# Do these common criticisms of an eternal afterlife have merit?

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**Created:** [June 25, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-these-common-criticisms-of-an-eternal-afterlife-have-merit/966806 "2022-06-25T02:14:45Z")\
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I think this is based on a common misconception about “eternity”. Eternity doesn’t mean “a really long time”. It doesn’t even mean “an infinitely long time”. It means no time. To an eternal being, all moments would be the same moment. So there’s no “it’d start off fun, but eventually get boring”. It’d be all of it, all at once.

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