But if Eternalism is correct, it shouldn't matter which situation you're in.

However, Eternalism takes its inspiration from physics and needs to give a physical account of observers.

What remains is the middle way between eternalism and annihilationism:

Eternalism is a position in phenomenology that the world must be seen as static and fixed.

The block universe theory, also known as Eternalism, holds that past, present and future are all real, but the passage of time is an illusion.

Ideas that assume no objective present, like the B-theory, include eternalism and four-dimensionalism.

This view is the Middle Way between eternalism and annihilationism:

Buddhism teaches a middle way, avoiding the extreme views of eternalism and nihilism.

Consequently, eternalism is the ontological view which postulates that past, present and future all equally exist.

The word eternalism has at least three meanings:

But if Eternalism is correct, death is just one of our temporal borders, and should be no more worrisome than birth.

Many philosophers have argued that relativity implies eternalism.

Eternalism makes two assumptions, which are separable.

Eternalism also appears in the comic book series Watchmen by Alan Moore.

Such translation seems to be paralleling a modern Western philosophical approach to Philosophy of time: Eternalism.

This is the middle way of Buddhism, which explicitly refutes the extremes of both eternalism and nihilism.

It summarises the two basic false views of nihilism and eternalism, and shows them to be false.

It may be argued that the acceptance of perdurantism and rejection of eternalism would be incoherent.

Eternalism is the basic construct behind four-dimensionalism, as it accounts for the reality of past and future rather than proposing that all events occupy the present.

But if the Eternalism is correct, there is no such property as being over or no longer happening now-it continues to exist timelessly.

Eternalism is a major theme in Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slaughterhouse-Five.

The intellectual battle against eternalism became one of Philoponus' major preoccupations and dominated several of his publications (some now lost) over the following decade.

For him shunyata is explicitly used as a middle way between eternalism and nihilism, and that is where its soteriological power lies.

(See also: Eternalism (philosophy of time))

Eternalism addresses these various difficulties by considering all points in time to be equally valid frames of reference-or equally "real", if one prefers.