Time.... How do you define time?

a reply to: Bella1



Time is something we waste and suddenly realize there isn't much of it left.

The slow inevitable crush of lies and statistics and a promise of the sweet release of death.

a reply to: nugget1

Time is an illusion.

Lunchtime, doubly so.

a reply to: Bella1

Interchangeable

I really appreciate your candid and quite emotional, thought provoking replies.

I never realised that asking this question would bring to the surface the complex and fragile fears
that I live with each day, which also are with most of you too.

Fear seems to most prevalaint response here, and that has suprised me. I thought in the main, the discussion would be more theoretical regarding time and our purpose of being. But the conversation came round to what we feel and fear.

And I am sure glad I am not on my own with that.

Very interesting.

Oh and thanks for the avatar advice 'TerryMcGuirewill' try that.

originally posted by: Bella1
Do you ever stop to think about your 24 hour day and how you are spending your time?

How would you define time in your life?

Time is an invention of mankind. One can move one's emotion to side track this yet we live in a society dominated by mankind so how do we escape it? Through experimentation one can alter the pace of the invention called time. It's complicated really as a subject yet routine really is the fast lane and change will slow things down to living in your own time

Time is Momentum.

a reply to: beyondknowledge

Think bigger picture. Time requires witness. That does not mean that every single thing that ever happened anywhere must be witnessed or it didn't happen. It means that from an individual perspective time is nothing unless you witness its passing. Then it becomes something - memory, history, experience - however you choose to identify it.

originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: Thrumbo

It's interesting, the shift from the first half to the second half. I remember that. But then it was still full speed ahead as there was likely another forty in the future. Now, for me, of that forty there is only five left and things have changed again. Plans are very very different. I've got what I"ve got which means that plans are only short term as I will begone before long term plans can do anything. It's like planting a tree. I've planted trees on my place in the past. A couple of towering redwoods, a beautiful Blue Spruce along with some majestic willows. But now? Any sapling I might plant will still be a sapling once I"m gone.

I suppose I might still plant some for the next folk to live here, but why, they may just cut them down for firewood. Next door the old fella who lived there before I moved in had an apple orchard with about five hundred apple trees. The folks who moved in there next cut most of them down to make room for a massive lawn. So the future is for the future I guess.

Your post gives me hope and inspiration. I feel in hindsight I was trolling the doom and gloom aspect to this. By the time im nearing the end, I might be ready to go in a way, at least content with it. My hope is that's built in to some degree to the system, the DNA, the aging, don't know how to describe it.

But yes, perspective changes when you've got half of it left IF you do it right. Health becomes much more important, saving and growing money, etc. If you have children or something you're growing like a business or project, this becomes much more important.

Thanks for that.

time is created and set as beginning and ending but life is eternal, take time to realize that

a reply to: Thrumbo

Your post gives me hope and inspiration. I feel in hindsight I was trolling the doom and gloom aspect to this

I suspect you already had hope Thrumbo. And that doom porn? There's plenty of time for that though it should be handled with respect cuz it can come at ya and grab the mind and not let go.

Time is an illusion, a persistent one I will grant you. That said, nobody on the planet can tell you what it actually is because we just don't fully understand it yet.

The perception of time however, can be unique for each person experiencing it.

a reply to: Bella1

So time is applied to past present and future indicating all are
relative to space.

Space displays the procession of celestial bodies. If every celestial
body in the universe suddenly stopped in it's tracks. Frozen in place
each and everything in it's location in the universe. Would time stop?
I believe it would, so I believe time is defined universally as procession.

The celestial bodies are the mechanics of time. Or maybe the Governors
of time. Or maybe like the Wardens of time and the universe a prison?
When everything finally stops time is up. And every soul will be free
on that so distant... Dude I don't even know I'm just doing the best I
can to talk out my ass right now.

Enjoy your thread

Time is not,
But,what is,
Is not,
Without time.
reply to: Bella1

a reply to: Bella1

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun[

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell

David Jon Gilmour, George Roger Waters, Richard William Wright, Niclas Brekley Mason

just tunes from now on

originally posted by: Bella1
Do you ever stop to think about your 24 hour day and how you are spending your time?

How would you define time in your life?

My time? Can I answer this one with music as well?

Anything below is my own opinion only, I'm not writing it as a universal truth. It's random thoughts really.

Time is a strange thing, with so many different viewpoints.

Looking at it logically - it's a manmade concept, and used to measure the progress of events which occur throughout our existence, putting them into a chronological order.

I'm sure animals have little concept of time. Sure, they obviously have memories - which indicates their perception of a past and present - or else pets wouldn't have recognition of owners and commands, but they don't measure seconds, minute, days, months and years like humans do. And neither would I imagine they think much about the future and what they will do tomorrow or next week.

Humans by comparison are almost obsessed with time. We constantly think about our activities in the past, our activities today and our activities in the future.

The human race on a whole tends to look at time from the perspective of our progression as a species - i.e. what have we managed to achieve over a few thousand years.
The human individual tends to look at time from their own perspective - what they have managed to achieve within their lifetime, which is typically between 60 and 90 years.

We often use our rate of achievements within our lifetime period as a barometer of how successful we are as individuals within society - i.e. "I built up a company in 10 years and sold it for $50m!"
We often use our rate of achievements within the time period of our species as a barometer of how successful we are as a race - i.e. "We went from the industrial age to landing on the moon within 200 years!"

It's interesting to me because I often think how much of that would *perhaps* be absolutely meaningless to another race of beings, aliens or whatever. They would likely have entirely different barometers of success and maybe even different perceptions of time.

Humans have relatively short life spans in the grand scheme of things. And from the moment we are born, we are effectively dying - which sounds terribly oppressive but most of us don't really consider it a reality until we get older and our health starts to fail.

We are also so tiny/minute that it becomes very difficult to truly comprehend time and it's link to space, as evidenced by Einstein's work on relativity and time dilation. It's hard for us to look at a star in the sky and digest that what we're seeing could be from 10,000 years ago. or even millions of years ago. Time is an extremely localised concept for us and I think that, combined with our short lifespans, makes the universe a very terrifying large but wondrous place.

Time speeds up on Saturday and Sunday, then creeps to a crawl Monday through Friday. It’s a really strange phenomenon. Saturday night is especially a blur.

a reply to: Bella1

Time flies!

a reply to: Bella1

Time is a man made thing. It's our minds way of measuring distance. Or at least comprehending distance. What is a day? One rotation of the earth. A year? One orbit of the sun. If you lived on say Neptune... Would Earth's "time" be meaningful? "Time", as we envision it, doesn't exist. Then again, I still believe the theory that everything that HAS happened, IS happening and WILL happen is doing so right now.

Also... Elgaz - excellent post. 👍