There is
time only in The NOW!
I
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Do not celebrate
birthdays. I believe my birth was not just captured in moment of time but rather
my formation began before time existed. I existed beyond “Happy birthday to you
how old are you now?” As such this to me
are society structural lullabies that’s signifies a beginning and an end of a
time. Time is not a concept. Time is existence. In my view because I am of God’s image I have
no beginning neither an end! Who can
tell me the beginning of Gods image and or the end of the same? Who can tell me the Alpha and Omega of time?
T
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his is not a new idea. Eastern spirituality has held this
belief since ancient prehistoric time. There is no time other than the present
and the only way to truly live happily is by being mindful of the present. The
reason why so many people in the west are unhappy is because we are always
living for the future. We have to work for a better future, if you work hard
now even though you are miserable this will mean better things for your future.
The problem with this idea is that if you are always working for a better
future you are never enjoying the moment now and you waste your whole life in
hopes of experiencing that better future.
K
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arma also can come into play here by remembering that all the
things work in a chain of events. The now is just a consequence of what
happened in the past. Everything you have done before has brought you this the
moment you call now. Whether its a good or bad moment is not the point. The now
that has come to pass is exactly what you need in order to learn the lessons
you are meant to learn. Take comfort in the struggle because it is that
struggle that will help you grow and become a better person. If its ‘good’ then
don’t get too happy because nothing is permanent. Even now. Everything is always in a flux of
evolution.
T
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hink you should say , time is different for everything in the
universe. Most humans cannot grasp the fact that everything is not about
humans. Human time does not exist if you would ask the sun. Human time only
matters to humans. Time is everything, no matter where. Unless you are talking
to an immortal.
Suggesting that space and time are illusions created by our
consciousness, and the vessels through which we experience our material state is
an entertaining read. Saying that the science of human perception is an
illusion is just a silly way to argue that everything about humans lies with
human definitions.
One could just as easily argue that muffins don't exist as
they are simply different ingredients that exist separately and the result of
their proximity and change with temperature force the illusion that they are
one thing.
Gibberish arguing human perception is a weak argument which
makes it easy to sound convincing. Remember that everything takes human
perception and definitions for you to perceive it at all. This reminds me of
the old 'there is no GOOD without BAD'. It is completely necessary for there to
be BAD or EVIL because without it there would be no GOOD. Everything would
simply be neutral by human definitions.
B
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efore tackling a concept like consciousness in its total, we
would first have to be able to tackle understanding things from outside the
human perception. Unfortunately, everything completed in a line of research
would be completed from the human perception. Hence the real limitation. That's
if your ego allows you to believe in such a thing as a total consciousness
beyond a human. As I said, this was a fun and entertaining read, but don't take
it too seriously. To equate human perception to an illusion is to remove one of
the most important elements to humans understanding anything.
My
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problem with this is
the concept of time is infinitesimal (you can keep breaking time up into
smaller fractions). therefore with this concept in mind the amount of
"now's must also be infinitesimal. Also the fact that these
"nows" would have to be arranged in a particular order for specific
things to happen (cause effect relationships) again at least gives rise to the
concept of time.
We can’t solely say if the big bang didn't happen we wouldn't
be here today. Neither can we say because we are in the biblical present that it
doesn't mean that the big bang didn't exist and because if it didn't exist we
would cease to exist in creation story.
I
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agree with the idea that time doesn't
exist. It's more logical to use the term energy, for example how much
energy/distance needed to move through space from one place to another. "If
you're depressed, you're living in the past. If you're anxious, you're living
in the future. If you're at peace, you're living in the present." -Lao Tzu.
People should care less about living in anything but the present, because when
it comes down to it, it's the present that really matter
we grow old because of
time or because of our energy is dwindling in the now? Is it wrong to grow old in
the present while hoping for the future? We grow old anyhow in the now not in the
future. Our old age does not happen in isolation of now. I am already old in the now aren’t growing
old any more. In other words to my view
is that if at one moment in the now I appeared to be young its because in the
same moment I appeared to be not old because I was old enough to appear young
while I was old. I exist in the timeliness of effect and course. I exit in the
now. But how can we explain the aging process of living beings? If it isn’t
happening through time... how come it exists?
Why does time point optimistically to the
future and not now? Why should I think I
will be better in the future instead of now? My pain exist in the now not in
the future, why should my happiness be somehow miraculously be pegged in the
future? Why should I think I will die sometime
in the future of the unknown? Instead of now of the present! Why should I not realize
that I have already died in the now and that not in the past neither in the
future shall I die but in the present of now that exist?!” ~Njoroge wa Ngige~
No
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one keeps track of
time better than Ferenc Krausz. In his lab at the Max Planck Institute of
Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, he has clocked the shortest time intervals
ever observed. Krausz uses ultraviolet laser pulses to track the absurdly brief
quantum leaps of electrons within atoms. The events he probes last for about
100 attoseconds, or 100 quintillionths of a second. For a little perspective,
100 attoseconds is to one second as a second is to 300 million years.
But
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even Krausz works far
from the frontier of time. There is a temporal realm called the Planck scale,
where even attoseconds drag by like eons. It marks the edge of known physics, a
region where distances and intervals are so short that the very concepts of
time and space start to break down. Planck time—the smallest unit of time that
has any physical meaning—is 10-43 second, less than a trillionth of a
trillionth of an attosecond. Beyond that? Tempus incognito. At least for now.
Richard Feynman once quipped that "Time is what happens when
nothing else does." But Julian Barbour disagrees {Author of} “The End of
Time: The Next Revolution in Physics “: if nothing happened, if nothing
changed, then time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change
that we perceive occurring all around us, not time. Put simply, time does not
exist.
In this highly provocative volume, Barbour presents the basic
evidence for a timeless universe, and shows why we still experience the world
as intensely temporal. It is a book that strikes at the heart of modern
physics. It casts doubt on Einstein's greatest contribution, the spacetime
continuum, but also points to the solution of one of the great paradoxes of
modern science, the chasm between classical and quantum physics
If you try to get your hands on time, it’s
always slipping through your fingers,” says Barbour. “People are sure time is
there, but they can’t get hold of it. My feeling is that they can’t get hold of
it because it isn’t there at all.” Barbour speaks with a disarming English
charm that belies an iron resolve and confidence in his science. His extreme
perspective comes from years of looking into the heart of both classical and
quantum physics. Isaac Newton thought of time as a river flowing at the same
rate everywhere. Einstein changed this picture by unifying space and time into
a single 4-D entity. But even Einstein failed to challenge the concept of time
as a measure of change. In Barbour’s view, the question must be turned on its
head. It is change that provides the illusion of time. Channeling the ghost of
Parmenides, Barbour sees each individual moment as a whole, complete and
existing in its own right. He calls these moments “Nows.”
The
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person who ate
breakfast this morning is not the same person reading this sentence. This is
the truest thing anyone could understand. It seems odd and abstract but even if
you are just considering the atoms that make up your body the matter before you
ate breakfast and after is completely different. This should also be
comforting. The point of life isn't to avoid bad moments and strive for good. It
is to learn from each moment good or bad. By learning we are changing and evolving.
This is the supreme goal.
According to discovermagazine.com,
in Physics your life is described by a series of slices of your worm; you as a
baby, you as you ate breakfast this morning, you as you started reading this
sentence and so on, with each slice existing motionless in its respective time.
We generate time’s flow by thinking that the same self that ate breakfast this
morning also started reading this sentence.
In my humble submission however, We forget that the same self
that has not been in conception has not existed as a baby neither ate breakfast
this morning nor will eventually read this piece at some point in “time” in the
now so to speak because in the very token of argument everything that exists is
in the now not past or the future. What is
your now if you have the past and the future?
M
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y Now is the God of
all creation who
was the beginning and has no end. He is still creating me and forming me to a creature that is ever fearfully made every
moment in time of now and beyond. A
creature that has never existed in humanity todays concept of time. Time never
stops, Do not stop yourself because time will not stop you.
By Njoroge wa Ngige ‘a blogger and motivational speaker
in the moment of time” 091815-0353
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