TIME IS?

Time is a confidence game perpetuated by the Swiss.

Interesting. Good one

Time doesn't truly exist. Why time does not exist?

When we ask ourselves why we think time exists, most of us would say: because we see everything changing, always. And so it is: everything in and around us is constantly changing, from beginning until the end.

The question however is: is the reason for this perpetual change to be found outside the changing subject (caused by a phenomena called time) or is all change coming from inside the changing subject itself?

I don’t think that it is hard to see that the latter is correct. That which makes things change (the cycle of life) to a flower, a human being or an animal is set by the characteristics of that particular life’s form and not by an outer cause such as time. What we call ‘time’ is just a method for measuring the ‘perpetual change’.

Because of our need to measure this perpetual change we decided to divide the ‘cyclic changes’ such as seasons and day and night, into months, twenty-four hours, minutes etc. These well-known changes are caused by the ever-moving planetary positions within our solar system and not because there exists such a thing as ‘time’.

So, there are no minutes, but we decided that after counting 60 (seconds) we say that a minute has passed. Based on minutes we calculate hours, days, months, years, centuries etc.
In this way we can count the number of heartbeats per minute, years from birth to death and we even can calculate the number of years from the Big Bang until today.
But we also say: ‘it seems as if time has stood still (in that old village), nothing has changed`.

Actually there is only NOW – in which all that is manifested appeared, changes and disappears.

Because we ourselves are part of this process of change it might be difficult for us to grasp that we ourselves too are just changing in the eternal now. If we are able to look upon ourselves from outside our moving train (witnessing our life passing by), we will probably be able to see that the now always is and that we are passing through this eternal, unmoving, NOW.

As we know, Albert Einstein became famous because of his theory of relativity. In our context it is interesting to understand that Einstein studied the method of calculating time.
He discovered: a moment in time from my position need not necessarily to be the same from your position.
I do not know whether Einstein ever stated that time does not exist at all. As for me, he had better have said so!

It may be wise and good for a better understanding to give some more examples of the methods of measuring we use daily and which are also based on non-existing principles.

Distance: a centimeter, meter, kilometer, mile, etc. do not exist but we have agreed what emptiness we bridge to call it a meter.

Weight: a gram, ounce, kilo, ton, etc. do not exist, but again, we have agreed what heaviness we will call one kilo.

These calculating methods are of course most useful and indispensable in our daily life.

Because we are not aware that time does not exist, we do not feel the need to focus on the now in which our life takes place. However, it would have been much wiser if our ancestors (and we) had done so in the past.

Time is a measurement for light.

Light is infinite, We put the restriction of time on it so we could measure.

is nothing... neither is this life

Live for each day.

Last Edited by OVRANALYZE on 10/07/2021 09:55 PM

Yep, Learn from yesterday, live for today, pray for a tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Neither unmalleable nor linear.

Great one

Time is the ultimate tool of control.

Time is a human invention.

Time is Relative.

Time is elusive.

Time is a gift.

Time is Redundant.

Time is simple.

Time is everywhere.

Time is harnessed.

Time is found.

Time is...

Indeed

Time is NOW!

Definitely a gift.

time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say.

Time is the measurement of the rate of change...

pretty sure change is the only measurement of time.... if you really think about it.

Last Edited by above/below on 10/07/2021 10:49 PM

I could see that. Change marks defining moment

Absolute - relational
I will contemplate the differences as I set my alarm clock

Absolute - relational
I will contemplate the differences as I set my alarm clock

Then why doesn't time stop at absolute zero ?
I had this thought years ago....that's where it took me

Last Edited by Nibiru*is*flat on 10/07/2021 11:00 PM

illusory

Change is just information moving from one form to another.
But at absolute zero all thermodynamics stop. Yet time marches on

Last Edited by Nibiru*is*flat on 10/07/2021 11:04 PM

I think how we measure time, how we perceive time (how time measures itself), and how we interact with time, are all different subjects.

I think fundamentally time is a measure of energy (action) over distance. When we sit in stillness, we perceive no time, because there is little to measure. The opposite is true in active or high energy phases... time seems to pass quickly.

I pretty much follow the Terrence McKenna philosophy that events are accelerating towards an inevitable singularity, which is possibly already happening.

It moves on but does our body?

All we have.

...running out.