is it sad? whaddaya think about it?
Every day time passes, taking that much from our lives.
What have we done with our last 24 hours? Will it make a difference to the world, or to you? Or was it just a waste, like mine was?
I don't believe in time.
The passing of time got me to this point, so I am happy. We can't stop time from happening, nor go back, so regrets are pointless. Our best choice (in my opinion) is to enjoy and live our lives to the fullest, and aspire to be the best we can be at whatever fullfills us and makes us happy.
Time is your life and it is finite. Enjoy it, as it is a non-renewable resource to you.
Where does time go? That was the question I asked in forth or fifth grade and was sent to the corner. It was one of the last questions I ever asked in school, then the chaos began..........
Time is a measurement and does not come or go anywhere. It is like saying where does width go?
It's most likely wrong just to think of time as its own abstract, it is part of space, as in time/space, one is useless without the other.
Quoteone is useless without the other
Not exactly. Many times we think in one two or three dimensions without needing the others. There are probably more that we are not using.
Just because you are not using it, or seeing it, does not mean its not there.
Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once. Space exists so that no one can hear you scream. With such disparate raisons d'être, is it any wonder there is a relative negative sign in the spacetime metric?
Time is merely a man made construct, existing to make it simpler, easier, for us to comprehend causality. The truth is ofcourse that neither yesterday nor tomorrow really exist.
All there is, is "right now", and once that's been altered, the "right now" we just experienced doesn't exist anymore, outside of memory ofcourse.
Quote from: Miniar on May 23, 2009, 07:48:59 AM
I don't believe in time.
Quote from: Miniar on May 23, 2009, 02:20:40 PM
Time is merely a man made construct, existing to make it simpler, easier, for us to comprehend causality. The truth is ofcourse that neither yesterday nor tomorrow really exist.
All there is, is "right now", and once that's been altered, the "right now" we just experienced doesn't exist anymore, outside of memory ofcourse.
Okay, everything is "constructed" in the sense that we experience the world through the processes of our senses filtered through our minds. But if everything has property "X," then property "X" is a very boring property. You are a construct, love and suffering are constructs, sound is a construct, <insert your favorite noun> is a construct -- that's not deep, it's trivial.
Sorry, but while there are certain phenomena out there that are "merely" constructs, or at least closer to it, time is not one of them.
We do not experience things as they happen. There is a time delay from our senses to our brain.
QuoteSorry, but while there are certain phenomena out there that are "merely" constructs, or at least closer to it, time is not one of them
We do construct plans and action such as hitting a ball, driving a car, and meeting someone at a place. The concept is constructed in our mind.
"Merely" as in "only." That we construct the experience of hitting a ball doesn't negate the reality of the event.
Quote from: lisagurl on May 23, 2009, 03:31:17 PM
We do not experience things as they happen. There is a time delay from our senses to our brain.
Which is part of why "I" don't believe "I" exist. :)
What do you say to someone who doesn't exist? ;)
One can only truly understand the meaning of the passing of time when one looks into the face of Pam Anderson circa 2009.
somebody once told me to look at a clock upside down and ask myself what is time? I still don't understand
The only thing I have to say about the passing of time...is that I just wish it would pass a little slower sometimes. This year has gone by incredibly fast, whats seems like only a couple weeks have turned into several months already =\ . . .
Quote from: Alyssa M. on May 23, 2009, 02:40:48 PM
Okay, everything is "constructed" in the sense that we experience the world through the processes of our senses filtered through our minds. But if everything has property "X," then property "X" is a very boring property. You are a construct, love and suffering are constructs, sound is a construct, <insert your favorite noun> is a construct -- that's not deep, it's trivial.
Sorry, but while there are certain phenomena out there that are "merely" constructs, or at least closer to it, time is not one of them.
Decided I'd go back and address this comment a little.
See, I'm not trying to be deep here.
The thing about time is that our measurement of time is causality, "by the time the watch has gone through the necessary motions, one minute has passed", a minute doesn't exist in and of itself, it only exists as a series of nows.
And once that minute has passed, the world of a minute ago has changed, and the world that "was" a minute ago isn't the same that the world is now, it's not the same thing, so the world of a minute ago doesn't exist.
Lets say you have a whole orange and you cut it in half, you still have "all" of the orange, but it's in two pieces, it'll never be "a whole orange" uncut and pristine again. The "whole" orange doesn't exist any more, even if the whole of the orange still does.
And say you intend to eat that orange, because you're thirsty. Until you actually eat the orange, your thirst exists. Your "future" doesn't exist yet, and so you're thirsty.
(Words aren't my strong suit, I think in abstract concepts without images or words, so I'm struggling to get this out "right".. bear with me)
As such, that which was, isn't any more, and that which will be, isn't yet.
Thus, the past and the future aren't things that exists, but perceptions, memories, intentions etc. Yesterday's gone as they sang..
All there is, is "now", and now is a forever shifting, forever changing thing, and to comprehend the nature of that change, we rely on time.
A day can whiz by us in what feels like a few moments, and an hour can drag on for a lifetime, so that perception is dependant on our now.
Quote from: Miniar on May 25, 2009, 07:22:29 AMThus, the past and the future aren't things that exists, but perceptions, memories, intentions etc. Yesterday's gone as they sang..
All there is, is "now", and now is a forever shifting, forever changing thing, and to comprehend the nature of that change, we rely on time.
A day can whiz by us in what feels like a few moments, and an hour can drag on for a lifetime, so that perception is dependant on our now.
totally have to agree with Miniar on this one- time is a mental abstraction. All that exists is now. If you look for the past, you will never find it. Similarly the future... cycles come and go, lunar cycles, solar cycles, the rhythm of the tides, the passing seasons... a "second" of time in fact is currently officially defined as precisely 9,192,631,770 vibrations of the nucleus of a cesium-133 atom. Einstein defined time as "what we measure with clocks." We think time exists because we have invented these little devices we call clocks- but all that clocks really do is keep rhythmic cycles, like flowers budding, or beautiful Venus in her journey across the stars. They measure nothing. The tick of the clock is merely a single event, which we use to measure other events. We could just as well use snakes moulting their skins.
Reality is like a book, all the pages of the story are here, all at once. The fact that we read the pages linearly one by one doesn't prove the existence of time, only that our brains process information in a certain way that leads us to think in terms of a "fourth dimension". Einstein, arguably the man who put time "in it's place" so to speak, also said "...the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." I tend to agree with him as well.
Quote from: Alyssa M. on May 23, 2009, 03:51:58 PM
What do you say to someone who doesn't exist? ;)
That you would love to agree with them.
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Quote from: Kristi on May 25, 2009, 09:04:06 AM
Quote from: Alyssa M. on May 23, 2009, 03:51:58 PM
What do you say to someone who doesn't exist? ;)
That you would love to agree with them.
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That you're taking their pie and their ain't nothing they can do to stop it?
What do you say to someone who doesn't exist?
Some call it prayer.
Question: When there is no time is everything the same, as in, does it all has equal importance and meaning?