever you choose to do, this reality is only one of an infinite number of possibilities. Therefore there is no blame, no consequence and no outcome. I had this thought prior to seeing Black Mirrors Bendersnatch episode. They arrive at the same conclusion there.
Please have meaning in life by doing what you love thoughtfully and with care.