Hell as oblivion

[kahljorn]

Most buddhists could be considered eternalists, I suppose. Reaching nirvana places you outside of the functioning of time. Ironically Samsara, or the cycle of life and death is, etymologically considered, "All flowing together". (Sorry to keep talking about buddhism, by the way).

"that dictates that all time exists simultaneously from an arbitrary vantage point. That's the main way in which I see the soul as being eternal in the first place; for that matter, today is eternal"

I can understand this, especially since all of time is obviously linked through causation, all of time causes all of time. However, from an arbitrary view-point in which you see time as simotaneous it's also possible you'd see objects(or space) as simotaneous, by which i mean they would be the same object. The basic explaination I can give for this is that, through causation, every object effects every other object. This would be more like saying, "The soul of the universe is eternal, and you are a part of the universe".
How would heaven manifest out of this? What do you think heaven is?

P.S. I read up on eternalism... Everything I've read at seems to indicate that eternalism is a type of Semantic, basically, a logical model for looking at existence. Essentially it's highlighting the need to look at problems objectively while including the "Fourth dimension"(time). I see how it became a scientific principle, based on that premise alone. I didn't really find any "Philosophies" regarding it, though.