well, i've been a bit negligent lately and i'm sorry for it. i've been working like mad on my motorcycle and it's about to become drastically different from what it used to be. i'll try to post pictures later on this evening once i'm home from my class.
but why post now? because i've got quite the thought process going on and i want to hear your opinions, critiques and reactions to it. i'm sure most of you have had these thought before and can lead me down some interesting paths.
what is time? it is, at its very basis, the way we humans measure change. we have created it becasuse we observed random events- we humans are amazingly skilled at seeing patterns in random events, of making sense of the natural world and codifying what we see- and felt that it could not possibly be the result of chance. nor could the fact that we age and die. all of these things were related somehow and that somehow was the idea of time. with time we can track these changes over the span of moments, years, decades or millenia. we can further codify the world. but since it is a human invention, time cannot possibly apply to all of the matter in the universe. it only applies where we are, here on earth, and where we are looking at the moment. without our hand time is no longer observed or real. but we've been here a very short time. to assume that there was time before us is a mistake. there were events before us, a general progression of randomness before us but there need not have been our invention before us. how could there be? and without time, since we cannot prove it beyond our own existence, there is no use of the concept of a beginning nor of an end. without a beginning there is no need for creation nor an unmaking, an apocalypse. thus, God need not be out there looking over us with his beneficient eyes. without a beginning there is no need for religion because there is no root cause, no chain of causality, only random events played out on a cosmic scale. can we be the product of this? i believe so. with an entire universe to play with random chance could easily be playing out this very scenario on multiple, perhaps infinite, other worlds right now. there is nothing to stop it.
but why post now? because i've got quite the thought process going on and i want to hear your opinions, critiques and reactions to it. i'm sure most of you have had these thought before and can lead me down some interesting paths.
what is time? it is, at its very basis, the way we humans measure change. we have created it becasuse we observed random events- we humans are amazingly skilled at seeing patterns in random events, of making sense of the natural world and codifying what we see- and felt that it could not possibly be the result of chance. nor could the fact that we age and die. all of these things were related somehow and that somehow was the idea of time. with time we can track these changes over the span of moments, years, decades or millenia. we can further codify the world. but since it is a human invention, time cannot possibly apply to all of the matter in the universe. it only applies where we are, here on earth, and where we are looking at the moment. without our hand time is no longer observed or real. but we've been here a very short time. to assume that there was time before us is a mistake. there were events before us, a general progression of randomness before us but there need not have been our invention before us. how could there be? and without time, since we cannot prove it beyond our own existence, there is no use of the concept of a beginning nor of an end. without a beginning there is no need for creation nor an unmaking, an apocalypse. thus, God need not be out there looking over us with his beneficient eyes. without a beginning there is no need for religion because there is no root cause, no chain of causality, only random events played out on a cosmic scale. can we be the product of this? i believe so. with an entire universe to play with random chance could easily be playing out this very scenario on multiple, perhaps infinite, other worlds right now. there is nothing to stop it.
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