That quote on Cosmic Genesis

[Karldin]

Do any of you know who wrote it, what it means etc?

 

[The Wanderer]

what quote?

 

[Lutz]

You mean the one on the cd itself?

Eternity is time, Time, eternity. To see the two as opposites is man's perversity"

It's a quote from Johannes Scheffler.
Don't know the real meaning though..

 

[opacity]

Eternity is time, Time, eternity. To see the two as opposites is man's perversity

maybe something like that: eternity is a temporal expression, a quality of time. and it means "not limited" ; and time itself in return is an indefinite term, so it's been there eversince and will be there forever, eternally. so actually they're both the same, just different words, used in different context. we just got used to say:"It takes x minutes of time" instead of "it takes x minutes of eternity".
that brings this question to me: how do we sense time? a process of cause and effect takes place within a certain period of time. if the time-factor wouldn't be there, we wouldn't even know, that a process has already happend (or started to happen), right?

 

[Karldin]

Thanks you guys! That's what I was looking for. Had to find a good quote for class.

 

[opacity]

a quote for class? what subject? tell us

 

[Karldin]

English. Every day one of us students have to come up with a good quote and write on the blackboard and then everyone else has to write about it.

 

[opacity]

aha. sort of brainstorming...? do you have to write an essay then or just some words and discuss it then? I remember my English classes, we had to write essays then as homework but in some way I also loved that

 

[Karldin]

No, we just write what we think it means and then we discuss it. It's Ok, I guess, but you have to search quite a bit to find something good. I already ahve some, but thought I'd do something other than Carl Sagan next time.