Time Being
by Larry Chamberlin Mar 9, 2013
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Subjective experience madness: Now Is Existence. |
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11 years ago
by Hellon
Subjective experience madness: Now Is Existence. <<< Life as a mod on here perhaps? :) I think you need some commas in between these words or...in my case I'd probably go for my usual little... (do make sure you only use 3 BTW!)
The past is not real?..Ok..it's a dream you are having here? I guess we would all have something we wish to change if we could but..I honestly can't think of one right now for me...the past shapes out future I think and although you have said that the passing of time is so fast it can be briefly tangible before becoming a myth I don't think that to be the truth...if you are quick enough to grasp the moment....what the hell Larry...what have we to loose at this point in out lives...-
11 years ago
Thanks, Hellon. The reasoning here is that to perceive time as described is madness. Time isa vast continuum already accomplished. The past is seen as myth when it is really as present as we are. The present, which seems to float along time, is merely our perception.
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11 years agoby L
I wish the reply button would prompt me when someone replies to my comments.
it is madness but what could define existence other than time? I mean our existence as individuals not taking the whole universe into account.
In my opinion, It's but our past and present that defines our existence, is but our actions and what we have live that defines an individual.
The reality is that the universe exists but at times I feel that the universe exists only because our existence believes so. So madness indeed, we can go on an on and towards the end all we can do is assume and keep assuming though assuming can be harmful sometimes but I supposed the dimension of time can be some type of illusion.-
11 years ago
I agree that the experience of time defines what each of us, as individuals, perceive to be existence. Thus our "past" and "present" have validity in that regard.
I also agree that to fully accept that time is truly an illusion can bring on a separate type of madness and even depression. Certainly it is difficult, if not impossible to be both nihilist and humane.
Rather than assuming, though, my personal solution is accepting.
I accept the reality of the situation, choose to live in the absurd and strive to appreciate pathos and irony.
I have always felt the most human thing in the brevity of our time on Earth is to know our doom, to have compassion toward ourselves as well as others and to carry on because it is the best course of action left to us.
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11 years ago
by L
Different perspectives, I on the other hand believe that the only thing real is the past and the present, but the future is not. Though the future becomes real only when it becomes a present then the past. And to me, the present is what defines the past not exactly the future.
I'm starting to see the future as a fleeting dream because it's just a dream that flees as it goes through the waist of the hourglass and becomes real as the past. The past is the only thing concrete that one has, it cannot be change entirely, one can simply add better scenes to it to cover it up, but no matter what, if one digs into it, everything comes up.
But I don't see the past as something bad, just as time. The present is too short, a past for an eternity and a future one can't touch it, its just a dream that may or not become real as a past, depending on what is done on the present.
EDIT: on second read, I think we see the future and present as the same.-
11 years ago
But that's what I call madness: to assume our subjective experience of time defines existence.
Reality is that we are but a scanner passing along the dial of existence, aware of only what we are currently passing over and with recollection of what has passed.
However, the universe exists as a whole and the forms that it takes in what we call the past and the future are eternal already. The dimension of time is an illusion in that sense.
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