Have you ever meditated on the concept of time like St. Augustin?

Question

Now, that can make your head hurt. It's almost like trying to fathom the Trinity.

Answer 1

I don't need to meditate. I have a Timex.

Answer 2

Calmness...
"Time is relative and therefore time does not exist"?????

I can argue for or against what you might mean by this incomplete statement, and the arguments are different depending on whether you are standing on a physics podium or a philosophy podium (i.e.: argued 4 different ways)

And yet I wonder if you yourself have any idea what you said?

I've never read augustine's works. Does this statement refer to any of his findings?

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Answer 3

Augustine? Feh, Augustine's "The Confessions" was child's play compared to the Summa Theologicae. I should know... I've read both.

It's any wonder then I suppose that St. Thomas Aquinas was my confirmation patron saint? :)

Interestingly enough... it turns out... time... might not actually exist. So, so many things in physics turn out to work a LOT better if time as a factor is removed.

Answer 4

I have, but not like St. Augustine. I view time as we know it as a relative measurement used to separate the moments into quantifiable chunks. We are simply aware of our existence, and time keeping helps us measure the moments of our awareness and synchronize our measurements of awareness. That's what I've come to anyway... others may see things differently.

Answer 5

No but I have mediated on St. Agustine's concept that women are to blame for rape.

"Some most flagrant and wicked desires are allowed free play at present by the secret judgment of God . . . Moreover, it is possible that those Christian women, who are unconscious of any undue pride on account of their virtuous chastity, whereby they sinlessly suffered the violence of their captors, had yet some lurking infirmity which might have betrayed them into a proud and contemptuous bearing, had they not been subjected to the humiliation that befell them in the taking of the city... "

Answer 6

There is no time. Not in the traditional way. Time is a measurement. It cannot go backwards. It cannot speed up, our perception of it's speed can change, but the speed itself is constant.

Time is made up so we can organize ourselves around it.

This measure has been around for so long though that people have accustomed to the thought that time is a manipulatable, graspable, existing thing.

Answer 7

Yeah, I still can't wrap my head around time. Time has ALWAYS existed. It didn't need us to classify it in order to exist. Time is actually an abstract concept. We humans have trouble grasping the abstract.

Answer 8

No but Ill try it sometime.

Answer 9

I have. Then I realized how much of it I was wasting and did something else.

Answer 10

Time is relative therefore it does not exist.