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Re: A concept of time
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It's a shame. I would love it if someone else has ever witnessed this, or at least think they have.

The other side of it is, if everything that has ever happened is still happening, and I can't see it any other way, then is it also possible that everything that is going to happen has also already happened?

The logical answer is no, there just wouldn't be room for all possibilities that exist around the freedom in choice of even the smallest of decisions that result in an action and yet how can a future be predicted, sometimes so uncannily accurately?
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Re: A concept of time
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Post # 7
Firstly, nobody can see the future. It can be "forecast" of course; but that's not exactly the same thing.
And, of course there is a creator! It is the Sun!
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Re: A concept of time
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Post # 8

I only have three things to say:

1) Time exists

2) Time is not linear

3)If there is a creator he/she would live outside of time.

Any questions on these concepts mail me.

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Re: A concept of time
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Post # 9
Yes time exists but only because someone came up with the word "time."

True it is not linear.

The past cant altered by man because any little change could have negative effects.
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Re: A concept of time
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Post # 10
Actually the theory of metaphysics gives an idea of how the past present and future could exist similtaniously. You have to remember that our existance is not two deminsional or even three but many sided. The theory is that for every action we take in this life there are a ton of actions that branch off from that that we could have taken. If you have ever seen Jet Li's movie The One you will have seen a concept of this. In the movie a line of the characters life that turned out to be bad discovered that if he traveled to all of these other alternate realities and killed his alternate selves then he would gain their power and ultimatly become invincible. Of course his alternate self that went to the side of good stood up to fight him because as you diminish your other selves then the whole group becomes stronger. The concept is still the same. That is why we say that the future is always fluent and in motion and no one can really acuratly predict how it will turn out. You may be right 2% of the time.
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Re: A concept of time
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Post # 11
Im familiar with the theory and i do believe they (past, present, and future) exist all at the same time. I believe that they are just in an alternate universe. But then you wouldnt call it a "uni"verse it would be a "multi"verse. But if a certain event were to be changed in the past it would alter the now.

Have you ever heard the Grandfather Paradox?
If not, here it is......

Say i went back in time and killed my grandfather, that would mean i was never born, but if i was never born how was i able to kill him?
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Re: A concept of time
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Post # 12
"But if a certain event were to be changed in the past it would alter the now".

No, because the event is its own now. Still happening. In this concept there only ever is a now.
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Re: A concept of time
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Post # 13
Actually lilfender, to expand upon your point and your mention of the multi-verse system, if it did indeed change the now, which one would it change?

And do we drift between these multi-verses without even knowing it?

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Re: A concept of time
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Post # 14
If one believes in the idea of reincarnation then your spirit has lived many lives. So if you killed your grandfather then you might just be born into a different life. There are other possibilities. Perhaps if you went back in time it would become your present and not your past. Killing your grandfather would cut off your link to the normal time for you and therefore you would be stuck in that time forever.
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Re: A concept of time
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Post # 15
I see where you are coming from. I didnt account for "it" being its own "now." But my question is, If i went back in time and did kill my grandfather, that would mean my parents were never born, and i was never born how could i have even done it?
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