What is faster than the speed of thought?
2007-03-14 17:59:12 · 29 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Leuroth: I don't know.
Demopublican: help me define it.
2007-03-14 18:13:13 · update #1
Cosmicdrifter: hmm, I heard that truth was elusive, is it too fast for thought to catch?
2007-03-14 18:50:21 · update #2
Allman: you're welcome.
2007-03-16 12:33:30 · update #3
Allman: yes, our friends have offered many insights.
2007-03-16 12:41:18 · update #4
I like the idea that the speed of intention might be faster than the speed of thought. After all, intention is shaped by conditioned responses to stimuli; ever notice how someone is quick to take offense at a comment that might not have been meant the way the person took it? That is because that person hears you saying something that has been said in his or her mind already. The response is coming from within that person from a stimulus initiated by your words but already written in as a sort of batch program that automatically fires when the first syllable that strikes recognition is spoken. Thus, this isn't really thought, but reaction through conditioned "intent" or shall we call this the "knee jerk" response? It is all too common. It is easier and faster NOT to think.
On another note, this is also the reason that martial artists train continuously, so that when a crisis situation arises, the signs are seen quickly, igniting the batch program that one has perfected through training and bettering the odds that he or she will come out of a deadly encounter alive. It might appear to be "no mind," or a highly evolved form of "knee jerk response. " Just think of how this could be applied to someone with phenomenal observational abilities coupled with great developed discernment. That person would seem almost psychic.
2007-03-16 17:25:35 · answer #1 · answered by Black Dog 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well then, we would need to consider how we might give a thought velocity? Thoughts are woven into the nature of "all that is" and either live or perish in the mind depending on how much truth is in them. For example a thought that contains only truth is connected to all other truths by its very nature...
Consequently upon entering the mind it will pull together (shall we say enlighten) many aspects of life when one hears it who contains knowledge of other truths. So its speed of connection is directly related to the quantity of truth in it. A thought that has no truth will not connect with truth and will gather no speed.
BUT then it all depends on how the mind has been programed. There are many many thoughts that have infinite speed in the minds of people who believe they know.
I have only to think my thoughts.... when I want to, other times I just listen.
this is truly an expansion question! thank you Sunman
our Friends have given most excellent answers!
2007-03-14 19:33:51 · answer #2 · answered by James 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
That which was before time, distinguished from relativity.
Peace! x
Well that's my take on it anyway...
hey that distance=velocity +time is experiential measurement , not material. Interesting to play with. It isn't faster except by concept which is thought. Still having the experience then remembering is different from having the idea transferred to you symbolically then having to relate it to your own experiences creating a mock landscape of the thing. This is not what is faster than the speed of thought it is a thought!
Just for arguments sake, I am going to add to these emerging stepping stones here! 'Intuition', is faster than thought . When allowed it's liberty, it manifests action or guidance without thinking. You could argue it is a form of thinking but I would say from its imediacy it is knowledge that bipasses the act of thinking. The subconscious act of thinking? Perhaps, but I believe that there is more to it than that.
I digress to my first remark which I am rather fond of.
2007-03-15 04:37:55 · answer #3 · answered by Jamie 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-30 22:55:35 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth. The container of thought. The container of everything, that is not contained in anything. Or maybe we can call it awareness, it was there before the thought started and was already there when the thought stopped.........Truth is all inclusive it contains thought, but thought can not contain all of truth. Thoughts are bound by truth, but truth is not bound by thoughts, this is why religion fails truth. Religion as "thought" of by most is based on past and hope of the future. However thoughts that are "enlightened" by truth point to the circle of truth that is enjoyed now. Past and future is based on time, time is "created" by unenlightened thought, to "Wonder" is to rescue the fallen Sophia [wisdom] that has fallen into time, transcend the seven steps and enter the circle of truth that is.......... Speaking of speaking, speak on.
2007-03-14 18:21:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
the speed of bad news
- seriously though : perhaps our intention travels faster than thought - from my memory of high school physics, there are particles called mesons and tachyons that can travel faster than the speed of light, which was said to be the universal speed limit - but this begs the question, where do intentions come from, do they exist before we are consciously (or even unconsciously) aware that they exist? -
2007-03-15 12:55:55 · answer #6 · answered by -skrowzdm- 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Vedas say God or Krishna is faster than mind from where thought originates.
2007-03-14 18:21:45 · answer #7 · answered by Gaura 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
. . . Stillness . . .
Since time does not really exist...time is merely experienced as we live these precious human experiences. Yet, that nothingness of stillness is actually very, very, " fast " as we would conceive it in the sense of " speed " or " time ".
Stillness has 'energy' to it. Stillness is " faster " than thought.
Being in the Now...experiencing stillness if very powerful...very real...and, 'fast'.
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2007-03-17 18:57:25 · answer #8 · answered by onelight 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The twinkling of an eye.
By the way, that is exactly how long it will take Jesus to return and retrieve His Bride.
2007-03-14 18:08:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word speed suggests time, and of course time is part of the illusion. As far as thoughts, I have none, except in my dream...
2007-03-15 01:01:45 · answer #10 · answered by cosmicaware1 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋