Time - Revisited

       If you have visited our site before and read our opinions on various subjects, you will realize that we may have more than one opinion about things.  This is because our thoughts are constantly in motion as we correspond with our guests and this interplay causes multiple trains of thought to go off on different tracks.  Sometimes the opinion may just be adjusted a bit.  Again, it may be a 180 from the original.  It's what makes life fun.

     Time is one life's most interesting concepts to explore.  Translating onto paper the somewhat bizarre pictures that occur during that magic moment of enlightenment requires more skill than most of us possess but we're going to try once more to put it down.  Thanks for having the patience to read it and for sending in your comments.

     1.  From picture 1 you can see that if time were linear we would be rolling along at the same pace, nose to tail, with the future (A) always in front. (A) might pass a marker (or calendar if you like) on the time road at 8 o'clock and (B) passes the same marker at 8:01 and (C) at 8:02. (C) may always know that the futures (A) & (B) are ahead and that he can't catch up because he is always looking at the markers.  Everyone feels that they can't turn around because they believe that the time road only goes one way.

      They may also believe that (A) doesn't exist yet because they (B) haven't gotten to the marker but know that (C) does exist because they have already passed the marker.  It's like driving forward while looking out of the rear window.

      Everyone seems to be in their own little time section.  However, if you remove yourself from whatever point you are at and put yourself in the place of "The Mystic", you will see that everyone is on the road at the same time.  Past, present, and future all exist at once.  They seem to each other to be at different times because they all measure the time by when they get to the marker.  But the marker doesn't matter.  It is only a way to measure where you are on your part of the journey.

      Now, if everyone is moving along the road of time at once, you would expect that once a marker is passed, nothing would change.  (B) may pass the marker and before (C) gets there, - - but wait!

     After all that work trying to work the logic out, I just took a look at Picture 1 and realized that it is wrong.  Rather than just toss it out and start over and pretend to our enlightened guests that we got it right (or close) on the first try, let's begin again with Picture 2.  

     2.  Let's rework #1:  From picture 2 you can see that if time were linear we would be rolling along at the same pace, nose to tail, with the past (A) always in front.  (A) might pass a marker (or calendar if you like) on the time road at 8 o'clock and (B) passes the same marker at 8:01 and (C) may always know that the past (A) and (B) are ahead and that he can't catch up because he is always looking at the markers.  Everyone feels they can't turn around because they believe that the time road only goes one way.

     Now that's better. (A) is now the past because it gets there first.  It has already happened by the time the rest of us arrive.  As (A) passes the road in front of us it can build new buildings and gadgets for us to use along the way.  We build stuff for the future (C) that is picking up the rear.  Makes more sense than the first try except that it leads to the logic that we always have the past in front of us.

     This next section should not need changing as we believe that all things exist at the same "time", that is if there is anything other than man-made time:  Everyone seems to be in their own little time section.  However, if you remove yourself from whatever point you are at and put yourself in the place of "The Mystic", you will see that everyone is on the road at the same time.  Past, present, and future all exist at once.  They seem to each other to be at different times because they all measure the time by when they get to the marker.  But the marker doesn't matter.  It is only a way to measure where you are on your part of the journey.

     We all know the sayings, "Put the past behind us" and  "Look to the future".  According to the logic above, those sayings are backwards.  As we move down the road of time, the past leads the way and if we look to the future, we must look where we have already been.

     I'm not sure about the logic of the above but it makes some sort of sense.

     Pull back from the moment and place yourself above it all and look down at the chart from the place of "The Mystic" (picture 3).  You can see all of time and it doesn't matter whether you are (A), (B), or (C).  It is 8 o'clock everywhere for you.  I believe that is why some psychics can see past, present, and future.  They are somehow able to disassociate themselves from the fray that the rest of us are in.  By perching above us they can look down at different points on the time plane.  The higher you are the further you can see.

     This would mean that all of time exists at the same time on some great cosmic plane and all that has gone before and all that is yet to happen from our perspective already exist. 

     If none of the above logic appeals to you maybe we could envision time as a stream of energy and we are just standing still while it flows.  Again, The Mystic could get a little above it and see different points of time before it gets to us or after it passes.  As with the earlier pictures 2 and 3, the past would be leading the stream with the future yet to pass.

     What is time?  Is it an energy that we haven't figured out?  We measure its passage as if we know what we are doing but in reality we just measure the passing of time from our local perspective.  Different beings will measure time from their perspective.  It does appear that scientists are finding some universal truths that may someday be valuable to understanding time.  Wish I could be around to see the results.

    Maybe ..........  Well, you tell us what you think.  Time is a mind blowing concept.

Write:  Pete Jefferson

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