How can you prove it did, even with home movies or pictrues.
What if today was the first day you were really ever alive.
What if was the last day.
Actually this kind of makes me thing of Groundhog's Day, or 12:01
(anyone seen the movie 12:01 actually, it's been years)
Anyways just something I think about. I guess I'm really just looking for people opinions on if they ever felt this way and why?
2006-08-10 06:39:39 · 19 answers · asked by Corey 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Unless you are willing to trust that your senses somehow represent reality, you really can't know anything you perceive is real.
Maybe you'll like this one too. How do you know time isn't moving backward rather than forward? If it were, your older memories would be getting younger, and the things you knew would be leaving your mind. Your perception would be exactly the same as if things were moving forward. By the same token, we could be jumping all over forward and backward in time, and we would have no way of knowing it!
2006-08-10 06:46:58 · answer #1 · answered by lenny 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Becaue we are blessed with the gift of thought and recollectory memory. We can remember what happen the day before and before. A very good thinking question but if movies and pictures can capture memry and you remember what is capture then then proven case would be in the picture or video tape of you. How did you get into the picture or movie? How come it portrays you as you a day before. Even if today is the first day you were really alive, how come you were alive in a video tape of yourself a day and year ago. Was that a reflection what what you might be?
These thinking would have being best done during the times before televisions and cameras existed and not now.
I have similar thoughts like this everytime. Is there anywhere else after the heavens and worlds. Is there anyone other than god that is great. But we'll never know. Are our minds just programmed into thinking that we've existed before or is the past an illusion.
2006-08-10 13:50:32 · answer #2 · answered by young kim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd probably get a better answer in the philosophy Q&A - this is part of Existensialism greatly enhanced by Jean Paul Sartre.
Yesterday happened if you believed it happened; for the "You Which Sees Itself" has recollection of things which occured in the day before. As long as this person continues to believe, the yesterday was a possibility of existence.
From possibility, comes growth, and thus - a person has to take it or leave it, and the "You Which Chooses" has the option of taking it at face value or not.
There's a lot more too it, but the basics is that there are several processes in the brain that do one thing: and by doing one thing another process does another, etc; until it comes around full circle and creates the tangible existence of yesterday.
It also cannot be used in tommorow, because those same "agents" or "processses" would not be activated in the same manner, and thus, tommroow becomes different from yesterday.
So we can distinguish what has not happened and what has: and from were we are at, we can call it different things. Because we can name it, it exists.
2006-08-10 13:49:10 · answer #3 · answered by Solrium 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is for sure. Everything can be just an illusion of your brain, or of your counciousness. There are no absolute truths, since everything depends on your perception.
For a person with a memory disorder, yesterday may not exist at all.
Descartes, the French philosopher, thought about this subject, and that's why he came up with the phrase "I think, therefore I am". That's the only absolute truth that we know for sure. The rest might all be just an ilusion.
2006-08-10 13:48:10 · answer #4 · answered by Firefox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Today is tomorrow, today is yesterday, tomorrow is today. So actually it never exists. It is ever changing. I took pictures of my family yesterday but now it is 5 weeks later. Time is a concept that is only in man's mind to keep things arranged into perspectives. Still they get out of focus.
2006-08-10 13:57:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this was the first day of my life, how would I know everything I have learnt so far? For example, I didn't learn today how to write and read, I already had that capacity when I woke up this morning. So, if this were the first day of my life, I wouldn't be able to understand your message, or to answer it, for that matter.
BTW, that was a beautiful question!
2006-08-10 13:50:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well let me pose a question to you.
What is the difference between something that exists only in my mind and something that exists in "reality"
If I have memory of yesterday, isn't the question of whether or not it actually existed purely academic?
2006-08-10 13:46:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
good question. all you ever really know you have is the present! the past may not really have existed, the future may not happen. of course we know yesterday really DID happen and that tomorrow will come too, but for right now just enjoy your present state - it's all you truly have
2006-08-10 13:48:23 · answer #8 · answered by free thinker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great thinking question. Ask Stephen Hawkings.
2006-08-10 13:43:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wooooh dude you like just totally blew my mind, man. Woooh.
Stay off the acid.
2006-08-10 13:43:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋