2007-07-30 15:36:54 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i don't have an answer
but i do like your question
very nice
it got me thinking
you know i think either im insane
or the rest of the world is
and from where im sitting
it looks like they are
this too seems like another conspiracy
you are right that every thing seems to occur in cycles
and waves
but we are instead sold notions of "progress"
and always seem to be focused on some end result
when that's foolishness
because there are just a series of moments
which don't require a reward later
to make them have value
are we enslaved by our clocks and calendars?
at least the clocks are cyclical
the biggest conspiracy it seems is thinking that we are born and we die
2007-07-30 15:43:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the short answer, is that general Jewish belief is only "relevant" within this cycle.
in fact some people speculate that the flood story, for example, is actually referring to the destruction of Atlantis(the conclusion of the previous cycle) described with a rather liberal creative liscense.
which, would actually make some sense if you belive in the cyclical concept.
but beyond that... theres really not much of any explicit concept beyond that. Reincarnation is within the scope of what Judaism allows for. at least by some inteperetations.
as far as I've heard Judaism in general, especially in explicit ways, would be seeing such theorys as being irrelevant, as it focuses, relatively speaking, on "this life" so stuff from an entirely previous cycle, is ENTIRELY detached from any relevance.
2007-07-30 22:51:19 · answer #2 · answered by RW 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure what you mean, but the bible outlines the water cycle perfectly, even though the writers had no idea about it. Does that help?
Actually, we do not know which direction time moves. This is because physical laws are time-symmetric: they work just as well forward in time as they do backward in time. Therefore we are not sure which direction time is moving in our universe. Are we moving forward? Or are we moving backward...
2007-07-30 22:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not see how time can be connected to a religion.... its a very complicated subject, my tutor at University was an expert in the philosophy of time, trust me it gets really weird.
2007-07-30 22:43:55 · answer #4 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We live in 4 dimensions. We move around, and time moves forward.
2007-07-30 22:41:35 · answer #5 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋