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"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once." John Wheeler, Physicist
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to me, time is a thread that runs through us all & connects us in (physical) space. as if we are all floating around in the universe, & time is the web that keeps us relevant, static.
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just as we are all Divine, just as we are each in individuation of god (or the Cosmic All or whatever name you care to put to it), each moment is an individuation of the Eternal Now. All moments are happening at once, and time is the construct we have created in order to help our brains make sense of this.
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just as we are all Divine, just as we are each in individuation of god (or the Cosmic All or whatever name you care to put to it), each moment is an individuation of the Eternal Now. All moments are happening at once, and time is the construct we have created in order to help our brains make sense of this.
In this sense, time is an illusion. We tend to think of time as a stream, where there is an A which leads to B and C and so on. I believe time is actually like a stack with each moment happening on top of and under other moments. Where we are in the stack is where we CHOOSE to be. We can make the choice of where to be on the stream and don't have to be victims of time's progression.
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The Hopi have a good idea about this, though their language expresses it better: animals are 'animaling', humans are 'humaning', etc., and once you get that idea down you can get into the idea of those things doing specific activities, such as 'praying.' Time is all these things doing them together.
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Time is a bunch of bullshit. It is necessary because of the complex system of living that most sociaties have created and continually accept to live by. I think the length of life is judged by events that happen to a person or society. People do not need time even in business. Take this for example. I work at a pizza shop. We close at 10pm most nights. why, because thats when business slows. No one needs a clock to tell you when to close. If we had no time devices, people would still get tired at the same point in the day, and business would still end at the same point in the day. F time!
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I imagine time as a circle, a cycle. But it's more complex than that because everything happens at once, we only perceive our part of the dimension that is time, it's all wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.
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ther in the material universe. It takes time to get from point to point. But in the Realm of the Spirit, it is different.
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ther in the material universe. It takes time to get from point to point. But in the Realm of the Spirit, it is different.
'Abdu'l-Bahá said: "In the next world, man will find himself freed from many of the disabilities under which he now suffers. Those who have passed on through death, have a sphere of their own. It is not removed from ours; their work, the work of the Kingdom, is ours; but it is sanctified from what we call ‘time and place.’ Time with us is measured by the sun. When there is no more sunrise, and no more sunset, that kind of time does not exist for man. Those who have ascended have different attributes from those who are still on earth, yet there is no real separation.” ~ ‘Abdu'l-Bahá in London, pg. 96
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Unknown start. Unknown finish. The only known is that it cannot be altered by man.
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Jesus, i reread what i just posted and even I can't make sense of it
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Jesus, i reread what i just posted and even I can't make sense of it
I HAVE BEEN DRINKING
just to let you know.
Anyway.
So yeah, to me, time is like the ocean, and the ocean is like the universe, in that everything is suspended in it. Things are held in time.
f*ck
I really had this figured out, exactly what I was going to say, in my head, and it made so much motherfuckin sense.
But I forgot.
btw I included that motherfuckin because swearwords amuse me. Apparently I "Will Never Make It" if I use swear words (according to some as*hole who has never met me and spoke to me once, briefly, on the telephone), but you know what?
I think that p***y will never make it either. Maybe his public persona will, but he won't. Therefore, I win. Even if neither me nor my public persona (:shameface: yes I hate it but I have one too) ever make it. I still feel like I win.
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What I meant by the ocean was, when I consciously tried to think about what time is (as opposed to my automatic/visual response to the question), I thought of how things that happen are suspended in something, like things that exist are suspended in something. Hence, the ocean. Everything in it is suspended by something, to ocean creatures, water is air, and we can hardly imagine that, likely because we're on the opposite end of the same thing. To them, air is like water is to us.
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What I meant by the ocean was, when I consciously tried to think about what time is (as opposed to my automatic/visual response to the question), I thought of how things that happen are suspended in something, like things that exist are suspended in something. Hence, the ocean. Everything in it is suspended by something, to ocean creatures, water is air, and we can hardly imagine that, likely because we're on the opposite end of the same thing. To them, air is like water is to us.
It's two sides of the same coin, I guess is what I'm getting at. Like, time is full of everything, everything that ever was a thing had to be a thing in time. You can't be a thing outside of time (as far as I know, but I'm wrong a lot).
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goddamn it
okay, next time I come back to this question, this answer is getting finished. Seriously.
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I don't relate to "time," as in tick tock, clock time. That's a totally synthetic creation to me, and apart from respecting other peoples' need for it, I don't pay much attention to it at all. I'm a nature rhythm person, and for that I have a different relationship to time than most. I find it very elastic, expanding and compressing. Timing is more relevant to me, seasons, cycles... that intersect and overlap each other--in an M-Theory sort of way. Ie, there is no past, no present, no future. Most people see time as a straight line. I don't. All of times is occurring in whatever now is, jumbled up like a ball of yarn.
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