Time is in a Prized Position

Barkon September 08, 2025 at 21:16 725 views 8 comments
Time is in a prized position.

It is a wild line that guides us in the most fatherly way. It interconnects everything making co-existence possible.

Times position is prized because it circumvents nature, moving to all the future tense and guiding the present. It is between everything, as I type this my hands are encircled by the wild line of time with it's advantage over my body. My body has it's own time which is a trace of the actual time.

Time exists, and it leaves a trace in this very text when you finish reading and instantly recognize the text you've read, guiding you to the next action. You can probably feel your own time as time encircles you through this word.

Time keeps everything in balance.

Comments (8)

unenlightened September 09, 2025 at 07:08 #1012027
Reply to Barkon It stops everything happening at once.

Imagine a movie, but every frame projected simultaneously ... the divine white light of god-consciousness. Even the darkest soul, from the view of eternity, is nothing but a flash of white light.
Barkon September 09, 2025 at 08:41 #1012031
Reply to unenlightened yes I agree. It is the thing connecting all the frames together and guiding them all to one another.
Barkon September 09, 2025 at 08:43 #1012032
Most action is comforted. If you try to trick yourself your mind already knows that you're going to try trick yourself. For this reason time can be at the vantage point everywhere.
Hanover September 10, 2025 at 13:04 #1012193
Quoting unenlightened
It stops everything happening at once.

Imagine a movie, but every frame projected simultaneously ... the divine white light of god-consciousness. Even the darkest soul, from the view of eternity, is nothing but a flash of white light.


But use a book instead of a film for your example. The entirety of the book is happening at once. All the pages are there at all times, as opposed to the film that requires movement across the light. This would suggest that "happening" references conscious perception of the thing as opposed to anything to do with the thing.

But I also realize that's not always the case because the sun comes and down regardless of who's watching.
unenlightened September 10, 2025 at 16:35 #1012211
Quoting Hanover
This would suggest that "happening" references conscious perception of the thing as opposed to anything to do with the thing.


Yes, time is a limitation of (our human) consciousness, whereas for God, "Before Abraham was, I am."

Or I sometimes like to say, "Being is, whereas Nothing happens." — Time implies 'not yet'.
Metaphysician Undercover September 13, 2025 at 02:01 #1012757
Quoting Hanover
But use a book instead of a film for your example. The entirety of the book is happening at once. All the pages are there at all times, as opposed to the film that requires movement across the light. This would suggest that "happening" references conscious perception of the thing as opposed to anything to do with the thing.


Are you suggesting that conscious beings actually turn the pages of time? or would it be just one conscious being who does this, God?
Hanover September 13, 2025 at 06:18 #1012777
Quoting Metaphysician Undercover
Are you suggesting that conscious beings actually turn the pages of time? or would it be just one conscious being who does this, God?


I don't know. The book is a confusing way to look at it, differing from the movie analogy, but it seems just as valid. The movie moves by itself, but not the book, which makes the movie comparison reflective of a mind independent reality that reveals seen or not. The book though requires a page turner. I guess if you pick the book comparison you impose a greater role of consciousness dictating reality than the movie.

Metaphysician Undercover September 14, 2025 at 02:12 #1012945
Quoting Hanover
I don't know. The book is a confusing way to look at it, differing from the movie analogy, but it seems just as valid. The movie moves by itself, but not the book, which makes the movie comparison reflective of a mind independent reality that reveals seen or not. The book though requires a page turner. I guess if you pick the book comparison you impose a greater role of consciousness dictating reality than the movie.


I see the main difference being that the page turner is the individual subject, so each person would turn the page at one's own pace. The movie doesn't really move by itself though, because there is a mechanism which moves it for everyone. The difference being that one is subjective, the other objective. But even the movie requires some sort of operator, and designer of the equipment, so some form of consciousness behind that system cannot be completely ruled out.

The more important question though, is whether such an analogy is adequate. Each of the two suggest determinism, reality is dictated by what is on the film or the pages. But if we are to allow for free will, then what is being rolled out by the projector, is possibilities which we can act on. This makes the matter extremely complex, because the objective mechanism would be providing us with possibilities, and the conscious mind could choose what actions it desires to actualize, and roll into the past. Of course one could solely observe, but without opting to take part ion the smorgasbord, you'd be rolled into the past yourself.

I think it's a combination of the two then. The movie machine is rolling out possible pages to turn, while the conscious mind is selecting which ones to turn.