If something is outside of time, doesn't that mean it has to also be perfectly still and not change at all?

Question

It is very hard for me to comprehend the concept of no time.

Answer 1

If something was "outside of time," then no time would pass in which it could move or change. Only through motion and in time can any event take place.

Damn, come on, that was deep...can a brother get a thumb?

Answer 2

Here's my best explanation. Time is a measurement, like the standard three dimentions. We, as four-dimentional beings, can measure it, but can only perceive the point at which we are.

If I were a stick man that jumped off a piece of paper and stood up on a table, I would be able to perceive movementt from left to right on the table, and movement up and down, but not movement from front to back. I have no depth perception.

Now throw a ball at me. I don't see a ball. What I see is a dot at the point the ball interacts with my area of perception. As you watch the ball go past me, what I see is the dot grow larger, then smaller, then disappear as it exits my area of perception.

With us, time is like the ball. We don't perceive anything but the point of interaction, which we refer to as the Moment. We can peceive anything that interacts with us at that point, but that is our limit. It is, for all practical purposes, as impossible for us to measure anything outside the moment as it is for the stick man to see the ball coming from a distance.

That is just about the best I can do. I hope I was able to communicate my idea effectively.

Answer 3

Relating time to a dimension is not an easy concept and is generally used in conjunction with the theories of special relativity and general relativity. (See Einstein's theories.)

The only way I can give an example is, you can view, work with and manipulate 1, 2 and 3 dimensional objects while existing if 4 dimensions. Therefore, it would be logical to assume that a being that exists in the Nth dimension would be able to view, work with and manipulate anything in a lesser dimension (N-x) but not in it's own or higher dimensions (N or N+x). (We cannot manipulate time ourselves.)

Hope that helps.

Wiki has a good article on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time

Answer 4

It's very hard for me to comprehend anything at all

*hiccup*

Answer 5

Anything that is "outside of space and time" (usually they couple the two) is pretty much defined out of existence the way I see it.

Answer 6

That is correct. Time is a measure of change, if you will. No time = no change, no motion, no action or activity at all.

Answer 7

If everything has a source and god is that source, then god must have existed without it before he created it. So if god created time and space, he must live outside of time and space. Thus he is non-existent. If all life must come from something and that is god, god is not alive and hence non-existent. If moral must come from god, god lacks moral. If logic comes from god, god is illogic. If nature comes from god, god is unnatural. If existence comes from god, god is non-existent. If god is the cause of everything, god is void.

Answer 8

Hold this thought, I shall provide you with an answer, it is as you said quite complex...need to gather thoughts...hahah.

*runs away to begin contemplation and get his philosophy notes out*

Answer 9

At the speed of light, you will experience no time, but you will be moving. (Of course, matter cannot be accelerated to the speed of light.)

Answer 10

Fortunately for Christians God is automatically exempt from all logic by the virtue of "He just is"