We've Moved! Visit our NEW FORUM to join the latest discussions. This is an archive of our previous conversations...

You can find the login page for the old forum here.
CHATPRIVACYDONATELOGINREGISTER
DMT-Nexus
FAQWIKIHEALTH & SAFETYARTATTITUDEACTIVE TOPICS
Has it been a long time, or a short time? Options
 
Philosopher
#1 Posted : 1/30/2013 3:35:08 AM
That depends. What has changed? Time is supposedly constant, but we measure it intuitively through present-past=difference, or time. So that means future-present=difference, or time. But what about before the Big Bang, nothing could change. When did it start? If we meditate alone in silence can you estimate wether it's been 45 minutes or 2 hours? Once you smoke dmt you perceive infinite changes, and you experience thousands of years. Did you time travel?! What if we all smoked dmt at the same time? What is "at the same time" ? We all must view different changes and experience our own fluid sense of time. If we are truly aware we realize a clock is a fucking liar.
We are surprisingly similar.
 
۩
Senior Member
#2 Posted : 1/30/2013 6:49:31 AM
Neither.

It never began and will never end.
 
Orion
Senior Member
#3 Posted : 1/31/2013 4:23:02 PM
۩ wrote:
Neither.

It never began and will never end.



*pop*
Art Van D'lay wrote:
Smoalk. It. And. See.
 
DeDao
#4 Posted : 2/1/2013 2:53:25 AM
Perception is malleable.
"Think more than you speak"
"How do you get rid of the pain of having pain in the first place? You get rid of expectations"
"You are everything that is. Open yourself to the love and understanding that is available."
"To see God, you have to have met the Devil."
"When you know how to listen, everyone becomes a guru."
" One time, I didn't do anything, and it was so empty... Almost as if I wasn't doing anything. Then I wrote about it. It was fulfilling."
 
hixidom
#5 Posted : 2/1/2013 4:45:18 AM
The idea of using events to measure time is a good one. After all, a beam of light is the perfect clock because it will always be found to travel at the speed of c. The problem is that a beam of light can only be used to measure the passage of time in your reference frame. All spacetime is relative.

I like to think that the idea of time is irrelevant; that everything is going to happen a certain way and thus we might as well think of it as having already happened.

Otherwise, there isn't much perceptual difference between the past and the future. Memory is only so good, and I'd say I know what is going to happen as well as I know what has happened in the past. i.e. predicting the future and remembering the past are interestingly similar processes, in my opinion.
Every day I am thankful that I was introduced to psychedelic drugs.
 
embracethevoid
#6 Posted : 2/1/2013 11:05:43 PM
Philosopher wrote:
That depends. What has changed? Time is supposedly constant, but we measure it intuitively through present-past=difference, or time. So that means future-present=difference, or time. But what about before the Big Bang, nothing could change. When did it start? If we meditate alone in silence can you estimate wether it's been 45 minutes or 2 hours? Once you smoke dmt you perceive infinite changes, and you experience thousands of years. Did you time travel?! What if we all smoked dmt at the same time? What is "at the same time" ? We all must view different changes and experience our own fluid sense of time. If we are truly aware we realize a clock is a fucking liar.



a clock is another picture on the wall
this one in particular is an animated gif
Pleased
 
 
Users browsing this forum
Guest

DMT-Nexus theme created by The Traveler
This page was generated in 0.013 seconds.