Is time just an illusion?

Is time just an illusion like our bodies are set to age more and more, and the sun is supposed to go down and up and down and up, but time just stays the same? Do we all live in one big illusion thinking time is passing when really we're just in the same place we were twenty years ago?

What do you think? (No, I'm not high)

 

yup, ready for the mindfuck of a lifetime?

 

The world in which we perceive it to be is mealy an illusion that has been cast upon us from birth. Things that we take as certainties, would in another age and time be thought of as preposterous. A great example of this is when Alaxander Grandbell invented the telephone people asked what him what he thought this invention would be used for, he replied “Maybe people could call ahead and let someone know they are sending a telegram”. This only goes to reiterate that everything we perceive as factual today is mealy an illusion of that which has been implanted in our minds from birth. We measure time in life times, and years, and days, but do we know the existence for these things are certain, or do be believe in them mealy because the idea of them has been placed upon us since birth. Or am I just messing with your mind, j00 may never know…

 

Yeah, real mindblowing.

No.

 

Did he really say that? Because that's possibly the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

 

the only time is NOW, right NOW the past is gone and the future isn't here yet the only time is right now in the present

 

I hate when people talk about shit like this. Stop watching the matrix, turn that shit off. There's nothing outside of what you percive. There's no robots, no organization controlling your mind, nothing is set, it just is. Christ this shit is old.

 

^ my goodness

 

After watching an episode of rupert when i was young my mind has been warped permantly thinking about time. You see father time freezes time, yet rupert doesnt get frozen because hes eating a pickle covered in peanut butter which is like a loophole int he whole freezing. Father time needed a vacation. I know there isnt such a thing as father time yadda yadda yadda. I always fear that time freezes every second or so and were stuck like that for 20 years then unfrozen another second. One minute could be like 5 million years. Oh well I wouldnt notice it and that theory sounds stupider than a 5 year old trying to tell you about dinosaurs. Anyway, we are the only civilization to be able to understand time from what ive heard. Dont know how true that is.

 

haha you couldn't be more wrong...there is everything outside what we perceive...you just don't know it because of the strict socializationed conditions of you brain.....

 

--How do you know that there are things outside of what we perceive? If your five senses cannot perceive it, how can you be so sure about it?
--It is'nt that "trippy" or "mindblowing" like everyone thinks it is. It's no big fucking deal really. You (and every high school philosophy student under the sun) are beating a dead horse.
--Rupert kicks ass.

 

Time is an illusion. It is somthing for humans to explain a progression or period. Its as simple as that. Nothing complicated, nothing mind blowing. No matrix bull has to be brought into every thought.

 

just because our 5 senses can't sense it now doesn't mean they can't. socializatoin has taught you to tune out the vast majority of our perceptions because they are not adventagous to our survival. Think of perception as a water facet, when we are born it is going full blast, perceptions flooding our brain...as we grow older the faucet gets slowed down to a trickle and all the other perceptions are blocked out because they aren't required to survive, that doesn't mean they still can't be accessed though. I'm not talking highschool philosophy, I'm talking psychology....three credited harvard professors have written on it along with many other people....if you're still in doubt check out these authors: Ralph Metzner PhD Richard Alper PhD (aka ram dass), Timothy Leary PhD, Terrence and Dennis Mkenna, Carlos Castaneda, and Aldous Huxley, I'm sure they will provide you with more then enough evidence that suggests that reality is FAR greater then just what we perceive.

 

I agree and disagree with TheMagicalMushy. Time is definately "somthing for humans to explain a progression or period" but is also a substance, mathematically speaking.

If TheMagicalMushy is referring to time in a way that makes time look like a simple measurement ie. "progression or period" then he is correct. It is an illusion. A man made reference to a point that has or will occur. However, I look at time in a different perspective. Time, to some, is no more material than distance or length.

I see time as more than that. I put time in the same class as empty space, light or energy. Time has been seen to alter and change when certain experiments involving special relativity are performed. Due to these changes that are observed, I see time as an 'object' rather than an illusion.

 

There is A LOT to life and the universe that the five senses cant percieve.

 

ever heard of maya? it means "the illusion'. the theory of maya is based around the fact that what we see is an illusion and that it is blocking us from what is truly real. quite possible, and im personally a believer in maya.

 

this is the true reality!

 

It is old. Older than you can possibly imagine, no go back to the lab and study some physics!:H

 

lol that was too funny

 

Time isn't an illusion, it simply doesn't exist at all. The universe is timeless, and time is something humans made up. And the physicality of a timeless world is a concept humans cannot understand, because our only point of reference is what we percieve around us.