What is being? What is ceasing?
— synthesis
ceasing is when life is no longer “animate”
being is nothing but you “are” on this plane of existence — Ignance
can we imagine a place without time? — TiredThinker
Isn't ceasing only relative to your exact Universal (coordinate) position? And doesn't that suggest that no thing can actually cease? — synthesis
Who is? And where is this plane? — synthesis
Isn't ceasing only relative to your exact Universal (coordinate) position? And doesn't that suggest that no thing can actually cease?
— synthesis
what do you mean by this?
Let's say you are ten feet away from somebody has has just died. Then let's say your friend who is on a spaceship heading through space but is watching you and this gentleman live (electronically) but is one light year away. For him, the man won't die for another year, right? So on and so forth, so your Universal position determines when something is going to happen or if it ever happens (if you keep moving away at near the speed of light).
Who is? And where is this plane?
— synthesis
i don’t think any person truly “is” but the concept of God definitely qualifies for it, the plane is what we would define as reality through our human lens, no? — Ignance
Like all measurements, one needs a zero point to measure from and that zero point is the present moment. — Present awareness
I guess a more interesting question would be what multiple time dimensions would be like if it were possible. We often understand space as being multi-dimensional, but in most theories (even in string theory with it's dozen dimensions), there is only one time dimension. — Mr Bee
Now Einstein says time is an illusion but we still assume it has some basis is reality? In the movie, "Doctor Strange" he goes to a universe where time doesn't exist and creates a time loop. Now fiction aside, can we imagine a place without time? Would any events occur? Can memories form? Or do all possible events occur simultaneously? What is the lay of the land? — TiredThinker
If time is passing, what exactly is it passing? — Present awareness
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
— Einstein — Luke
People who believe in physics, know time to be an illusion. — Present awareness
What event, in-time or in-timelessness, provoked your question? Was that event in the past? How do you know?Now Einstein says time is an illusion but we still assume it has some basis is reality? — TiredThinker
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