User blog comment:Jack Goldwrecker./I Wonder Why/@comment-3112181-20130115050813

Jack, it's blogs like these that keep my hope for humanity alive. I love your thinking blogs, honestly. Thank you, dearly.

My take on this is simple: Many believe me to be an atheist. Wrong. Through much thinking over the months and years, I have come to label myself as a deist, which is essentially a step up from atheism. Deists do not associate themselves with any religion, do not believe there is a supernatural being watching over us, and do not believe in heaven or hell, faith, miracles, profits, or any other staple religious ideals. What makes a deist a deist, though, is that they believe in a powerful creator. This creator is not a man, woman, or child, and could hardly be defined as having any physical form. As we can learn from Newton, Descartes, and Locke, and several holy scriptures (including the Christian Bible), in the beginning of time, there was absolutely nothing. No light, no life, no relativity, just empty, endless space. I've come to accept this. Since it is quite obvious, though, that nothing comes from nothing, how was the Earth created? No, I don't believe in the Christian creation myth; I still go by science. How was science created, then? In the void of nothingness in the beginning of time, a supernatural being ("Spirit") emerged. (Since this entity is indeed supernatural, it surpasses the "nothing comes from nothing" ideology). Spirit, in its power, then created the universe over a span of several billion (perhaps even trillions) of years. Then, science comes into play. The stage is set, and Earth is created through the Big Bang Theory 13.75 billion years ago, et cetera. So what became of Spirit? As per deist beliefs, Spirit, having created the universe, retired. This, I believe, is the only explanation as to how the universe was created. There have been several notable deists throughout history, including Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Newton, Locke, Hobbes, Hume, Voltaire, Leonardo da Vinci, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Peter the Great of Russia, Robespierre, Napoleon Bonaparte, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and several US presidents, such as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and even Lincoln.

How this is relevant to the subject of time is this: "time" is simply a man-made concept. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years are merely measurements named for astrological phenomena, such as the rotation or revolution of the Earth. Don't get me wrong: time happens naturally, but the idea of it is artificial. We could exist on this earth completely oblivious to the idea of time, and, for the most part, go on with our every day lives. Therefore, I don't think "time" is the number one killer. Time, being a measurement, is dependent on the conditions and well-being of society. For example, in, say, the Middle Ages, the average age of death was likely somewhere in the forties or fifties, whereas nowadays it's in the seventies or eighties. We live in a much better world today than the world of the Middle Ages, therefore, our average age of expiration is significantly increased. Even still, our society today obviously has several flaws, putting a limit on how long we can live. Factours like stress, sadness, and grief are what cause "death from old age"; not age itself. In a perfect society ("Heaven"), there is no stress, sadness, or grief, and therefore, nothing to hinder life. In a perfect society, one lives forever and time and age practically do not exist, thus why it is perfect.