Is Time An Illusion?

1. 2017-03-31 at 2:32 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   I think time is an illusion, a construct if man. I believe all moments have always and always will exist. But in this finite form of flesh we are only capable of experiencing those moments one at a time, in a serial fashion, and we are only capable of experiencing a given moment once in a lifetime.
2. 2017-03-31 at 2:33 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   why? if that were the case you wouldn't be able to know for sure by definition
3. 2017-03-31 at 2:39 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   I'm so fucking high and it's 5 in the morning. I have to brush my teeth and clean my bong and go to bed or I miss all the sun tomorrow.
   
   Fuck time. I go by the sun. I need to awake for at least 4 hours when it's daylight.
4. 2017-03-31 at 2:39 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by aldra why? if that were the case you wouldn't be able to know for sure by definition

   
   Explain...
5. 2017-03-31 at 2:40 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   if we're only able to perceive time as a linear string of moments, how could we ever discover that it's something else?
6. 2017-03-31 at 2:48 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by aldra if we're only able to perceive time as a linear string of moments, how could we ever discover that it's something else?

   
   By dying.
7. 2017-03-31 at 3:19 AM UTC

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   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
   *obligatory spam post here*
8. 2017-03-31 at 3:30 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   No
9. 2017-03-31 at 5:38 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   We are literally traveling through it dumbass. Perhaps you experience dilation or construction of time but that is a matter of perspective thAt doesn't nessicarily constitute and illusion.
10. 2017-03-31 at 9:59 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Rhymin Hymen We are literally traveling through it

    
    No.
11. 2017-03-31 at 10:10 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Rhymin Hymen We are literally traveling through it dumbass. Perhaps you experience dilation or construction of time but that is a matter of perspective thAt doesn't nessicarily constitute and illusion.

    
    you can't literally travel through time
12. 2017-03-31 at 10:28 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Hash Slinging Slasher you can't literally travel through time

    
    He means that you're travelling through time as we speak, forward at the rate of 1 second per second. That's principally wrong but it's convenient and close.
13. 2017-03-31 at 10:36 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Captain Falcon He means that you're travelling through time as we speak, forward at the rate of 1 second per second. That's principally wrong but it's convenient and close.

    
    yes but he said literally traveling through time
14. 2017-03-31 at 10:42 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    Y'all better speak for yourselves before I give your grandmas' tha d up the b again.
15. 2017-03-31 at 11:56 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Captain Falcon He means that you're travelling through time as we speak, forward at the rate of 1 second per second. That's principally wrong but it's convenient and close.

    
    Ever heard the story about the two atomic clocks and the KC 130?
16. 2017-03-31 at 11:57 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by -SpectraL *obligatory spam post here*

    
    I'm so much better at derailing threads than you ever will be. Nice try though. Perhaps you should pay me for lessons.
17. 2017-03-31 at 12:44 PM UTC

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    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]

    Originally posted by Darth Beaver I'm so much better at derailing threads than you ever will be. Nice try though. Perhaps you should pay me for lessons.

    
    tl/dr
18. 2017-03-31 at 12:52 PM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by -SpectraL tl/dr

    
    
19. 2017-03-31 at 1:13 PM UTC

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    mmQ Lisa Turtle
    I think the fact that time can slow down as you get farther away from Earth would indicate it's reality.
20. 2017-03-31 at 1:29 PM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by mmQ I think the fact that time can slow down as you get farther away from Earth would indicate it's reality.

    
    Time is not relative to distance it is relative to motion. Look up the Hafele–Keating experiment.