What is time?

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Bahman said:
What is time?
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Time ent:from the From Middle English time, tyme from Old English *tīma*Time is a measure in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, it also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.
 
Bahman said:
Truth is state of belief that something is true, our state of belief however is not absolutely true.
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Incorrect, Objective Truth is what corresponds to the actual circumstances. Your belief of what is true may not correctly correspond to the reality of Objective Truth.

The difference is whether or not your belief corresponds to that objective reality.
 
Time is consistent with the observable; yesterday from today; the only recollection of time when I wake in the morning is my clock and the sunrise and a dream I may or may not have had.😃

God Bless:)
 
Ignatius said:
Time ent:from the From Middle English time, tyme from Old English *tīma*Time is a measure in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, it also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.
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But why events have duration?
 
Ignatius said:
Incorrect, Objective Truth is what corresponds to the actual circumstances.
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What is objective truth? How we can realize it? To me there exist truth and absolute truth we have access to former but not latter.
Ignatius said:
Your belief of what is true may not correctly correspond to the reality of Objective Truth.
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So you are repeating what I state unless you mean something different by objective truth which I equate it to absolute truth.
Ignatius said:
The difference is whether or not your belief corresponds to that objective reality.
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Thanks, so I am almost sure that what you stated is what I stated.
 
Bahman said:
Truth is state of belief that something is true, our state of belief however is not absolutely true.
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Nope, truth is something that is.. Whether anybody believes it or not is beside the point.

If something like a world-mind **is, **then like light, life or movement, no-one should have to “believe” in it.

ICXC NIKA
 
davidv said:
So you claim. Proven? No.
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He does have a point.

Some truths are subject to change. For example, the statement “Davidv is alive” is a true statement, but was not true 200 years ago.

Likewise, the statement “GW Bush is the president of the USA” is false now, but was true ten years ago.

But absolute truth, for example, “God is,” never changes.

ICXC NIKA.
 
GEddie said:
He does have a point.
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But…, not the whole point.
Some truths are subject to change. For example, the statement “Davidv is alive” is a true statement, but was not true 200 years ago.

Likewise, the statement “GW Bush is the president of the USA” is false now, but was true ten years ago.

But absolute truth, for example, “God is,” never changes.

ICXC NIKA.
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To equivocate the two muddies the water and leads to confusion.
 
Bahman said:
What I am arguing so far is that no change is possible without awareness which resides in consciousness.
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No change is possible without awareness? Whose awareness? The universe had roughly 13 billion years of change before humans came along to be aware of it.
Hence, change is related to awareness, in simple word awareness work as an engine pushing us forward.
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Be careful here. You’re saying that change only happens when someone (or something) is aware of the change.
Awareness however is not the only force in nature as all events should manifest themselves in a blink as it was stated.
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Awareness is not a force in nature at all. Awareness can’t cause things to happen, it can only observe. Things constantly happen all around you without your awareness, or even the awareness of the things being acted upon.

To answer your question “what is time”, in my understanding time is a human construct that we use to measure change.
 
seagal said:
No change is possible without awareness? Whose awareness? The universe had roughly 13 billion years of change before humans came along to be aware of it.

Be careful here. You’re saying that change only happens when someone (or something) is aware of the change.
Awareness however is not the only force in nature as all events should manifest themselves in a blink as it was stated.
Awareness is not a force in nature at all. Awareness can’t cause things to happen, it can only observe. Things constantly happen all around you without your awareness, or even the awareness of the things being acted upon.

To answer your question “what is time”, in my understanding time is a human construct that we use to measure change.
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For that matter, things happen within us all the time without our awareness, else there would be no need for medical testing.

ICXC NIKA.
 
GEddie said:
Nope, truth is something that is.. Whether anybody believes it or not is beside the point.
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So we might have problem in definition, because to me the absolute truth is something that IS. Truth is the current state of belief and it is necessary because whatever we do is based on it. Absolute truth is something that we are looking for and it is not subject to change or doubt. Absolute truth is purely subjective.
GEddie said:
If something like a world-mind **is, **then like light, life or movement, no-one should have to “believe” in it.

ICXC NIKA
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But that is we have in our disposal right now and forever, a light which illuminates around. It illuminate farther as we try harder but it can never illuminate the edge.
 
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