2007-02-22 06:52:11 · 23 answers · asked by Atheist Eye Candy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hope this makes sense. I don't know how to explain.
2007-02-22 06:52:38 · update #1
I think You are talking about lineal time.
It doesn't really exist but our belief in it makes it seem to. Consequently the reality we create with our thoughts seems to be moving in a particular direction with what seems to have happened appearing to us as the past and what is going to happen seeming to be the future.
All of this is an illusion. there is in truth only one moment and we call it now for want of a better name. This moment that we call now is all that is real.
This is actually quite easy to prove to your self.
Touch your index fingers together last Tuesday . Go ahead do it.
Difficult isn't it.
Now touch them together next Wednesday. Still a problem isn't it.
Now touch them together right now.
That works a lot better.
Even if you actually waited till Wednesday you would still touch them together at a moment you would properly call now.
Now is in truth the only moment that you will ever have. The past is just a memory. The future no more than an educated guess.
Love and blessings Don
2007-02-22 07:15:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I put a 20" piece of string with a bead on it in front of you. This represents a line with a point on it. Over 5 seconds, I move th bead 10 inches to the right, then over the next 5 seconds, I move the bead 10 inches to the left.
Let's say that one second = 1 inch.
I can now re-represent this by a rectangle 20" wide by 10" high, with a 'curve' that moves from the bottom center, to the right center, to the top center.
Which is the truth -- the dynamic version or the static version? Or is it accurate to say they both are true, one from the internal point of view and one from the external point of view?
From the external point of view, time does not flow. It all exists, all at once, unchanging. Internally, time does flow, and we see small frames of it passing 'moment' by moment.
It would be more correct to say that the flow of time is an illusion.
2007-02-22 14:58:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our "growing old" is literally just a matter of biological cycles in the body. We already have about 90% of the technology and the knowledge to slow and/or halt this entirely. Give it another 5 to 10 years before we hear that people will now live to 500 years old before dying of natural causes.
2007-02-22 14:56:36 · answer #3 · answered by MrKnowItAll 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time does exist and we grow old because time passes as we grow in life.
2007-02-22 15:03:30 · answer #4 · answered by Kyla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If time doesn't exist? Time exists on earth not in space. And we grow old because of body cells dying or not being repaired
2007-02-22 14:58:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time does exist for us. Just because time does not affect God as we understand time does not mean that time does not exist. In fact, time was an element to this life the God imposed because this is only a school ground for us. This life was never meant to be permanent.
2007-02-22 14:57:39 · answer #6 · answered by rbarc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who said time doesn't exist? Certainly after we die, if we love god and the Lord Jesus in this world, we enter into a "timeless" state where there is no growing old and wrinkled, no dying, no tears or suffering.
But for us now, down here on planet Earth, time certainly does exist!
god bless
2007-02-22 14:57:16 · answer #7 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand what you mean.
Time is a man made concept. It exists only as such - a concept. But, that does not stop our bodies from physcially breaking down over (insert man made concept here), as we do exist.
Did I make any sense to you?
2007-02-22 14:57:34 · answer #8 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is a concept. X moves from point A to B...we arbitrary say it took Y amound of time (like it means something).
Everything is a process (nothing is static). Time is totally our mental conception of rate of change - based upon memory of where it was.
Time, in and of itself, is therefore argued not to exist.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-02-22 15:05:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting....does time exist independently of an observer?
I don't know.
Changes certainly occur, and change is how we measure time. We've chosen seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc....but those are human constructs based on our world around us. Obviously, a day on Jupiter wouldn't equal a day on earth.
And, if relativity is correct, time is dependent upon your velocity.
oy....this makes my brain hurt!
2007-02-22 14:58:53 · answer #10 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋