I am an Eternalist, and I didn't even realize it until I "reinvented the wheel", or recreated the theory of Eternalism on my own, only to later find that somebody else already came up with the same theory, and even gave it a name. But anyway, I believe that if time is a dimension, similar to the three spacial dimensions we are all familiar with, then there is no reason why it should move forward in objective reality. In fact, with a frame of reference in the objective reality, you might say that time-travel is finally a feasible concept. This is not to say, however, that I wish to imply the possibility of human time-travel. That is still quite impossible given the conventional idea of time-travel, a truth that arises from the very fact that we our bound to our subjective viewpoint. However, I would like to express that all future events are "already there" and that all past events are "still there" (similar to the fact that up and down both "exist", even if you are somewhere between the two at the present moment), although we can never revisit these events (again, a consequence of being bound to our subjective reality). But in objective reality time is just another dimension that can be traveled through and can exist at any point both forward and backward from the "present". If the future events are already there, then they are predetermined back from the beginning of time like a cosmic chain reaction of falling dominoes, through the present and eternally into the future for all time. This belief unfortunately implicates the validity of determinism, and determinism implicates lack of free will--often a disturbing thought.
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one"
--Albert Einstein
"Nothing exists;
Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and
Even if something could be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others."
--Gorgias
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