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Offline Taristin

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There is no such thing as time.
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Offline Singh

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Time exists. It's just a concept we use to make sense of the universe around us. You are right in the sense, it doesn't exist as a phenomenon or physical/energy thingy.

But technically, it does 'exist', if only as a concept we made, it will still exist; so therefore technicality pwned that sentence :P
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Random Thought: What if there is no afterlife, but your final instant of consciousness lasts eternity?
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Offline Flipside

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Be a bugger if you were asleep then ;)

Seriously though, it's an interesting though, even if it's only a perceptual eternity...... hmmmm......

 
I wonder if someday it will be possible to have material immortality, trough cibernetics or genetic manipulation or whatever. It would be good have a material, good body to live forever with. Forever or at least until the universe dies or a truck runs over you.

Sometimes I think what if there's nothing after death. Like an eternal sleep without dreams. sometimes that thought is a good one but more frequently it is unpleasant. To never feel anything anymore... But that worried me more years ago when a kid. Now I just try to not think about it. There is nothing I can do anyway.
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Offline Flipside

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Yeah, best not to get into that, programmers tend to think about that sort of thing at around 2am ;)

 

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Originally posted by Lightspeed
Well, most people here think of time as something a lot too constant. Time is no constant thing you can measure.

Time is a very tricky thing. Only because we (apparently) pass through it in a more or less linear way does not necessarily mean it is "the way time works". We must not forget that we only percieve a ridiculously small fraction of "reality". A fraction that applies for us, here.

Time is not necessarily an ubiquitous thing - it might come to an end, but would that mean the end of reality?


I find it mildly amusing to hear this coming from a person with your nick. ;)

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Now does time stop at the speed of light?
Because if it does then light would see eternity even though we see it go out


Now if you add the Biblical statement of "God is light", you have a very fascinating concept.

And how the heck did you get that nick? That's just.... wrong. :lol:
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Offline Knight Templar

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Random Thought: What if there is no afterlife, but your final instant of consciousness lasts eternity?


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Offline Corsair

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Eternity's like infinity. Trying to imagine something that goes on and on forever is just mindblowing...and basically impossible.
For example, let's look at space. If we assume space is infinite, then...it goes on forever. The mind can't comprehend.
On the other hand, let's assume there is an end to space. What's after the end? How can it just end? What's outside the end?

None of it makes sense.
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Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
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Offline Flipside

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Space is like Darkness, or Silence or Sobriety, it doesn't actually exist.

In each case all of these things define an absence of Matter, Light, Sound and Alcohol sequentially ;)