Does time really exist?

No, I meant what I wrote, as is my habit. However, if you think that I've lost an argument, perhaps you can state what that argument is.

Nah. What for? It is enough that you realize it.

And recognize that you are not the same as your knees.

I think we can understand time perfectly, or at least reduce it to its minimum component --and this is concept, and the most basic concept, that behind a word like "being" is its minimum component.

But this reduction is so complete as to be worthless, except for the clarity involved. There is no change without memory. There is no past without memory. There is no future without fantasy made from memory. There is no memory without concept. What is concept? Concept is its own sort of being. But words like concept and being are concepts. And concepts are beings. The most general classes are members of one another. So the most minimal or fundamental concept must be abstracted from what all concepts have in common. Unity.

I know this sounds weird.

nah your on a roll dude. i understand. its like trying to break basic elements; its impossible (or is it?). So im taking it when you say unity, your referring that it has some kind of pattern? i mean, thats how i believe we measure things. How can measure something that has no beginning and no end? what is unity?

When the words "I am" are applied to something, as in: I am a baby, they immediately take a temporal position. So "I am a baby" and "I am 50 years old" cannot both be true.

Wasn't the original form of eternalism, the omniscient and eternal nature of God?
Wasn't the conception of god as eternal standing outside of time and viewing history form the beginning (alpha) to the end (omega) like a man on the hill watching a caravan cross the desert?
Does not eternalism have all the same problems about fixity of the future and the past as divine omniscience?
Granted relativity deprives us of "simultaneous" events, but it does not deprive us of the past, present and future from a particular reference point and relativity itself gives nonsense results at the extremes of its equations.

Eternalism??? What do you know of time beyond your own??? The further removed is the past and the future the more uncertain it becomes, and yet we talk of the eternal... Wouldn't that be some sort of infinite beyond our grasp??? Yes; but that fact does not stop people from making positive statements about infinity, or in your words: the eternal... It might just be typical hogwash presented as fact...

nah your on a roll dude. i understand. its like trying to break basic elements; its impossible (or is it?). So im taking it when you say unity, your referring that it has some kind of pattern? i mean, thats how i believe we measure things. How can measure something that has no beginning and no end? what is unity?

Eternalism just says that time is like space. Just as all places in space exist, all places in time exist, too. Of course, what do we know of infinite space? Do you know what's going on in, say, the Andromeda galaxy? Even if eternalism is true, we're subjectively limited in time and space both.

Unity is anything that is understood as a whole, as singular. And it's all through our human thinking. All of our abstractions are unties. When I say "cat" I am referring to what all cats have in common. I have unified all particular cats into an ideal cat that doesn't exist except as concept...and this concept which exists as its own kind of reality is what time is made of. That's my theory. Because memory and fantasy are made of exactly the same stuff. And we can only talk because of abstractions. Even an individual cat is an abstraction. When we see Fluffy, we see her face and torse and tail and whiskers are part of a whole. And Fluffy changes and moves and is never exactly the same Fluffy, but we speak and think of Fluffy as ONE "thing" when in fact Fluffy was experienced by us through our eyes, ears, nose, etc. and of course emotionally, in a million or billion different ways. But we can't really count emotion or color or smell. So concept is its own thing, and this is where number and time stem from. That's my argument. Where does the purple unicorn live? Now it lives in your "logical space" or imagination or "system of concepts." And all of these phrases (Logical space, etc) also exist within your system of concepts. It gets pretty wild.....:detective:

Because memory and fantasy are made of the same stuff??? I would like to see some of that stuff if you please, and until you can produce some I would not say: because...

Still, you are solid in most of your conculsions in regard to concepts... Where things go wrong is where we take the ability to abstract reality with concepts, and try to form concepts around moral reality... We do that with infinites like time and space, but each defies conception, and abstraction... Yet, we may conclude that everything and nothing make up existence...

What is this strange word "exist"? Does love exist? Does the idea of nothingness exist? I think it comes down to the definition of "exist" and also of "time."

I don't think that either can be perfectly defined, unless we narrow the meaning down for a particular application.

Time is pretty metaphyscial, its nothing we can compeltely understand.

Ive actually read about time being manipulated, ive only begun to scratch upon the surface.. i believe it was called "gravitational time dilation" then when atomic clocks are farther away from the center of gravity of the earth (such as space), they start to slow down compared to the atomic clocks kept at sea level on earth...

There can be no change without there being time,

but that does not mean that time and change are the same thing.

Nothing can go from not existing to existing, since that would assume that something existed before it existed, and that is a contradiction.

Can something exist without time ? if time is relative to an event and if the circumstances of that event change, so does time. If time is that variable why not imagine an event without time? When we theorise on a singularity, we are observing a none event from an event. From a place of time we look at point with no time. Gravity appears the guide of time rather than the actual event, could we have the theoretical ability for thought in a singularity?

Wrong question... Can anything exist without us making note of its existence, saying it exists, knowing it exists... We are the essential element to all existence not because we make everything happen, or be; but because we make everything matter... We find meaning in existence... We find meaning in time... We find meaning in space... When we die all will die with us, and whether or not everything hangs on or is swallowed up in our anuses is immaterial... Matter without us matters not...