Time

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by Jocariah, Jan 23, 2014.

  1. Jocariah Registered Senior Member

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    "Time has it's own way of distilling all things to their essence - and to washing away if no substance exists. Only time."


    Our problem (if one were to choose to call it that) is that our time - our experience here, in this theater of operation, this physicality we call the human experience - is limited. As we begin to see, to get our bearings, our sense of existence, we enter that downward slope to our mortality. We exist on this treadmill, doing this finely tuned and balanced dance which we do all throughout our lives, and end up being jettisoned from the very treadmill we've been on since birth. In essence, for us its the treadmill or nothing - we're all on it. We're all programmed to operate on it - continually, day-by-day, marching along to the beat of its incessant rhythm, like dancing bears. Dancing bears not knowing why they're dancing, but endlessly dancing along.

    Seeing things over time should add balance and foresight to our experience. We should begin to see. But only as we amass the experience, this experience, this individually personal experience over time. But seeing brings about no answers.

    So then, simultaneously, as we amass any foresight to our experience, we slowly begin wither and perish (if we are lucky enough to live long enough)... it is for certain then, that we ever so gradually live out and complete our built-in obsolescence - our disposability. We are disposable creatures, after all.

    It would be funny, hilarious, if it weren't so personally (so individually) dramatic.

    At any rate - what we really are, what we really exist as, are biological machines.

    We are nothing more that disposable, biologically-based machines sequestered on this planet they call earth.

    Hilarious!


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  3. scheherazade Northern Horse Whisperer Valued Senior Member

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    Hello Jocariah,

    I see on your profile page that you give your age as 105. That is nothing short of amazing! You must have a rather rare perspective on the passing of time as experienced over the passing of 105 years.
    All life is temporal but the disturbing fact for our species is that we tend to ponder upon our awareness of this reality and waste much of our time and energy on searching for a reason for our own personal existence.
    Does time even exist or is it just a human construct to assist us in orienting ourselves along the journey?
     
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  5. Jocariah Registered Senior Member

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    Yeah, that's the question, isn't it?

    My body can answer that - it does exist, and continues to take it's toll.

    There is no journey - that concept is part of the delusion that we are feed, on so many levels or layers.

    We are programmed machines. Programmed with concepts (which we think we have a say in choosing) that keep us going 'round 'n 'round like dancing bears.

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  7. Trooper Secular Sanity Valued Senior Member

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    It does exist. Time is an integral part of the universe. If it wasn't, the Second Law of Thermodynamics would be meaningless.
     
  8. Trooper Secular Sanity Valued Senior Member

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    "The person old in days won't hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live."

    Yes, it is hilarious, isn't it?

    Evolutionary puppets on a strings; yep...fun-fun!

    Are you here to file a formal complaint or simply making an observation?

    A gracious grievance, perhaps?
     
  9. Arne Saknussemm trying to figure it all out Valued Senior Member

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    For me the paradox of time is that the minutes and hours go by so slowly while the months and years flash by. And while Jocariah is well spoken , his lament, if it is one, was stated more eloquently by our old pal Will Shakespeare:

     
  10. Mathers2013 Banned Banned

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    lol@105 years old.

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  11. kx000 Valued Senior Member

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    I've felt time move by, saw it too.
     
  12. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    Time is indeed the janitor of the universe, cleaning away the remains of the dead, the senescent, and the obsolete. But time is doing something else as well. It is creatively inserting novelty into the pageant of manifold being. There are lots more things in the universe than there was 12 billion years ago. If time was just all about decay and death, this would not be the case. Even as time steals away our youth like a deft magician, inwardly we are accumulating a consciousness of the new and the original. Life surges ever anew in fresh crystalline jets of exuberant awareness. There is meaning in our being here, and that meaning is found in the effervescent spontaneity of being itself.

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  13. kx000 Valued Senior Member

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    Does time exist more than inside our mind and the sun. Like as a entity.
     
  14. Arne Saknussemm trying to figure it all out Valued Senior Member

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    Whoa! No wonder you are called Magical Realist! Posh hats off to you. matey! :bravo:
     
  15. Arne Saknussemm trying to figure it all out Valued Senior Member

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    :wtf:
    I have no idea what you are trying to say...
     
  16. Mathers2013 Banned Banned

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    Time was created, though I have trouble understanding HOW the creator know exactly what he meant by thinking "create time." One cannot go back in time if time first does not exist: you have to go there in order to return...

    As for time being an entity I believe the formula follows the Fibonacci sequence:

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    for a=1 to 100
    
    for b=1 to a
    
    print b/a
    
    next b
    
    next a
    
    
    ...It never repeats: (i.e. where there is a result during the first half of the process, there will be a lack of result in the corresponding place in the second half.) A graph of the equation looks quite pretty, a little bit like a finger print.

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  17. Mathers2013 Banned Banned

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    Correction: the formula should read (b/a)*100
     
  18. river

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    The concept of time has a way of limiting our Human existence

    Hence the fight against this concept
     
  19. Russ_Watters Not a Trump supporter... Valued Senior Member

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    The laws of the universe are what they are. They don't care if you like them and you cannot fight them.
     
  20. Uncle Pythagoras Banned Banned

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    Time is a cyclic movement like spin, nothing more. It is quantized, and has no arrow. That's why most changes spin. The Earth spins, the Sun spins, the Galaxy spins. No arrow.. spin... cyclic.
     
  21. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
    Bil Keane


    Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
    Michael LeBoeuf


    Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
    William Penn


    It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
    Elizabeth Taylor



    Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
    Faith Baldwin


    Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
    Jonathan Carroll
     
  22. kmguru Staff Member

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    I think, time is an integral part of the Universe for Matter and the 3D space. Go up to the spirit world, (perhaps another dimension) time stops or rather is infinite...but the spirit world needs physical world as God intended...and hence the time...for us...
     
  23. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    Exactly!
     

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