Do we go through time or it flows through us?

Question

If time flows through us, then we have control of what happens in our livfe and therefore can change the future through the present.

If we go through time then we have no control over what becomes of our present, therefore we cannot change our future ( it is predertimned),.

Answer 1

We don't go through time. Time doesn't go through us. Time is like an ever-flowing river and we have the choice to either stand in the stream or swim with or against it.
We exist alongside time, not because of it or despite it.
Time is the flow of the energy that cannot be created or destroyed and we experience it as just that. This is why time seems to go faster or slower according to what we are doing.

Answer 2

Let us first define what time is. Time is the general idea, relation or fact of continuous or successive existence. It may also be defined as an indefinite duration or its measure. Therefore in your own question it does the same way. We go through the time and it flows through us. Remember that time denotes that something is conceived as enduring while the events take place and acts are done. According to the necessary conditions of human thought, events are contained in time as objects are in space, time existing before the event , measuring it as it passes , and still existing when the event is past. Time is commonly contrasted with eternity.

Answer 3

"If time flows through us, then we have control of what happens in our livfe and therefore can change the future through the present."

why? i don't understand this claim at all. could you explain?

Answer 4

Time doesnt really exist as it is a human concept. Birds migrate according to season, but this is through weather patterns not because they looked on a callendar. Its part of the reason why infinite is such a difficult notion to us! However most aspects of the present can be controlled to influence, if not excactly determine, future events. Nobody has absolute control over their future as Murphy's Law will always intervene somewhere!!

Answer 5

It seems it is purely dependant on what school of thought you derive your basis from. Whether it be Newtonian realist or more along the lines of Julian Barbour where quantum equations of the universe take their true form when expressed in the timeless configuration space realm containing every possible "Now" or momentary configuration of the universe.

If time is defined as decay, then do we pass through it ? Or is it more likely that time is purely theoretical assuming our state, ie. a Solid, liquid and gas. Interesting question, one I've had fun looking at, thank you.

Answer 6

We have all the control. Only sometimes it is hard to escape our environment and our nature to change paths for the betterment of ones self. As an excuse for our shortcomings we use the illusion of not being in control of our present and future.

The only thing we can not change is our past. At some point people need to stop blaming their past for present failures and take responsibility for ones own life.

Answer 7

Yes we grow through time. And sometimes or most of the time we are dependent on it. Time measures our lives and we are always asking what will happens next.

We all get the feeling, at times, that there's just more to life. Whether we've accomplished everything we've accomplished, or didn't accomplished what we would have hoped to and wishing we would have done things different. We all feel at some point that there has to be more.

Answer 8

Without time, nothing would change ... or flow. But I think that we float along in time as it flows, like tubing in a river. There is no hierarchy. It just pushes us forward and we note its existence.

To extend the metaphor, it we have some control of where we go and how we get there ... but we can't go upstream and we can't climb onshore either. It's vector, but it's not predeterminism.

Answer 9

The future might be predetermined but our knowledge about the future is never accurate. We know, for instance, what will happen, if we drop something made of glass on the floor, it will break. This is reason that we handle everything made of glass with care, because we anticipate damage. But when we see someone dropping something made of glass we can accurately predict what will happen in the next moment. But in the general nature of all things in the world there are unlimited things happening all at the same time, and our knowledge, that is the only knowledge known to us, can only deal with the limited, or what can be calculated, defined, and known in words and numbers. If we see a circular foundations being laid for a building we can predict that it is going to be a circular building, but this is what we see is most probable. In order to predict the future fully accurately, we would need absolute knowledge of everything to predict what is going to happen in the next moment.

Time is not what makes things happen in the world, but time is a characteristic of all things in creation, time is a creation itself. Time does not run through things, and neither do things run though time. Time is what we sense when we observe things around us changing variously in their appearance. Every thing in this universe for us is like a clock that we use to induce our sense of time: a tree, for instance, grown and we realise that time is passing, our heart beats and we feel time passing, we breath, eat, walk move and we sense that time is lapsing, things grow, develop, rust, decay and change in front of our eyes to give us an inescapable sense of time, we feel as if we are immersed into an ocean of time, but time is just what we see when energy in everything make them change in their shapes and forms.

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Answer 10

Time is like an old record; every moment is already there, we are as the kneedle paying attention to each moment at a time as it moves past us. However, if you understand Heisenberg and the latest two slot experiment and if you have a grasp of quantum mechanics... it gets much more complicated.