What are your thoughts on the subject of Time? Can you draw a horizontal timeline or is Time seen as circular and will repeat itself? ( Or any other thoughts?) Does your religion influence these beleifs? If so, please state your religion.
2007-08-15 18:51:47 · 14 answers · asked by Moonlit Hemlock 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As a matter of fact it does. Time is a series of causes and effects. The only part of time that is fixed is the past. It cannot be changed. The present is in a constant state of flux, each moment influenced by the one before. The future does not exist beyond the understanding of what the result of a particular course of action should be or might be. The future is not fixed. It it determined by our present reactions to past events. Time is not linear, nor is it circular. Time is a web of interconnected events all branching out into other events. That is the essence of WYRD and ORLOG the twinned concepts of action and reaction as understood in the Asatru religion.
2007-08-15 19:01:27 · answer #1 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can give you a bit of info about Elders....not religious. I can remember as a child that the time spent in school seemed to be so long. Halloween (Samhain) and Christmas crept up like an old man with a cane. Now, as an Elder the years seem to go by at some Mach number.
On meditation; sometimes hours are but minutes and sometimes minutes are like hours.
With some spells, the only way I can explain time is that it is jagged.
2007-08-16 02:02:40 · answer #2 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am Christian, and more acutely, Lutheran (and even more acutely, LCMS).
I believe time is like a line segment. Einstein did some work to prove that time is relative to the earth, and I believe that time began when the world was created, and will end when the world is destroyed. (My faith believes that this "old heaven and old earth will pass away" and that there will be "a new heaven and a new earth" where God dwells with his people.)
I believe that my God has the ability to travel anywhere on that line segment at will. He can move back to the beginning of time, move forward to the end of time, and anywhere in between. He, therefore, is aware of everything that will transpire from the start to the end of time. He has already experienced every point on that line segment, unlike us humans, who have to follow the segment in chronological order.
It's definitely linear to me and yes, my Christian beliefs influence that to a great degree.
2007-08-16 09:20:37 · answer #3 · answered by Scotty Doesnt Know 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is man's earthly time which is governed by the sun and moon and tides and so forth. We have day-night. Full moon to crescent. Sunrise, sunset.
Then there is God's time. I believe it is much different. The 7 days of creation I think were over a very long time in human years. Jesus told us He would be back soon, yet we wait and wait. It is a different time.
2007-08-16 01:57:59 · answer #4 · answered by winkcat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science and Religion is wrestling with the concept of time for millenia.
The original language of the Bible indicates some interesting things about time that are not clear in translations. For one, we are "moving" through time. Time does not "pass" us by.
Also, time is created - not an eternal state; and it was created in the same point and order as space. This is only recently understood by science; but was revealed at the beginning in the Bible.
Further, the Bible also gives clues that are radical in their implication about time. Science is only beginning to catch up to the ancient revelation.
I don't believe in Religion; I believe in God and his savior.
2007-08-16 01:59:54 · answer #5 · answered by TEK 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christian. Time is ours to use the best we can, in our short time here on Earth. Good or bad times, we have free will and dealing with all that comes along may be preparing us for a life of eternity in Heaven.
2007-08-16 02:01:00 · answer #6 · answered by Brandy B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, profoundly.
I'm a Norse Reconstructionist Heathen, and one of the things I try to *reconstruct* is the worldview of my pre-xian ancestors---including their view of time.
In the modern world, outside particle physics labs and philosophy classrooms, time is seen as tripartite (past, present, future), linear, and *directional* . . . people see themselves as IN the present, striding FROM the past TOWARD the future.
Ancient heathens, metaphorically speaking, faced the *other way* . . . saw themselves as facing the past, and from their connections to it, weaving the present together. People gained maegn (spiritual force) through the length and breadth of their genealogies, and objects gained power through their histories . . . Tolkien borrows this idea in LOTR; the action in Beowulf depends upon it in its original form. It's something I consciously work to achieve and dwell within.
On yet another level, the Norse mythos is based in circular time, and much misunderstanding---in particular with regards to Ragnarok---has arisen from modern attempts to impose tripartite, linear time signatures upon it. Heathenry understands that our stories, including Ragnarok, HAVE happened, WILL happen, and ARE happening . . . all the time. :-)
2007-08-16 10:09:36 · answer #7 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My history classes influenced how I understand the pattern of time.
Am currently without religion.
2007-08-16 01:55:28 · answer #8 · answered by csucdartgirl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christian. Time is imminent. The harpazo could happen at any moment and I would step into eternity. Therefore, I must live as if each day could be the last day of time, yet plan for a life time.
2007-08-16 01:56:31 · answer #9 · answered by wassupmang 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
According to space dragging time is a physical thing that is flexible. I.e., there are closed time loops that result in traveling back into the past.
2007-08-16 01:58:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋