2006-11-08 10:36:56 · 27 answers · asked by Conspicuously Inconspicuous 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If you think so, or think not, please state why.
As for the stupid/unecessary answer from kerryleigh, consider yourself reported.
2006-11-08 10:43:31 · update #1
I revolve around time. I am too aware of time limits and age and wish I would just live in the moment.
2006-11-08 10:38:42 · answer #1 · answered by Laughing Libra 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None revolves around the other. Time is man made. We created time - seconds, minutes and hours,clocks and wristwatches. It serves as a standard for measurement. We could say that we exist in space and time. But not that either revolves around the other. We describe places, events and people with the aid of time and space.
2006-11-09 03:26:02 · answer #2 · answered by violeo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You assume time revolves, all evidence to date suggests that it is either straight line or completely random with no shape at all. Since we can't actually see it move, if it is random then we definitely revolve around it. Technically, even if it is straight line we can't change it at all, so at least for the moment we still revolve around it (meaning we have to adjust to it rather than make it adjust to us). Maybe in the future we'll develop a way to either change our place in time, change time's direction, or move to an alternate reality in which time did some various thing from our own reality (assuming these things are possible). But for right now, time owns us and not the other way around.
2006-11-08 18:42:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Neither revolves around the other. If time was based on a life span? Time will out live every single one of us. So therefor, I do agree, that time stand still, it does not revolve, it evolves itself to new life and starts the process all over again, until one life dies.
2006-11-08 19:18:40 · answer #4 · answered by Smahteepanties 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's kinda easy. We revolve around time because it is a universal, immutable - albeit indefinable - construct. The evidence for this is that were time *ever* to be manipulable (thereby revolving around us), then time travel is/will be possible. If this is so, then human nature dictates one of two things - either we would have an awareness of it because future humanity make contact in some way with present humanity, which would not be subtle and therefore has not occurred; or future humanity is actively engaged in manipulating us subtly towards becoming them, thereby showing themselves to be ultimately and utterly subject to the whim of time. So, either we have time travel on time's terms and therefore we revolve around time, or we have no time travel and therefore we revolve around time. I mean, it's not rocket science.
2006-11-08 18:55:07 · answer #5 · answered by johninmelb 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We exist in time, but time doesn't revolve, and neither do we.
Time started when God created it, and will end when He ends it.
Time is sequential, doesn't revolve but continues going in a straight line, as do our lives. We are occupying very tiny segments of the timeline, from the time of our birth til our death.
but God will one day stop Time and usher in Eternity. At that point, every one of us will be in either Heaven or Hell forever, based on what we did with the message proclaimed by Jesus Christ.
2006-11-08 18:53:36 · answer #6 · answered by Wayne A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no revolving it is more like being intertwined. Time and space (people representing space) are constantly together. The new string therories that scientists are examining give a good idea about our environment, including time, space and dimension. Time literally filters through you, that is why we age. What time represents I mean, molecules such as free radicals pass through you and as "time" passes more of these radicals age you. Time really is just a measurement by humans.
2006-11-08 18:45:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that it would be neither. Time does not revolve... actually. It is just a vehicle or barometer.
“A little help at the right time is better than a lot of help at the wrong time.”
2006-11-08 19:01:51 · answer #8 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have two theories
The first is that time does not exist it is just a man made tool for logging events and administrating our routines
The second is that if it does exist, it stands still and we pass through it and that is why if you miss some thing you can not go back to it you can only redo it in the future
2006-11-08 18:41:47 · answer #9 · answered by philipscottbrooks 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
According to laws of Relativity, time is relative to our speed. So time is not a constant and is different for everyone. Therefore, I say it revolves around us.
I answered this with physics not philosophy :)
2006-11-08 18:39:19 · answer #10 · answered by ecogrl23 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋