Maybe the past is happening right now...Just like you don't see Mars for instance, but you know its there...The past could be happening...You think there is nothing existent but the present? Maybe time is simply the comparison of today and yesterday. Or we could be in the past right now and the future is actually the present! Is time an illusion? What are your thoughts on time?
2007-11-15 09:31:49 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Maybe we coexist in another dimension.
2007-11-15 09:36:00 · answer #1 · answered by peaches6 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Time cannot be defined. I think that time is something that people take for granted and I wonder where did this all come from. I mean, all our daily activities depend on time. Without it, we couldn't do anything.
The meanings of past and future are also vague. The only thing we know that exists for sure is the present. This very moment that we exist is the only thing we got. So, I guess this is our only way to define time.
But our definition of time, comes from our mind. So, what I believe is that time is something that comes from our thoughts and can only be connected with the present.
2007-11-16 11:35:16 · answer #2 · answered by ANNita 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think time and all terms we use to describe our definition of time is something that we have because it helps us (as a society) feel comfortable. Time exist in its boundaries and limitations ,however, the universe clearly shows that it is boundless and limitless. So to live in the world we live in today we need to define everything and categorize it into terms with limitations. Even the word "eternity" just means an amount of time that is incomprehensible to our brains (in my own personal definition) . We could be living in a lot of different "times" but realize what the word time means. Take away all the definitions and then suddenly more seems possible.....
2007-11-15 18:10:01 · answer #3 · answered by amandajeanus 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
As far as I am concerned, The past is what happened, the present is what is happening and the future is what will happen.
2007-11-16 11:11:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time, haha, wow, wondering about time is like wondering about God. I believe in both. They each have a back up to them. The Mayans somehow used astronomy to learn about time and created a mechanical calender. They don't think that time is like a river but as an ocean in a storm. When I think deeply about "time", thinking about alternative dimensions cross my mind. Maybe they are real as a past of ours. But then we would try to use time skips or time warps to the past or future. Which would lead to bad ideas.
My only opinion on time is that it is a big circle that good or bad causes may occur.
2007-11-15 18:29:52 · answer #5 · answered by traceur651 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
lol - i fink you will get sum erudite opinions here...still, maybe this is a way throuh 4 u? time is a dimension like up or down..if you 'sat' outside of time u could see alll the past and all the future and, of course, the past is every bit as real as the 'now' or the 'future' (every bit as real as left or right!)...time, and it's 'directionality' seems, from exhaustive reading, to be more about us as humans than it is about dimensionality itself. ask yorself this - how come i see time as uni-directional when i view all the other dimensions i am aware of as at least duo-directionaal?
the 'reality' of time maybe points you in the direction of other epistemologies -your logic is cool and accurate but stilll, your epistemology sux!! read Kuhn and Rowan's 'reality game' and see how they 'transect'..read anything you can find about buddhism and physics - (i think Tao and physics is the standard text but i forget the title, sorry) and |ALWAYS rememnber this(from NLP) the map is NOT the territory!!!
gl eagle
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2007-11-15 17:52:02 · answer #6 · answered by mlsgeorge 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This has crossed me mind...I thought about if the Vikings are still raiding Europe 900 years ago, for example. Even though it happened in the past, I wonder if it STILL happening in the past, kind of like a different dimension. Good Question
2007-11-15 17:36:25 · answer #7 · answered by mao ying 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
For a very demanding read on this subject, try Husserl's "Phenomenlogy of Internal Time Consciousness." I read it 30 years ago and no longer have questions about time perception.
2007-11-16 06:03:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time is a subjective measurement that has no real scientific or spiritual meaning. It is something that the caveman invented and we have been living by it ever since. Now we are controlled by time and it has hindered our progress as a human race.
2007-11-15 18:03:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time is everything, it's everywhere. In less time stopped in mid-motion, would we know about. I doubt it. It could be all illusion but than it may not be. I wouldn't be sitting on the computer answering/questioning this. lol. If it would be illusion, an its not. I'm actually here on yahoo answers! hehe :D
2007-11-15 17:40:22 · answer #10 · answered by butterfliez2002 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
time for me is about what is happening right now, what happened in the past is in the past and cannot be changed, you can just learn from the past that's it.
2007-11-15 17:36:56 · answer #11 · answered by Soda 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋