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blazeofglory
03-01-2009, 09:20 PM
We have fragments of time, and we call it past, present and future. Yet in essence there is no time.

There is eternity. Our segments or sense of time have their roots in the rotation and revolution of the earth.

Of course there are a plethora of ideas, opinions with respect to the theories on time.

Time and space are just attributes, words or dimensions we have imagined.

There is no space or time if you reflect deeply.

What is space? It is sheer nothing.

All of us are this void, this nothing, and came out of this nothing and get swallowed by this eternity and void.

And will we exist in our unit or microcosm ultimately? I have no answer.

Maybe there are tremors, vibrations in which we may exist.

I can not subscribe to the idea of the Biblical paradise where God is throned.

I love to reflect on this attribute.

It is philosophically appealing and I love to read different ideas, notions, fabrications from different persons.

For we are learning.
mmaria
03-02-2009, 05:42 AM
If one moves fast enough through the space time slows down. How about it? This is something that I cannot quite understand?
copyyue
03-02-2009, 05:52 AM
17:52 Beijing Time
crystalmoonshin
03-02-2009, 09:01 AM
All of us are this void, this nothing, and came out of this nothing and get swallowed by this eternity and void.



Do you believe in nihilism then, sir?
crystalmoonshin
03-02-2009, 09:04 AM
Actually, when talking about time, I think of it as something that travels in a linear fashion without a beginning and an end. It's hard to imagine infinity.
weltanschauung
03-02-2009, 01:08 PM
time is the direction, and space is where the direction is.
andave_ya
03-02-2009, 01:21 PM
Time is the distance between two occurrences.
1n50mn14
03-02-2009, 01:35 PM
Time is an irrelevant, man-made concept. CONCEPT being the key word, here.
Lust Hogg
03-02-2009, 06:16 PM
Time is nothing but the measure and observation of motion and change in the external world.
billyjack
03-02-2009, 11:01 PM
didnt einstein have something to say about this one:


The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
robertlc53
03-31-2009, 03:53 PM
wonderful mind jogger. time is like money, we agree it has value for our intents and purposes.
pinkkdaisy
04-02-2009, 05:30 AM
how exactly is this discussion literary?
billyjack
04-02-2009, 10:55 AM
how isn't it?
beroq
04-02-2009, 11:02 AM
Time is one of the creations that God created. What we call time is part of the timelessness that is innate in the creation.
billyjack
04-02-2009, 11:09 AM
one problem with your definition beroq. creation is bogus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume

section 2.8
beroq
04-02-2009, 11:12 AM
one problem with your definition beroq. creation is bogus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume

section 2.8

Thus spoke Hume, a naturalist, who bestows the act of creation upon nature itself. So his God is nature itself. Time is a Nature's creation, to him.
billyjack
04-02-2009, 11:28 AM
hume's god, nature, is sensible and therefore worthy of discussion and assertions. a supernatural god on the other hand can only be spoken of with dogma and assumptions
beroq
04-02-2009, 11:40 AM
I don't agree with you on the assumption that God is merely supernatural. Metaphsical truth is one kind of truth that can be obtained by means of close and genuine observation in one's self and the other world. God's knowledge is a metaphysical knowledge and yet, also a physical knowledge.
billyjack
04-02-2009, 12:18 PM
the truth is not out there, only differing perspectives of what we deem to be truth. metaphysics is a good way of going about to find this presumed truth because it too is based on a foundation of non-reality--that is, metaphysics presumes an essence of things when there is no such essence lurking behind reality. appearances, reasoning, and instinct must be the benchmark of a good definition of time if its to make any sense at all.