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the passing of time

Started by Natasha, May 22, 2009, 03:46:57 PM

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Natasha

is it sad? whaddaya think about it?
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Feever

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?
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Miniar




"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell" - Nietzsche
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ArleneTgirl

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.
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lisagurl

Time is your life and it is finite. Enjoy it, as it is a non-renewable resource to you.
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Bombi

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..........
Yes there is really bigender people
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lisagurl

Time is a measurement and does not come or go anywhere.  It is like saying where does width go?
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tekla

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.
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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lisagurl

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.
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tekla

Just because you are not using it, or seeing it, does not mean its not there.
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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Alyssa M.

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'ĂȘtre, is it any wonder there is a relative negative sign in the spacetime metric?
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

   - Anatole France
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Miniar

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.



"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell" - Nietzsche
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Alyssa M.

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.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

   - Anatole France
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lisagurl

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.
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Alyssa M.

"Merely" as in "only." That we construct the experience of hitting a ball doesn't negate the reality of the event.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

   - Anatole France
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Miniar

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. :)



"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell" - Nietzsche
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Alyssa M.

What do you say to someone who doesn't exist? ;)
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

   - Anatole France
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RebeccaFog

One can only truly understand the meaning of the passing of time when one looks into the face of Pam Anderson circa 2009.
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aisha

somebody once told me to look at a clock upside down and ask myself what is time? I still don't understand
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Cynn

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 =\ . . .
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