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In the most general terms, an object is infinite if, given any arbitrarily large (finite) measure of the relevant aspect of that object, you can find another measure within the object that is greater than it.
So, time is infinite if, given any arbitrarily large time period, you can find a time period that is bigger than it.
So, if, looking at the universe and all of time within it, I select a period of one day, you can select a period of one and a half. If I select a period of ten billion years, you show me a period of eleven billion years within it. If this can be done for any given length of time, then the universe satisfies the definition of being infinite in time.
Great, thanks. It sounds difficult, like you're asking for the impossible. I don't see how anything at all can be infinite with this... Other examples? Continue?
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Yep, I don't know what you're talking about again. You said those two sentences were contradictory with zero explanation; I had to guess you were saying that 'time not being defined by a start and end point but events within it being so' is contradictory, but it isn't at all, and I explained that; then you just said it was contradictory again with zero explanation. And you genuinely seem to think this is how discussion works.
I didn't think I needed to explain: Not only did I introduce the problem with "I don't understand how infinity can have anything to do with duration", I then underlined what I thought was contradictory from the beginning, because I couldn't make sense of it. I also said "while you appear contradictory" - making an emphasis on wording. Pay attention to the words you just used. You simply have to explain (in more than one line) why you can make both of those statements consistently.