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Originally posted by blue bird
Again - Time does exist. Time is dimension. It is unidirectional Time vector that defines local space.
Originally posted by blue bird
"After the death of this bodily form the energy/make up that was the body will rot in to the Earth (or whatever is chosen to do with the body) and the energy of that body will transmutate in to soil and/or food for other creatures, in turn becoming a part of those creatures, and the soil may nurture a tree one day, in turn making you a part of that tree and that tree a part of you. Imagine this process with no beginning and no end and you will realize that you have been every where forever and you are the sempiternal energy. It's an ubiquitous pulchritude. Death is the illusion as is birth."
Everything described - is change - metamorphosis = Time.
Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
How do we know that memories are not experiences that have already happened, yet slowly seeping in to our consciousness and only appear to Exist more and more as we allow them to through acceptance of particular realities?
Originally posted by secret titan
I would love to see my electric bill if time didn't exist!
Originally posted by Eden
Time -- The mystery of it is enough to drive a mad man sane
A question, do you accept the idea of time in any form?
Originally posted by secret titan
If it is just that, then what does it actually measure? Does it measure the use of energy, or does it measure the passage of existence?
Originally posted by Astyanax
Shame on you. Why don't you stick to subjects you actually know something about?
Originally posted by Astyanax
Shame on you. Why don't you stick to subjects you actually know something about?
LastOut
Uni-directional, as in going forward? How do we know it's not really going backwards then? Who has ever measured backwards to know forwards? And who has measured forward to know backward? Memories? How do we know that memories are not the future in regress?
Blockage of the second law is absolutely necessary for us to be alive and happy. Not one of the complex chemical substances in our body and few in the things we enjoy would exist for a microsecond if the second law wasn't obstructed.
**Energy spontaneously tends to flow only from being concentrated in one place
to becoming diffused or dispersed and spread out.
**Our psychological sense of time is based on the second law.
It summarizes what we have seen, what we have experienced, what we think will happen.
Originally posted by blue bird
Just look in a direction of how energy flow in any process. Hot cup of tea gets colder. Have you ever wittiness the opposite?
The second law is actually a statement about the probable behavior of an isolated system.
So - with 2 Law of Thermodynamic you pretty much are in clear that Time Arrow is flowing just in one direction - forward.
The second law of thermodynamics is an expression of the universal law of increasing entropy.
Originally posted by secret titan
Wow, I've got nothing right now. After being addicted to this site for about a year, I don't really know what I believe anymore........except that time exists!
I am still trying to get some info together to debate this further, but, what is time a measurement of exactly? I prolly asked this question already, but I've been drinking tonight and can't remember.
Originally posted by shrunkensimon
Originally posted by Astyanax
Shame on you. Why don't you stick to subjects you actually know something about?
A true Shaman can tell you what time is exactly, better than any scientist can, so i suggest you keep yourself open to other ideas of what reality is all about, and how it functions, unless you want to stay on your current level of understanding...