Talk:Aeon

message: Nobody bothered to mention the 'Aeon' which is the 20th card of the Crowley Toth Tarot
Venus Satanas (talk) 22:45, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: (First comments)

message: This article refers to "yug ( more than light years)", but light years are a measurement of distance, not time. Nick Urban (talk) 20:21, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sanskrit Units of Time 

message: Shouldn't Aion (deity) be a separate article? He is not really the same as the Gnostic Aeon. He is a lion-headed deity with a snake wrapped around him. Carl Jung wrote a whole book about this deity, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, which should probably get its own entry. -999 02:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aion 

message: Why "emanation of the God" should be termed Aeon?--Connection 10:50, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions 

message: Not sure I understand why this page seems to attract so much vandalism. AnonMoos 11:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed the paragraph "Since originally the word is believed to have meant a period of time close to 100 years, the notion of "eternal damnation" that Christians attrobute to the Bible is jeapordized. In the original greek, aeon is the word that was ultimately translated to eternal. But damnation for about 100 years isn't quite as motivating as "Eternal Damnation", so they fudged it a bit." Unreferenced, misspelled, bad grammar, improper use of words and includes personal opinions. --121.6.184.26 16:18, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually in modern Greek, aeon means century unless you use it poetically. But aeonios means eternal. I'm not sure on how we came to use aeon as 100 years today. Simanos (talk) 13:22, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: There was an external link with the phrase "Aeon - a nonprofit developer, owner, manager of affordable housing" which I am removing.  It is not at all related to the article, but looks more like someone trying to get some attention for their business.  It may be valid, but it would seem to me that if the company that it is referring to is of value, it should have its own page, not a link in the External Links section.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.248.133.130 (talk) 04:20, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: External Links

message: I'd like to propose the "In Gnosticism" section of the article be split off to a separate "Aeon (Gnosticism)" page. 
The main body of the article describes a philosophical concept, with a number of scientific applications, all to do with a period of time.
The Gnosticism section by contrast describes some form of "emanation of god" co-incidentally bearing the same name, and is at most a non-central sub-topic. It also takes up more than half of the article, which to my mind is out of proportion to the rest of the article.
Any thoughts? Moonraker12 (talk) 14:28, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. :-) Melchoir (talk) 00:00, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahh! thanks! I'd forgotten about this...Moonraker12 (talk) 11:04, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: A kalpa is the time between Big Bangs. The analogy, disintegration of a mountain by wiping with a muslin cloth, is from the Sanghata Sutra (https://sanghatasutra.net), just after the the analogy of a huge structure containing sesame seeds, removing one seed every 1,000 years. Using that analogy, I calculated the length of an eon as greater than the number of atoms in the universe, on the order of 10^94 years. Hpfeil (talk) 23:45, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buddhist addendum