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In reply to the discussion: Does time exist? [View all]

velvet

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14. I don't think time exists
Sat Mar 16, 2013, 10:24 PM
Mar 2013

I think existence is a sequence of events. Time is a system of measurement we've created to help us describe and categorise those events and the order in which they occur. And very useful it is too. Imagine language devoid of all references to time.

For instance I could say "Time heals all wounds". Or I could say "As you go on living events will occur that will, in various ways, mitigate, alter and possibly diminish the pain you are feeling."

And that's all I have time to write just now.

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Does time exist? [View all] Dash87 Mar 2013 OP
Yes, time exists, and it is affected by gravity. nt ZombieHorde Mar 2013 #1
but, is it stringy or loopy? Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #3
I have no idea, but that was pretty funny. nt ZombieHorde Mar 2013 #4
I am a big bang fan. The TV show not the event. I could take the rhett o rick Mar 2013 #7
I'm going straight to ATA with this. rrneck Mar 2013 #10
lol Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #11
Time is real... ElboRuum Mar 2013 #2
Do existing, sameness and difference exist? Festivito Mar 2013 #5
How do you know that time isn't just a way to quantify those three qualities, Dash87 Mar 2013 #15
Time exists to quantify those interrelated qualities of sameness and difference. Festivito Mar 2013 #17
I am alerting. this is off topic. rhett o rick Mar 2013 #6
Sure ismnotwasm Mar 2013 #8
Time keeps billh58 Mar 2013 #9
it's all happening Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #12
Are you sure that's not just a property of the universe completely separate from time? Dash87 Mar 2013 #16
All of the four dimensions... discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2013 #13
I don't think time exists velvet Mar 2013 #14
If I understand what you're saying, time has no independent, objective existence; but, WheelWalker Mar 2013 #18
Clocks, it is said, WheelWalker Mar 2013 #19
Time is the thing... discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2013 #20
Yes. rrneck Mar 2013 #21
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