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Thanks for compliementing on my Avatar picture. The black and white yin-yang is the traditional symbol for Taoism. When Buddhism merged with Taoism to create Zen Buddhism, the Buddhist symbol of the red and black yin-yang was chosen to represent their faith. Mine is actually older, but the two are actual the same when you get all technical with it.
2007-11-21 19:23:51 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dang, I always forget about me e-mail button thingy.
2007-11-21 19:32:34 · update #1
e-mail is on and working.
2007-11-21 19:33:15 · update #2
All of time is right there, all around us all of the "time". It's just our consciousness which is trapped in the now.
Imagine viewing your surroundings through a tiny, tiny window. You can only see a very narrow vertical slice of your environment. Then imagine the view if you slowly moved that tiny window in one direction and kept going. That's what time is like. All of it is there around us but we can only see a tiny part of it at a time.
I don't know if this is true but it appeals to me a lot. :D
2007-11-21 23:41:59 · answer #1 · answered by SolarFlare 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its relatively person-friendly to establish the way it must be cyclical. understand the increasing and contracting forces of nature, as you may that of breath, heart beat. Its something a 5 twelve months previous ought to do. If there is an increasing singularity and contracting singularities, does not that create a cyclical action? the massive Bang is merely one sort of the beginning place of the universe. we've so a ways long gone previous it, and different fashions are in many circumstances aired on television and can be discovered easily on the internet.
2016-12-16 15:56:46 · answer #2 · answered by carcieri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is cyclical. With an expanding universe it is possible that eventually the universe begins to contract, falling back into itself, all dimensions being compacted together until they were so dense that finally another big bang would happen. In said scenario the universe would begin to expand once again, with all dimensions expanding.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/new_universe_020425.html
Personally I think that it is possible that time is not endless, that it is finite like the other dimensions width, length, and height. So it is linear in a sense that it starts at one point and ends at another, yet cyclical in that it keeps going from that one point to the other. In quantum physics, if I'm not mistaken, it is possible for an object to take different routes to the same destination simultaneously.
2007-11-21 21:07:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that time is spirular (well, in a spiral).
It started in the middle of the spiral, and it's going around and around and outwards forever getting bigger and bigger and swirlier and...
Anyway, time is a spiral. But it's not one of those neat spirals where every ring is the same distance from the last - some are really close and some are really far apart.
Time is an irregular spiral.
2007-11-21 19:34:49 · answer #4 · answered by hiddenstar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Linear in our universe. Cyclical time I don't think really makes much sense in the practical application of time.
Dude, I was kidding about the YoYo... open your email so we don't have to have these conversations on open forum like this!
2007-11-21 19:31:11 · answer #5 · answered by SDW 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Within an iteration of The Infinite, time is linear. With every cycle of The Infinite, the existence of time is redefined, making it cyclical.
Hope that helps.
EDIT: Thumbs down for an opinion - I'll drink to that!
2007-11-21 19:33:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Westerners tend to look at time as linear. So they are obssessed with progress and development.
Orientals understand time as cyclical. So they are more patient, in harmony with nature.
2007-11-21 19:30:43 · answer #7 · answered by Averell A 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Linear, in that it moves forward.
Time is a construct that enables us to have experiences sequentially rather than all at once.
Read "Slaughterhouse five" by Kurt Vonnegut.
2007-11-21 19:30:44 · answer #8 · answered by djb 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isn't so-called cyclical time actually linear time measured in circles? There's only t i m e.
2007-11-23 18:46:22 · answer #9 · answered by aidus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is what you make of it!
Most importantly time is "Precious"!
A humans time has its limits, guard it well, and waste it not!
A "True Human Being" understands that time exists where shadows exist. If there is only Light there is no such thing as time!
"Enlightenment" might possibly be misunderstood.........
2007-11-21 19:55:54 · answer #10 · answered by WillRogerswannabe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋