Yeah I also find the analogy completely pointless when dealing with existence as a whole.
Time is simply one aspect of existence. For me at least. Infinity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with time. Rather it can be to do with scale, which is more what I'm interested in.
If you believe in other universes for example then time might be completely independent for those universes. For those universes each one has it's own 'time bubble'. This comes back to my question of scale, as if there are multiple universes then what are the universes inside of, and does what they're inside of have its own sense of time. And if what they're inside of is inside of something else then does that have time? You see, you still have a problem.
To me, it gets you no nearer to answering the real question, when discussing time. As if my example were to be correct, nothing stops you from having that scale go on forever. Infinity isn't really (in my opinion) all that affected by time. I'd rather explore the scale of existence than if time is infinite, because if you come up with an answer to the former then you'll likely have an answer to the latter.
This is ofcourse all just hypothetical bullshit and precisely why I usually hate philosophy, but of all the philosophical questions this seems to be the only one which I'm bothered about wasting my time on.
Time is simply one aspect of existence. For me at least. Infinity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with time. Rather it can be to do with scale, which is more what I'm interested in.
If you believe in other universes for example then time might be completely independent for those universes. For those universes each one has it's own 'time bubble'. This comes back to my question of scale, as if there are multiple universes then what are the universes inside of, and does what they're inside of have its own sense of time. And if what they're inside of is inside of something else then does that have time? You see, you still have a problem.
To me, it gets you no nearer to answering the real question, when discussing time. As if my example were to be correct, nothing stops you from having that scale go on forever. Infinity isn't really (in my opinion) all that affected by time. I'd rather explore the scale of existence than if time is infinite, because if you come up with an answer to the former then you'll likely have an answer to the latter.
This is ofcourse all just hypothetical bullshit and precisely why I usually hate philosophy, but of all the philosophical questions this seems to be the only one which I'm bothered about wasting my time on.
