{"id":4812,"date":"2015-10-07T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2015-10-07T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T19:27:08","slug":"on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/on-time\/","title":{"rendered":"on Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me you wonder about things, a lot.\u00a0 You think about strange things, silly things, mundane things, and things that really matter.\u00a0 One of the stranger things I&#8217;ve wondered about for years, which have become decades {no exaggeration}, is the nature of Time.<\/p>\n<p>I recently posted this comment on Twitter, in response to a question on the nature of Eternity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can linear beings comprehend cycles which neither begin, nor end?<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/olwage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@olwage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/650670230579081216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>Can linear beings comprehend cycles which neither begin, nor end?<\/h6>\n<p>The following are a few of my thoughts on Time, taken from an even more recent conversation in which I was asked to explain how I can believe that time does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>What is time&#8230; if it can be measured but cannot not be modified then can it even be?<\/p>\n<p>Life is a linear construct in a cyclic universe. Universal cycles do not have a beginning and an ending, they are perpetual.\u00a0 Yet life has a beginning and an end, and our way of grasping how we transition through our beginning to our end is to measure something that does not exist.\u00a0 We create numbers that are quite literally meaningless when compared to the scale of our existence.\u00a0 What difference does it make if another solar system is 10 million light years away, or 100 million when such scales are compared to a lifetime of 100 years?\u00a0 All 100 years is, is a measure of the life of a linear being who needs measurements to comfort itself that it means something on the cosmic scale.<\/p>\n<p>Yet why do we even need scales?\u00a0 We have souls, and our souls are not bound by time.<\/p>\n<p>{P.S. In case you&#8217;re interested in some of my other thoughts on time, here are some other posts on the subject:-<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/2014\/07\/streams-of-time\/\">Streams of time<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/2012\/05\/perceptions-of-time\/\">Perceptions, of Time<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/2015\/10\/on-now\/\">on Now<\/a>&#8220;}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me you wonder about things, a lot.\u00a0 You think about strange things, silly things, mundane things, and things that really matter.\u00a0 One of the stranger things I&#8217;ve wondered about for years, which have become decades {no exaggeration}, is the nature of Time. I recently posted this comment on Twitter, in response to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[421],"class_list":["post-4812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}