How do you define Time?

i define time as a measurement of energy.

it doesnt exist.


we make it exist. it exists as much as an "inch" exists.
only in our minds.

Ogi, Pretty good! Sort of like E=T or T=E.

Time stands still, in that it has the opposite attributes of change, which it must be seen in contrast to to make any sense. Same as space. Oposite attributes of what it is the contrast to.

Time is simply a way to organize memory and predictions.

The movement of time, as represented by the movement of a clock is not a measurement of "temporal distance". It is the measurement of change, divided into intervals that are suitable for whatever time is applied to. In the case of the clock, its the changing of day to night and the cycle of the seasons we measure, and the intervals are set to match and mark special events in the unfolding change.

So if you want to measure the change of the world we percieve, the intervals are set to the turning of the earth, and it's progress in it's orbit around the sun. These are what the clock and the calendar represent.

If you wanted to measure the change in a piece of music you would need to adjust your time to intervals that were useful in describing the changes in a way that made sense.

So, time isn't something that allows change to happen. Change makes time, and sets the flow of it.

time doesn't exist becuase time is a concept man made... if you think about it.. nothing exists.. or exists differently for everyone...
I don't know... maybe you have to take shrooms to grasp it

Perhaps there is only change, changing, changes, etc. And time is only an abstraction, a way of measuring processes of change. Space is only distance between places, and distance may be conceptualized as the time taken/required (at certain speeds) to traverse some given space. In that sense time equals space and vice versa--or at least that's how it seems tonight.

t= mc^2- e

If it wasn't for Time......Everything would happen at once

happen? How do you define "happen"?

A large variety of devices have been invented to measure time. Time is not a reality (hypostasis), but a concept (noêma) or a measure (metron).

Time is just a convenient human mechanism for visualizing transition.

What is interesting about the measuring of time is that some cultures have built monuments to measure the number of days, hours, and minutes (and seconds today made exact by the atomic clock), that were built thousands of years ago that are very accurate. Calendars created by different cultures have different number of days and years.

It's true that time is a man-made concept, but the majority of humans follow its measurements in one form or another.

What's also interesting is that our body clock can often work to get us up in the morning.

"Time flies, and the rest is lies." --Omar Khayyam.

"Time is an ocean and it ends at the shore" Bob Dylan.

I refer you all to Spengler's The Decline of the West, Chap. IV. Destiny and Causality.

spendi wrote:

Summarize it for us spendi.

Speaking about time, I had the opportunity to visit Easter Island earlier this year. Our group visited the only inland lava rock statues, and I found this article on the web:

One of many pictures I took on Easter Island.

I suppose you mean some easily digestible sound bite ci. to take its place in your noggin next to all the millions of other absurdly oversimplified and disconnected gobbets of drivel that already live there.

No chance. Spengler is stripped down as lean as lean gets. I gave the reference. If you are interested go look it up and knock off expecting to be spoon fed.

spendi, You just never learned to summarize anything in your life; most classic literature have been summarized. Spengler, I'm sure, is no exception.

No literature can be summarized. I suppose you could summarize the train time table by saying it is a book which tells you the times trains arrive and depart.

Perhaps you have read too many summaries ci. As you say--Spengler has been summarized. All the summaries I have read were hope;essly inadequate.

I have a book about Easter Island. It's by Alfred Metraux.

There was nobody there when it was "discovered". I think the theory is that phallic cults self destruct. It's Madonna cults that blossom.

spendi, Go to any "classic literature synopsis" on the web, and you'll find thousands of entries. Even "spengler" will come up with this: http://www.shvoong.com/category-1/tags/spengler/

So?