Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning with $86,000.00, carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Take out every cent, naturally. Well, everyone has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,000 seconds. Every night, it writes you off, as a lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day, it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the record of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no deposits. Invest in it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success! The clock is running. MAKE THE MOST OF TODAY. Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special...special enough to have your time... and remember TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE.
Do you have the time...to listen to me whine About nothing and everything all at once I am one of those melodramatic fools Neurotic to the bone no doubt about it.
The problem.is I don't know what to do with my.time I often feel everything it pointless. I try to spend as much of my time on enjoyment as possible because anything I waste investing in the future will be gone In the future Sent from my LG-E739 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
In truth, time doesn't actually exist because it is a man made creation. As in, if the clock didn't exist, time wouldn't exist. It's also weird when you understand that concept because if you then think about a Universe uninhabited by humans (i,e just planets and no life) then does time as a concept exist then? Just because things change, doesn't necessarily mean that change can be quantified by a label of "time"? Anyway, I think time can be considered a mild form of slavery to some people. I mean, I don't know if it's the same for everyone or just me and some others but I find following a clock to be depressing to some degree, almost angering. I realised this recently when I was rushed everyday to cram in as much as possible and really felt like I was just existing. Running my routine everyday, on and on and then I started thinking about what it would be like without time. Since I like meditation and was getting into it at the point in my change of thoughts about time, I started thinking, instead of just being mindful, as in just flowing with reality, I started thinking about just flowing with reality without time and just go with how I felt, Maybe, just maybe, my happiness would come not from rushing to fill my time with as much doing as possible, but following with my inner mind and just letting go and forgetting time, flowing with the Universe and accepting existence the way it is. Not having to stress or worry over time and money. Working to earn money just to stay alive or achieve "success" that really doesn't truly appeal to me that much. I think I looked at life and thought about what made others happy in success, money, women etc. and now I just think that my personal paradox is that trying to obtain a far out dream of goals that have been projected onto me by the falsely perceived happiness of others, is not what will give me true inner peace. For me the concept of time, the endless desire for money and battle with my ego are all deceptions to my true happiness, simply being.
I disagree. Everyone is given a different amount. When you run out, it's over. Make the best with what you have.
That's not what this is about though. We're not really considering market value of time here, we're looking at how valuable your time is to you, which should be pretty Damn valuable because you have a finite amount of it and once it's gone you're gone. Time is not man made. Time passes regardless of whether or not we measure it but humans happen to be the only ones quantifying and keeping track of time. To a bird, there is morning, day, and night but there is no 6 AM, no 7 AM, etc.
I agree with this. If you have a genius IQ you can accomplish in a few days what an average person would take a life time to accomplish. The genius basically gets to live for thousands of years in average person time. In other words, fuck lofty ambitions nikka, smoke weed and appreciate your humble existence!
You might want to explore the laws of physics. From the rate of acceleration of a falling object to any number of other things time is a required factor and those laws do seem to work. I think where people get hung up is on the 24 hour clock and all of that stuff, but that isn't "time" any more than the term inch or yard is the actual distance rather than just a term used to describe the distance. We made up the means of measuring it but time was real and passing long before we ever did that. A different means instead of the clock we use wouldn't change the results any more than measuring in metric vs standard does, the results stay the same.
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." - Bruce Lee I am, unfortunately, a huge procrastinator and it is certainly my worst quality. It is time to change. Thanks for the good thread topic.
If by time you mean our measurement of time, then you're right it doesn't exist, but if you look at time as a whole, it's just how the universe is, it keeps on pushing forward.
to an immortal being, time is a useless concept. if you never died, you'd never need to know what time it is. think about it.
time is a human construct that exists nowhere in nature. a "speeding up" particle isn't going through time faster, it's going through space with more energy. we humans have interpreted time as being essential to the world...but, if, for example, tomorrow we woke up and we were immortal...then what would "time" be? in nature, time doesn't exist...only life and death do. we live around 100 years so we feel like time is certain. to a giant redwood time is going much...differently...because it lives in a different time plane. time is relative, that much is certain. einstein proved that much.. and there are these jellyfish that literally can go back and forth from being fully grown adults to spawn. what is time to them? what is time to a rock? what is time to a dead person? what is time? physics readily agrees it doesn't have the tools to fully understand the nature of time. physics isn't metaphysics, physics deals with the perceivable, the natural. time goes beyond that. and this really isn't news either. it's an on going debate even today within the fields of physics, metaphysics and philosophy. so perhaps you'd do well to explore the laws of physics before telling me to do the same??? google "time is not real" and enjoy the debates. there's a joke i vaguely remember... it goes something like.. a man asks another what time it is. the man responds "i don't know! i'm just a physicist!"
Trimmed the quote as it's a bit long but I'll try to respond to most of it. Speeding up a particle gets into the idea of relativity, look up the concept of time dilation. I can't quite figure what a jellyfish, rock or dead person has to do with it so will skip that part The part I started the quote with is the key part to me though. Yes, physics doesn't "fully understand the nature of time", as a matter of fact it doesn't claim to "fully" understand anything at all. Take the time to explore the scientific method and try to be honest about the concept of doubt. http://teacher.pas.rochester.edu/phy_labs/appendixe/appendixe.html That's a long way from the proposal that science or physics doesn't understand anything, or that the phenomena in question might not even exist. We go through the same debates in evolution and a number of other issues where people try to claim that you either have all of the answers or none of them with no middle ground and that's not the way things work, not with any topic. In the end time is a part of real, physical laws that work, that you can make solid and reliable predictions with, and I've yet to see anything which isn't real and can consistently accomplish that. Been there and done that on the debates Some of the results you find might even include them. In the end though the original premise of the thread was a nice one and I don't want to hijack it so I'll leave it at this, you're welcome to whatever opinion you want on the topic but I would ask that you think about it.
^stop being patronizing i damn well near wrote my thesis on this and some fool online is going to be all like "think about it..." smdh... realize you're not the only authority on such things, there are others who have thought extensively about this. don't disrespect me by trying to teach me about the scientific method when you have no idea of my qualifications. admittedly, i'm not a scientist. still, i am, in a sense, professionally qualified to talk on such issues. never mind the fact that your scientific method isn't particularly considered as as inherently correct in my circles... i'm not just some guy who woke up today and started talking about this. have some respect.